Sentences with phrase «championship game between»

The NCAA championship game between No. 1 seed Villanova Wildcats and No. 3 seed Michigan Wolverines airs Monday at 9:20 p.m.

A lot of good came out of the 1979 NCAA championship game between Earvin «Magic» Johnson's Michigan State Spartans and Larry Bird's Indiana State Sycamores.

Taxpayers also furnished $ 1 million for a vehicle to drive around the metropolitan region to promote the NFL championship game between the Denver Broncos and the Seattle Seahawks.

PERHAPS YOU»VE heard that the 1958 NFL championship game between the Colts and the Giants was a pivotal moment.

Michigan's Class D regional championship game between Sacred Heart and Fulton ended in about the wildest way one can imagine.

Tempers flared during Saturday night's Big Ten Tournament championship game between the Indiana Hoosiers and Purdue Boilermakers.

I was shooting the championship game between the Packers and the Giants in 1962 at Yankee Stadium, and it was brutally cold.

Saco has since led the CIF in adding regional playoff games to qualify the section championship teams for the state bowl games, and also added an Open Division — for championship games between the state's top NorCal and SoCal programs regardless of division and enrollment — in both football and basketball.

Not exact matches

A World Series showdown between the 104 - 58 Los Angeles Dodgers and 101 - 61 Houston Astros appeared inevitable when they each won their first two games in the respective league championship series, but the New York Yankees and Chicago Cubs had other plans.

An on - stage conversation between Malcolm Gladwell and Bill Gurley became the South by Southwest version of a championship fight on Sunday, or perhaps an all - star game.

A fresh push to popularize the game at this year's championship between Magnus Carlsen and Sergey Karjakin faltered.

Games such as this Saturday's between Notre Dame and Ohio State are suddenly more meaningful, and the air may yet thicken with controversy if the eventual Rose Bowl and Sugar Bowl matchups preclude a true national - championship game.

Tonight's Patriot League Tournament final between the top - seeded Bucknell Bison and second - seeded Colgate Raiders will be the last championship game until Saturday morning.

Still, it'd be very surprising for Monday's championship game to be as lopsided as that one, or either of the two meetings between the teams this season.

Of the five Wyoming state championship games this Saturday, the showdown between these Class 4A unbeatens is the most anticipated.

His career highlights at S.I. include road trips in search of sports on the equator, the world's most dangerous sport and Roman gladiators as the first sports superstars, a lengthy meditation on Don King's hair, the second - ever descent of Africa's Zambezi River, a weighty essay on the 580 - pound sumo wrestler Konishiki, an investigation into the questionable around - the - world run by Robert Garside, a look inside the mind games at the 1987 world chess championship between Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov in Seville, Spain, three weeks in the Sahara covering the 2002 Paris - to - Dakar Rally, a trudge through Panama's Darien jungle retracing Vasco Núñez de Balboa's 1513 expedition, and a journey into the world of Jeopardy! His essay on George Steinbrenner and the New York Yankees» line of succession was called the «scoop of the year» in the 2008 Houghton - Mifflin collection The Best American Sports Writing.

Between December 15 and January 7, there are 35 bowls, including the BCS championship game.

Alabama travels to Gainesville to take on the Gators in a game between two SEC and national championship contenders.

In 1962 a Washington, D.C. championship football game between predominantly black Eastern High and all - white Catholic St. John's, played before a crowd of 50,000 in D.C. Stadium, provoked a riot in which 340 people were injured and hundreds of cars damaged.

During a 15 and under youth championship game in Austria between EC Red Bull and UPS Vienna Caps there was a massive...

Next Sunday's game is a classic matchup between two of the league's most explosive offenses — each featuring elite quarterbacks with a championship victory already on their resume.

Once I had the Warriors in the Pac - 10 / 12, I scheduled non-conference games with Alabama every year and always beat them, and I delivered four consecutive national championships between 2016 and 2019.

The only game that filled its stadium to capacity was the national championship Sugar Bowl showdown between Alabama and Miami.

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.

Hosts France took on World Champions Germany in the second semifinal of 2016 UEFA European championship and it turned out to be another cracking game between the two.

If there is a two week or less period of time between the final regular season game or conference championship game (for participating institutions) and the next bowl or postseason game, then inseason practice recommendations should remain in place.

«I'd like to congratulate Grand Slam Little League on their victory as well as Paulino's All - Stars for their participation in the tournament,» said Bronx Borough President Ruben Díaz Jr. «This year's championship game was a tremendous contest between two teams of great kids.

BY GEORGE J. DACRE With about 19 games to play in their second season, the Rockland County Boulders of the Canadien - American League have a shot of getting into the leagues championships between the top two teams.

Progression comes through blocks of four races, each of which has to be completed to move on, and as you move through the game's championships each of its various tracks becomes available in Single Event modes, while Mini Games - split between doing enormous jumps and going through record numbers of checkpoints against the clock - also become available.

Although the AI in the game is quite responsive and will attempt to guess your next move, online players prove far more superior to fight, especially when a win means the difference between victory or defeat when they are gunning for that online championship belt.

If they have to choose between watching the big championship game and finishing a work project, then they'll likely just catch the highlights the next day.

Although the AI in the game is quite responsive and will attempt to guess your next move, online players prove far more superior to fight, especially when a win means the difference between victory or defeat when they are gunning for that online championship belt.

Also, the very definition of classic paints a picture of cars from an era when F1 was in its origins such as in the 1950s or at the very least decades ago between the 1960s and 1980s or alternatively teams that were established and well respected that are no longer in F1 within the season the game is based upon including Alfa Romeo, Brabham and the classic Lotus which participated from 1958 to 1994; yet having a car from the 2010 season seems in total conflict with that very notion, regardless of it being a championship winning car.

Upon loading the game up you are launched straight into a tutorial mode taking you through a race weekend and what you need to learn between races to turn your chosen team to manage into a championship winner.

I had bought a watermelon for my son's traveling baseball team to munch on between the semi-final and championship games of their weekend tournament.