Sentences with phrase «as national champions»

Arkansas and Virginia were not expected to advance past the Regional round and now have the longest odds as emerging as National Champions.

Alabama earned the top overall seed in the four - team playoff, and they will begin their quest to repeat as national champions against # 4 Washington in the Peach Bowl.

BAML's status as a national champion that is embedded deeply in the fabric of the US economy made the question of how to respond to the tax reform interesting to analysts quizzing Moynihan.

In the last four years alone since Divine was hired, more than 60 Granite Bay players have been recruited by major colleges, such as the national champion University of California at Berkeley, Central Washington, Saint Mary's in Moraga, and the University of Arizona.

Gary Leake (Retreat Leader, Fitness & Nutrition Nerd)-- Jack of many trades, Gary began his career as a national champion bodybuilder in the 90s while simultaneously languishing away as a computer programmer and technology manager.

Or, as Democrats for Education Reform President Shavar Jeffries told Richard Whitmire: «I can't think of anything more potentially harmful to the charter school movement, or anything more antithetical to its progressive roots, than having Donald Trump as its national champion.»

In the same week that Floyd Mayweather reclaimed his title as a national champion, drivers in the Sunshine State reclaimed a title of their own: the worst drivers in the country.

Not exact matches

A free - trade advocate, Macron let several national corporate champions be taken over by foreign firms as a minister.

The confluence of corporate self - interest and geopolitical considerations not only enabled Qualcomm to turn the tables on Broadcom, but canonized the San Diego company as a sort of national champion essential to battling China's might in the next - generation wireless communications technology known as 5G.

When the news broke late on Wednesday in Moscow, Russian and western media trumpeted it as the energy deal of the year: Glencore (glncy), the world's biggest commodities house, and the Qatar Investment Authority had agreed to buy a 19.5 % stake in Rosneft, Russia's national oil champion, for 10.5 billion euros ($ 11.1 billion).

Newman, who had the backing of an array of national abortion - rights groups and two members of Illinois» congressional delegation, campaigned heavily against her opponent's voting record and promoted herself as a champion of «working families, healthcare for all, and everybody's rights,» she told Business Insider last year.

Even François Fillon, the presidential candidate in the Republican party, seduces Front National voters as he is a proud Catholic, and champions old - fashioned family values.

«National champions, like all corporations,» says a marketing executive who frequents Toronto's so - called Broker's Keg, «belong to shareholders, not all Canadians, as much as we may like to think otherwise.»

As China's growth show signs of cooling and the Communist Party prepares for its all - important 19th Congress, a cadre of reformers led by CBRC chairman Guo Shuqing is warning that these swashbuckling global buyers aren't national champions but lightning rods for financial risk.

Any move by France to sell most or all of its Renault stake could prove politically risky for President Emmanuel Macron, already under fire for letting national champions such as TGV train maker Alstom fall into foreign hands.

As a champion of the national Startup America initiative and leader of Startup Arkansas, Lee provides the vision and leadership for The Venture Center.

As it looks to create its own national champions, China has been forcing American stalwarts like Qualcomm, Advanced Micro Devices and Hewlett - Packard Enterprise to create joint ventures, hand over their technology or develop local expertise.

He earned national recognition for championing charters, arguing that competition in the public school system would help «break what is in essence one of the only remaining public monopolies,» as he told The New York Daily News in 2014.

As a friend pointed out to me in an email yesterday, the possibility of defeat for national health - care reform is the fault of its biggest champion.

As part of his LCA address, ACCC Chairman, Rod Sims, addressed the recurring issue of national champions, claiming the current debate confuses the distinction between industrial and merger policy.

HONORED — Patricia McCormick, formful national and Olympic diving champion; among six selected for Helms World Trophy Awards as world's foremost amateur athletes for 1955, at Los Angeles.

And by Saturday at dinnertime the last of the verbal battles were raging from the Bluegrass Room to the Julep Lounge, from Gordon's Golden Horse to the Bit»n Spur, and even in that rare unequine setting, the Boom Boom Room, as to which team was going to win the national title: defending champion Cincinnati or its hated foe, the squad that has been ranked No. 1 for two straight seasons, Ohio State?

It is dawn in California's Yosemite National Park, and as the early - morning light changes from gray to gold, champion speed climber Hans Florine scans the sheer granite walls of El Capitan.

A 10 - time national diving champion, he had done his work well and he agreed to an interview with a woman writer from the New China News Agency, who acted as an interpreter for a Western colleague.

Bob Willits and Ray Watson, who was known as Ramey then, were scratch golfers in their younger days, Willits having been Missouri Amateur champion in 1947 and Watson having reached the fourth round of the National Amateur in 1950.

As the season progressed, the University of Michigan, led by Harry Newman and with Ivy Williamson starring at right end, proved itself clearly the best of the Big Ten; when the season ended the Wolverines were named National Champions by the Associated Press.

Of course it is still a reach to say the Mustangs, from a two - bid league, with a first - year head coach, in the same region as the defending national champions and pre-season favorites, can get to Glendale, but I haven't seen a more worthy team with that number next to their name in a long time.

