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27 Kinder European Challenge

The largest fundraising effort came from Malta, and was shared between Inspire Foundation and the Daniel Delicata Memorial Association for the construction of a children's outdoor play area at the new national Mater Dei Hospital.

Albion, Pennsylvania

He then went on to play college football for four years at Eastern Michigan University.

Angelina Weld Grimké

Both Angelina Weld Grimké and her great aunt Sarah Moore Grimké appear as main characters in Ain Gordon's 2013 play If She Stood, commissioned by the Painted Bride Art Center in Philadelphia.

Anna Nordell

When she was 14 Nordell got to play the part of Leisl in the musical "The Sound of Music" at Göta Lejon Theatre in Stockholm.

Ari Wolfe

Wolfe's impressive resume lead ESPN to hire him as the play-by-play man for the Madden Challenge in 2007, shown on Superbowl Sunday on ESPN2.

Behind the Player: Blasko

Released on November 1, 2008 by IMV, the DVD features Blasko giving in-depth bass lessons for how to play "Dragula" by Rob Zombie and "I Don't Wanna Stop" by Ozzy Osbourne and an intimate behind-the scenes look at his life as a professional musician, including rare photos and video.

Bill Glasson

Trailing seven strokes behind the leader Larry Mize with 14 holes to play, Glasson made a 45-foot birdie putt on the 18th hole for a round of 66 to finish one stroke ahead of Mize and Corey Pavin.

Brett Leboff

Within months of signing Big Strides they were booked to play in front of 000’ of people at Summer Sonic Festival, Japan signed licensing deal with Reservoir Records - EMI Japan for Strides first record “Small Town, Big Strides” then subsequent records “Cry It All Out” and “Super Custom Limited”.

Brian Capron

In April 2010, Capron appeared on ITV Show This Morning along with fellow cast member of Stepping Out, Anita Harris, and they showed presenters Phillip Schofield and Ruth Langsford how to tap dance.

Carmen Boullosa

Finally, the third play satirically recounts the conversation between Joseph and Mary before Mary gives birth to Jesus and ascends to heaven.

Charlie Davies

Born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, as a child Davies was encouraged to play soccer and coached by his father Kofi Davies, an immigrant from the Gambia.

Clark Bautista

In the Philippine Collegiate Champions League later that year, Bautista would play a key part in the Tigers run in the tournament as they first won the Metro Manila-Luzon tournament by defeating both the Letran Knights and the Adamson Soaring Falcons to enter into the PCCL Final Four with the Ateneo Blue Eagles, San Beda Red Lions and the Southwestern U Cobras.

Craig Shemon

In addition to Yahoo Sports Radio, he also served as a talk show host for Fox Sports Radio and has called play-by-play for NFL on Fox, NFL Europe on NFL Network, and college football and basketball for the Big Ten Network.

Crash Davis

Davis would play in the minor leagues, with teams including the Reidsville Luckies and the Raleigh Capitals, until 1952.

David Anthony

Anthony became a fan favourite during the 2012 Paralympics, not only from his match play, but also for his aggressive on-court posturing and stand-out blue mohican hairstyle.

Fabel

The play itself might be by Farquhar or Gerhart Hauptmann, Lenz or Molière, but ‘the writer’s words are only sacred insofar as they are true’.

Feldspar

The play of colours visible in some feldspar of labradorite composition is due to very fine-grained exsolution lamellae.

Felix Kersten

Kersten is played by actor Martin Jarvis in the radio play by Neville Watchurst A Vital Flaw, about his work to help Heinrich Himmler's health.

Firetrack

Firetrack is a vertically scrolling shoot 'em up computer game programmed by Nick "Orlando" Pelling and released for the BBC Micro and Commodore 64 platforms in 1987 by Electric Dreams Software. It was also ported to the Acorn Electron by Superior Software in 1989 as part of the Play It Again Sam 7 compilation.

Hugo Johnstone-Burt

A week before he graduated from NIDA, Johnstone-Burt was approached to play the brain damaged Fish Lamb in the television adaptation of Tim Winton's Cloudstreet.

James Spione

The film premiered at the Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown, New York, and went on to play theatres from the Berkshires to the Midwest.

Jason Scotland

Born in Morvant, Trinidad and Tobago, after playing for Malick Senior Comprehensive School, Scotland went on to play with San Juan Jabloteh – for whom he scored nine goals in as many league games – and Defence Force, where he scored 30 goals in 31 league appearances.

Jean Giraudoux

He became well known in the English speaking world largely because of the award-winning adaptations of his plays by Christopher Fry (The Trojan War Will Not Take Place) and Maurice Valency (The Madwoman of Chaillot, Ondine, The Enchanted, The Apollo of Bellac).

