Long-time sports writer Jerry Magee of the San Diego Union-Tribune wrote: " Al Davis taking over as commissioner was the strongest thing the AFL ever did.

Long-time fans may recall that when Tony first was making his comeback, he complained about not being able to see the ball well coming from the pitcher's hand because of all of the brightly colored clothing being worn by fans directly behind the pitcher in dead center field.

Long-time co-manager Chris O ' Donnell also left at this time, later stating, " A once-brilliant band was turning to crap before my very eyes.

Long-time bastion Houston Alexander, a one-time graffiti artist and professional Mixed Martial Arts competitor, is currently a local hip-hop radio show host.

Long-time President Houphouët Boigny, in power since the 1960s, passed away in December 1993, unleashing a succession crisis which quickly involved the power institutions of the state.

Long-time Project Gutenberg volunteer Gregory Newby became the foundation's first CEO.

Long-time contributor John Zerzan published his seminal essays on time, language, art, number and agriculture in the magazine.

** Long-time work in the same position may create relationships inside and outside the government which encourage and help conceal corruption and favoritism.

Long-time Manager John Duffy retired in 2010.

Long-time United States Senator John C. Stennis ( 1947 – 1989 ) was born in Kemper County.

Long-time residents and the new immigrant communities were both victims of crime.

Long-time home of the Edmund Scientific Corporation, 1942-2001.

Long-time Mahopac residents claim that " Ma-HO-pac " was used by residents until the hamlet's evolution into a full-time community after World War II.

Long-time endorser Elton Brand switched to Nike for the 2012-2013 season.

Long-time church member and one of the first graduates of Ambassador College, Evangelist Herman L. Hoeh officiated at the graveside service and Tkach gave the closing prayer.

Long-time service manager John Thornley took over as general manager, guiding the company through its best years until his retirement in 1969.

Long-time session and tour drummer Stet Howland left first ( on amicable terms ), promising more specific information about the reasons for the split to be posted on his website.

Long-time Transformers fans noticed the prominence of the words " Beast Wars " over " Transformers ", the latter appearing in small type under the former.

Long-time friend V. S. Naipaul cast similar doubts regarding the work, if not the Powell oeuvre.

We don ’ t need Quebec .” Long-time Progressive Conservative member and political commentator Dalton Camp observed the 1994 Reform Party convention in Ottawa and was personally disgusted with what he heard, saying: " The speechifying gives off acrid whiffs of xenophobia, homophobia, and paranoia — like an exhaust — in which it seems clear both orator and audience have been seized by some private terror: immigrants, lesbians, people out of work or from out of town and criminals.

Long-time city Parks and Recreation Department Director Robert Patterson was the chairman of the centennial.

Long-time environmental activist and lawyer Elizabeth May won the leadership of the federal Green party at a convention in Ottawa on August 26, 2006.

* 1958 – Tony Barrell, English writer and journalist

The British writer Tony Barrell is a collector of modern urban legends, many of which he has explored in a long-running column in The Sunday Times.

* June 30 – Tony Bellotto, Brazilian guitarist and writer

From this comedic segue, the film opens on a writer for television advertising, Rockwell P. Hunter ( Tony Randall ), who is low on the ladder at the La Salle agency, the company where he works.

Tony retired after Margot complained about his busy schedule, and she began an affair with American crime-fiction writer Mark Halliday, which Tony secretly discovered.

At the turn of the decade Eric Sykes and his old friend and colleague Hattie Jacques co-starred in a new 30-minute BBC TV sitcom, Sykes and A ..., which Sykes created in collaboration with writer Johnny Speight, who had worked with him earlier in the 1950s on the two Tony Hancock series for ITV.

Burns and Allen had several regulars on radio, including Toby Reed, Gale Gordon, Bea Benaderet, Gracie's real-life friend Mary " Bubbles " Kelly, Ray Noble, singers Jimmy Cash and Tony Martin and actor / writer / director Elliott Lewis.

* Chris D ' Arienzo, writer of the Tony Award-nominated musical Rock of Ages

The comic was created by writer Simon Oliver and artist Tony Moore.

With issue # 31, Tony Bedard replaced Waid as writer.

* Comedy writer / performers who also wrote on the show include Alex Lowe, Robert Webb, Rhys Thomas, Tony Way, James Bachman, David Mitchell and Charlie Brooker.

* Tony Scott, producer, director, actor, cinematograther, writer, editor.

* Tony Way-comedy actor / writer lived in Felmores, then Wickford

Tony Conrad ( born Anthony S. Conrad in 1940 in Concord, New Hampshire ) is an American avant-garde video artist, experimental filmmaker, musician / composer, sound artist, teacher and writer.

They brought in comedy writer and National Lampoon editor Tony Hendra, whom they had met while working in the United States.

Val McDermid ( born 4 June 1955 ) is a Scottish crime writer, best known for a series of suspense novels starring her most famous creation, Dr. Tony Hill.

The looks and personality came from two primary sources: writer Peter Viertel and a man Laurents referred to only as " Tony Blue Eyes ," an acquaintance who inspired the scene where the creative writing instructor reads Hubbell's short story to his class.

* In June 2010 it was announced that Franklin Watts books, a part of Hachette Children's Books planned to release a series of four children's graphic novels in spring 2011 called Sherlock Holmes: The Baker Street Irregulars set during the three years that Sherlock Holmes was believed dead, between The Adventure of the Final Problem and The Adventure of the Empty House by writer Tony Lee and artist Dan Boultwood.

( Tony ) Santos-Musician and writer.

Her long relationship with the writer Tony Burgess is chronicled in Pearl ( 1996.

The writer was Tony Coult and the director was Andy Jordan.

Tate appeared in the TRIP ( Tony Rudlin Ingrid Pitt Productions ) production of Duty Free ( Don't Bother To Dress ), by Emmerdale writer, Neville Siggs, which ran from 1976 to 1977 at the Bristol Hippodrome.

She worked for then-Labour MP Tony Benn in London and American writer Alvin Toffler in New York, moving to the United States with her then-boyfriend and studying for a PhD in political science at the University of Iowa on the effects of the Swiss system of referenda.