Sentences with phrase «championship game win»

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In the words of Michael Jordan, «Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.»

After winning his sixth consecutive world championship in 2015, USA Today's Nancy Armour called Uchimura the «greatest gymnast ever,» noting that the last time he finished second in the World Championships or Olympics, Aaron Rodgers hadn't ever started an NFL game.

After Game 1 of the World Series, Schultz went to dinner with his close friend Tony La Russa, the manager of the St. Louis Cardinals, who would go on to win the championship and retire.

His deflection on a potential game - winning touchdown pass in the 2013 NFC championship game against the 49ers led to an interception that sent the Seahawks to the Super Bowl, which they won.

I suspect they'll lose unless they listen to Michael Jordan: «Talent wins games; teamwork wins championships.»

A World Series showdown between the 104 - 58 Los Angeles Dodgers and 101 - 61 Houston Astros appeared inevitable when they each won their first two games in the respective league championship series, but the New York Yankees and Chicago Cubs had other plans.

Now, the Sixers are on a 17 - game win streak and true championship contenders.

For everything.Carry the Yankees into a new era, start the first game in the new stadium, change a clubhouse culture, win a championship?

While neither team is really in the hunt for the national championship, one could both go a long way toward earning a bid to a BCS bowl game with a win.

The Astros will win the offseason championship in six games.

Ohio State will be No. 2 going into conference - championship weekend, and the Buckeyes should be set up to advance to the BCS title game with a win over Michigan State in the Big Ten championship.

If New York wins the National League pennant by one game over Milwaukee, it will be a phony championship and the Giants will be cheese champions, through no fault of theirs.

SOCCER — Following a two - day delay caused by tornado warnings, DALLAS beat Atlanta 2 - 0 in the final game of the best - of - three series to win the North American Soccer League championship.

«Offense wins you games, but defense wins you championships» as some wise man once said.

That type of game doesn't win championships and we don't have the talent for that.

when 1) they can beat you sometimes, but never win a playoff game, much less a championship.

The Cubs lost to the Washington Nationals, 8 - 4, on Wednesday and fell to 39 - 39 on the season, after winning 200 games over the last two seasons, including the club's first World Series championship in 108 years last fall.

The player - based model, which was based largely on Game Score, had the Capitals winning the championship in a league - high 18 % of all simulations.

Unless you played in the national championship game, officially, Alabama won it.

Oakdale won their first championship in its third title - game appearance, and are the only team to defeat Rio Americano in the SJS Div.

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) Francis Alonso's 3 - pointer with 19.2 seconds remaining lifted top - seeded UNC Greensboro to a 56 - 55 win over No. 5 seed Wofford on Sunday and into the Southern Conference Tournament championship game.

This season, they finished third in the extremely competitive West Catholic Athletic League, then came up a two - point conversion short in a 31 - 30 loss in the Central Coast Section Open Division II championship game to Serra - San Mateo, which also won a state bowl title in Sacramento.

The team surged into the championship game with a 29 - 11 second half record, defeating the Sonoma Stompers to win the team's third title in four years.

Shelton helped Chino Hills reach the CIF State Division I championship game during his freshman season and was the sixth man on the Huskies record - setting 35 - 0 team that won the Southern Section Open Division and CIF Open Division championships during his sophomore campaign.

The 2008 Celtics produced one of the best teams of all time, winning 66 games and a championship.

Dallas, a senior at Saint Mary's Catholic High, led the Knights to a 6 — 0 record at the MaxPreps Tournament of Champions, throwing a 12 - inning perfect game with 21 strikeouts in a 4 — 0 championship win.

We have had many missed opportunites earlier this season in PL and a terrible run of 14 games with 5 losses, 5 draws and four wins with two of those wins against championship sides.

It doesn't matter what sport you follow, if you look back at any team that's every won a championship, there's always one game during the season that players and fans can point to as the turning point that made a season something special.

After 254 days and 97 games, the Philadelphia Flyers concluded the longest season in pro sports history last week by winning their second straight NHL championship.

Barcelona, behind quarterback and likely MVP Jon Kitna, won the WLAF first - half season title, which means that the Dragons will host the championship game.

Two of those guys [Hebert and Fusina] won the USFL championship game.

Barron Hilton was the best Charger owner ever and would have been revered like many of the best owners in the league today He was our first owner and started in the AFL in 1959 and took the Chargers to the playoffs 5 years and won the AFL championship game versus the Boston Patriots in 1965.

The Steelers» Super Bowl teams of the mid-1970s won with defense and the running game; by the time 1979 rolled around, Terry Bradshaw was winning championships by playing bombs away.

A game 7 loss must have been a major disappointment for a Vancouver team favored to win and a fan base dying for a championship.

In nine years, he's now won four national championships and gone undefeated in title games, with another title before his Tuscaloosa arrival.

The reason that they haven't won a playoff game in 60 years is that their best players would rather chase money than championships.

The Hoyas played in three NCAA championship games during Ewing's tenure and won the title in 1984, his junior year.

Though Detroit just won the National League championship after a bruising 70 - game season, the top four (of six) eastern professional teams have been whacking away at each other all over again to decide who wins the real championship.

The year - in / year - out (read: primary) goal of college coaches and college basketball programs is to win college basketball games (and championships).

Then the United States beat undefeated Japan in the semifinals, then undefeated Puerto Rico in the championship game to win it all.

A double - digit seed has never played in the national championship game, let alone won the whole thing.

Amid 12 years that began with a game relocated by Hurricane Katrina, included the 2007 national championship and 113 other wins, and ended with an astounding loss at Auburn, LSU finally succeeded in firing Les Miles.

And if they don't lose before the Orange Bowl, this year will be the eighth time in the past 16 seasons that the winner of the Oklahoma - Nebraska game has either won some version of the national championship or at least contended for it in a bowl.

(The Indians won that Series in six games, the team's last world championship.)

Anyways Coach K is a Elite coach who coaches the game the right way and recruits the right way and behaves the right way, and does America Express commercals the right way and swears at oficials the right way, and takes away folkses scholarships the right way and wins a championship 5 % of the time with the worlds best recrutes the right way.

After St. John's won the championship game rather routinely 85 - 77, with Mullin, a 6» 6» sophomore, and Goodwin, a 6» 5» senior, mixing and matching for 43 points, the Redmen owned 27 victories — a school record — and Carnesecca finally ditched the con.

The Volunteers own neutral court wins over Purdue and NC State that look even better now than they did at the time, and they played a highly competitive contest against top - ranked Villanova in the Battle 4 Atlantis championship game.

I don't understand... This is a must win game as man city is unlikely to lead to a result... Yet no style or pressure or ideas against a hapless team... 30 mins and not a shot on goal... Ramsey and giroud and mert are championship level players and no more... In fact am not sure giroud is even that level....

Arkansas had never won an NCAA team championship in any sport, so there was plenty of tension in the championship game.

The Bison earned an automatic bid to the 2018 big dance by winning the Patriot League championship game in dominating fashion over Colgate, 83 - 54.