Jessica Schultz

For the 2006 U.S. World Team Trials in March, Schultz was named skip, or captain, of Team USA (the team's regular skip, Cassie Johnson, did not play in the tournament), and the team finished fourth under her direction.

João Batista Nunes

Due to an injury, he was not selected to play the 1978 FIFA World Cup which made him miserable.

Johnny Vander Meer

On March 3, 1944, Vander Meer joined the United States Navy and was stationed at Sampson Naval Training Station in New York where he would play for the Navy baseball team.

Julie Heldman

In 1970, she was a member of the "Houston Nine" who left the United States Tennis Association (USTA) to play in the Virginia Slims tournament in Houston.

Les Cousins Branchaud

2007 was a big year for Les Cousins Branchaud, as they produced their fourth album, Passer du bon temps, and were invited for the first time to play at the World Folk Festival in Drummondville.

Liban Abdi

Abdi is eligible to play for both Somalia and Norway but has not represented any of them although he has stated that he wants to play for Norway.

Meaningful play

In Rules of Play, Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerman introduce meaningful play as the goal of successful game design.

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays

Gary Coleman, dressed as an elf, summons 'N Sync to take over. The boys deliver toys, presents, and good cheer throughout. The video debuted on TRL December 14, 1998. A reference to Coleman's classic sitcom Diff'rent Strokes is made when after Coleman tells 'N Sync to deliver the presents, they say, "Whatchu talkin' about, Gary?", a play on the classic line, "Whatchu talkin' about, Willis?".

Michael J. Cox

Cox's professional name was a play on actor Michael J. Fox, the mainstream Canadian-American actor whose boyish, preppy persona he shared.

Michael Roberds

He performed the role of Big Bird in the school play "Christmas on Sesame Street" at age five.

Over Here!

The setting is a cross-country train trip in the United States during World War II (hence the name of the play, in contrast to the popular patriotic war anthem entitled Over There).

Penny Ann Early

Management, including Colonels owners Joseph and Mamie Gregory, ordered coach Gene Rhodes to play Early in a game.

Pointy-haired Boss

The company's actual name, as spoken in the TV series, was "Path-Way Electronics" before merging with "E-Tech Management", making it "Path-E-Tech Management" (a play on the word "pathetic"), but when Dogbert acquired it later in the episode, there was a "Dogbert Inc." sign being lifted into place.

Poonam Dasgupta

After retiring from the film industry, she made a comeback with the play Begum Sahiba co-starring Rahul Roy.

Rick Mount

After Mullaney officially terminated the session, several players lingered to play HORSE.

Rickey Medlocke

Rossington asked Medlocke if he remembered how to play "Free Bird", "Tuesday's Gone", and "Workin' For MCA", among others.

Robert Salaburu

Salaburu had to cut his online play short because of Black Friday.

Ryan Max Riley

According to his Yale biography, Riley has a pet polish dwarf rabbit named Thibault after a character (Tybalt) in William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet and the pet lobster of the French poet Gérard de Nerval, a pet lobster that Nerval used to walk around Paris with a blue ribbon.

Secret Honor

Secret Honor is a 1984 film written by Donald Freed and Arnold M. Stone (based on their play), and directed by Robert Altman and starring Philip Baker Hall as former president Richard M. Nixon, a fictional account attempting to gain insight into Nixon's personality, life, attitudes and behavior.

Show of Strength Theatre Company

In three years they produced eleven play including two news works by Peter Nichols and the acclaimed The Wills' Girls by Amanda Whittington which was revived in 2003 and was also staged at the Dublin Fringe Festival.

Sunshine Hockey League

Kelly Dyer, one of five females to ever play professional hockey in North America, played in the SuHL with the West Palm Beach Blaze from 1993 to 1995.

The Countess Cathleen

The play was first performed on May 8, 1899, as the Irish Literary Theatre's inaugural production, in the Antient Concert Rooms, Dublin.

The Fatal Dowry

The play is set in Dijon in Burgundy in the later part of the fifteenth century, in the aftermath of the battles of Grandson, Morat (both 1476) and Nancy (1477), all mentioned in Act I, scene ii.

Tom Sidwell

However while travelling to the ground – The Oval in Surrey – for the next day's play, he became lost on the London Underground and was given out while mid-transit.

Trenton Titans

The games were broadcast on radio during the first nine years of existence on WHWH, WBCB-AM, and WTSR, In 2008, the broadcasts switched to internet-only, and were handled by first-year play-by-play announcer Paul Roper, who was selected to broadcast the 2009 ECHL All-Star Game.

Walter Henrique da Silva

Walter played his first official game for Porto on 19 August in a UEFA Europa League play-off round against K.R.C. Genk, appearing eight minutes in a 3–0 away win.

Zakir Mammadov

His poetic play titled ‘Friendly help’ was staged by amateur team of Agdam Pioneer House in 1955 and by amateur team of Barda Pioneer House in 1956.


