Sentences with phrase «championship game after»

As the first game progressed... it became obvious that we wouldn't be in the championship game after all — our little guys just didn't have the «stuff» today.

Kiffin's never - boring tenure as Alabama offensive coordinator ended just days before the last national championship game after his candid comments about head coach Nick Saban's program in an interview with Sports Illustrated, which allowed him to get a head start making a splash as the new coach of lowly Florida Atlantic, winners of just three games the previous year.

It's the second straight time that Puerto Rico has reached the WBC championship game after losing to the Dominican Republic in 2013.

Not exact matches

Trump signed the legislation aboard Air Force One on Monday after arriving in Georgia to attend the college football championship game.

After winning his sixth consecutive world championship in 2015, USA Today's Nancy Armour called Uchimura the «greatest gymnast ever,» noting that the last time he finished second in the World Championships or Olympics, Aaron Rodgers hadn't ever started an NFL game.

After Game 1 of the World Series, Schultz went to dinner with his close friend Tony La Russa, the manager of the St. Louis Cardinals, who would go on to win the championship and retire.

(CNN)-- A Jewish high school basketball team that had opted out of a shot at a Texas state championship because it refused to play on the Sabbath will now get that shot, after a playoff game was rescheduled on Thursday.

Don't change the bylaws, just file an amendment that says a championship game may be played on Friday before sundown or on Saturday after sundown if a competing team has a religious conflict.

CNN: Playoff game rescheduled for Jewish basketball team that refused to play on Sabbath A Jewish high school basketball team that had opted out of a shot at a Texas state championship because it refused to play on the Sabbath will now get that shot, after a playoff game was rescheduled on Thursday.

Burleson also said the league would be able to accommodate Beren Academy should they advance to the finals by scheduling the championship game on Saturday after 8 pm.

Team Refugee is focused on proving itself for future championships after the games.

He'd like to see his team at least get back to the SEC championship game, after missing last year's.

He overcame a depressing physical disability that manifested itself in spring training (he had to pack his elbow in ice after each game during the season) and spread - eagled baseball as he pitched the Dodgers to the world championship.

The Method: The current bowls are maintained with their automatic bids and allocations (sans the BCS national championship game), and after all bowls are played, the top two teams (according to, presumably, the BCS rankings) would play in the title game.

He points in particular to Andrew Gaze, an Australian who boosted Seton Hall to the 1989 NCAA championship game months after leading the NBL in scoring.

The Cubs lost to the Washington Nationals, 8 - 4, on Wednesday and fell to 39 - 39 on the season, after winning 200 games over the last two seasons, including the club's first World Series championship in 108 years last fall.

1 championship game, a two - run shot that put her team up for good, after her earlier single tied things up.

After back - to - back losses in the BCS title game, the Sooners make a fresh run at the championship with a younger team

Flanagan High School is headed to the Class A state championship game next weekend after defeating Columbus 30 - 17 last night.

After 254 days and 97 games, the Philadelphia Flyers concluded the longest season in pro sports history last week by winning their second straight NHL championship.

Two of the best teams on the West Coast are facing each other yet again in the West Coast Conference championship game, and the bitter rivals are tied at 36 after the first half.

After the coaching staff of the Sydney Swans forbade Swans players from having sex with wives or girlfriends on the eve of the recent championship game of Australian Rules Football, played in Melbourne, a local brothel called the Top of the Town offered the players what a spokesman for the bordello called «freebies to help them keep their routine.»

Though Detroit just won the National League championship after a bruising 70 - game season, the top four (of six) eastern professional teams have been whacking away at each other all over again to decide who wins the real championship.

After St. John's won the championship game rather routinely 85 - 77, with Mullin, a 6» 6» sophomore, and Goodwin, a 6» 5» senior, mixing and matching for 43 points, the Redmen owned 27 victories — a school record — and Carnesecca finally ditched the con.

SOCCER STAR Sir: On behalf of all the Italian fans, estimated at more than 300,000, who celebrated in the true Little Italy — on St. Clair Avenue in Toronto — after the July 11 World Cup championship game, I'd like to express my sincere gratitude to Clive Gammon for his extraordinary article on Paolo Rossi (Coming Up Roses for Rossi, Aug. 16).

