In paragraph 7, Mr. Williams states that the pay-for-performance program was not intended to incentivize players to injure opposing players.
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During this time, players were purportedly offered payments if they managed to hurt opposing players and knock them out of a game.
Crawford said they did target opposing players but never told their team to injure them and never offered any payment for hitting or injuring them.
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At 6 feet and 184 pounds, he needs to strengthen his upper body to better fend off opposing players even Islanders coach Jack Capuano acknowledged as much.
"The payments here are particularly troubling because they involved not just payments for 'performance, ' but also for injuring opposing players, " Commissioner Roger Goodell said in a statement.
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Before long he was the official mascot of the San Diego Padres, cracking up crowds with on-field antics like hexing opposing players and swiping vendors' Cracker Jack boxes.
In football, the New Orleans Saints will not soon recover from the penalties and suspensions imposed by the NFL for the team's outrageous system of bounties for disabling opposing players.
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Recently the NFL has been investigating allegations that some on the New Orleans Saints were paid bounties for inflicting injuries on opposing players during the course of a game.
Brodeur is instead what NBC analyst Ed Olczyk calls a "butter-pillar, " studying opposing players to read where they'll shoot the puck, baiting them by keeping his glove hand low, daring them to test his reflexes.
An NFL investigation found the team had an "active bounty program" during the 2009, 2010 and 2011 seasons in which "bounty" payments were given to players for hits that hurt opposing players and knocked them out of the game.
But after a season-long spike in goal-scoring, teams figured out that if they dropped their skaters back on defense quickly, making the middle of the ice as crowded as a Times Square subway platform, they could keep opposing players on the perimeter of the rink.
But the Knicks did a solid job early on of exploiting the Grizzlies' defensive strategy, which thrives on packing the paint in hopes that opposing perimeter players will misfire when given open looks from deep.
"This decision is vindicated by the will to stop all risk of contagion, including among players of the opposing team, and of complications among the players who are potentially infected, " stated the LFP.
And after beating on each other all game, I see players from opposing teams hugging and whispering in the ear of their adversary, words not intended for TV.
But now, with the division sewn up, opposing teams resting their players and the final regular-season games holding almost no meaning, just one primary question remains about the Knicks: Can they sustain this level of play once the postseason begins next weekend?
In some cases, particular players on the opposing team were targeted, the NFL said.
Al Ittihad's Serbian coach Branko Smiljanic had to be restrained from attacking the referee and then players from the opposing team.
An ad already running in the U.K. has set the social-media universe ablaze because it makes it seem as if the rivals are united by fusing together the faces of players from the opposing teams, uttering the same words.
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The opposing sides, of five players each, take turns serving the four kilogram rubber ball and thereafter trying to move the ball up the field, hitting it only with the hip or upper thigh, which are protected by special garments.
Walks slow the game down, he said, and also rob the best players of opportunities to hit because opposing pitchers get orders from their coaches to walk the other teams' best players.
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Opposing pitchers don't take kindly to young players who make spectacles of themselves on the field.
If you're new to soccer, here's how it works: After 120 minutes of soccer have been played to a tie, five players from each team shoot at the opposing goalkeeper from 12 yards.
Get into games, players are flying all over the place and opposing teams purposely get into the goalies' line of sight to make it tougher for them to track the puck and get into the right position to block shots.
Defending the onslaught is one of the trickiest situations for opposing managers, who have to sit on the sideline and hope their players stay disciplined enough to hang on.
"PepsiCo finds itself in the position of a coach, one of whose players has left, playbook in hand, to join the opposing team before the big game, " observed the three-judge panel.
Opposing them was insatiable Alabama, the defending champions back in the hunt despite losing six players from their bone-crushing defense to the NFL draft.
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The -2 is simple and seductive, offering players 3 damage immediately when Zarek comes into play if needed and placing all opposing threats under 3 toughness in the danger zone.
On the field, and before the ball is snapped, players are communicating back and forth as the offensive or defensive formations are seen by the opposing side.
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