In March 2011, the Saints Hall of Fame selection committee selected the franchise ’ s all-time team as the club heads into its 45th year of competition ( 2011 ).

The game did not start out as a Mario series game and the first prototype featured a generic man in overalls in the kart ; the team decided that characters three heads tall would best suit the design of the karts.

* Sima Guang, high chancellor of the Chinese Song Dynasty, heads a team of scholars in initiating the compilation of an enormous written universal history of China, known as the Zizhi Tongjian.

A team of archaeologists, usually led by either Mick Aston or Francis Pryor ( the latter usually heads Bronze Age and Iron Age digs ), and including field archaeologist Phil Harding, congregate at a site, usually in the United Kingdom.

The team turned heads in the preseason when Manon Rheaume became the first woman to play in an NHL game, making her first of two NHL appearances in an exhibition game against the St. Louis Blues.

At the next game, the team's fans cheered their team on by waving white towels above their heads.

Most important public figures such as heads of state or governors are protected by several bodyguards or by a team of bodyguards from an agency, security forces, or police forces ( e. g., in the U. S., the United States Secret Service or the State Department's Diplomatic Security Service ).

The arrival of Donald Bradman in the Australian team saw the English cricketing hierarchy scratching their heads to devise a plan to defeat the Australian phenomenon and thus retain the Ashes trophy.

The Iraqi national football team were seen with their heads shaved after failing to achieve a good result in a tournament in the 1980s.

The engines were so close in design that, with a few modifications, the Lotus head can be fitted to the Vauxhall block ; engines with Lotus heads were used in Vauxhall's dealer team race and rally programmes until the late 1970s.

The 16-valve engine was first used in the Chevette 2300 HS, but initially heads were in such short supply that road car production was delayed and the rally team continued to use the Lotus heads they were familiar with.

Although AIK in total only won one point in the tournament, the team could hold their heads high after all giving three opposing teams in the group a run for their money in the first half of the group stage.

A corporate development team also leads discussions with sales department heads regarding how to market corporate goods, organize marketing campaigns, analyze market research and incorporate any customer advice or complaints into marketing strategies in such cases ; extensive industry specific business experience is often preferred which is why companies may hire an external firm to help them engage in such moves.

The team removed the heads of two of the corpses suspected to be Lin Biao and Ye Qun and took them back to Russia for forensic examination.

In 1972 the team concluded that the heads belonged to Lin Biao and Ye Qun ( the heads are still stored in Russian archives ).

Domestic versions for England came equipped with Ford or Mercury flatheads, some of which were equipped with ARDUN overhead valve hemi heads, a modification designed by Zora ARkus DUNTov, who also later raced for the factory Allard team at Le Mans.

MCC has always been heavily involved in coaching the game of cricket and the club's current head coach Mark Alleyne heads an extensive operation involving the running of an indoor cricket school and a team of coaches in England and around the world.

With visions of national greatness dancing in their heads, the 1936 Gaels squad was dubbed the " dream team " by St. Mary's fans.

The centre is staffed by a group of misfits including the bisexual Rose Marie ( Barbara Flynn ), self-absorbed Bob Buzzard ( David Troughton ), and decrepit Scot, Jock McCannon ( Graham Crowden ) who heads the team.

Dulles communications director Leslie Barnes heads to the unfinished Annex Skywalk with a SWAT team to re-establish communications with the planes.

The scrum then ' engages ' with the opposition team so that the player's heads are interlocked with those of the other side's front row.

* The team was ordered to climb into a foxhole naked and sing the national anthem while ice-cold water was poured over their heads.

Harnessing a team to a buckboard, they drove out to a willow-lined creek about a half-mile off, then climbed down and began chopping.

Australia's ageing post-war team broke up after 1926, with Collins, Charlie Macartney and Warren Bardsley all departing, and Gregory breaking down at the start of the 1928 – 29 series.

This Australian team, led by Bradman, who turned 40 during his final tour of England, has gone down in history as The Invincibles.

Notably, the design team was led by Dirk Meyer, who had worked as a lead engineer on multiple Alpha microprocessors during his employment at DEC. Jerry Sanders had approached many of the engineering staff to work for AMD as DEC wound down their semiconductor business, and brought in a near-complete team of engineering experts.

Defensive indifference is generally only scored instead of a stolen base when the game is in a late inning and the team with the stealing baserunner is down by more than one run.

As the war began to wind down with Germany's surrender in May 1945, the team parlayed Brown's ties to college football and the military to build its roster.

