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2 unusual facts about pro-am


Pro am

Pro–am, a level of play between amateur and professional in sports

Professional amateur

Pro–am (professional–amateur), a level of play between amateur and professional in sports


1941–42 Serie C

The Lega Italiana Calcio Professionistico (Italian for Italian Professional Football League), commonly known as Lega Pro (Pro League), is the governing body that runs the third and fourth highest football divisions in Italy, the Prima Divisione and Seconda Divisione respectively.

2009–10 Basketball Bundesliga

Mitteldeutscher BC and Phoenix Hagen of the Pro A division have qualified by sportive means to play in Basketball Bundesliga 2009–10.

Alfred T. Goshorn

Affiliating with the Union Cricket Club before its second season, the club thereby arranged to share playing grounds and the services of "club pro" Harry Wright.

APW/Vendetta Pro Unified Tag Team Championship

On January 5, 2013, The Suburban Commandos (T-Rent and D-Unit) defeated SU/KA and the defending Champiosn The Ballard Brothers in a Triangle Tag Team Match in Hayward, California to become the first team to win the Unified Tag Team Titles on an All Pro Wrestling Event.

Aquiles Priester

Aquiles endorses: Paiste, Mapex, Evans, Pro-Mark, Audio-Technica, DW Pedals, Gibraltar Hardware, Zoom, Staff Drum, Santo Angelo, Urban Boards, Ciclotron, Shred Cases, AeroRic Custom Drums, Tander Tattoo Studio and Lady Snake Rock Wear.

Big Egg Wrestling Universe

The event featured representatives from joshi promotions All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling (AJW), GAEA Japan, Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling (JWP), and Ladies Legend Pro Wrestling (LLPW), as well as puroresu promotion Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling (which had a large women's division at the time).

Bohumil Hrabal

He affected the use of long sentences; in fact his works Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age (Taneční hodiny pro starší a pokročilé) (1964) and Vita Nuova (1987) consist of one single sentence.

Brandon Jacobs

On October 19, 2012, Jacobs appeared, with Pro NRG founder, Tania Patruno, to pitch the fledgling company's protein supplement/energy drink and hopefully score the venture some investment capital on episode #406 of ABC's Shark Tank.

Cambridge Network

Chairman of Cambridge Network Ltd is Bill Parsons recently EVP of ARM, and current Board Members include founder Hermann Hauser, Prof Lynn Gladden Pro V-C of Cambridge University, David Halstead of Deloitte, Hugh Parnell of NW Brown, Prof Michael Thorne V-C of Anglia Ruskin University, Peter Taylor of TTP Group and Ken Woodberry of Microsoft.

Communist Party of Sweden

Communist Party in Sweden, KPS, a pro-Albanian, dissenter group from the former, formed in 1982 but dissolved in 1993,

D. A. Points

He also won the pro-am portion with amateur partner Bill Murray.

Diego de Saavedra Fajardo

Here, with the position of resident ambassador in the court of Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria, leader of the Holy League, he pursued the union of the pro-Habsburg forces with the German Emperor Ferdinand II and with Catholic powers.

Division of the assembly

If a division is demanded, then the Speaker of the House of Representatives (or, more commonly, a Representative of the majority party designed by the Speaker to preside as Speaker pro tempore) or the Presiding Officer of the Senate asks those voting Yea to rise and remain standing until counted, and then asks those voting Nay to do the same.

Đorđe Novković

In 1973, Pro Arte merged with another Sarajevo pop group Indexi, but the experiment lasted only several months.

Final Cut Pro X

FCP X was announced in April 2011 simultaneously at the Los Angeles Final Cut Pro Users Group held at Bally's Las Vegas and at the NAB Show in the Las Vegas Convention Center and released in June 2011.

Gabriel Ruelas

Ruelas turned pro in 1988 and in 1993 challenged WBC Super Featherweight Title holder Azumah Nelson, losing a close majority decision.

Gary Zimmerman

Zimmerman joins Reggie White, Steve Young, Jim Kelly, Marv Levy, and Sid Gillman as former USFL league members who are enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

George B. Lyle

Roy LeCraw had fought a tough campaign against incumbent William Hartsfield and won on a slim margin but just a few months after taking office, he joined the army leaving mayor pro-tem Lyle until new elections could be held.

Guillermo Aubone

Before turning pro, Aubone played college tennis in the United States, at the University of Corpus Christi and University of South Carolina.

Guillermo Endara

Though his coalition was judged by international observers as having defeated pro-Noriega candidate Carlos Duque, the results were annulled by the government, and Endara and his running mates were attacked in the streets by the paramilitary Dignity Battalions.

