Sentences with phrase «championship game by»

Meanwhile, Michigan arrived to the championship game by knocking out tournament Cinderella Loyola - Chicago.

The Bulldogs, who still can earn a berth in the conference championship game by beating Kentucky this Saturday, won't soon forget their own miss — the missed chance to clinch the SEC East.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

A boy of seven or eight, Konchalski explains, who plays baseball and loses a championship game, will be very disappointed, but also become strengthened by it.

If New York wins the National League pennant by one game over Milwaukee, it will be a phony championship and the Giants will be cheese champions, through no fault of theirs.

SOCCER — Following a two - day delay caused by tornado warnings, DALLAS beat Atlanta 2 - 0 in the final game of the best - of - three series to win the North American Soccer League championship.

On this day, the Blue Devils claimed their fifth consecutive championship and finished their season undefeated against SJS foes without the late - game intensity endured by their male counterparts.

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.

The Steelers» Super Bowl teams of the mid-1970s won with defense and the running game; by the time 1979 rolled around, Terry Bradshaw was winning championships by playing bombs away.

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.

Amid 12 years that began with a game relocated by Hurricane Katrina, included the 2007 national championship and 113 other wins, and ended with an astounding loss at Auburn, LSU finally succeeded in firing Les Miles.

The Bison earned an automatic bid to the 2018 big dance by winning the Patriot League championship game in dominating fashion over Colgate, 83 - 54.

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.

Step by step he led the Cavaliers to their first bowl game, their first conference championship and, in 1990, a stint as the No. 1 team in the nation.

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.

LSU, which can win the Western Division of the SEC by beating lowly Mississippi and Arkansas in its final two games, helped prove what had already been suspected, that Alabama's offense doesn't pack enough punch for the Tide to be national championship material.

Ironically, West's midrange game has found a home with the Warriors, who pushed the NBA towards modernity by cranking up the pace and 3 - pointers en - route to two championships in three years.

20 Length in yards of the field goal by Wahpeton native and Baltimore Colts kicker Steve Myhra that sent the 1958 NFL championship game against the New York Giants into sudden death.

Well, the Dodgers did win a division title last year, and the 1984 Tigers won a world championship without even one game started by a lefthander.

Last winter, when they were sophomores, Lawrence North won the Indiana large - school state championship; Oden averaged 14 points (taking only nine shots per game from the field) and 10 rebounds, and shot a mind - boggling 71 % from the floor while often guarded by three opponents.

It used 10 - year averages and didn't give bonus points for championships, which meant that Penn State fans were frustrated by a low 1980s ranking (yes, the Nittany Lions won two national titles; they also won eight or fewer games five times) and Nebraska fans were angry that their Huskers were overtaken by FSU in the 1990s (yes, the Huskers won 2.5 national titles; FSU won two and was generally better in the non-title seasons).

I'm encouraged with what Daboll did in Cleveland his one yr and I'm encouraged by the changes in the championship game.

In total, seven games that decided the championship were decided by 19 points.

Don't be surprised to see Nevada in the championship game — not because I think it will happen, but because you shouldn't be surprised by anything.

The 2017 edition of «which team got snubbed by the playoff committee» is in full force, with Ohio State backers blasting Alabama for not making their conference championship game while Nick Saban truthers can point...

Just because the weekend will be dominated by championship games for the Power 5 conferences doesn't mean that sharp bettors aren't looking for value elsewhere.

The Regionals are double elimination, the Super Regionals are a best of three series, and the World Series is double elimination followed by a three - game championship series.

Team USA faced little resistance on its march to the championship game, clubbing Brazil by 44 points in the semifinals and winning their first four contests by an average of 34.5 points.

Amat had come into California's Southern Section Division I championship game against Mater Dei High (from Santa Ana) as the top - ranked team in the nation — unbeaten, untied and unseen by the person who had made Amat No. 1 for most of the season in USA Today's Super 25 national high school football rankings.

The Arena Football League, which kicks off on April 13, has 19 franchises, a minor league that will field 29 teams and a championship game that has been carried live on ABC the last three years, but you'd hardly know it by reading most of the nation's print publications, including SI, or by looking at TV sports news.

Villanova opened up as 6.5 - point favorites over Michigan, the biggest championship game spread since Duke was favored by seven points over Butler in 2010.

JULIA BLACKSHELL - FAIR Vanden - Fairfield — Basketball — Senior All Blackshell - Fair did was spark an incredible comeback in the state championship game against Mater Dei - Santa Ana by dominating in the fourth quarter — capped with a steal and layup to give Vanden a lead it never lost.

The squad are coached by Andrew Rushton, Commonwealth games silver medallist and bronze medal winner at the world championships in January.

over Michigan, the biggest championship game spread since Duke was favored by seven points over Butler in 2010.

II championship game to a San Ramon Valley team led by eventual Saint Mary's College star, Omar Samhan.

Tony Plush sent the Brewers to their first ever NL championship series by hitting the game winning RBI off Diamondbacks closer J.J. Putz in the bottom of the 10th inning.

Do we make too much of the tiny sample size that is a national championship game, especially since those games are assembled in part by generations worth of human assumptions and months worth of confirmed bias?

The Dragons went 30 - 3 with two out - of - state losses and a loss to Windward - L.A., which they would avenge by defeating the then - unbeaten Wildcats 60 - 45 in the CIF Open Division state championship game on March 23.

By winning two consecutive games and reaching the tournament's second weekend, the Cavaliers» odds of winning the national championship jumped from +1200 to +575 while the Aggies moved from +4000 to +2000.

These odds are an imperfect measurement, and the actual Super Bowl 51 line will likely be impacted by the outcome of Sunday's conference championship games.

The first game of the NFL conference championship round kicks off this Sunday at 3:05 PM eastern time when the Seattle Seahawks -LRB--7.5) host the Green Bay Packers followed by the New England Patriots -LRB--6.5) hosting the Indianapolis Colts at 6:40 PM eastern time.

The first game of the NFL conference championship round kicks off this Sunday at 3:05 PM eastern time when the Seattle Seahawks -LRB--7.5) host the Green Bay Packers followed by the New England Patriots -LRB--6.5) hosting...

Although administrators talk frequently about having a level playing field for playoff candidates, Dodds said he is not concerned about the Big 12 being pressured by administrators from other leagues to add a championship game.

In December, Bush said from the Class 8A state championship game that no one has approached him with college job offers in a column by Manny Navarro.

5) Pedro Carmona, Audax v Sao Paulo Trades neat passes with two of his club - mates before finishing off a great team move by himself in a Paulista state championship game in Brazil.

Prior to that, we only had a single championship game decided by the BCS formula.

It's a rematch of last year's Division 4 state championship game, won by GRCC, 10 - 7.

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