Sentences with phrase «beaten national champion»

A great win to be sure, but Canada has beaten national champion Clemson & Penn State in the same year with inferior talent.

He rode wherever bicycle racing was a major sport and beat every national champion he met.

Not exact matches

It would be no small feat, but if Jill's boat beat Virginia, Cal would be national champion.

They beat eventual national champion LSU, 50 - 48, in a game that saw McFadden run for three touchdowns and throw for another.

UCF beat SEC West champion Auburn in the Peach Bowl, meaning the undefeated Knights beat a team that went 2 - 1 against the National Championship's participants — all without the Knights themselves getting even a remote sniff of the Playoff.

How many of those guys beat the powerful national champions at their home field?

I did kind of like him poking the bear and making comments at Saban with the «we are the true National Champions» jab after they beat Auburn and went undefeated.

Coach Bud Wilkinson's University of Oklahoma Sooners had beaten Southern California, the defending national champion, 17 - 12 in a magnificent college football game.

Simply put which is a better situation - wrestlers training with resident athletes who have been national champions and All Americans or the wrestler that our top wrestler in each weight class beat in a wrestle off?

All they had to do was beat the defending national champion on the road, in wet weather, and without Cook.

Crawford, who once raced a giraffe and a zebra on television (beat the giraffe, lost to the zebra), had won the 200 - meter gold on a surreal Thursday night, when the start of his race was delayed four minutes by Greek fans chanting the name of Konstantinos Kenteris, the 2000 Olympic champion and national hero who withdrew from the Games after missing a drug test, and Hel - las!

The man to beat was 22 - year - old Brian Orser, the Canadian national champion, who was lurking back in seventh place with two events to go.

Davey Moore, world featherweight champion, won the decision, if not the foot race, by beating Fili Nava, former Mexican national champion, in a 10 - round bout in San Antonio.

They beat Middle Tennessee State the week before, 38 - 20, giving them a transitive victory over defending national champion Clemson (thanks, Syracuse!).

The ACC's divisions are random and cruel (and pointless)-- despite beating FSU and Louisville, State will still probably have to knock off defending national champion Clemson to reach the conference title game — but whether conference title dreams are realistic or not, this is beginning to look like the breakout campaign we thought Doeren had in him but hadn't seen yet.

The Flutie years: the 11 - car train to New Haven for the Yale game; the 10,000 BC fans who flew to the Tangerine Bowl in what one Eagle follower calls «the largest airlift from Boston to a single destination since World War II»; beating Alabama at Foxboro; tying national champion Clemson at Clemson and then beating Clemson at home the next year.

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.

BASKETBALL: A touring women's team from the People's Republic of China beat Cal State - Fuller - ton 63 - 60 at UCLA, lost 73 - 70 to AIAW champion Delta State at Memphis (page 64) and to the U.S. national team 94 - 82 at Rochester, N.Y.

Hagerty, a junior at Maryville in St. Louis and top - ranked in Division II at 149 pounds, beat Andrew Bannister of Notre Dame (Ohio) College 7 — 3 to help the Saints upset the defending national champions at the NWCA National Duals in Fort Waynnational champions at the NWCA National Duals in Fort WaynNational Duals in Fort Wayne, Ind..

Final Four George Mason NCAA Basketball Betting Information The clock hasn't struck midnight yet on the greatest Cinderella story in the history of college hoops as George Mason has danced all the way to the Final Four beating three of the past six national champions in the process.

«Yes, it was a great season,» says Klosterhalfen of a year in which she won silver over 1500m behind Laura Muir at the European Indoors in Belgrade, as well as gold at the European Under - 23 Championships, set a national record of 8:29.89 for the 3000m, and beat world champion Hellen Obiri over over the same distance at the Diamond League meeting in Birmingham.

A documentary made about Okinawa showed a 100 year old villager with better fitness levels than an entire film crew less than half her age, a 96 year old martial artist who beat a 36 year old boxing champion (on national American television live) and even a 105 year old woman who easily killed poisonous snakes.