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1946 Davis Cup

The USA defeated Sweden in the Inter-Zonal play-off, and then defeated defending champions Australia in the Challenge Round.

1963 in Luxembourg

18 December – Luxembourg is knocked out at the final stage of qualifying for the 1964 European Nations' Cup, losing a play-off against Denmark 1-0, having drawn 5-5 with the Danes on aggregate.

1980 Asian Olympic Qualifying Tournaments

Winner and runner-up of each group to played a play-off match to qualify for the 1980 Summer Olympics tournament to be held in Moscow.

1984–85 Bundesliga

Arminia Bielefeld and third-placed 2. Bundesliga team 1. FC Saarbrücken had to compete in a two-legged relegation/promotion play-off.

1991–92 Bundesliga

Uerdingen and Hertha BSC were eventually joined in demotion by relegation/promotion play-off participant FC St. Pauli, who lost on aggregate against Stuttgarter Kickers.

1993 Football League Second Division play-off Final

The 1993 Football League Second Division play-off Final was a football match played at Wembley Stadium on 30 May 1993, to determine the third and final team to gain promotion from the Third Division to the Second Division of The Football League in the 1992–93 season.

1993 Football League Third Division play-off Final

The 1993 Football League Third Division play-off Final was a football match played at Wembley Stadium on 29 May 1993, at the end of the 1992–93 season.

1995 Football League Second Division play-off Final

The 1995 Football League Second Division play-off final was a football match played at on 28 May 1995, to determine the third and final team to gain promotion from the Second Division to the First Division of The Football League in the 1994–95 season.

1995–96 Mersin İdmanyurdu season

In the third stage, 8 clubs (3 from the Promotion Group and 1 each from 5 Classificaiton groups) played one-leg play-off games in Ankara to determine the third team to be promoted to First League.

1996 Fed Cup Asia/Oceania Zone

The top two teams of each pool play-off in a two-round knockout stage to decide which nation progresses to World Group II play-offs.

1996–97 Mersin İdmanyurdu season

In the third stage, 8 clubs (3 from the promotion group and 1 each from 5 classification groups) played one-leg play-off games in Ankara to determine the third team to be promoted to First League.

1997 Football League Second Division play-off Final

The 1997 Football League Second Division play-off Final was a football match played at Wembley Stadium on 25 May 1997, at the end of the 1996–97 season.

1998 Football League Second Division play-off Final

The 1998 Football League Second Division play-off Final was a football match played at Wembley Stadium, London on 24 May 1998 at the end of the 1997–98 season.

2004–05 Libyan Premier League

The Promotion/Relegation Play-off took place between the 10th placed team Rafik Sorman and the 3rd placed team in the 2004-05 Libyan Second Division Playoffs, Al Wahda.

2010–11 Primera Divisió

Encamp, who finished last season in 7th place, and 3rd place Segona Divisió club Extremenya played a two-legged relegation play-off (normally, the runners-up of the Segona Divisió would participate, but as promotion-ineligible Lusitanos B finished in that spot, the playoff spot was given to the 3rd place club).

2011 Fed Cup Americas Zone

The winners of both pools play off to decide which nation progresses to World Group II play-offs.

2012 Super League season results

Wigan Warriors, as the highest ranked team in the Qualifying Semi Final (a combination of league leaders and Qualifying play-off winner), get to choose their semi-final opponents from the two winners of the Preliminary Semi-Finals in the Club Call, which was made on 23 September 2012 at 12:30 BST on Sky Sports News, where they chose Leeds Rhinos.

Except for the Club-Call, the current play-off format follows the play-off system of the Australian Football League.

AFL Ontario

It is currently composed of teams from the Greater Toronto Area, Southwestern Ontario and the National Capital Region, who play off for the Conacher Cup (named after Lionel Conacher), presently awarded to the winner of the annual AFL Ontario Grand Final.

Arnold Birch

Be Quick won the Eerste Klasse North and qualified for the Championship play-off finishing fifth.

Bassano Virtus 55 S.T.

In the end of the season Bassano Virtus was surpassed by Reggiana and later lost the promotion play-off final with Calcio Portogruaro-Summaga (2–3 in Portogruaro and 1–2 in Bassano del Grappa) also due to a penalty not granted to Bassano, that could have changed the outcame of the match.

Bob Ryan

At that time, Ryan said that Joumana Kidd, then-wife of then-New Jersey Nets guard Jason Kidd needed someone to "smack" her for taking her son T.J., then 4 years old, to NBA play-off night games where they could be taunted.

Daniela Nuțu-Gajić

She scored 8.5/13 and finished equal third, with Pia Cramling and Nana Ioseliani, in the Interzonal in Havana 1985, but Cramling won the play-off matches and qualified into the Candidates Tournament ahead of her.

