Word: chopped
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...first time he ever negotiated a contract, he brought an ESPN camera crew with him. This summer he was booed at a charity softball game. But Rosenhaus wins clients because he styles himself as a player's advocate. NFL teams routinely cut players for underperformance, injury or to chop costs. Rosenhaus turns the tables and demands renegotiations when a player overperforms. "The teams are allowed to ask a guy to take a pay cut or can just cut him," says Rosenhaus. "Why is it a problem for a guy to say, 'I outplayed my contract. I'd like a raise...
...Assad’s sphere of influence has shrunk to a degree that he relies on very few people to stay in power,” he said. Asking Syria to investigate its own top level security officials is “equivalent to asking a Saudi thief to chop off his own hand...
...person in her picture. Anyone dressed like that who is creating a disturbance around him would be asked to remove the articles that would be considered offensive, or else he would be asked to leave. Nor have I ever seen our crowd do the “tomahawk chop,” as the article claimed...
...whole college scene, living in the dorm, going to dances, and attending a football game for the first time.At the game, I witnessed several of my white peers painted exorbitantly, with fake feathers adorning their bodies. Our fans were chanting and doing the tomahawk chop, while our opponent’s fans were chanting slogans like, “Pillage the village, rape the women!”It is inevitable that, with a team name like the “Fighting Sioux,” opponents and spectators will say or do something that may hurt an actual Dakota/Lakota...
...Ninja!" proclaims Nkechi Ka with a high kick and a karate chop, "and we are the Go! Team!" Her energy and the dizzying, euphoric music of the six-piece band galvanizes the capacity crowd at the Astoria. The central London venue regularly welcomes world-class performers, but few appear to inspire such kinetic joy in their audiences. The lights refract off toothy grins and illuminate a sea of enthusiasts bouncing up and down as the band crank back up to the strains of Ladyflash, the Go! Team's set closer. Earnest and angular rock may be all the rage...