Sentences with phrase «sports games as a whole»

Not exact matches

Perhaps it was fitting for Arsenal and the way this season has gone that the game which effectively ended the fading title hopes for another year was pretty much the perfect definition of the season as a whole, as explained in a Sky Sports report.

Football is a team sport, Wilshere may perform well on a personal level but the team suffers as a whole, we play better more fluid when he's on the bench he blocks space for Ozil and Ramsey to perform, last season Ramsey's best performances were when Jack wasn't in the starting 11 we won games not draws and losses

Indeed, the whole town habitually mobilizes as if it were going to war when a sports project is under way, and there are countless stories about the Jaycees building baseball bleachers and the Jaycees, the Lions and the American Legion playing benefit games to buy a new P. A. system and whole platoons of town fathers pitching in to carve a sleek new baseball diamond out of a rocky pasture.

The campaign gets its name from the asterisk that originally found its way into sports in 1961 - when Major League Baseball commissioner Ford Frick decided that the new single - season home run record set by the Yankee's Roger Maris of 61 homers would be accompanied by an asterisk to denote the fact that it was set over a 162 - game season eight games longer than the 1927 season in which Babe Ruth had hit 60 homers - but which has been given a whole new meaning in the 2000's as denoting records tainted by an athlete's suspected steroid use.

While the main event of the film certainly did happen, as well as some of the scenes (some of them, excerpted from the documentary, are shown during the end credits), the film as a whole does tend to traverse familiar territory as far as feel - good sports films go, especially with the final game where all of the loose ends comfortably fall into place.

Sure, it has the whole sports movie vibe for the build - up point of the film: there's a big game to be won, the main character struggles to work as a team, the coach character is distant and fatherly.

To be honest, I love sports movies as a whole, but baseball movies in particular (it is perhaps needless to say that I love the games).

One of the most striking elements in whole magical world of Harry Potter is the popular wizard sport known as Quidditch; the soccer - style game played on broomsticks.

All those people thinking the Wii would sink Nintendo looked on with jaw - dropping astonishment as Nintendo's little white console was in a sell - out state for two whole years, thanks to one breakout first - party title: Wii Sports (which to my knowledge is still the best selling game of all - time, clocking in at 83 million units).

Advanced Tour was my first foray into both Mario Sports and golf games as a whole, and what I found didn't disappoint.

UFC Undisputed 3 is an excellent entry in the series and in sports fighting games as a whole.

Unlike Madden, which has stellar sales in the US but limited popularity worldwide, FIFA is very much the worldwide sports game of choice, much like soccer as a whole.

It's not the prettiest racing game out there and those that can't get over the whole «turning left» thing might find it a niche title but fans of the sport will love it as it is a lot of fun, and it is fun that counts.