Sentences with phrase «big championship title»

Battling Bob Satterfield (Samuel L. Jackson), a contender whose «glass jaw» never allowed him to quite grasp the big championship title, has certainly seen better days.

Not exact matches

The final conference tournament championship of 2012 gets underway on Sunday as Michigan State and Ohio State battle for the Big Ten title.

Ohio State will be No. 2 going into conference - championship weekend, and the Buckeyes should be set up to advance to the BCS title game with a win over Michigan State in the Big Ten championship.

If Sato was in the car it'd be terrific for the championship too, as Lewis Hamilton would get so distracted by his big shiny ring that he'd end up crashing out and allowing Sebastian Vettel back in the title fight.

If Kansas State is to maintain its national championship aspirations, its unpredictable, Tarkentonesque quarterback Michael Bishop (3,150 total yards) must convincingly lead the Wildcats, 11 - 0 but No. 3 in the Bowl Championship Series standings, past Texas A&M (10 - 2 and ranked No. 10) in the Big 12 title game at the TWA Dome in St. Louis.

Mayfield was the engine behind the Sooners» 9 - 0 finish to the regular season and Big 12 championship, their second title in a row.

In his 33 years as the men's swimming coach at Indiana, Counsilman led the Hoosiers to 23 Big Ten championships and six straight NCAA titles.

James Gary Joseph Kennedy Jr., age 20, is a forward on the University of Missouri basketball team that recently went to the finals of the NCAA Midwest Regional playoffs after winning the Big Eight Conference championship, the school's first outright title in that league since 1930, when it was composed of six teams.

The Jayhawks won the Big 12 conference tournament for the third time in six seasons, earned a share of the Big 12 regular season title for the 14th straight year, and are now in the Final Four with the hope of reaching their second national championship game since 2012.

The man who managed so many big teams but never won a major title until last year, when he managed a miraculous championship with Leicester.

Hosting F1 game championships and events would be nice too, as well as helping create bigger and better racing game titles for consoles and the small screen as well.

SI looked at every season in the big four sports since 1966 — the Super Bowl era — giving cities points for winning (five for a championship, three for a conference title, one for a division title) while deducting one for a last - place finish, two for being worst in the conference and three for having the worst record in the league.

Pitino told his U of L team after a five overtime loss to Notre Dame on Feb. 9 that he wanted them to win the last seven games of the regular season, then the Big East Tournament title and then the national championship.

But perhaps the biggest news of all is the fact that it potentially leaves Sebastien Ogier without a drive next season, having just wrapped up his fourth world title and becoming one of only four drivers in rally history to win four championships.

Budke, an NJCAA Hall of Famer who won four juco national championships in the 1990s at Trinity Valley Community College in Athens, Texas — including the»96 title, with Serna at point guard — had transformed OSU in five years into a Big 12 contender.

With few in the way of household names near the top of the leaderboard and limited dramatics on championship Sunday at Sawgrass, the South Korean phenom turned a stoic, bogey - free round of 3 - under 69 to win golf's biggest available non-major championship title.

However, he never had any real fame outside of Scooba and environs, he never won a national championship, never even won a Mississippi Junior College Association title, and he was too ornery, too cussed independent, for any big school to take a chance on him.

More top players have signed (Warren, thehighest - rated guard ever to commit to Oklahoma, says one of the main reasons hedid was to play with Griffin), the Sooners are off to their best start in 23seasons, the Big 12 championship is within reach, and a national title is apossibility.

Last August, after seven days of skating the floor of Little Rock's T. H. Barton Coliseum in successful defense of his five - mile title and winning the senior men's championship as well, he went to a Big Boy, where he had two triple - decker cheeseburgers, a double order of French fries and onion rings, two large Cokes and a banana split.

SAN ANTONIO — Before Michigan became the hottest team in college basketball and rode a 14 - game winning streak to a Big Ten tournament title and the national championship game against Villanova, the team's captains gathered at the end of a grueling summer looking for a bonding exercise.

They've made a name for themselves and their big - play ability helped the Bulldogs earn a 10 - 0 record in the regular season, their sixth SFL title and fourth - straight undefeated league championship.

The 1963 NCAA title game between Loyola of Chicago and Cincinnati was surely one of the most memorable in tournament history: It was the last title game to be decided in overtime; the last one before UCLA began its intimidating reign of 10 championships, including seven in a row, over the next 12 years; the first one to be played under a lucrative new six - year television contract that launched college basketball into the big - money era; and, most significantly, the first in which the majority of players on both sides were black — or, as most of the nation was still saying back in March of 1963, Negro.

Having spent half a decade solidifying their reputation as big - race skiers — with Tommy Moe's Olympic downhill win in Lillehammer, Picabo Street's 1996 world downhill championship and 1998 Olympic Super G title, Hilary Lindh's downhill gold in Sestriere — the Americans squandered a home course advantage in Vail with a grim performance.

Walker put the Huskies on his back for one of the greatest March runs in college basketball history, first winning five games in five days to capture the Big East tournament title, and then winning six more straight to earn a national championship.

Since that Sparty title, the Big ten has lost six consecutive national championships straight up and ATS.

Nova will attempt to become the ninth program in college basketball history to win at least three titles, while Michigan will try to buck the trend of ugly Big Ten national championship performances.

«Big Game Bob,» Stoops earned his nickname with a national championship over Florida State in 2000 - 01 (his second season in Oklahoma) but has since drawn the ire of Sooners fans for the team's apparent «choking» in big games (reached the title game three more times and lost in all of theBig Game Bob,» Stoops earned his nickname with a national championship over Florida State in 2000 - 01 (his second season in Oklahoma) but has since drawn the ire of Sooners fans for the team's apparent «choking» in big games (reached the title game three more times and lost in all of thebig games (reached the title game three more times and lost in all of them).

Jay Cutler or «Big Jay» as he's been known to have been nicknamed, has 4 well deserved Mr. Olympia titles to his name and to demonstrate how influential he's been within the bodybuilder arena, he has also secured 6 runner - up trophies and has entered and competed in the championship no less than 13 different occasions.

1) The COTA race had to be one of the biggest lows, as our broken gearbox and subsequent retirement effectively put paid to our championship title hopes.

The major emphasis of ranked championships is for players to win 3 consecutive fight now matches to attain contender status before winning the big title fight to become a champion followed by a continued focus on defending your championship belt with a winning streak.

The constant drive to be better than your teammate is one of the biggest factors in the real world sport and Codemasters title replicates it well, especially since there's a menu in the pit - garage which gives a run down of how often your team - mate has outperformed you or by how many points he or she is ahead of you in the championship.