Before becoming the studio host for The NFL on NBC in 1984, Costas did play-by-play of NFL games with analyst Bob Trumpy.

Before use, hanks are wound into balls in which the yarn emerges from the center, making crocheting easier by preventing the yarn from becoming easily tangled.

Before becoming public, the movement was secretive and held closed meetings in what was known as Sessions of Wisdom.

Before becoming member a party needs to have been observer of the EFA for at least one year.

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 he dies, Heracles throws Lichas into the sea, thinking he was the one who poisoned him ( according to several versions, Lichas turns to stone, becoming a rock standing in the sea, named for him ).

Before becoming a full-time actor, Spader held a variety of jobs including being a yoga instructor, busboy, truck driver, stable boy, and railroad-car loader.

Before becoming the UN Ambassador he was the Attorney General of Missouri and United States Senator from Missouri.

Before knitting, the knitter will typically transform a hank into a ball where the yarn emerges from the center of the ball ; this making the knitting easier by preventing the yarn from becoming easily tangled.

Before becoming an astronaut, Armstrong was an officer in the U. S. Navy and served in the Korean War.

Before becoming Pope, he spent time at the then very liberal and cosmopolitan University of Padua, which maintained considerable independence from the Church and had a very international character.

In the episode " Before and After ", Kes participates in Voyager's year-long battle with the Krenim, becoming infected with particles from a chronoton torpedo.

Before becoming President, he held offices at the city, state, and federal levels.

Before becoming President, Taft was selected to serve on the Ohio Superior Court in 1887.

Before becoming a Christian, he was an orator, " pleader in the courts ", and a teacher of rhetoric.

Before entering politics, he had been a classical scholar, becoming a full Professor of Ancient Greek at the age of 25.

Before becoming a polka artist, and founding Chicago-based Bel-Aire Records in 1963, Eddie Blazonczyk recorded under the name Eddy Bell for Mercury Records and Lucky Four Records, both labels also based in Chicago.

Before becoming a director himself, he built his reputation as a film writer with articles in Esquire.

Before becoming a Hollywood filmmaker, he had been an amateur boxer, reporter, short-story writer, portrait artist in Paris, a cavalry rider in Mexico, and a documentary filmmaker during World War II.

Before becoming king he was 4th Duke of York, 7th Earl of March, 5th Earl of Cambridge and 9th Earl of Ulster.

Before becoming an actor, Milland served in the Household Cavalry.

Before becoming a judge, Marshall was a lawyer who was best known for his high success rate in arguing before the Supreme Court and for the victory in Brown v. Board of Education.

Before becoming a Roman deacon, Hormisdas was married, and his son became pope under the name of Silverius.

Before becoming king, Harald spent a period in exile as a military commander in Kievan Rus ' and in the Byzantine Empire.

Before starting work on Oh My Goddess !, Kōsuke Fujishima created the manga You're Under Arrest !.

Before the release of the popular manga, Trigun, Nightow studied social science and then specialised in media studies where he majored.

* Stephan Pastis, comic artist, Pearls Before Swine

Before her, it was not common for a French pop artist to sing and dance at the same time.

Before the Second World War, the East Lighthouse was inhabited by the naturalist and artist Sir Peter Scott who bought a large area of the Ouse Washes and established a nature reserve of what is now the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust.

It was certified triple platinum by the RIAA for more than three million store-shipped copies and produced three top ten singles, including debut single " Don't Take It Personal ( Just One of Dem Days )" and " Before You Walk out of My Life ", both of which made Monica the youngest artist ever to have two consecutive chart-topping hits on the U. S. Billboard Hot R & B Singles chart.

By far the most popular Finnish electronica artist is Darude ( Ville Virtanen ), who gained international success with his chart-topping single " Sandstorm ," and the following hit album " Before the Storm.

Before joining the Lyceum, Terry had run off from her first marriage and had conceived two children out of wedlock with bohemian artist Godwin.

Before becoming an actor he was a local artist in Seattle and, later, Hollywood, working on several of the murals inside Grauman's Chinese Theater.

O ' Hara has served as a voice artist in a number of animated movies, including The Nightmare Before Christmas, Chicken Little, Over the Hedge, Monster House, Brother Bear 2, and the upcoming Frankenweenie.

Before joining The Clash, he had planned to become an artist and attended the Byam Shaw School of Art, then based in Campden St, Kensington ( now part of Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design and relocated in Archway, London ).

Before dying, the rhino had been sketched by an unknown artist.

Before becoming a professional comic book artist, Smith worked as an animator.

Before he started working on his own series, Atoms was an intern at Film Roman, a freelance artist at Warner Bros., had a brief stint at Wild Brain and had also worked on Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat.

Before becoming the artist Joey Tempest, Joakim Larsson learned how to play the piano and the guitar.

Before her life as a Noh operative, she was a comic book artist which was a profession she maintained as a cover-role while working as an assassin.

Before long Wagner returned to his creation, and McMahon became the character's most regular artist.

Despite insistence from the Peniston's management to release " Somebody Else's Guy " as a follow-up, A & M label preferred an alternate composition, " Before I Lay ", which featured the singer ’ s then-beau JoJo Hailey ( of K-Ci & JoJo ) who was supposed to help establish Peniston as an R & B artist.

Before he acquired a Green Lantern power ring, Kyle Rayner was a struggling-but-gifted freelance graphic artist who was raised in North Hollywood and currently lived and worked in Los Angeles.

Before the use of computers, artists would often use the pen or brush to put in detailed shading effects ; now the artist is more likely to leave the drawing open and leave it to the colorist to insert shading through variation in color tones or through adding a layer of translucent black.

Before demolition, local artist Rachel Whiteread made a cast of the inside of 193 Grove Road.

Before each song plays, the artist tells the listeners how the song came about, and the meaning of the song.

Before José planned to be a music artist he wanted to play baseball professionally.

However, as evidenced in this quote from Lane ’ s nephew Edward Lane ’ s " Early Recollections ," his interest in art held much sway in his deciding on a career: " Before he became an artist he worked for a short time making shoes, but after a while, seeing that he could draw pictures better than he could make shoes he went to Boston and took lessons in drawing and painting and became a marine artist.