Before the 2006 – 07 season, Cassell was tempted to take a two-year, $ 15M offer from the Atlanta Hawks, but eventually re-signed with the Clippers on a two-year, $ 13M deal.

Before joining the " Q ", the team was a member of the Central Junior A Hockey League, known originally as the Hull Castors but later as the Hull Hawks.

Before the 1965 season, Playboy Magazine picked Iowa as their preseason number one team in the nation and predicted a 9 – 1 record for the Hawks.

Before the 1926 – 27 season, the Toronto St. Pats sold Dye to the Chicago Black Hawks, a new NHL franchise.

Before becoming the head coach of the Bucks, Stotts was an assistant for the Golden State Warriors, head coach of the Atlanta Hawks, assistant coach of the Milwaukee Bucks, and an assistant coach of the Seattle SuperSonics.

Before the Draft Act was passed Baker had confidentially briefed governors, sheriffs, and prospective draft board members on the administration of the measure -- and the confidence was kept so well that only one newspaper learned what was going on.

Before the fight was over, the Harlem boy had a concussion and Trig was cut up badly.

Before he left the apartment he knocked on their door and asked if there was anything he could do for them.

Before he left town Pat saw to it that I was fixed up with a job.

Before the airplanes came, he said, travel in Laos was just about impossible.

Before coming on a visit to Spelman in 1885, Miss Mary had been a successful teacher in Worcester, and her position there was held open for her for a considerable period.

Before he was forty Griffith had created the art of the film.

Before appealing to the U.N. or to Russia, he first appealed to the U.S. for military help, and was rejected.

Before her chore was finished she was rescuing wind-blown sheets of music, trundling microphones about the stage, helping to move the piano and otherwise joining in the informal atmosphere.

Before ASCII was developed, the encodings in use included 26 alphabetic characters, 10 numerical digits, and from 11 to 25 special graphic symbols.

Before Europeans discovered other oceans, the term " ocean " itself was synonymous with the waters beyond the Strait of Gibraltar that we now know as the Atlantic.

Before he could pass the river with safety, however, it was necessary to subdue certain fortresses, one of which was for several days vigorously defended by the governor, Yussuf el-Harezmi, a Khwarezmian.

Before the 1989 series began, the win-loss ratio was almost even, with 87 wins for Australia to England's 86, 74 having been drawn.

Before the late modern era, the abbot was treated with the utmost reverence by the brethren of his house.

Before the creation of the world, God was all by Himself, in a Self-absorbed state.

Before the Tennessee electorate voted on secession, Johnson, at his peril, toured the state, speaking in opposition to the measure, contending it was unconstitutional.

Before his death, he was absolved from the excommunication ; moreover, the Pope also promised that the King of Hungary and his relatives would not be excommunicated without the special permission of the Pope.

Before the 2007 season began, Vick was suspended indefinitely by the NFL after pleading guilty to charges involving dog fighting in the state of Virginia.

Before the War, Paul was a creative, sensitive, and passionate person, writing poems and having a clear love for his family.

Before the war Tjaden was a locksmith.

Before long the atmosphere reverted to its old normalcy, and insects hummed and birds occasionally called.

Living first in Philadelphia, then seeking refuge close in Virginia, he wrote a book entitled The Prospect Before Us ( read and approved by Vice President Jefferson before publication ) in which he called the Adams administration a " continual tempest of malignant passions " and the President a " repulsive pedant, a gross hypocrite and an unprincipled oppressor ".

Before 1931, i. e. through most of Ruth's most productive years, the umpire called the play based on the ball's final resting place " when last seen ".

Before there was an official standard for C, many users and implementors relied on an informal specification contained in a book by Ritchie and Brian Kernighan ; that version is generally referred to as " K & R " C. In 1989 the American National Standards Institute published a standard for C ( generally called " ANSI C " or " C89 ").

) Before a major fire, typical chaparral plant communities are dominated by manzanita, chamise ( also called greasewood or Adenostoma fasciculatum ) and Ceanothus species, Toyon ( which can sometimes be interspersed with scrub oaks ), and other drought-resistant shrubs with hard ( sclerophyllous ) leaves ; these plants resprout ( see resprouter ) from underground burls after a fire.

Before the RISC philosophy became prominent, many computer architects tried to bridge the so called semantic gap, i. e. to design instruction sets that directly supported high-level programming constructs such as procedure calls, loop control, and complex addressing modes, allowing data structure and array accesses to be combined into single instructions.

Before the DNS was invented in 1982, each computer on the network retrieved a file called HOSTS. TXT from a computer at SRI ( now SRI International ).

Before the destruction, the Dead Sea was a valley full of natural tar pits, which was called the vale of Siddim.

Before her ascension to the Chrysanthemum Throne, her personal name ( her imina ) was Mikekashiya-hime-no-mikoto, also called Toyomike Kashikiya hime no Mikoto.

Before accepting a role as a villain in Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West, Henry Fonda called Wallach and asked " What the hell does he know about the West?

Before the widespread use of non-linear editing systems, the initial editing of all films was done with a positive copy of the film negative called a film workprint ( cutting copy in UK ) by physically cutting and pasting together pieces of film, using a splicer and threading the film on a machine with a viewer such as a Moviola, or " flatbed " machine such as a K .- E .- M. or Steenbeck.

* Before the 2004 season, seats were added to the right field roof, above the grandstand, called the Budweiser Right Field Roof.

Before becoming president, Madero published another book, this one under the pseudonym of Bhima ( one of Arjuna's brothers in the Mahābhārata ) called a Spiritualist Manual.

Before a new employee could rise to the level of mastery, he had to go through a schooling period during which he was first called an apprentice.

Before these privileges were legislated, these groups of handicraft workers were simply called ' handicraft associations '.

Before he joined the Ramones, he was the singer in a band called Sniper.

Before being awarded the title of Nur Jahan (' Light of the World '), she was called Nur Mahal (' Light of the Palace ').

Before Seinfeld, he starred in a short-lived CBS sitcom called Everything's Relative in 1987 which lasted six episodes.

Before 1971, a municipality could be called a town ( stad ), a köping or a rural municipality ( landskommun ); present municipalities which used to be towns are still commonly called towns.

Before and during the Civil War, the Ohio River was called the " River Jordan " by slaves crossing it to escape to freedom in the North via the Underground Railroad.

Before this antipope, the most recent popes called John were John XXII ( 1316 – 1334 ) and John XXI ( 1276 – 1277 ).

Before the Norman invasion in 1066, the parish of Higher Mutley was owned by a man Alwin of Tamerton, and Lower Mutley by another man called Goodwin, but at the time of the Domesday Book ( 1086 ) both were owned by Odo, whose feudal overlord was Juhel of Totnes.

Before Garissa is destroyed by illegal antimatter bombs called planet busters, sent from Omuta, several Garissan ships are sent to attack Omuta with a superweapon called the Alchemist.