(1) If at times Van Gaal’s players let themselves down with careless concessions of possession, Carver knew his side had been reprieved when, back to goal, Wayne Rooney controlled the ball on his chest, swivelled and dinked a shot wide.
(2) Just recently a complaint has been filed against two intellectuals – Robert Koptas, the editor of the Armenian newspaper Agos, whose previous editor Hrant Dink was assassinated, and Ümit Kivanç, leftist-liberal journalist – because one citizen complained that the words they uttered on TV were "insulting", adding "clearly they must be Armenians".
(3) When the French government proposed applying a similar law to the Armenian genocide as it does to the Shoah, Dink said he would fly to Paris in order to break the law, believing, as I do, that strict regulation about what people can and cannot say eventually diminishes us all.
(4) In between, Andrea Pirlo had dinked the most extraordinary pitch-wedge of a shot into Hart's goal and that moment really encapsulated the difference in class between the teams.
(5) It didn't though and the alert Lungu got to the ball and dinked it back across goal from the right.
(6) In 2007, ethnic Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, who received death threats because of his comments about the killings of Armenians by Turks in 1915, was shot dead outside his office in Istanbul.
(7) That or he's annoyed because his team-mates aren't getting into decent positions so he can dink the ball their way.
(8) Some sharp interplay on the left of the penalty area leads to a dinked ball into the box from Henry towards Hoilett.
(9) He plays the ball wide to Gonzalo Higuain, whose attempted dink into the six-yard box is headed clear by Thiago Silva.
(10) Fortunately for Moyes, Watmore possessed sufficient drive to unhinge that backline courtesy of a startling change of pace and deftly dinked ball which prefaced Van Aanholt sending a half-volley looping into the net.
(11) Dink's murder provoked an angry statement from the Federation of French-Armenians, that "Turkey has killed Hrant Dink".
(12) Chelsea went to sleep and allowed Liverpool to take it quickly to Henderson, who dinked a lovely ball into the box, where Sakho looped a header towards goal from 12 yards out.
(13) 8.22pm GMT 36 min: Kagawa dinks and dribbles down the right and into the area.
(14) 51 min: Claudio Morel dinks a through ball towards the corner-flag for Nelson Valdez to chase.
(15) Ronaldo and Simao break quickly and it ends up with Deco dinking a lovely cross from the left that Leidson heads right at the keeper.
(16) He dinks into Vargas, who looks to shimmy a yard of space, but Javi Martinez's tackle bobbles a foot or so wide.
(17) Creditably, McLeod retained sufficient poise to nonchalantly extend his right foot and dink the ball over the advancing Mannone.
(18) Muamba dinked a deft reverse pass to Cattermole, who slipped a dainty ball behind the German defence in anticipation of a surge by Walcott.
(19) Ameobi dinks a ball over the top (seriously) and finds Gouffran again, once more with the Liverpool defenders busy running errands or something, but this time Johnson nips across and half-blocks, enough in any case to prevent another goal.
(20) 66 min: Jinking down the inside right channel, Arjen Robben skips past two defenders, prods the ball past Pepe and dances around the full-back to try to dink the ball over the onrushing Casillas.
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(1) They not only started the season with journeyman windmill dunk specialist Gerald Green on their roster – he was one of Phoenix's starters.
(2) And Chalmers alley-oop pass to LeBron who dunks it, the Heat are still here.
(3) If you raise the floor of a basketball court by just a few inches, you will see many more slam dunks."
(4) 3.02am BST Heat 38-42 Spurs, 5:20, second quarter And Ginobili steals on the next possession, hey here's something good, he gets the ball into Tony Parker's capable hands and the point guard hits a two-pointer, Lewis misses a jumper on the other end and Duncan turns a Diaw steal into a dunk and now it's Miami's turn to take a time out.
(5) They can’t be charged with obstructing official business, since (according to the prosecutor) they did indeed cooperate with the investigation an tell the truth during the formal investigation.” The “best bet” would be obstruction of justice, he said, based on their initial false statements, but “that only works if they made the false statement with the purpose of hindering the discovery of a crime.” “There is an argument that their initial statements were made with that purpose,” he said, “though I don’t think it’s a slam dunk.” Since the officers cooperated with the formal investigation, Simmons said it’s unlikely Deters would want to present an aggressive case to the grand jury, as “it is always difficult to get police officers to testify against their fellow officers and it looks like these two did tell the truth when it really mattered.” Meanwhile, it emerged on Friday that Tensing was seeking reinstatement on the UC police force through his union.
(6) The Slam Dunk Contest, sorry the Sprite Slam Dunk Contest disappointed for the second year in a row.
(7) As Motion's prologue makes clear, this is a "found poem" – the literary equivalent of the objet trouvé (did Damien Hirst "make" that sheep he dunked in formaldehyde?
(8) Meanwhile, the Rising Stars game somehow featured less defense than the All-Star Game, Usain Bolt, despite the pregame hype, faltered in the Celebrity All-Star Game after an early dunk and nobody cares, or ever will care, about Shooting Stars or the Skills Challenge, sorry the Taco Bell Skills Challenge, not even the winners.
(9) A fast break dunk by Iguodala with 5:12 left in the third extended the Warriors’ lead to 61-51.
(10) Then Tiago Spillter dunks and the Spurs bench applauds in response.
(11) 1.41am BST Indiana Pacers 12-6 Miami Heat - 7:05 remaining, 1st Quarter And David West makes um two straight dunks and that will quiet the Miami crowd real good, a good time for a Heat timeout which they take.
(12) 3.01am BST Spurs 58-34 Heat, 5:52 remaining, 2nd quarter Chris Bosh makes a dunk, I love Chris Bosh.
(13) • Oh and I suppose the Dunk of the Week should rightfully go to this year's Slam Dunk Contest winner Terrence Ross.
(14) Judging by the slapdash nature of the marking at that set piece, Hughton’s side were missing the customarily commanding presence of the suspended Lewis Dunk at the heart of their defence.
(15) Netflix content chief Ted Sarandos is supremely confident that reviving the sitcom Arrested Development, which was made available globally online last night in a single 15-episode junkie-pleasing hit, will be the latest "slam dunk" in the video streaming service's mission to revolutionise the TV industry.
(16) Denver's Wilson Chandler scored 17 points, Nate Robinson added 16, and Kenneth Faried had a key block and transition dunk with 33 seconds left to lift the Nuggets past the Washington Wizards 75-74.
(17) In addition to the prerequisite leaping ability, long-term success in "playing above the rim" requires experience, exceptional physical agility, and the mental discipline to anticipate and avoid slam-dunk opportunities with high risk for personal injury.
(18) On the contrary, if Obama doesn't deliver a "slam dunk" on Tuesday, we'll see another round of liberal hand-wringing and conservative victory laps.
(19) Mario Chalmers dunks, Duncan dunks and LeBron finally hits his first shot of the game, with a jumper.
(20) Paul George had the Dunk of the Year Facebook Twitter Pinterest No we're not going to argue about this, Indiana Pacers guard Paul George had the Dunk of the Year.