Crossword clues for hardball
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. tough or ruthless behavior, especially in combat, politics or business. n. (context sports English) In baseball, a type of ball and baseball game, as opposed to softball.
WordNet
n. a no-nonsense attitude in business or politics; "they play hardball in the Senate"
baseball as distinguished from softball [ant: softball]
Wikipedia
Hardball is an American crime drama television series that ran on NBC during the 1989-1990 television schedule.
Hardball is a 2001 American dramedy film directed by Brian Robbins. It stars Keanu Reeves, Diane Lane and D. B. Sweeney. The screenplay by John Gatins is based on the book Hardball: A Season in the Projects by Daniel Coyle. The original music score is composed by Mark Isham.
Hardball is an American baseball sitcom that aired on Fox on Sunday nights from September 4, 1994 to October 23, 1994. The series premiered in the middle of the 1994–95 Major League Baseball strike and was canceled around the time that the year's World Series would have been played.
Hardball is a Norwegian investment company founded in 2004 to finance player transfers for the association football team SK Brann from Bergen, Norway. Former news editor at Norwegian TV 2 and managing director of software company Vizrt, Bjarne Berg, fronted Hardball and was one of several members of the investors group until his death in 2010.
Eivind Kåre Lunde is the company's Managing Director.
When a Hardball financed player is sold, Hardball is to have their investment back after expenses are withdrawn. Any profits are to be divided 50-50 between Hardball and Brann. Hardball has no ownership in Brann, and the power to sell or trade players stays with the club.
The investors are predominantly local businessmen from Bergen and are known Brann supporters, and have expressed desire to help Brann becoming a top class team. According to Bjarne Berg, the company's long-term goal is to make itself redundant without losing money in the process.
The company has partially or fully financed the following player transfers:
Note! All transfer fees are approximates.
Bought from
Date
align=Center| Transfer fee ( NOK)
align=right|Player
align=Center| Transfer fee ( NOK)
align=Center| Date
align=Center| Sold to
align=center| Bryne
align=center|December 2003
align=center| 2.200.000
align=center| Ragnvald Soma
align=center| 6.000.000
align=center| March 2006
align=center| Viking
align=center| Northern Spirit
align=center|February 2004
align=center| 750.000
align=center| Dylan Macallister
align=center| 750.000
align=center| March 2006
align=center| Lyn
align=center| Salzburg
align=center|August 2004
align=center| 5.000.000
align=center| Paul Scharner
align=center| 32.000.000
align=center| January 2005
align=center| Wigan Athletic
align=center| Stabæk
align=center|December 2004
align=center| 10.000.000
align=center| Martin Andresen
align=center| Free transfer
align=center| November 2007
align=center| Vålerengen
align=center| KR Reykjavik
align=center|December 2004
align=center| 1.000.000
align=center| Kristján Örn Sigurðsson
align=center| Free transfer
align=center| January 2010
align=center| Hønefoss
align=center| Ham-Kam
align=center|November 2005
align=center| 10.000.000
align=center| Petter Vaagan Moen
align=center| Free Transfer
align=center| January 2011
align=center| Queens Park Rangers
align=center| FH Hafnarfjarðar
align=center|August 2006
align=center| 2.000.000
align=center| Ármann Smári Björnsson
align=center| Free transfer
align=center| August 2009
align=center| Hartlepool United
align=center| Vålerenga
align=center|August 2006
align=center| 7.000.000
align=center| Ardian Gashi
align=center| 6.000.000
align=center| July 2007
align=center| Fredrikstad
align=center| Leeds
align=center|August 2006
align=center| 5.000.000 (sign on fee)
align=center| Eirik Bakke
align=center| Free transfer
align=center| January 2011
align=center| Sogndal Fotball
align=center| Rosenborg
align=center|March 2007
align=center| 6.000.000
align=center| Jan Gunnar Solli
align=center| Free transfer
align=center| January 2011
align=center| New York Red Bulls
align=center| Løv-Ham
align=center|July 2007
