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Advertisement Reese led his semipro team to the Louisville city championship in 1937 and signed with the minor league Louisville Colonels.
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Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2023
Aaron Hernandez's suicide notes revealed in new book Hernandez’s brother was former NFL star and Aaron Hernandez, who was convicted of murder in the 2013 killing of semipro football player Odin Lloyd.
—Zenebou Sylla, CNN, 27 July 2023
After more than a week of driving all day and all night through 10 countries, Tetiana and the couple’s oldest son finally arrived in Turku, Finland, where their youngest son, a semipro hockey player, lives.
—Jeffrey Gettleman, New York Times, 25 July 2023
On the horrific Sunday in 1963 when Ku Klux Klan members bombed the church, killing four girls, Greason was away playing semipro baseball.
—Louie Lazar, New York Times, 4 June 2023
His entrenchment in the community deepened as the one-time semipro football player was a volunteer football coach at St. Mary’s Catholic Church, using his own basement as the team’s locker room.
—Daniel I. Dorfman, Chicago Tribune, 11 Apr. 2023
The Czech Republic is fielding a team made almost entirely of native players from its own semipro league.
—Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Mar. 2023
He had been paid $25 for playing in a semipro baseball game.
—Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2023
He was cut after a tryout with the Canadian Football League’s Calgary Stampeders in 1958, played that season for the semipro Bakersfield Spoilers of the Pacific Coast Professional Football League, then flunked tryouts with Washington’s NFL club in ’59 and ’60.
—Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Aug. 2021
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Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2023
Aaron Hernandez's suicide notes revealed in new book Hernandez’s brother was former NFL star and Aaron Hernandez, who was convicted of murder in the 2013 killing of semipro football player Odin Lloyd.
—Zenebou Sylla, CNN, 27 July 2023
After more than a week of driving all day and all night through 10 countries, Tetiana and the couple’s oldest son finally arrived in Turku, Finland, where their youngest son, a semipro hockey player, lives.
—Jeffrey Gettleman, New York Times, 25 July 2023
On the horrific Sunday in 1963 when Ku Klux Klan members bombed the church, killing four girls, Greason was away playing semipro baseball.
—Louie Lazar, New York Times, 4 June 2023
His entrenchment in the community deepened as the one-time semipro football player was a volunteer football coach at St. Mary’s Catholic Church, using his own basement as the team’s locker room.
—Daniel I. Dorfman, Chicago Tribune, 11 Apr. 2023
The Czech Republic is fielding a team made almost entirely of native players from its own semipro league.
—Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Mar. 2023
He had been paid $25 for playing in a semipro baseball game.
—Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2023
He was cut after a tryout with the Canadian Football League’s Calgary Stampeders in 1958, played that season for the semipro Bakersfield Spoilers of the Pacific Coast Professional Football League, then flunked tryouts with Washington’s NFL club in ’59 and ’60.
—Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Aug. 2021
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First Known Use
1908, in the meaning defined above
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