And then you look at the scoreboard, see the clock at 0:00, and have the emotional gut-punch that not only is the game over, but, more than likely, so is your career.
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He said John Tyre, the head of the off-ice officiating crew for Kings games at Staples Center, who was sitting next to the clock operator on Feb. 1, told the league he did not see the timekeeper stop the clock.
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Looking to see if the clock is right, a shot was a 3-pointer or if an elbow to the head warrants a flagrant foul, they watch the replays from all angles as coaches and players huddle, fans in the stands and TV wait for the action to start again.
What we do - the first thing we want to do is we want to take the face off the clock and see what's going on.
"We would basically try to get the child to look one way, we'd turn and point to a clock and see whether or not the child would notice it, " explained Piven.
And, of course, in sports where performance is measured by the clock, we can see that, intrinsically, humans are getting faster.
As I mentioned on the 10 o'clock news on Wednesday, those new estimates suggest that the economy did see some growth last year, especially if you exclude our shrinking offshore oil sector.
The midfielder saw red when he punched the ball into the net with only seconds left on the clock, earning himself a second booking and one-match European suspension that could see him sit out the Champions League group match against Villarreal.
The complex runs completely on solar power, courtesy of 150 Sanyo solar panels that provide round-the-clock electricity. ("We fire up the generator once a month just to see if it works, " Derek Joubert says.) Construction materials were chosen through an environmental audit: The furniture is made from Indonesian mahogany uprooted by the 2004 tsunami.
Hundreds of people have turned out to see a town clock lit up in pink to mark the third week since the disappearance of April Jones.
As voters elsewhere clock the three Icelandic MPs, they may see a Pirate Party vote less as a political statement, and more as a realistic option.
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Like many other large companies, millennium night itself will see hundreds of extra people, armed with satellite phones, monitoring developments around the clock.
So, good to see that Apple has agreed to pay the Swiss Railways for the inclusion of their iconic clock design in the latest OS release from Apple.
As you can see, the 1.7-inch, 200x320-pixel OLED screen can display different clock faces, some of them even designed to mimic an analog watch.
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What will happen after tomorrow's announcement is that the FSA, to be superseded next Monday by the Prudential Regulation Authority - see my piece from last night's 10 O'Clock News (below) for more on this - will then go off and have yet more talks with each of the banks, to determine their individual capital requirements.
We see it in the devotion of caregivers who tend to their loved ones, our wounded warriors, around the clock, day in, day out.
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