Sentences with phrase «spartans do»

The Spartans do really well on the defensive side of the court and in transition, but the half court offense needs to improve.

Whether the Spartans do so — or whether one of the others in the Final Four, the Blue Devils, Arizona or Maryland, claims this season's prize — in all likelihood will depend on four difference - makers, players on whom each team's fate rests or, in one case, wobbles.

But it feels fleeting to me, and the Spartans do not have much juice on the trail following a disastrous season and the re-emergence of Ohio State, Michigan, and Penn State within the same division.

Winner: Michigan State - Spartans don't know what buttered popcorn smells like, so they will not be distracted by the musk of the binturong.

The Spartans don't disappoint as Robinson hit the hole from the 5 - yard line and scores a touchdown.

The score was not indicative of Bishop Gorman's ability to move the chains and the Spartans didn't put it away until a TD with 1:30 left.

Taking over the lead coaching role from his mentor, legendary coach Bob Ladouceur, the Spartans didn't skip a beat on the way to a 14 - 0 record and another berth to the California Interscholastic Federation Open Division State Bowl game on Dec. 21.

Another problem that was found was that the A.I. Marines and Spartans did not really help at all.

Not exact matches

It's like being an ancient Spartan, doing the right thing.»

Spartan Race does not make revenue figures available, but entries to many of the races start at $ 100 and this year more than a million people will enter one of the 200 events in 30 countries the company will host.

You may not need the Spartan Agoge system or the Great Santini, but you do need, at the very least, old - fashioned fathers.

Big plans, races, events for fall — I'm doing a Spartan Beast this weekend!

I'm Doing the Spartan Race!

Even then, though, Green has looked like a one - man wrecking machine all season for the Spartans and could be tough to stop regardless of what Iowa's top players are able to do on the offensive end.

Still, is there any chance Dantonio is done if his Spartans barely make a bowl game?

The SB Nation Twitter account for the Spartans posted the following about the former Sparty QB who will face Tom Brady: «#GoGreen #ProGreen (hey @UMichFootball did we do this whole «claim someone who barely played for our team» thing right?)»

Sure, the Spartans lost to Gonzaga in a game they were absolutely supposed to lose — but dammit if I didn't believe they were actually going to win the thing down the stretch.

The next drive for the Lancers did not get better as FB Opeti Fangupo has a nice 7 yard run up the middle, but he fumbles the ball and the Spartans recover.

He did most of his damage in the second half after the Spartans only took a four - point lead into the break.

One of the most impressive things DeRosa did to kickstart a Spartans» program coming off of a 1 - 9 campaign in 1978 was to help build a weight room from scratch.

They don't «go out on their shields» if they lose, which, by the way, is an enormous disrespect to the Spartans, who were indeed told by their wives to come back either victorious or on their shields.

Nick Saban got the Spartans to seventh again in 1999, but when he left, so did the success.

After winning the Big Ten outright once between 1966 and 2012, the Spartans have done it twice in the last three years.

Let's institute a special rule: The baskets are impervious to high wind and there is a force field around the court so we don't have foreign objects (other than the ball and, uh, Spartans) flying around.

What did matter was that the game was played before a crowd of 17,670 — an astonishing number for a U.S. soccer game — which enjoyed itself enormously and came within 400 of filling to capacity ancient, decaying Spartan Stadium, home of the San Jose State Spartans.

There are things Tom Izzo's Michigan State Spartans teams might do.

The MSU band entry and tributes are magnificent, alumni and HS band days — brilliant, tailgating — top notch, rivalries — pure hate, Sparty — iconic, new uniforms — on point (love the white helmets); MSU leverages the «Spartan» mascot and the Illini just don't have that anymore

Turnovers doomed the Spartans, who did come back to win a third straight CIF Open Division state crown.

Washington, who was charged back in March 2017, did not miss a single game this year for the Spartans (he dressed every game).

«cents THE CONTENDER: I don't know whether to go with California - San Ramon or James Logan - Union City here, but only one of them will remain standing for a showdown with the Spartans.

That's what Schembechler said, but what he did was to designate Notre Dame as a «red - letter game,» a status normally reserved for the Spartans and Buckeyes.

And if Michigan needed any added motivation to beat the Michigan State Spartans, after losing to them four years in a row, this would certainly do it.

That the Spartans will be focused, and motivated... on their game kinda falls into the purview of the gods, but you will be predictable (not always a terrible thing, just becasue you know whats coming doesn't mean you can always stop it)

It's assumed that Winston is likely to pick either the Wolverines or Spartans when all is said and done.

But until the Wolverines actually take down the Spartans for the second time in eight years, we don't know it will happen.

The 6 - foot - 7 senior has done almost everything for the Spartans this season, grabbing defensive rebounds (11th in the country in defensive rebound rate), drawing fouls (4.8 per 40 minutes), making three - poiners (41 percent), occupying offensive possessions (a 27.7 Usage Rate), blocking shots, making steals, and passing well.

Still burning from the celebrated upset by Michigan State last year, Ohio State returned to East Lansing to give the Spartans a 21 - 0 jolt and reinforce a maxim: when you beat Woody Hayes, do it quietly

He did his best to carry his suddenly struggling Spartans through their final two losses (48 points, 20 rebounds, five assists), and if State wins the Big Ten tourney, he will probably be the tournament's most valuable player.

With that defense, Michigan State doesn't need an incredible offense to win a lot of games; the Spartans just need competence.

In 2014, there was no such game so the two teams didn't play, necessitating the Spartans (also unbeaten) just being selected for the Open Division while Folsom had to win a NorCal Div.

Rich Eisen, who had some fun owning an Ohio State fan over Twitter on Saturday, also did some trolling of the Spartans and MSU grad Jemele Hill.

Rich Eisen, who had some fun owning an Ohio State fan over Twitter on Saturday, also did some trolling of the Spartans...

While Michigan State did finished higher in the Big Ten standings and beat Michigan in 2017, the Outback Bowl decided to pick the Wolverines over the Spartans.

All time: Notre Dame ties USC at the buzzer for the most ever, with 2016's eight - point loss to Michigan State keeping the Spartans from doing that instead.

As he maintains, the Buckeyes did have some success running the ball on the Spartans with power runs behind some double TE formations in short - yardage scenarios, and on a play where they caught the Spartans in a stunt.

Nevertheless, Ohio State didn't go back to this, but instead decided to drudge ahead and try to win the game by hammering their heads against the Spartans in the trenches.

The Spartans also had the best record in the state for the 1980s (105 -10-1) and 1990s (125 - 1) but did not for the 2000s, finishing behind both St. Bonaventure - Ventura and Oaks Christian - Westlake Village.

This is likely another example of the oddsmakers inflating the line to take advantage of public bias toward the Spartans, similar to what they are doing with Duke.

Physicality at the line serves as a hallmark for the Trojans just as it does the Spartans and that drove Alumbaugh, who coaches the offensive line himself at De La Salle, to admit «If we weren't playing them, I'd appreciate it quite a bit as an offensive line coach.»

For the other national semifinal to be anything more than a skirmish, Woods will have to join the Spartans» Hutson, Randolph and Aloysius Anagonye in battle, and do so for more than ten minutes.