align=center| 2.500.000
align=center| Knut Walde
align=center| Contract expired
align=center| January 2010
align=center| -
align=center| Elfsborg
align=center|July 2007
align=center| 2.500.000
align=center| Joakim Sjöhage
align=center| Undisclosed
align=center| November 2008
align=center| Trelleborg
align=center| Free transfer
align=center|July 2007
align=center| Unknown (sign on fee)
align=center| Hassan El Fakiri
align=center| -
align=center| -
align=center| -
align=center| Benfica
align=center|August 2007
align=center| 3.000.000
align=center| Azar Karadas
align=center| 2.000.000
align=center| September 2009
align=center| Kasımpaşa
Investors of Hardball:
- Svein Ove Strømmen - IT
- Rolf Westfal-Larsen - Shipping
- Eivind Kåre Lunde - Managing Director of Hardball
- Bjarne Berg - Managing Director of Hardball
- Reidar Andreas Madsen - Real estate and supermarkets
- Oddvar Leiv Holmedal - Catering
- Arne Veidung - Importer of wine and liquor
- Tor-Inge Måkestad - Fruit and vegetable importer
- Per Jæger - Automobile sales
- Knut Herman Holler Gjøvaag - Automobile sales
- Hermund Sigfred Linde - Real estate
- Bjarne Davidsen - IT
- Karl Kvalheim - Shipping broker
- Arne Viste - Shipping
- Tore Brynjulfsen - Real estate
Hardball is the soundtrack to the 2001 film, Hardball. It was released on September 11, 2001 through Columbia Records, during the September 11 attacks and consisted of hip hop and R&B music. The album managed to make it to #55 on the Billboard 200, #34 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and #4 on the Top Soundtracks. A single also titled "Hardball" peaked at #77 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks.
Usage examples of "hardball".
Merit Service Board and toss a grenade into the civil service grievance system and show you some hardball of my own.
But, apparently, your executive assassin decided to put your stripes on and try a little hardball instead.
Once, when he was eleven or twelve, he had caught a hardball flush in his upper cheek.
Carla and Abel, had given her the present of a summer in Virtu, before her life got hardball, red in tooth and claw, and otherwise preoccupied with things academic.
This was one of many hardball maneuvers Stan had learned while he was at the Justice Department in D.
While not enjoying what was happening, Sloane acknowledged mentally that at plenty of press conferences in the past he had played hardball as an interrogator himself.
Northwest played hardball in salary negotiations with its pilots, and the former Hawaiian Airlines pilots who had hired on last were sacrificed.
It certainly wasn't anything MacDonald really knew, but he supposed, just supposed, that SAINT discovered evidence that Sir Robert had in the past played the ultimate hardball game.
For smokeable cocaine: Base, Ball, Beat, Bisquits, Bones, Boost, Boulders, Brick, Bump, Cakes, Casper, Chalk, Cookies, Crumbs, Cubes, Fatbags, Freebase, Gravel, Hardball, Hell, Kibbles n’ Bits, Kryptonite, Love, Moonrocks, Nuggets, Onion, Pebbles, Piedras, Piece, Ready Rock, Roca, Rock(s), Rock Star, Scotty, Scrabble, Smoke House, Stones, Teeth, Tornado.
For smokeable cocaine: Base, Ball, Beat, Bisquits, Bones, Boost, Boulders, Brick, Bump, Cakes, Casper, Chalk, Cookies, Crumbs, Cubes, Fatbags, Freebase, Gravel, Hardball, Hell, Kibbles n' Bits, Kryptonite, Love, Moonrocks, Nuggets, Onion, Pebbles, Piedras, Piece, Ready Rock, Roca, Rock(s), Rock Star, Scotty, Scrabble, Smoke House, Stones, Teeth, Tornado.
We all play hardball now and then because it's in the best interests of our employers - our individual countries, if you like.
The firm had no choice but to come after me, and if Braden Chance was in fact hiding the truth from Arthur and the executive committee, then why not play hardball?
If the ringleaders among the Sterkarms get hurt, well, they chose to play hardball.
You want to play hardball with me, I'll play hardball right back.
They'd be practicing the fine art of distancing and when the Beta-cams rolled their press conferences would be peppered with words likedelegated andassigned andtaking the advice of and they'd be fast to glance at Polling when it came time to field the hardball questions.