"We owe it to the fans as there was a good travelling support that day and we didn't show up, " he admitted.
"We can understand the frustration of the fans and we are just as frustrated in the dressing room, " the Rovers boss added.
As we started cater to our female fans from a licensing perspective, the business started taking off.
"Trust me, as frustrated as the Chinese fans are that we're not here, I promise you we're more frustrated, " added Roddick.
That might sound good on the surface, but it's a bad omen for competitors that genuinely can't respond in kind -- and it could erode some of the values of diversity and innovation that we're supposed to hold dear as technology fans.
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If children without much money, but plenty of hair use that precious commodity as currency for charity, we can have fans with discretionary income among 32 pro football teams, and 30 pro basketball teams, and every other pro team sport do the same?
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But to me, the larger issue is fans as a collective is that we'll take it.
"In 'NBA 2K13, ' we're giving fans the opportunity to play as two of the best teams ever assembled in sporting history, literally putting the debate right into their hands, " Jay-Z said in a statement.
We here at She Negotiates are fans of collective bargaining as a negotiation tool.
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"We have to say thank you to our fans, as always, because they have been very good, " he added.
Last season was a big disappointment but hopefully we can start bringing titles back and get the fans back as well.
We conceive of ourselves connected to people, ideas and causes as fans are, or if you will, communities of interest without geography or even language, united in outlook, sentiment, or (more often than not, in these early days) outrage.
Mr. Horvath: We realized that fans around the world weren't seeing us as a plush-toy company but as a brand like Paul Frank or Hello Kitty.
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Overall the move seems like a good one for Napster -- which may or may not be seeking suitors to help buoy its stock price -- and for fans of Japanese music as well, because now we know that our Kahimi Karie and Pizzicato Five albums deserve to fetch much more on eBay than the usual crap we try to unload.
As we have witnessed firsthand, there is an overwhelming desire for sports fans to either own a piece of history or passionately collect memorabilia.
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Not to say spotting a handset in the wild guarantees its release -- far from it, in fact -- but still, ROAD's been offering us nothing more than ridiculously badass-looking drawings of their Handy-PC for the past year and a half, and we can hear the collective sigh of relief from Nokia Communicator fans everywhere as they lock eyes on this first in-the-flesh shot.
We've never been massive fans of reading on our smartphones, but as e-reader software goes, this one's perfectly dandy.
They create a lot of noise and as players here, as we're expected to perform, our players are really expecting our fans to perform this weekend.
The day when Formula One stakeholders -- and I include fans in that -- begin to doubt its status as the pinnacle, we are lost.
Hosts, producers, announcers and contestants would gather to discuss game shows with fans like me, as well as play our own versions of the games we grew up and watched.
As a club we all need to be together this season and I have no doubt the fans will again play a massive part in that, so as always get right behind us and lets see what happens.
"We have a history of partnering with the NFL to bring Sunday Night Football to fans on new platforms, and we look forward to continuing to innovate with the league as new distribution vehicles are created, " says Rick Cordella, head of NBC Sports Digital.
We're already fans of the iconic nishikigoi (meaning "brocaded carp") color scheme as pictured above, but what really caught our attention this time are the fluid animations and uniqueness of the "iida UI" 2.0 (iida stands for "innovation, " "imagination, " "design" and "art") by interactive designer Yugo Nakamura.
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Rather, we are just looking to bring the fans of Stephenie Meyer's incredible book series the film series as soon possible.
"To the fans who travelled to Liverpool and to all Villa supporters, let me assure that we are working as hard as we possibly can to achieve the level of success which this great club aspires to, " wrote Houllier, who took over from Martin O'Neill as Aston Villa manager in September.
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