tryout
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While veterans jockey for new contracts during free agency, young players are getting their tryout opportunities with NBA summer league games beginning this week.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026
“That’s hard to do. But at many of these places, you can do a tryout and stay in a unit for a week,” said Horowitz.
From MarketWatch ● May 8, 2026
But on the day it mattered most, she flubbed her tryout and failed to make the team.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 17, 2026
The show is inspired by a 2022 short video featuring an undercover Eli Manning as a walk-on at a Penn State football tryout.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2025
With everything that’s riding on this tryout, just the thought makes me nervous.
From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston
Brady’s draft process gave Trey and Dino a preview for this year, setting expectations for meetings, tryouts, and the day itself.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
To revive his career, he joins open tryouts for a struggling college-football squad, disguising himself and changing his name to Chad Powers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2025
WWE also held a tryouts event in London over the weekend for aspiring stars to show off their skills in front of the company.
From BBC ● Mar. 31, 2025
What the second-year player was unhappy with was the type of people an open call for tryouts might attract, considering the tone of some of the responses she had seen to the Sparks’ online ad.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 2025
I need to be ready for tryouts in a few weeks.
From "Millionaires for the Month" by Stacey McAnulty
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