Imusicapella

He was the winner of the Conductor's Prize for Outstanding Artistic Performance at the 6th Harmonie Festival 2011 in Lindenholzhausen, Germany, and the "Pro Musica Viva Maria Strecker Daelen Preis" Conductor's Prize for the Best Interpretation of a Contemporary Choral Work at the 10th International Chamber Choir Competition 2007 in Marktoberdorf, Germany.

International Action

On July 1, 2005, the group dressed as cartoon characters 'The Incredibles' and joined the territory-wide pro-democracy demonstration.

James Broad

As a pro he won the NABF heavyweight title and was a regular sparring partner of a peak Mike Tyson.

Janice Kim

In 1987 she became the first Westerner to be accepted by the Hanguk Kiwon as a pro; she remains one of only four western females ever to attain professional status (with Joanne Missingham, Svetlana Shikshina and Diana Koszegi).

Jesse Boone

His sister Amy played basketball and volleyball at George Mason University and played semi-pro basketball for the San Diego Waves of the National Women's Basketball League.

Jessie Pope

Pope is prominently remembered first for her pro-war poetry, but also as a representative of homefront female propagandists such as Mrs Humphry Ward, May Wedderburn Cannan, Emma Orczy, and entertainers such as Vesta Tilley.

Jikkyō Powerful Pro Yakyū series

MLB Power Pro Series: The only series that is officially released in America, it features MLB series instead of traditional Japanese NPB series, through Japanese version is also available.

Liz Shuler

Shuler is active in the Women's Campaign Fund, a political action committee which supports pro-choice women running for election to political office, and a supporter of the International Women's Democracy Center.

Logic Pro

Also, Logic Pro X improves track organization, score editing, and exporting (now compatible with MusicXML format), and brings compatibility with MIDI plug-ins.

Margaret Lindsay Ramsay

She is notable as a member of the Clan Murray, largely pro-Jacobite in sympathies at this time (her mother Amelia's father and brother both supported that cause), but also including pro-Hanoverians such as William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield.

María Eugenia Vidal

Vidal was fielded in the Republican Proposal (PRO) party list as a candidate for a seat in the Argentine Chamber of Deputies for Buenos Aires Province in 2005, though unsuccessfully; she was later elected to the Buenos Aires City Legislature.

Mariano Natalio Carrera

Carrera began his pro career in 2001 and captured the WBA middleweight title by knocking out Javier Castillejo in 2006.

Mata'afa Faumuina Fiame Mulinu'u I

Mata'afa Faumuina Fiame Mulinu'u I (died 1948) was a high chief of Samoa and a leader of the country's pro-independence Mau movement during the early 1900s.

Mike Katz

Mike Katz was also a pro football player with the New York Jets before ending his NFL career with a leg injury in 1968.

Oklahoma Panhandle

In 2012, Democratic voters in the panhandle voted for Randall Terry, a Pro-Life activist, over incumbent Democrat Barack Obama in the Democratic Presidential primary.

Paul Schenck

The Schenck brothers work side by side on Capitol Hill in Washington where Robert is president of Faith and Action, an ecumenical mission, and Paul is chairman of the National Pro-Life Center.

Pró-Vida

After beginning activities in the city of São Paulo, at present PRO-VIDA has participating nuclei in various other Brazilian towns and in other countries, such as Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Italy, Mexico, Paraguay, Portugal, Spain and the United States of America, besides four country clubs: three in Brazil and one in Argentina.

Professional Referee Organization

Heading up PRO is Peter Walton, a former referee who officiated just under 200 matches in the English Premier League.

Quinn Ojinnaka

Ojinnaka started pro wrestling training in 2012 under Mr. Hughes at WWA4 in 2012 and has been attending WWE training camps.

Renata Polverini

Bonino is known as a pro-choice activist, while Polverini was against abortion rights and thus received support from Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco, President of the Italian Episcopal Conference.

Rib Hillis

On August 17, 2012, he married ballroom dancer, world champion and former Dancing with the stars pro, Elena Grinenko.

Sally Fitzgibbons

13 May 2012, Sally wins the Billabong Rio Pro in Brazil, Fitzgibbons was up against Coco Ho in the final.

Similarity score

John Hollinger developed a similar system for basketball players in his Pro Basketball Forecast series of books, and several APBRmetricians have expanded on his methodology.

