Sentences with phrase «championship games for»

This week's analysis examines the championship games for the ACC, Big Ten, Pac - 12 and SEC.

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.

But the Big 12 decided to add a conference championship game for next season, even though it only has 10 teams and no divisions, in part because the conference believed it would improve its chances of making the Playoff.

Seimering later played in the first - ever NFL championship game for the Washington Redskins against the Green Bay Packers.

Had he scored 302 points, the Panthers would've likely reached a North Coast Section championship game for the first time since 1977.

His talented, experienced Gators went 10 - 2 in»98 but lost the only two games that mattered, to Tennessee and Florida State; missed the Southeastern Conference championship game for the second straight year after five appearances in a row; and after September were never a factor in the national title race.

Maryland women's lacrosse will square off against North Carolina in the national championship game for the third time in the last four seasons.

The event featured two teams both competing in the championship game for the first time: Bronxchester Realtors and Caribe Little League.

It was a heavily anticipated district championship game for the team, as they wanted their first district championship ever.

Not exact matches

I learned the secrets of a two - time championship NBA coach who's taken the pressure out of the game for his players so they can be freed to take risks and I learned about where to find the courage to bounce back and reinvent yourself from the former CEO of the internet's most famous flop who has since rebuilt her reputation and a thriving business.

Although Riot funds the championship prize pools and pays $ 12,500 stipends for pro players and coaches for each season split, teams have become increasingly vocal about sharing the revenue Riot makes when it sells world championship sponsorships, strikes distribution deals to stream games and tournaments online, and sells team - branded in - game goods.

I say strive for balance because there will be times when you are pushing hard for a deadline, or for a championship game, or a launch, and you will be outside the comfort zone for maybe longer than you wish.

Tickets for the National Football League's NFC championship game went on sale this Monday, but not in California.

NextVR will livestream four games on March 10, two games on March 11, and the championship on March 12, marking the first time an entire tournament will be captured for the growing virtual reality audience.

A month later, Palmer made a pilgrimage to St. Andrews for the British Open, and his presence helped salvage the game's oldest championship and elevated it back among the game's best tournaments.

Curry, point guard for the Golden State Warriors, debuted his fourth signature shoe on June 1 during Game 1 of the NBA Finals, on the way to the team's second NBA championship in three years.

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.

What you really think is that you've already seen more than enough of that woman and her boring husband, and that even if next Friday weren't the opening game of the NBA championship series you still wouldn't want to be with them — not for any reason, not under any circumstances, not if they were the last people on earth, not in a million years.

Saturday night was the night Alabama fans had been waiting for ever since last year's fourth - quarter loss to the Gators in the same championship game.

When asked for examples from the training of referees, he pointed to the Duke — Wisconsin championship game.

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

Watching the Chicago Cubs battle to their first World Series championship since 1908, I sensed my latent sentimental streak for the game's early days returning, so I picked up a copy of Lawrence S. Ritter's The Glory of Their Times.

For everything.Carry the Yankees into a new era, start the first game in the new stadium, change a clubhouse culture, win a championship?

While neither team is really in the hunt for the national championship, one could both go a long way toward earning a bid to a BCS bowl game with a win.

Akpom in the championship for hull played for 1800 minutes, that is the equivalent of twenty full games and scored three goals.

never ever... On the game the fact we actually played better with ten men is pretty telling... One good thing is that Gabriel despite the result is a massive cut above mert and it is now obvious we have no replacement for coquellin... And neither giroud nor Walcott will take us to nect level Campbell is a championship level player... santi awful today and ozil was pretty lame too but they don't have support around them.....

The tiny Presbyterian school, highly rated academically for more than 125 years, was unbeaten in 12 league games and was the obvious choice to represent the conference against Providence in Philadelphia on March 8, the first step toward a possible NCAA championship.

There's an argument for a condensed championship game like the Super Bowl — everything's a Game 7, everything is incredibly meaninggame like the Super Bowl — everything's a Game 7, everything is incredibly meaningGame 7, everything is incredibly meaningful.

And various undefeated teams — No. 1 Florida, No. 2 Florida State, No. 5 Notre Dame, No. 10 Miami and No. 18 Virginia Tech — find themselves fighting for two spots, not just one, in the Sugar Bowl, which will be the national - championship game if the Rose Bowl doesn't horn in on the action.

«The thing that changed it for me was the NFC championship game last year.

That type of game doesn't win championships and we don't have the talent for that.

With four conference championship games on tap this afternoon, let's take a moment to examine the line movement for these key matchups using our College Basketball Betting Trends.

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

MATCHUP: No. 1 Clovis West - Fresno (31 - 2) vs. No. 2 seed Long Beach Poly (26 - 3), March 18, 4 p.m. at The Pyramid at Long Beach State HISTORY: Cal - Hi Sports No. 2 Clovis West has never even played for a Southern Regional championship while Cal - Hi Sports No. 3 Long Beach Poly will look to improve on a 7 - 3 record in SoCal title games.

While the first is a fair point, the latter doesn't make as much sense as he isn't going to have to prepare to face direct championship rival United for the next six games.

It was particularly emotional for Shepherd and Sarah Arnaudon, who played as freshmen on the varsity team that went unbeaten and ranked No. 1 in the U.S., only to lose to Liberty in the NCS championship game.

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.

That hat looks like the «champions» merchandise that gets made... for the team that loses the championship game.

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.»

A game 7 loss must have been a major disappointment for a Vancouver team favored to win and a fan base dying for a championship.

nketiah, looks hungry and has the talent for sure, ever give him games or loan him to a championship side

With Duke and North Carolina having played the best basketball of the season, fans yearning for a momentous college game turn their eyes to Chapel Hill and ask, Is this a preview of the March 30 national championship game in San Antonio?

The Hopkins game closed out the regular season amid reports that Maryland needed a victory to be selected for the NCAA championships.

«For now, the Bear vs. Saban is not much of a debate among the fan base, with Paul Bryant still holding the lead (longevity, tenure, SEC titles, national championships, impact on the game),» said Evans.

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.»

It was the first home basketball game for the Bulldogs since the football team's loss to Alabama in the national championship game on Monday night.

If Rivers is going to compete for a championship in the next two years, RT and C must be addressed, so Gordon can run better and take more pressure off Rivers in passing game.

Since 1950, when the Los Angeles Rams faced the Browns in Cleveland for the NFL title, there had been 19 games in which a warm - weather or dome team had played for the championship in cold weather.

In a fit of uncontrollable enthusiasm they printed very elaborate tickets for a possible championship game in San Francisco.

It was the second consecutive WBC championship game loss for Puerto Rico, who fell to the Dominican Republic in the title tilt in 2013.