David Unsworth

Unsworth was part of England's U20 squad that finished third at the 1993 FIFA World Youth Championship in Australia, scoring the first goal in their 2–1 third-place play-off win over Australia at the Sydney Football Stadium.

Georg Schories

He won at Tunbridge Wells 1908, shared 1st with Victor Wahltuch at Blackpool 1907, shared 1st with Frederick Yates at Blackpool 1910, but lost the play-off match (0 : 4), took 2nd behind Yates at Bromley 1910, tied for 3rd-5th at Oxford 1910, and won at Glasgow 1911.

Glasgow Rocks

Returning to the USA, Wall's exit saw the arrival of former Brighton assistant Steve Swanson as the new head coach and on the back of the Play-off win, ushered in a new era for the franchise.

Hermann Stöcker

After helping the reserve team win promotion to the DDR-Liga by scoring two goals in the decisive play-off match, Stöcker was given an official farewell before the kickoff to a friendly against Barada SC on 26 July 1969.

Ibrahim Al-Shahrani

His most significant goal was against Qatar in Doha during the 1998 FIFA World Cup qualification (AFC) final match which eliminated Qatar and led Saudi Arabia to the top of Group A, directly qualifying to 1998 FIFA World Cup in France and leaving Iran in second place for the AFC Play-off against Japan.

Lee Peacock

In his final season at Ashton Gate the club secured a Play-Off place within the Second Division and after defeating Hartlepool United in the semi-final, City lost 1–0 at the Millennium Stadium against Brighton & Hove Albion.

Maritzburg F.C.

First, qualifying for the 1963 promotion play-offs only to miss promotion by a single point vis-a-vis Hellenic, and again in 1966, losing the southern play-off final against Westview Apollon from Port Elizabeth.

Mouhcine Iajour

On 11 December 2013, Iajour scored a goal in the 2–1 victory against Auckland City, in the play-off for quarter finals.

Norwegian football league system

From the 2011-season on, there will be no play-off matches between 3. Divisjon group winners, due to the reduction from 24 to 12 groups.

Paresh Lohani

The following year, he played in a play-off match against Namibia to decide the final spot in the 2006 ICC Intercontinental Cup.

Paul Keeler

Keeler moved on to become a stalwart of Old Blue RFC and their Rugby Super League team, playing in four play-off experiences, including two semi-finals.

Poolie Pride

The idea was born after 'Pools' appeared in the Football League One play-off final at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff; the idea was thought of on a Hartlepool fan forum and the project took off from there.

Premier Reserve League

In the 2005–06 play-off, held at Old Trafford, Manchester United Reserves beat Tottenham Hotspur Reserves 2–0.

RC Aachen

The club advanced to the quarter finals of the play-offs after opponend USV Potsdam Rugby canceled their first round play-off game.

Rhona Martin

However, Law earned her revenge against Scotland in the semi-finals, leading Canada to a 10-6 win, Martin's team was disappointed after missing out on a medal by losing 10-5 to Dordi Nordby's Norwegian outfit in the subsequent play-off.

Ricardo Janota

While a youngster with Benfica, he represented his country at under-16 level, and was first-choice goalkeeper at the European under-17 championship finals, at which Portugal's under-17s beat England 3–2 on penalties to win the third-place play-off; Janota saved the decisive penalty.

Richard Dunne

He played in all ten games helping Ireland finish second and qualify for a play-off whilst also scoring goals in both 1–1 draws with Bulgaria, as well as winning the man of the match award in the away game held in Sofia.

Ryan Noble

Coming on as a substitute in Sunderland's third place play-off with FC Groningen, Noble assisted Fraizer Campbell's 89th minute equaliser, and then scored a brilliant solo goal to give the Black Cats a 3–2 win in the last minute.

S.P. Tre Fiori

From 1993 till 1995, Tre Fiori dominated the league by winning the championship play-off finals three times in a row.

In 1991, S.P. Tre Fiori lost the championship play-off final 1–0 to S.C. Faetano but won the Trofeo Federale that year.

Sandy Herd

Harry Vardon and James Braid both had medium length putts at the final hole to force a play-off, but they missed and Herd took the Championship.

Shandong Province Youth Football Team

In the 2011 China League Two, this team placed 3rd in the North and played quarter-final in the play-off round, lost to Chongqing FC.

Steven Fales

He has performed the play off-Broadway and across the United States and internationally at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and London's West End.

Taiwo Atieno

On 13 and 17 May 2012, with Rene Howe injured, Taiwo was subbed on for the first leg of the play-off semi finals however failed to score.

Top six play-offs

After a top five play-off system was used, a play-off structure involving the top six teams was used to determine the winners of the Super League competition in British rugby league from 2002 through 2008.