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The player to be named later was talking a mile a minute, still caught in his own adrenaline and accomplishment, his words coming out almost at the speed of his fastball on opening day.
It is 33 months after the trading of Josh Donaldson and for most of that time, Julian Merryweather, once the player to be named later in that deal, has been the pitcher without a future, without a destination. Just another name on a roster, another trade without a noteworthy return, another hopeful in an accidental bullpen who had done next to nothing and now, at the age of 28, is still designated as a rookie.
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Linamar Corporation s Skyjack division selected two first prize winners for their WE RISE campaign, which was launched in June 2020. The winner from the Americas was Location d’Equipment MAXIMUM out of Alma, Quebec, Canada, and the winner from the EMEA and ROW regions was Star Platforms of the UK.
The campaign aimed to shed light on positive contributions the access industry made throughout the pandemic with the grand prize being a brand new SJ3219 DC scissor lift. The results were announced at Skyjack s virtual tradeshow SKYWORLD Live, and the winners were given a week to decide if they’d like to take the SJ3219 or have its equivalent value donated to a charity of their choice.
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Just one day after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami devastated northeastern Japan, the US military launched an unprecedented relief effort involving 24,000 soldiers. Operation Tomodachi used the Japanese word for friend to convey the aim of doing all it takes to help a valuable ally.
Moments after the disaster, then-US State Department official Kevin Maher started acting as a liaison between the administrations of Washington and Tokyo. He helped coordinate a wide range of vital tasks, such as clearing debris and transporting food and goods to communities in need. He certainly had the credentials: fluent Japanese, and 19 years in the country as a diplomat for the US State Department.
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Brendan Shanahan and Kyle Dubas have to know there may not be another NHL season like this one.
There may not be a Canadian division in the future. There may not be a path to the Stanley Cup Final Four as clear as this one appears. This kind of opportunity for the Cup-starved Maple Leafs has never been more apparent.
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They’re well aware of the possibilities and of the quality of their first-place team after just 24 games. Which is why there has been so much talk around of the Leafs looking to upgrade up front for the eventual playoffs in May. The popular choice of improvements, now that TJ Brodie and Zach Bogosian have stabilized the formerly wonky Toronto defence, is the addition of a top six forward.
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The story is always worth retelling, partially because of the impossibility of it all, and partially because it’s about Chris Schultz.
Imagine a kid you knew in high school, maybe that giant of a kid who sat beside you in science class, not just heading off to play college football in America, but being switched from defensive lineman to offensive lineman at Arizona, and then surprisingly being selected late in the famous John Elway-Dan Marino-Jim Kelly NFL draft of 1983 and then eventually the real crazy impossibility of it all starting at offensive tackle, not just for any team, but for the Dallas Cowboys.