Reigning national champion and overall No. 1 seed Villanova got a raw deal by having Duke, a team many people believed would earn the fourth No. 1 seed from the Selection Committee, as its No. 2 seed.

Perhaps just as important, though, is the fact that three of our big rivals for the top four Champions League qualifying places did see players pick up injuries with their national teams.

As all these champion golfers have learned the hard way, looks can be deceiving, especially when it comes to Augusta National's exquisitely mystifying Golden Bell.

Sissoko is a regular in Didier Deschamps» national team set - up but may be interested in a high - profile move that could secure a taste of Champions League action though it's not instantly obvious as to how the marauding midfielder would fit into the Chelsea starting eleven given the presence of the likes of Nemanja Matic, Ramires and John Obi Mikel.

Glory Road, 2006 When he was cast as a member of the 1966 Texas Western basketball team that wasthe first national champion with an all - African - American starting lineup, Nichols, never big into team sports, hadn't played roundball since he was aguard in junior high.

The state title game versus De La Salle - Concord felt like a coronation, and when it was all over, The Huskies finished 35 - 0 as California's first mythical national champion since a Tyson Chandler - led Dominguez - Compton team in 1999 - 00.

Per White House pool report, President Trump has left Mercedes - Benz Stadium, which means that as far as he knows, Georgia is the national champion

Grauer's former high school coach (who happened to be a former All - American and national champion at UCLA) unabashedly referred to the young pitcher as «the next Jenny Finch.»

With the entire roster returning from last year's squad that went 27 - 7, and lost to eventual champion Mater Dei - Santa Ana in the CIFSS Division I semifinals, the Cougars have been riding high as an unbeaten state and national No. 1 team.

Pender will most likely settle the middleweight championship — andeliminate the confusion and controversy surrounding it — by taking on GeneFullmer, who is the National Boxing Association champion, acclaimed in allstates save Pender's, as well as Asia and South America.

These goals go hand - in - hand, as a) BCS standings would potentially come into play in a three - way SEC West tiebreaker between 7 - 1 teams Arkansas, Alabama and LSU, and b) the SEC champion typically gets a chance at the national title.

The defeat, in which the English champion won only a single round, and that by a shade before Marciano had warmed up to the slaughter, has installed Cockell as a national hero.

Their Sylvia Pankhursts were their great golfers who could not fail to be imitated by other women and to be admired by the men: Mrs. Dorothy Campbell Hurd, a Scots girl, who (circa 1910) won the Scottish, British, Canadian and American championships; Cecil Leitch, the first woman who decided that there was no reason a woman shouldn't attack the ball forcefully like the best men players, and who did so with such a natural dash; the incomparable Joyce Wethered, who succeeded Miss Leitch after World War I as the queen of the British links and is remembered as the most consummate of women stylists; Glenna Collett, the pertinacious girl from Providence, the first great American champion, who won our national title six times between 1922 and 1935, and in more recent years such superb players as Patty Berg and the majestic Babe Didrikson Zaharias who «made» women's professional golf after she had become in 1947 the first American to win the British Ladies Championship.

That should get her ready for Nike Nationals, and then, a few weeks later it's off to Italy for training prior to the trip to Amsterdam — and then it's back home to get ready for the high school season, in which not only is O'Dowd favored to repeat as the Division III state champion, but is also expected to be ranked in the top 10 in the nation.

S. Diving Indoor Championships in Baton Rouge as the defending champion in all three men's events and with a mind - boggling cache of 41 national titles during his 11 - year career.

Along the way, they set new attendance standards — they drew a record 14,066 for their penultimate home game, a 66 — 64 victory over No. 2 Ohio State — and beat a raft of highly ranked foes (No. 1 Stanford, the Buckeyes, No. 3 Notre Dame) as well as defending national champion Connecticut, in Hartford.

As the 40th National League season went into its second month the defending champions trailed while Toronto skaters were making crowds aware of youth

The instinct which is as much a part of a champion retriever's qualities as his training was eloquently illustrated in the 1954 National Champion Stake, held in November at Weldon Springs, Mo..

As the lone undefeated team in FBS, UCF has decided it's actually the national champion.

Lawyer Peter Lekisch, 59, a former offensive and defensive end at Ohio Wesleyan and a national masters champion in cross-country skiing, looked at this as a dry run: If it went well, he might do the 2001 solo race as a 60th birthday present to himself.

His recent form has led to a long awaited return to the national team set - up and having won back to back Serie A titles, whilst also playing a key role in his side's run to the Champions League semi-finals, and as such it's hard to fathom why he'd move to a Liverpool side who can not even offer him Champions League football let alone a genuine push for major honours.

Michael Dyer - Auburn: Last year, Dyer asserted himself as a freshman for the National Champions Tigers, rushing for 1,093 yards and five touchdowns.

The Huskies have lost two in a row, to Tennessee and Cincinnati, without Boatright, showing he's clearly a key cog in their bid to repeat as national and Big East champions.