For comparison's sake, the players on the U.S. national team roster have an average of 6.91 letters.
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Similarly, Charles Barkley chided Bryant, arguing that Kevin, LeBron and Kobe are the only Team USA players good enough to have made the 1992 Dream Team roster.
Of course that figure is substantially larger than the amount that would be needed for the NFL. There are only 53 players on an active team roster, and only 45 on its game-day roster.
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None of those players will appear in Saturday's game, for none of them is on the team's roster anymore.
The Patriot League champion Black Knights, in Charlottesville for the second year in a row and in the tournament for the fifth time in 10 years, return with just 10 holdover players from last year's team on a roster dominated by freshmen and sophomores.
Unfortunately for them, just three players from that team are still on the roster, and one of them is goaltender Henrik Lundqvist.
"There's a buzz about this team, " said Jason Giambi, who will be added to Cleveland's roster Tuesday to face his former team.
So, in its effort to win promotion from the packed 24-team league, it loaded its roster with foreigners.
Real Madrid became the world's dominant team in the 1950s with a roster filled with foreign stars, such as Argentine Alfredo Di Stefano.
Using HR as talent spotters makes about as much sense as asking the florist for help filling out the roster on your basketball team.
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Only two players remain from the team's 2011 opening day roster.
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To find them, we looked at the regular season OPS and the salary of each starting active roster player on each playoff team, excluding pitchers.
The preseason roster limit is 90 players per team.
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He remains confident that there is enough talent and depth on the roster to make the defense one of the team's strengths.
He's well aware that the credit for this torrid start is largely owed to two men: General Manager Brian Cashman and Manager Joe Girardi, who have juggled the roster and lineup each day to keep the team together.
He was a first-team all-ACC selection last season and was an early roster selection to the Senior Bowl.
The lack of those assets is the fault of team management (Jim Buss, Mitch Kupchak) in assembling their roster.
The Shockers' well-balanced roster managed built that enormous lead with the same consummate team play that they've shown throughout the tournament.
The fourth was a National League team, one with more opportunity available in the bullpen but a weaker roster.
The Nuggets landed a bevy of young players, trade exemptions and draft picks they've used to retool their roster, and the Knicks got a bona fide superstar to build a team around.
Smith, of course, now heads to a team with all kinds of quarterback issues, from starter Mark Sanchez still with the team despite an awful season, Tim Tebow still with the team despite not really getting a chance to play, and three other QBs on the roster for now in David Garrard, Greg McElroy and Matt Simms.
There are 15 members of the 2007-08 Giants who are still on the team, but only seven Patriots who participated in that game are on New England's roster today.
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Unsigned free agent closer Francisco Rodriguez, who is on the Venezuelan roster, said Wednesday he would like to come back to the Mets, the team he pitched for prior to a 2011 midseason trade with Milwaukee.
"You have to game-plan different to some extent, but we don't want to treat him too differently because it would psych out our team, " said Tom McDonough, another co-captain and the only upperclassman on the Poly roster.
Whoever they hire as new manager and their roster moves will be of the utmost importance if they wish to rectify the problems that plagued the team this year.
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The team added two future Hall of Fame players in Steve Nash and Dwight Howard during the summer to an already formidable roster featuring Kobe Bryant and Pau Gasol.
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By bringing Neymar to Camp Nou, Barcelona will add one of the world's most electric young talents to a roster that already includes four-time FIFA World Player of the Year winner Lionel Messi and Spanish national team stalwarts Xavi Hernandez and Andres Iniesta.
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