In 2005, owner Arthur Blank's $ 10 million investment in the facility's upgrade gave the players a more relaxing environment and, introduced its players to a training-camp style unlike few in the NFL had seen before.

McBride's tenure as owner was viewed favorably, partly because of the Browns ' on-field success but also because he gave Brown a free hand to sign players and coach.

Cocteau acknowledged in the introduction to the script that the play was motivated, in part, by complaints from his actresses that his works were too writer / director-dominated and gave the players little opportunity to show off their full range of talents.

Improved electric guitars such as Gibson ’ s ES175 ( released in 1949 ), gave players a larger variety of tonal options.

* Henrique Mecking, a chess Grandmaster who in the mid 1970s was amongst the three top players in the world and gave up professional chess to recover from myasthenia gravis during the 1980s.

Instead of dedicating time to fixing the defect, Alcorn decided it gave the game more difficulty and helped limit the time the game could be played ; he imagined two skilled players being able to play forever otherwise.

During this decade, the Giants gave up many players who became successful elsewhere.

Worms & Reinforcements United and its sequels gave players the ability to pick between a variety of speech sets ( called " sound banks ") for each platoon of worms.

For example: " The players gave their teammates high fives.

The new influx of talented young players showed that the league's longevity gave young girls something to aspire to.

This gave that team the rights to negotiate with players under contract for that team.

On December 5, 2006, disappointed with the direction the team was headed, Allen Iverson gave the 76ers management an ultimatum: find players who will help support me or trade me.

Westhead also believed in a " run and gun " style of play, and gave the green light for players like Michael Adams and Chris Jackson to light up the scoreboards within seconds of possession.

Although director Curtiz was famous for being a taskmaster, he also gave his actors some latitude, and Cagney and other players improvised a number of " bits of business ," as Cagney called them.

Dutch magazine Power Unlimited gave the game a score of 9. 1 out of 10, calling it very addictive, especially with four players.

" In his acceptance speech he gave a lot of credit to his players, saying there were two kinds of managers, " One, it ain't very smart.

A few years after the war, a young school teacher named William Herschel Cobb and his wife Amanda settled near the site of this skirmish, and she gave birth in 1886 to one of the greatest baseball players of all time, Ty Cobb.

A substantial number of the players performed at the 1930 Promenade Concerts under Sir Henry Wood, and the full BBC Symphony Orchestra gave its first concert on 22 October 1930, conducted by Boult at the Queen's Hall.

Mangione gave his thoughts on the Yankee players and played a few bars of " Feels So Good.

The first, Talisman Expansion Set, was released in 1986, and was followed by Talisman The Adventure which gave rules clarifications, alternative endings, character sheets, and additional slotted bases for up to 12 players.

He shoots and wounds the second man, one of the black basketball players, and vows to " teach him a lesson " for trying to steal the truck his father gave him.

Those years, Botafogo gave to Brazil national football team four players for the 1930 FIFA World Cup, nine for the 1934 FIFA World Cup and five for the 1938 FIFA World Cup.

That decision ended up strengthening the team, which placed no restrictions and always had the best players, and also gave birth to the affectionate nickname of " The People's Club.

An alternative strategy is to try to cow other players into submission with a high opening bid.

The standard tuning for an acoustic guitar is E-A-D-G-B-E ( low to high ), although many players, particularly fingerpickers, use alternate tunings ( scordatura ), such as " open G " ( D-G-D-G-B-D ), " open D " ( D-A-D-F-A-D ), or " drop D " ( D-A-D-G-B-E ).

After a slump in league form and the departure of high key players, Roma eventually rebuilt their squad adding goalscorers such as the Argentine Enrique Guaita.

Both leagues are considered major leagues by many baseball researchers because of the perceived high caliber of play ( for a brief time anyway ) and the number of star players featured.

At high levels of play, especially in singles, the sport demands excellent fitness: players require aerobic stamina, agility, explosive strength, speed and precision.

Badminton offers a wide variety of basic strokes, and players require a high level of skill to perform all of them effectively.

Spinning netshots are especially important for high level singles players.

In singles, players will often start the rally with a forehand high serve or with a flick serve.

At high levels of play, the formations will generally be more flexible: the top women players are capable of playing powerfully from the back-court, and will happily do so if required.

Since the 1960s, blackjack has been a high profile target of advantage players, particularly card counters, who track the profile of cards that have been dealt and adapt their wager and playing strategies accordingly.

As with many popular arcade games, experienced players ( who can complete the game relatively easily ) become much more interested in the secondary challenge of obtaining a high score ( which involves a lot more skill and strategy ).

A small number of bass players tune their strings in fifths, like a cello but an octave lower ( C-G-D-A low to high ).

Some players use the more nimble tips of the fingers to play fast-moving solo passages or to pluck lightly for quiet tunes. The use of amplification allows the player to have more control over the tone of the instrument, because amplifiers have equalization controls that allow the bassist to accentuate certain frequencies ( often the bass frequencies ) while de-accentuating some frequencies ( often the high frequencies, so that there is less finger noise ).

Teaching work for double bassist includes giving private lessons in the home or at colleges and universities ; coaching bass players who are preparing for recordings or auditions ; doing group coaching at music camps or for youth ensembles ; and working as a high school music teacher.

Following the Carlton match, the ' Herald ' described Windy Hill as " Boot Hill ", because of the extent of the fights and the high number of reported players ( eight in all – four from Carlton and four from Essendon ).

In EverQuest, players create a character ( also known as an avatar, or colloquially as char or toon ) by selecting one of 16 races in the game, which range from humans ( basic human, Erudite, and barbarian ), elves ( high elves, wood elves, and dark elves ), half-elves, dwarves, gnomes, halflings, trolls, and ogres of fantasy, to cat-people ( Vah Shir ), lizard-people ( Iksar ), frog-people ( Froglok ), and dragon-people ( Drakkin ).

A rare, puckered embouchure, sometimes used by jazz players for extremely high " screamer " notes.

Other rules include ; no foot to ball contact, obstructing other players, high back swing, and no third party.

On some shows contestants compete against other players or another team while other shows involve contestants playing alone for a good outcome or a high score.

Other high profile players include Patrick Ball, Cynthia Cathcart, Alison Kinnaird, Bill Taylor, Siobhán Armstrong and others.

Indiana high schools boast a tradition of producing top caliber basketball players.

Considering the size of the state ( population 6. 4 million ), this makes Indiana high schools by far the most successful at developing NBA players per capita.

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

Many of their records feature the top session players of the era, and their arrangements, with multiple key changes and complex vocal harmonies, reflected a high level of craftsmanship.

" Tension and feelings ran so high that a riot was narrowly averted as police stationed themselves between the players and enraged spectators.