Sentences with phrase «before opening games»

He always confident before opening games.

The guy was only fully available days before the opening game and created more chances that anyone in the PL opening weekend!!

I don't feel like we have to come out of spring ball with it, but in a perfect world you'd like to know two weeks before your opening game,» Petrino said.

to give us an extra boost before the opening game, but the main aim must be to have everyone superfit and ready to over-run our opponents from the first minute.

Perhaps because they had forgotten who the Bullets were — the two teams had not played in three months, thanks to the complexities of the league schedule — the Bucks made it known before the opening game that they did not much care for the opposition the NBA had lined up for the finals.

His arrival, initially as player - manager, had been a surprise for many, most notably his predecessor Sammy Chung who had first learned of Dixon's appointment just 90 minutes before the opening game of the 1996 - 97 season when he opened the door to what he presumed to be his office to find the former Chelsea forward sitting at what up until that precise moment had been his desk.

I am just so glad I read about these complaints before I opened the game myself and I plan on returning it on Tuesday.

Not exact matches

Some, of course, may be understated, others, like a video game your kids play, have to have certain stages attained before they can be accomplished, but the seeds for your company's goals all lie in the structure that you build long before the doors ever opened.

Before the games began, he voiced his concern over the decision of Vice President Mike Pence leading the Team USA Olympic delegation, turning down a meeting with Pence ahead of the opening ceremony.

Tello starred as Barcelona came back from a 2 - 1 down to beat Spartak Moscow 3 - 2 at the Camp Nou in their opening group game of the Champions League, scoring the first goal before setting up Lionel Messi for his team's second.

The women's team will play their opening two group games at the Millennium Stadium (July 25 & 28) before finishing at Wembley (July 31).

Nashville opened up the scoring as Johansen led a 2 - on - 1 rush and pulled the puck back before beating Vasilevskiy with a wrist shot 7:50 into the game.

The year before that Arsenal won the Asia trophy, the Emirates Cup and the Community Shield as we won every game before losing our opening league match 2 - 0 at home to West Ham.

This was anyone's Game with just 6 minutes to play before Team Maione opened up the lead.

Tokay will open Aug. 25 at Heritage - Brentwood, one of five nonleague games before starting TCAL action against St. Mary's at the Grape Bowl on Oct. 6.

In fact, they hung with them for much of the Game before Team Maione opened it up in the final stretch of the Game.

With UCF finishing 13 - 0 and yet locked out of a nationally unpopular title game, the committee's pattern of open disdain for mid-majors is drawing more attention than ever before.

Joel Campbell came good with a very ell - taken opening goal, and although Giroud scored an own goal to give the Black Cats a way back into the game, Giroud made amends at the other end before Aaron Ramsey sealed the points.

Utah opened +160 before the series, were still +125 after winning Game 1, and were +205 after dropping Game 2.

This really made for a «big game» feel before the opening whistle..

They'll have an Opening Round Playoff Game and hopefully can build some momentum before attempting to knock out a top - seed in the Elite8.

One of music's best - known belters, Alicia Keys, will be the opening act (of sorts) at Super Bowl 47, singing the national anthem before the game.

In the week before the Yale game McLaughry considered several positions «still wide open» and, additionally, there were problems concerning some of his Iron Men - to - be.

The Senators lost the World Series the previous year when Johnson gave up nine runs in Game 7, which was the last thing fans remembered him for before Opening Day, 1926.

Arsene Wenger's side came in to the game having won just one of their last six Premier League opening games before the Leicester clash, and seemed certain for more problems even though record signing Alexandre Lacazette handing them a perfect start to the new campaign.

Around here, it's sort of like opening early for a Redskins game, which we've done before when they were in London.»

In the minutes before the kickoff of Nebraska's season - opening 55 - 14 starching of Michigan State, Cornhuskers coach Tom Osborne urged his players to embrace a possibility — an unprecedented third consecutive national championship — that would customarily send a coach searching for new ways to say, «One game at a time.»

The Gunners are yet to register a goal in either of their first two games at the Emirates Stadium this season after a shock defeat to London rivals West Ham United on the opening day before being held to a goalless draw by Liverpool a couple of weeks ago.

