Sentences with phrase «championship is on the line»

To really drive that point home, two brand - new championships are on the line: the SmackDown Women's Championship, and the SmackDown Tag Team Championships.

Just as he explored the daily demands of a year on tour in his bestseller A Good Walk Spoiled, John Feinstein here reveals how champions get their putters back when the championship is on the line.

Not exact matches

Bottom line, they were told BEFORE they joined the league that championships would be held on Friday nights and Saturdays, and that the schedule was not going to be changed for them.

But there was no championship on the line.

The bottom line is the strength & resolve with which a championship winning team defends on a bad day should agree with the intensity with which the team attacks on their best day.

Speaking to Motorsport.com, Villeneuve said that Vettel shouldn't have been so aggressive with a championship on the line.

Mayweather (47 - 0, 26 KO) will be defending his WBC and WBA welterweight titles, as well as the division's lineal championship, against Pacquiao (57 -5-2, 38 KO), whose WBO welterweight title is also on the line.

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.

The stakes weren't as high Sunday as they were in November when a berth in the championship finale was on the line, but for a driver and team in the midst of a three - year - plus dry spell, what was before them carried considerable importance.

Further exemplified by what happened when Kenseth quickly fell on the wrong side of the cut line, as Logano went from being on the bubble — he and Harvick had a fierce battle in the closing laps of regulation where if Harvick had passed him, it would've resulted in Logano's elimination — to capitalizing on Kenseth's mistake and celebrating not only a win, but also the championship opportunity that awaits next weekend.

This year's all - star exhibition is Glendale, Ariz., where the New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks will meet with the world championship on the line a week later.

The logic was that tossing more money at these players would convince them all to sign on the dotted line as soon as possible and not worry about teaming up to chase championships.

Sportsbooks are far more likely to adjust their lines if they have significant liability on one side, and that's particularly true this weekend given the increased handle on these conference championship games.

This automatically eliminated the U.S. from the team competition, though Hogan played on alone, and left the pair from Ireland in a good position for an easy run at the championship, since the Australians, next in line, were six strokes back.

To be fair to Albon he was somewhat unlucky that his car launched in the air in such a way, and with a championship on the line you can't really blame him for a small heat - of - the - moment misjudgement.

With just one more race left before the championship race at Homestead - Miami there couldn't be more on the line for the drivers wanting a spot at a chance to win a championships.

As he enters a national championship game against Michigan on Monday night (9:20 p.m. ET, TBS), his per - game line is immaculate: 19.2 points, five assists, and three rebounds in 32 minutes.

With the 1980 championship on the line, was he nervous about having to fight off a pack of hard - charging heroes like Yarborough, Richard Petty, Bobby Allison, et al.?

Bruce McLaren won it, but all eyes were on Jack Brabham, who ran out of fuel on the last lap but pushed his car across the line to finish fourth and take the first of his three world championships.

This is the pitcher whose world championship season of 1967 was only briefly abridged by a broken leg he suffered from a Roberto Clemente line drive that left a vapor trail on its way to fracturing the righthander's right leg just above the ankle.

It's the calm before the college football conference championship storm, but that doesn't mean bettors shouldn't be monitoring some crazy Seahawks line movement, how LeBron performs on back - to - backs and my favorite podcast guest in all of sports, Alan Boston joining «The Buffet with Chad and Scooch».

Payne was one of the next men up on the line for the Crimson Tide and showed out on the biggest stage in the national championship against Georgia.

Team foundations are found on the line of scrimmage, but in order to win a division title, a conference championship and have a shot at playing for a national championship, a top - level quarterback has to be running the show.

How will the sport enforce sitting a driver not cleared by doctors when championship and future sponsorship considerations are on the line?

It's still unclear whether Bill de Blasio will be able to stave off a runoff tonight, but in the race for public advocate — an almost entirely powerless position that is nevertheless first in the line of succession for the mayoralty, for some reason — state Senator Daniel Squadron and city Councilwoman Letitia James are locked in at around 33 percent to 35 percent each, and will face each other for the championship on October 1, according to the AP.

The system, called Tennis Electronic Lines (TEL), was developed in Adelaide in South Australia and had its first trial earlier this month at the men's US hard court championships in Indianapolis, where the system was installed on one court.

After all, sports films almost always try to fit a feel - good mold, and given that the team would be beyond any hope of a miracle to have a championship season after losing all of their best players and coaching staff, finding a silver lining on this massive cloud would prove about as difficult as Marshall even winning one game that season.

A multiple championship winning driver with Corvette racing in North America, the Bedfordshire - born will be lining up in his canary - yellow Corvette C6.R race car next Saturday, April 17 on the streets of Long Beach, California against fellow competitors in BMWs, Ferraris, Ford GTs, Jaguars and Porsches.

«There are championships on the line for drivers, manufacturers, and teams.

Tomorrow's four - hour VIR 240 race will be critical for drivers, teams and manufacturers in terms of ALMS championships as additional points are on the line for each finishing position.

With 25 points on the line for a victory in Saturday's four - hour race, the championship races are wide open.

«There was a lot on the line here with the championship and a win at Petit Le Mans, so I didn't want to make any mistakes.»

«The WeatherTech Championship GTLM manufacturer, team and driver titles are all on the line, and the teams that are out of the championships will be all in for the race win and trying to build momentum for next year,» said Baker.

Earlier this year SPG Moments offered tickets to the US Tennis Open championships at Flushing Meadow and now it's the turn of Baseball with postseason tickets on the line.

The player also has the ability to automatically fill the fight card with fighters from various weight divisions or choose the specifics of which fighters, 3 or 5 round matches, if a championship belt is on the line, who the referee is and strict or combined weight classes for each fight within the fight card, while having the chance to save the fight card and return to it another time.

With $ 4 million dollars on the line, we're all pretty excited to see who's going home with the championship title.