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When the sports teams moved to the new Toyota Center in 2003, the City of Houston leased the arena to Lakewood Church, a megachurch, which invested $ 75 million in renovations to convert the arena into the current configuration of seats and rooms for its needs ; the renovations took over 15 months to complete, and the renovations included adding five stories to add more capacity.
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When Costas was first hired by NBC, Don Ohlmeyer, who at the time ran the network's sports division, told the then 28-year-old Costas that he looked like a 14-year-old ( a story that Costas would recite during an appearance on Late Night with Conan O ' Brien when O ' Brien commented about Costas ' apparent inability to " age " normally ).
When the term first surfaced circa the late 1980s / early 1990s, it was used for adult sports such as skydiving, scuba diving, surfing, rock climbing, snow skiing, water skiing, snowboarding, mountain biking, mountaineering, storm chasing, hang gliding, and bungee jumping, many of which were then growing in popularity.
When Sylvester Stallone spotted Mr. T in this second airing, it is strongly believed that the interview with sports journalist Bryant Gumbel originated his famous line " I don't hate him but ... I pity the fool ", which was worked into the movie Rocky.
When not at the local YMCA or playing sports, Smith sometimes went with friends to the neighborhood lumberyard, springboarding off inner tubes and doing flips into sawdust piles ( a precursor to his famous backflips ).
When Henry first came to the throne, he had very little interest in actually ruling ; rather, he preferred to indulge in luxuries and to partake in sports.
When founded in 1984, the league was a pioneer in gender equality, offering competition in a then-unprecedented 10 women's sports.
When a Chicago-area sports team goes far in the playoffs, the colors are changed to match the team's colors.
When the network launched, Fox management, having seen the critical role that sports programming ( soccer programming in particular ) had played in the growth of the British satellite service British Sky Broadcasting, believed that sports, and specifically professional football, would be the engine that would make Fox a major network the quickest.
When Pete reached his senior year, he had already used up his four years of sports eligibility, so in the Spring of 1960, he joined the Class AA team sponsored by Frisch's Big Boy of Lebanon, Ohio in the Dayton Amateur League.
When the boy became 12 years old the schooling started to include sports such as wrestling, running, and throwing discus and javelin.
When black entertainers and sports heroes began moving to Ladera Heights in the 1970s, many other affluent blacks followed suit.
When the area is dry, the basin can be used for sports practices.
When talking about sports, there is usually a difference in meaning between the infinitive and gerund ( see the next section ).
When the ball lands near them, Ray throws it back ; a surprised Jerry then comments on his natural throwing ability ( and possible future in sports ), much to Dorothy's dismay.
When the team came from behind and won that night, Felix became the mascot of all the Logansport High School sports teams.
When Jones won all four, the sports world searched for ways to capture the magnitude of his accomplishment.
When the University plays in sports against in-state rival, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, the school's name is decided by the home team.
When the NBA, MLB, NHL and NFL began selling their jerseys in stores during the 1980s, game used jerseys also became a hot item among sports memorabilia collectors.
When Diocles retired at the age of 42 after a 24 year career his winnings reportedly totalled 35, 863, 120 sesterces ($ US 15 billion ), making him the highest paid sports star in history.
When Wells returned to Britain in 1894, she brought a copy of the article with her, and openly mocked Willard and the temperance movement for its attention to the " evils " of card playing, sports and lewd dancing, while " during all the years which men, women, and children were scourged, hanged, shot and burned, the WCTU had no word, either of pity or protest.
When not in use by one of Denver's sports teams, the building frequently serves as a concert venue.
When Controller of BBC Television Donald Baverstock alerted Newman of the need for a programme to bridge the gap between the sports showcase Grandstand and pop music programme Juke Box Jury on Saturday evenings, he decided that a science-fiction drama would be the perfect vehicle for filling the gap and gaining a family audience.
According to one source, " When his father refused to give him a summer job at his newspaper Oregon Journal, believing that his son should find work on his own, Buck went to the rival Oregonian, where he worked the night shift tabulating sports scores and every morning ran home the full seven miles.
When and teams
When the merger took place, all ten AFL franchises became part of the merged league's new American Football Conference ( AFC ), with three teams from the original 16-team NFL ( the Pittsburgh Steelers, Cleveland Browns, and Baltimore Colts ) joining them.
When Hunt, Adams, and Howsam were unable to secure a controlling interest in the Chicago Cardinals, they approached NFL commissioner Bert Bell and proposed the addition of expansion teams.
When playing teams, teammates usually sit at opposite corners of the star, with each team member controlling his / her own set of pieces.
When the Taliban refused to hand over bin Laden to US authorities and to disband al-Qaeda bases in Afghanistan, Operation Enduring Freedom was launched in which teams of American and British special forces worked with commanders of the United Front ( Northern Alliance ) against the Taliban.
When South Africa reached 248 / 8, Cronje declared ; both teams then forfeited an innings leaving England a target of 249 to win the Test, which they did with two wickets left and only five balls remaining.
When Rex Ryan was hired as the team's head coach, the rivalry further escalated due to an increased war of words between both teams.
When the Athletics first joined the American League, the two teams played each other in a spring and fall series.
When the party is represented by members in the lower house of parliament, the party leader simultaneously serves as the leader of the parliamentary group of that full party representation ; depending on a minimum number of seats held, Westminster-based parties typically allow for leaders to form frontbench teams of senior fellow members of the parliamentary group to serve as critics of aspects of government policy.
When the national teams, assembled in formation on the infield, saw the flowing figure of Nurmi, they broke ranks like excited schoolchildren, dashing toward the edge of the track.
When it came to the confrontation with both Avengers teams, the Savage Land natives, and the heroes from the ship, Mister Fantastic and Abigail Brand used a laser to identify the heroes from the ship as Skrulls.
When both teams ' bands are present, it is common protocol for the visiting band to perform first.
When integrating C, C ++, Object Pascal, Java, Fortran, Python, and any other language or OS into a single cohesive system design model, CORBA provides the means to level the field and allow disparate teams to develop systems and unit tests that can later be joined together into a whole system.
When af2 legally folded, some teams joined the af2 Board of Directors in forming the new Arena Football One that became the new Arena Football League.
When the Northern League consisted of between eight and twelve teams, it played a split season 96-game schedule with two divisions from late May until early September.
When the league dropped to six teams in 2008, it still played a 96-game schedule, but did not split the season and did not have divisions.
When the Spurs won the NBA title, the teams ' victory parade has always included the team traveling on the San Antonio River on boats adjacent to the San Antonio River Walk.
When two teams tied at the top of the standings in 1932, an impromptu playoff game was scheduled to settle the tie.
When the league expanded to 10 teams beginning in 2009 – 10, the finals expanded to six teams.
When the two teams met in that year's Cup final ( 1 – 0 for Athletic ), the match ended with several players fighting in the field.
The Saints ' anthem is the popular sport tune When the Saints Go Marching In, and since the club's official nickname is " the Saints ", they are one of only a few teams who do not change the original lyric.
When these two schools combine teams they are known as Britton / Deerfield or BD and adopted the mascot " Patriots " in 2008 thanks to the push for a mascot by parents of students in the program.
When bypassed by the Northern Pacific Railroad in December 1884, over 100 buildings were moved with rollers and horse teams to the nearby site of the depot.
When Howe turned 40 in 1967 – 68, the league expanded from six to twelve teams and the number of scoring opportunities grew as the game schedule increased.
When MANPADS is operated by specialists, batteries may have several dozen teams deploying separately in small sections ; self-propelled air defence guns may deploy in pairs.
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