The team went down to the wire with the Boston Red Sox, winning a one-game playoff, the first in American League history, to go to the World Series.

Ironically, the following two seasons also saw the Cubs get off to a fast start, as the team rallied to over 10 games above. 500 well into both seasons, only to again wear down and play poorly later on, and ultimately settling back to mediocrity.

In the NFL a player is active until he is tackled or forced down by a member of the opposing team ( down by contact ).

* In the 2006 season, the game clock was started when the ball was declared ready for play after the defensive team ( during a scrimmage down ) or the kick-receiving team ( during a free kick down ) was awarded a first down ( change of possession ), reducing the time of games.

If a team fails to gain ten yards in two downs they usually punt the ball on third down or try to kick a field goal ( see below ), depending on their position on the field.

The team may, however use its third down in an attempt to advance the ball and gain a cumulative 10 yards.

One notable exception to this rule is if the kicking team on a 3rd down punt play is penalized before the kick occurs: the receiving team may not decline the penalty and take over on downs.

Drop kicks are mandatory from the centre spot to start a half ( a kick-off ), from the centre spot to restart the game after points have been scored, to restart play from the 22-metre line ( called a drop-out ) after the ball is touched down or made dead in the in-goal area by the defending team when the attacking team kicked or took the ball into the in-goal area, and to score a drop goal ( sometimes called a field goal ) in open play, which is worth three points.

Also, if a gust of wind blows the ball over on a place kick attempt after the kicker has begun their run-up, thus allowing the opposing team to begin a charge down, then there is no time to reset the ball, and the kicker may attempt a quick drop kick.

Paula Jones ' legal team was also unable to track Gracen down because she had made unscheduled trips to Las Vegas and the Caribbean as well.

Wilson backed the team into the traces, and wished they weren't going to town at all.

It is true, of course, the uncertainties of life being what they are, that as now and then the Christian killed the lion, homecoming days have been ruined by a visiting team.

The various team sports assuredly have their place in every school, and they are important to proper physical development.

they make one inefficient three-men-and-a-helper team.

While women had always attended ball games in small numbers ( it was the part of a `` dead game sport '' in the early years of the twentieth century to be taken out to the ball park and to root, root, root for the home team ), they had often sat in patient martyrdom, unable even to read the scoreboard, which sometimes seemed to indicate that one team led another by a score of three hundred and eighty to one hundred and fifty-one.

-- The Orioles tonight retained the distinction of being the only winless team among the eighteen Major-League clubs as they dropped their sixth straight spring exhibition decision, this one to the Kansas City Athletics by a score of 5 to 3.

The Texans have two more road games -- at Buffalo and Houston -- before they play for the home folks again, and it looks as if coach Hank Stram's men will meet the Bills just as they are developing into the kind of team they were expected to be in pre-season reckonings.

`` By winning against Bradley, Kentucky and Notre Dame on those teams' home courts, they showed that the home court advantage can be overcome anywhere and that it doesn't take a super team to do it ''.

Australia had lost 2 – 1 during a tour of the West Indies in 1964 – 65, the first time they had lost a series to any team other than England.

( The Green Bay Packers were an independent team until they joined the NFL in 1921 ).

Although they failed to make the playoffs in 2009, the streak ended when the team rallied to win their final three regular season games to record back-to-back winning seasons for the first time in franchise history.

Despite their avowed claim to appeal to the entire state, in 2009 the Diamondbacks moved their Triple-A Pacific Coast League farm team, the Tucson Sidewinders, to Reno, where they are now known as the Aces.

In 1972, they completed the European treble by winning the Dutch Eredivisie, KNVB Cup, and the European Cup ; to date, they are the only team to keep the European Cup and accomplish the European treble.

After this merger failed, they successfully merged KFC ( now " FC Zaanstreek ") with Alkmaar ' 54, though the team would be located in Alkmaar.

Through those efforts, in mid-2012, the Swedish Artemis Racing team announced that they would create their team base in one of the former air station hangars on Alameda Point.

They do carry an inherent risk, however, as they give the offensive team another runner on base, without any effort on their part, who could potentially score a run.

Another risk taken by the defensive team in issuing a base on balls is that since intentional balls must be pitched in a legal manner, they can legally become wild pitches or passed balls.

Today known as the Chicago Cubs, they are the oldest team in American organized sports.

Beginning with the 2012 season, the wild card team that advances to the Division Series will face the number 1 seed, regardless of whether or not they are in the same division.