Just before the opening tip of Georgetown's game against Boston College, Hoya coach John Thompson took his signature white towel off his shoulder and draped it over that of assistant Mike Riley.

Though home games are still held in a splendid old whale - shaped building near the heart of campus and the audience still includes gray - haired men in tweed jackets who rise to their feet to celebrate Bulldogs goals, now these old - school types must jostle for standing room when the 3,486 - seat Ingalls Rink opens an hour before face - off.

His story strains credulity: After graduating from high school, he turned down a scholarship to Texas A&M and swore off the game; underwent treatment for drug abuse and depression; embarked on a four - year odyssey around the country in search of spiritual understanding before he was led back to baseball; was drafted in the 23rd round in 2010; then made the Braves» Opening Day roster a year after starting the»12 season in high A ball.

In the other opening - round game, the Panthers and the Runnin» Bulldogs played a back - and - forth first half before the Panthers, the home team and eighth seed, pulled away in the second half, ultimately winning, 70 - 58.

Jacksonville led 21 - 0 early in the game, but the Steelers scored a touchdown just before halftime and on the opening possession of the second half to cut the lead to 28 - 21.

With all this in mind, fans have already started to name their line - ups for the opening match, with no new signings likely to meet the deadline before the first round of games kicks off.

The Bel Air quarterback had scored five touchdowns in a win the week before, while Douglass, after opening the season with two wins before the cancelled game, had suffered its first loss to Edmonson - Westside, 14 - 8, a team they beat by 43 points in 2014.

Ziskis» job required him to get the concessions ready before the fronton opened for the evening, but then he was free until after the last game.

Times have changed in Miami — where season - ticket sales at Joe Robbie Stadium have declined by more than 17,000, to 35,289, since it opened in 1987, and a home game hasn't been televised (a game must be sold out 72 hours before kickoff to avoid a local blackout) in nearly two years...

The league's opening Sunday games, on ABC March 6, found the USFL riding a wave of national curiosity, primarily because of the signing of Walker 12 days before.

Fair play to him scoring 8 out of 8 matches but his major problems are the facts he needs 5 clear cut chances before putting one away, just like with the opening match against Romania, he already missed 3 sitters before netting, I will love to see the stats and look at how many chances he had in these 8 games before scoring the 8, probably 20 to be conservative.....

While up - to - bat during today's opening round game, ESPN showed a little factoid that Hondras «talks to girls before games for good luck».

Laudrup's side have begun the season in impressive fashion, thumping QPR, the summer's most active recruiters in the transfer market, 5 - 0 in the opening game and they followed up that result with another big win, 3 - 0, against West Ham before the 2 - 2 draw with Sunderland.

Appreciate the comments on Acuna, from what I can find they don't open the gates until an hour before game time so I doubt we'll see much.

Next game against west ham is the last game before the transfer window opens.

First of all Alex Song had a screamer of a goal disallowed very early on in the game, and then Winston Reid fell over in the West Ham box just before half - time, and as he stood up again he tripped Santi Cazorla, a penalty was given and Arsenal were given the all - important opening goal.

However, before delighting his manager with the game's opening goal, Lamela infuriated the former Southampton boss by delaying his half - time team talk.

It is a Friday afternoon, the day before the Warriors» opening game, against King's College of Wilkes - Barre, Pa..

Months later, when Roma responded to the devastating defeat by opening the 2013 - 14 season with their 10 - game winning streak Zanzi was walking into the Stadio Olimpico before a game and an elderly man came up to him.

Olympic was the first of the market - setting sportsbooks to post Week 2 NFL Lines, opening most games just before 8:00 p.m. ET Sunday.

The Czech midfielder showed straight away why Paul Merson had said before the game that he should play every week, smashing a brilliant opening goal just a minute and 12 seconds after the kick off, the quickest ever against the spuds in the Premier League.

Mourinho moved to fill any void by signing Pedro from Barcelona and Cuadrado failed to make Massimiliano Allegri's starting eleven for any of Juventus» opening three Serie A fixtures of the season, before starting against Genoa on Saturday, a game in which he struggled to have much of an impact.