But over the last few years, pro-Syrian forces have been on the ascendant.
He has just one PGA Tour win and no Majors since that fateful 2009 night after racking up 71 wins, including 14 Majors during his first 13 years as a pro.
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Flutie actually lasted 20 years as a pro, moving around among the USFL, NFL, Canada's CFL and back to the NFL. He had success in Canada and during his second NFL stint, when he made the Pro Bowl with the Buffalo Bills at age 36.
Six years ago, the pro- and anti-whaling camps were roughly equal in number.
Campaigners claim it is the fifth programme on the subject produced by the BBC in three years presented by a pro-euthanasia campaigner or sympathiser.
He was stripped of those medals though for violating the Olympic rules on amateurism when it was revealed he played two years of semi-pro baseball.
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When Saunders turned pro two years ago, after playing at Clemson, he approached his grandfather about working with him more intensely than they had until then.
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Specifically, broadcasters wanted the commercial breaks that had been built increasingly into football, baseball, hockey and basketball matches in the U.S. over 40 years of televising American pro sports.
When I was about 17, three years after I turned pro, my high school "careers" teacher scolded me in front of the entire class about jumping ahead in my workbook.
There also have been at least 12 suicides involving former NFL players during the last 25 years, including perennial Pro Bowl defenders Junior Seau and Dave Duerson within the last 14 months.
So it's good for the game, and I think that she's not going to find the type of resentment that Tiger Woods got in his early years when he turned pro by some of the players on the tour.
In recent years he has stuck with pro bono public research, which he argues makes software more secure.
He was riding a scooter like a pro at 2 years old and then a two-wheeler shortly after.
It's been 25 years since Steven Schubert played pro football.
In terms of professional gaming, its viewership now outpaces that of legendary strategy title Starcraft, unseating the decade-old powerhouse in just a few years as the most watch pro-played game.
While numerous players have said recently that bounties have been a common, well-known part of pro football for years, people familiar with league operations said NFL investigators never had concrete information about bounties they felt they could prove.
When all is said and done, you will have spent several hundred dollars and waited several months (if not years) to get a downloadable version of Final Cut Pro X that vaguely resembles the older software you purchased several years ago.
Cuellar beat him in a disputed primary by 58 votes, and in the past two years, Cuellar really was a pro-Bush Democrat.
Mr Kuchma himself won the presidency five years ago, running as a pro-Russian left-winger in a similar scrap against an unpopular but powerful incumbent who had also taken a solid lead in the first round.
So without further hedging I am going to go out on a limb and predict Phillips will win, not because he is better, but because in recent years the Idol voting has skewed pro-male, which I think will give him the slightest edge in what would otherwise be a dead heat.
He said that he plans to use all four years of his college eligibility before turning pro.
College players with the most-NBA ready talent usually turn pro after one or two years of college, while seniors have more refined games (Roy Hibbert and Tyler Hansbrough come to mind).
He died a tragic figure in 1953, having a stroke in Los Angeles as he prepared for a trip to play in the U.S. Pro Championships despite his 60 years of age.
"I've become good friends with some of my pro-am partners over the years, " he says.
For two years, Zapeta has had two attorneys working pro bono: one on his immigration case, the other trying to get his money back.
Welker's five 100-catch seasons are the most in the NFL. He has been selected to the Pro Bowl in each of his past five seasons and was an All-Pro four of the past five years.
First, it should be noted that there are only a few exceptions in pro sports over the last 25 years outside of the NFL where an expansion franchise has sustained success at the box office.
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My most enjoyable pairing came on a midweek morning a dozen or so years ago, when I arrived at the pro shop of a local, private country club to see if I could inveigle a round out of the establishment.
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The Suns, founded in 1968, had the Phoenix pro sports market to themselves for 20 years.
For many years, when asked what became of the Tory pro-Europeans, MPs would point at Ken Clarke and say: "He's over there" (copyright Monty Python's Life of Brian).
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