Their lowest point came during the 1964 – 65 season when manager Juan Carlos Lorenzo announced that the club could not pay its players and was unlikely to be able to afford to travel to Vicenza to fulfil its next fixture.

The large cities offered baseball teams national media distribution systems and fan bases that could generate revenues enabling teams to hire the best players in the country.

Each game is played to 21 points, with players scoring a point whenever they win a rally regardless of whether they served ( this differs from the old system where players could only win a point on their serve and each game was played to 15 points ).

Inside these one could find matchbooks and business cards apparently defaced by non-player characters, newspaper cuttings and ( in the case of Orient Express ) period passports to which players could attach their photographs, bringing a Live Action Role Playing feel to a tabletop game.

There was a flaw in Bernard's version of the game in which players could exploit the casino using fixed dice and taking advantage of the way players can bet with or against the dice thrower.

Some coaches and officials questioned this rule change as it could lead to more injuries to the players as there will likely be more kickoff returns.

When patched together, these phrases combined to create musical pieces which could be performed by human players.

This could be converted into musical notation by hand and then performed by human players.

To some extent, the focus of the players on doing the act of skill, rather than simply drinking, means that these games could be played for a longer time without participants getting significantly intoxicated.

UGO. com listed the ability to kill the dog as one of the best video game urban legends, stating that it is one of the few video game urban legends based in actual truth, since players could shoot the dog in the arcade Vs.

A study in which professional players were blindfolded could find no significant differences between instruments made from a variety of different metals.

At DAIMI, the CS department at Aarhus University, three CS students, avid players of XPilot and of Sid Meier's Civilization, which was a stand-alone PC game for DOS, decided to find out whether the two could be fused into an X-based multiplayer Civilization-like strategy game.

In releases before 2. 0, AI players could not engage in diplomatic relationships with human players.

Both of the LA teams would bow out because of the quantity demand of the Marlins and they again would miss out on getting All-Star caliber players, namely Matt Kemp and Clayton Kershaw who the Marlins could have obtained if their demands were lowered.

A small minority of players ( such as Nick Reynolds of the Kingston Trio ) close tuned the instrument to D G B E to produce a deep instrument that could be played with the four-note chord shapes found on the top four strings of the guitar or ukulele.

In his 1940 essay " Theses on the Philosophy of History ," scholar Walter Benjamin compares historical materialism to The Turk, an 18th Century device which was promoted as a mechanized automaton which could defeat skilled chess players but actually concealed a human who controlled the machine.

Even one or two great basketball players could make a high school team a powerhouse, and nearly every Indiana town dreamt of such glory.

Provo closed his review with a warning for potential buyers: he said that players could appreciate Kid Icarus for its " straightforward gameplay and challenging level layouts ", but might " find nothing special in the gameplay and recoil in horror at the unflinching difficulty ".

Some English players later expressed fears that a large-scale riot could break out and that the police would not be able to stop the irate home crowd, who were worried that Woodfull or Bradman could be killed, from attacking them.

Upon his arrival he released 24 players and converted a boot storage room at Anfield into a room where the coaches could discuss strategy ; here, Shankly and other " Boot Room " members Joe Fagan, Reuben Bennett, and Bob Paisley began reshaping the team.

Since it requires only five players, it would seem to fall into the category of chamber music -- yet it calls for a double bass, an instrument generally regarded as symphonic.

After the auction, players can secretly pay extra points to raise their ranks, but they can only pay to raise their scores to an existing rank.

On December 11, 13 games into his first NFL season as head coach, Bobby Petrino resigned without notice to coach at the University of Arkansas, leaving the beleaguered players only a note in the locker room.

The Union Association survived for only one season ( 1884 ), as did the Players League ( 1890 ), an attempt to return to the National Association structure of a league controlled by the players themselves.

Fred Lynn and Ichiro Suzuki are the only two players who have been named Rookie of the Year and Most Valuable Player in the same year, and Fernando Valenzuela is the only player to have won Rookie of the Year and the Cy Young Award in the same year.

The current definition of rookie status for the award is based only on Major League experience, but some feel that past NPB players are not true rookies because of their past professional experience.

The first balls made specifically for basketball were brown, and it was only in the late 1950s that Tony Hinkle, searching for a ball that would be more visible to players and spectators alike, introduced the orange ball that is now in common use.

Replacement grips have an adhesive backing, whereas overgrips have only a small patch of adhesive at the start of the tape and must be applied under tension ; overgrips are more convenient for players who change grips frequently, because they may be removed more rapidly without damaging the underlying material.

In the BWF World Championships, first held in 1977, currently only the highest ranked 64 players in the world, and a maximum of four from each country, can participate in any category.