The winner will join the Oklahoma - Oklahoma State Bedlam winner (OU's the big winner of the week, vaulting all the way from No. 7 after beating TCU and maybe even putting itself in the top group) and possibly Baylor in the holding pen; the Bears and Cardinal would also have games during conference championship weekend (and Stanford would have a real chance to impress against USC or UCLA), but the others in this group would be sitting and waiting.

After lobbying its way into a BCS berth last season, No. 2 Texas could be left out of this year's championship game

A Saban / Belichick conference championship would be just incredible theater, with a 100 % chacnce that Belichick would die in the locker room after the game either through a little trickeration from Saban ordering a hit on him if he won, or by committing seppukku if he lost.

Wenger told the media yesterday: «During the season, (that criticism) was not very welcome when you fight for the championship, especially after the Tottenham game, when we were a bit unlucky,»

Coaching his final game after 13 years at Marquette, Al McGuire was given a royal sendoff — a victory over North Carolina and with it the NCAA championship

After hitting not one, but TWO buzzer - beating, game - winning shots during the Final Four, INCLUDING one to win the national championship, Notre Dame star Arike Ogunbowale is probably a household name by now.

After Penn State won its first national championship, in 1982, the Nittany Lions stumbled out of the blocks the next season by losing their first three games en route to a 7 -4-1 record.

After defeating the reigning champion Cleveland Cavaliers in five games to hoist the championship trophy at home, the Golden State Warriors will officially continue their NBA Finals celebration in downtown Oakland at 1 p.m. ET.

Tom Brady's season started with a four - game suspension and ended, in dramatic fashion, with his fifth championship after the Patriots overcame the largest deficit in Super Bowl history.

The injuries that occur — or heal — can lift a team (Colorado left wing Valeri Kamensky's return in Game 3 from a broken right arm permitted the Avalanche to move Adam Deadmarsh from wing to third - line center and drop pivot Dale Hunter to the fourth line, creating a more balanced lineup) or devastate it (Detroit winger Martin Lapointe looked lost in Games 3, 4 and 5 after his center, Igor Larionov, fractured a pinky in Game 2), but they are all part of the process of winning championships.

«We're not close to being a championship team,» All - Pro strong safety Darren Woodson said in a low - key locker room after the game.

Nebraska Spirits are low after the 37 - 14 loss to Miami in the national championship game.

Brian Daboll was hired as Alabama's new OC after Steve Sarkisian took the Atlanta Falcons OC job (another connection) after last year's national championship game.

After dominating the game from 1997 to 2008 with 14 major championships and a level of golf the sport has never seen, the 35 - year - old Woods has not won a major in three years or any PGA Tour event in nearly two.

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.

They had won 36 of 48 games from that day in August until the last one in September, and after sweeping the Phils in a bizarre doubleheader the night before for their 23rd and 24th straight wins at home, the championship of the National League East seemed within the Pirates» reach.

He added: «The ideal situation would be to have a transfer period that is closed 48 hours before the first game of the championship, and to close it completely until the season after.»

Grown men are supposed to weep when their woebegone franchises finally win championships, but those tears only come after three or four hours of in - game doubt and suffering.

QBs from Hawaii staked 2 national title claims in 2017, 3 years after Marcus Mariota took Oregon to the championship game

After winning the Big Ten championship, the Wolverines have won two consecutive games in the NCAA Tournament, including an impressive upset against 2 - seed Louisville.

Iona: The Gaels are going back to the NCAA Tournament, after defeating Fairfield in the MAAC tourney championship game, 83 - 71.

After Saco retires from the section, he will work with the CIF State Office on various projects, including further changes to the football playoff formats that could see all section champions with an opportunity to advance to one of potentially 12 state football championship games played at venues spread throughout the state (the CIF State Bowl Games have been held at the Home Depot Center in Carson since their inception).

After last year's championship game results, one question will certainly be looming should a rematch occur: Will history repeat itself again?

LIU - Brooklyn: The Blackbirds will be making their return to the big dance, after defeating No. 1 seed Wagner, 71 - 61, in the NEC championship game.

The team's lone loss was an odd lopsided flop to Monte Vista - Danville in the championship game of the Leo LaRocca Sand Dune Invitational on Dec. 29, 2016, at St. Ignatius - S.F.. The night before, the Bears posted a 53 - 51 win over James Logan - Union City — a team which would play in the Division I state final just two hours after Mission's game wrapped up.