Sotirios Gioulekas

In his pro career, Gioulekas has played with the following clubs: Gymnastikos S. Larissas, Olympia Larissa, Baskets Nürnberg, Virtus Bologna, Orlandina Basket, Societa Veroli Basket, New Basket Brindisi, Scafati Basket, and Trikala.

Steffen Kretschmann

He turned pro for Arena and beat his first 13 opponents among them Corey Sanders.

Super Dragon

Beginning his career in 1997, he has worked for companies such as All Pro Wrestling (APW), Chikara, Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW), Revolution Pro, Ring of Honor (ROH), World Championship Wrestling (WCW), and Xtreme Pro Wrestling (XPW).

Tulsa Shock

Tulsa Pro Hoops LLC, composed of Bill Cameron and David Box (majority owners), and Chris Christian, Pat Chernicky, Sam and Rita Combs, Pat and Don Hardin, Paula Marshall, Stuart and Linda Price, and Katie and Scott Schofield (2010–present)

Umbracle

Unlike Cuadecuc, Umbracle features several scenes of synchronized sound, including a notable scene where Christopher Lee recites Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" and sings opera in an empty theatre, and a lengthy sequence of Spanish filmmakers discussing censorship in their country very frankly, their statements later reinforced by a nearly 15-minute segment from a pro-Franco film.

Will Hunt

In 2013, Hunt contributed drums to the band's new EP Until We Meet Again which was produced by Ben Grosse and features musicians Pete Murray of Lo-Pro on Vocals, John Fahnestock on Bass, and Chris Shy on Guitar.

Zygmunt Wiehler

From 1907 he was connected professionally to many theaters in the country, and in the 1920s and 1930s, he was a musical manager and director in Warsaw cabarets ("Wodewil", "Qui pro quo", "Banda", "Perskie Oko", "Morskie Oko", "Ananas", "Wielka Rewia", "Cyganeria").


see also

Amateur professionalism

The concept and terms have been used, since 2004, as a descriptor for an emerging sociological and economic trend of "people pursuing amateur activities to professional standards", as described by Demos, a British think tank, in the 2004 book The Pro-Am Revolution co-authored by eclectic writer Charles Leadbeater.

Broadmoor Golf Club, Seattle

With the Seattle World's Fair in 1962, the Seattle Open attracted Arnold Palmer, Billy Casper, Tony Lema, Ken Venturi, Dave Hill, Julius Boros, Doug Sanders, Hollywood stars Bob Hope, James Garner, Don Cherry, Dennis Morgan and Phil Crosby, and a crowd of 6,000 for the Pro Am.

Bulgarian Open

The Bulgarian Open (also known as the Victoria Bulgarian Open for sponsorship reasons) is a pro-am minor-ranking snooker tournament, which is part of the Players Tour Championship.

Craig Heatley

Heatley is a competitive amateur golfer who won the 2003 AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am at Pebble Beach with professional golfer Phil Tataurangi, and the 2004 Alfred Dunhill Links Championship pro-am with professional golfer Fred Couples.

Cutco

The Foundation has donated to Pi Sigma Epsilon's annual Pro-Am Sell-A-Thon, an annual sales competition for college students.

Ettore Tosi

Soon after, he took on a full-time position with Lucas Kazan Productions, which led him to oversee model scouting in Italy and eventually to directing his own gay porn series: The Road to Naples, Maspalomas (GayVN Award Nominated for Best Solo Video), Mykonos (GayVN Award winner for Best Pro-Am video), Sexcursions (GayVN Award nominated for Best Pro-Am video), Sexcursions 05 and an ongoing reality series for LucasKazan.com.

International Open

International Open Series, a pro-am series of snooker tournaments, also known as the Pontin's International Open Series for promotional purposes

International Tour de Toona

The event became the largest pro-am cycling event in North America and had stages spanning Blair, Cambria, Bedford, and Somerset Counties in Pennsylvania.

Kay Suzanne Memorial Cup

The Kay Suzanne Memorial Cup (formerly known as the Kay Suzanne Memorial Trophy) is a pro-am minor-ranking snooker tournament, which is part of the Players Tour Championship.

Pebble Beach Golf Links

The final round on Sunday is played at Pebble Beach, but the first three rounds of pro-am play are contested in round-robin format at Pebble Beach and two other courses: currently Spyglass Hill Golf Course and Monterey Peninsula Country Club.

Steve Bono

Bono also played in the 1993 Pebble Beach National Pro-Am golf tournament, one of the most prestigious pro-am events in the United States.

Tom Abbott

He was invited to play in the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship in Scotland, one of the game's most exclusive and prestigious pro-am tournaments, where he partnered Finnish golfer Mikko Ilonen.