Non-controlling players may double their wager or decline to do so, but they are bound by the controlling player's decision to take only one card.

It was only with the return of the English team and the subsequent use of Bodyline against English players in England by the touring West Indian cricket team in 1933 that demonstrated to the country the dangers it posed.

Hypergammon is a variant of backgammon in which players have only three checkers on the board, starting with one each on the 24 -, 23-and 22-points.

along with Sachin Tendulkar one of only two players, at the time, to do so in both forms of the game.

" The songs were firsts for Holly, not only in the use of orchestral backing players, but also the tracks were his first stereo recordings.

Goalkeepers are the only players allowed to play the ball with their hands or arms, but they are only allowed to do so within the penalty area in front of their own goal.

The games were postponed not only out of respect and mourning for the victims, but also out of concern for the safety and security of fans and players.

Even in these cases, the rules must only be followed exactly at games sanctioned by these governing bodies ; players in less formal settings are free to implement agreed-upon supplemental or substitute rules at will.

They were also criticised due to releasing Monster Hunter Frontier Online only to Japanese, Korean and Taiwanese players, citing cultural and language issues with western players interacting with the Asian players.

Shadows of Yog-Sothoth is important not only because it represents the first published addition to the boxed first edition of Call of Cthulhu, but because its format defined a new way of approaching a campaign of linked RPG scenarios involving actual clues for the would-be detectives amongst the players to follow and link in order to uncover the dastardly plots afoot.

This rule is useful for low-stakes social games where many players will stay for the draw, and will help avoid depletion of the deck.

Consequently, players on the left side would stay back until the ball shifts to their side of the field.

In ' musical statues ', players stop moving when the music stops, and stay standing in the same position.

As the blinds increase, players need to increase their chip counts ( or " stacks ") to stay in the game.

# Ensure that by the time the desired duration of the tournament is reached, it will be very hard for players with small stacks to stay in the game.

Service alternates between opponents every two points ( regardless of winner of the rally ) until the end of the game, unless both players score 10 points or the expedite system is operated, when the sequences of serving and receiving stay the same but each player serves for only 1 point in turn.

There are also many cities that run hat leagues, structured like a hat tournament, but where the group of players stay together over the course of a season.

It is especially important while digging for players to stay on their toes ; several players choose to employ a split step to make sure they're ready to move in any direction.

After several hotels and airlines went unpaid, the Wheels were unable to fly to games or get a place for the players to stay without paying in advance, and they were nearly forced to forfeit one game when they didn't have medical supplies or tape.

Following the end of the 2011 NBA lockout that saw the 2011 – 12 season shortened to 66 games, the Jazz bid farewell to their two longest-tenured players – Mehmet Okur was traded to the Nets for a future 2nd-round pick, and Andrei Kirilenko, who played in his native Russia during the lockout and whose contract had expired after the 2011 season, decided to stay in Russia for the remainder of the 2011 – 12 season.

After the 2002 – 03 season, Garry St. Jean's earlier mistakes of committing money to players like Danny Fortson, Adonal Foyle and Erick Dampier were painfully felt by Warriors fans when the team was unable to re-sign up-and-coming star Gilbert Arenas, despite Arenas's desire to stay in the Bay Area.

To raise is to increase the size of the bet required to stay in the pot, forcing all subsequent players to call the new amount if they wish to remain in.

With antes, more players stay in the hand, which increases pot size and makes for more interesting play.

He signed a two-year contract with the Flames on the promise that he would stay in Birmingham unless the team needed his services as a result of injury to other players.

After a period when My Bloody Valentine members lost contact with each other as they looked for places to stay, the band regrouped and decided to audition bass players.

The blinds stay the same throughout the entire sit and go, causing much more skillful play to be rewarded over the long run, as players aren't as forced to play mediocre hands because of big blinds and antes.

Including only players with at least 100 appearances in the club, a topscorer title during their stay with the club, or an appearance in a FIFA World Cup edition

Baker was repeatedly called offside, as he was too fast for the two replacement Princeton players ( players were required to stay behind the puck-carrier at the time ).

Some players argue that overlooking an area for more than 30 seconds is regarded as camping, while others claim that only the defending team are allowed to stay put as that is regarded as defending and not camping ( see base camping, above ).

Although camping can give players a tactical advantage especially against less experienced players, they are left vulnerable if they consistently stay in one spot.

For example, the players were no longer required to stay at the Battery A barracks, as they had in the past.

This has proven to be controversial in that it is difficult to enforce, and in the drive to stay competitive, managers have found ways to get around it such as organising informal ' athletic clubs ' and other activities which they can use to work on the physical fitness of players without overtly appearing to be training specifically at Gaelic games.