The current lawsuit proposes a new question of whether a fan has standing against a professional team alleging harm based on its internal decision to set its lineup.
In their comments, the two brothers sought to reassure investors that Sun Hung Kai, the city's largest developer by stock-market value, has a strong professional management team that can weather every challenge.
For the first time (in the United States), a professional sports team has replaced the names of its players on their jerseys with their Twitter handles.
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In her new book, Renegades Write The Rules, hitting the shelves today, we get a glimpse at the wild ride that has led her from working for a professional basketball team to be one of the most followed people on Twitter and the leader of one of the most well known social media and digital agencies out there, Digital Royalty.
"Under their new professional structure and leadership team Cricket Ireland has embarked on an exciting strategic development phase and set high performance standards for all national teams and for the development of the sport as a whole, " he said.
Cordish has blamed this partly on the lack of a professional sports team at the arena.
And while the economy in Winnipeg has slowed a bit, the introduction of a major professional team coming back to the city bodes well.
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The Ice Hockey Superleague has said it is eager to find new investors to maintain a fully professional team in Cardiff.
Since signing his first professional contract at Carrow Road in 2006 Spillane has made just 18 first-team appearances.
Compared with what Ferguson has done as the leader of the most famous team in the most prominent professional league atop the world's most participated-in sport, all comparisons crumble.
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Golf already has plenty of high-profile professional platforms, both in terms of individual and international team play.
It hasn't attracted a professional sports team as planners had hoped, but city officials said it has regularly booked such events as the Big 12 Conference's men's basketball tournament.
On occasion, says Mr. Jerome, the Toaster has left notes, including one that seemed to disparage the Baltimore Ravens, the local professional football team named after one of Poe's poems.
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It has been expanding into niche markets, including environment- and energy-related businesses, and owns a professional baseball team in Japan.
"Some players are walking around waiting for something to happen, but Jurgen's message is that it's up to you which type of professional you want to be, " says Kyle Beckerman, a midfielder who has made 23 appearances with the national team.
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In the fiercely conformist world of professional sport, Wiggins, a self-styled mod, has always cut an idiosyncratic figure, discreetly customizing his Team GB cycling helmet and bike with the Royal Air Force roundel co-opted by The Who as a symbol of the musical subculture in the 1960s.
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