Sentences with phrase «favor of winning teams»

At the same time, the University of Georgia's attitude toward her and her cause is yet another indication that there is a long, sorry list of institutions of higher learning that have prostituted themselves and sacrificed their standards in favor of winning teams, TV exposure, money and happy alumni.

Not exact matches

He was using Excel, PowerPoint, and Google Earth to help map his team's sense of interpersonal and tribal relations, learn where local favor could be won, and try to predict where and when the next deadly attack might unfold.

He exudes the fact that he's doing me the favor — and man, he really is — but I forge on, explain my story, and what I want to get out of all this: to finally know what makes Wisconsin college football's great exception, the success story beyond a standard deviation, the one team that has won almost as much as anyone over the last 25 years with talent far below its peers.

Most sports fans like to bet on heavily - favored teams like the Yankees or Red Sox and happily watch their team win 55 % or 60 % of the time.

Odds are in favor of State having another of its better teams and again finishing with seven or eight wins.

The league went 0 - 3, and its teams were favored to win all three of those games.

The two favored teams won all their matches except one and will meet in the final of the World Cup at the next stop, St. Louis.

It's really tough for a team that is favored in almost 90 % of their games to be that profitable, but oddsmakers don't expect baseball teams to win nearly 70 % of their games.

Pollock tends to favor the visitors (for the season, the home team won only 42 % of the time; for St. Laurent, the home team won 68 %, so kinda balanced there.

But the Raiders will have none of the above factors working in their favor on Monday, and the Eagles can clinch home - field with win against an Oakland team traveling across the country.

When that team was also favored in Game 1 of the doubleheader, the record improved to 112 - 68 with +11.78 units won.

In a championship series in which many have much to prove, long - suffering Celtics star Paul Pierce did the most to rehab his image, leading his team to a pair of home wins over the favored Lakers

When one team garners more than 60 % of the bets, and is favored by at least 16 points, the underdog wins against the spread 56.5 % of the time, since 2004.

On top of that, this could well be a preview of the California Interscholastic Federation Division II Northern regional championship game, as both these teams are favored not only to win section titles, but also advance to the finals.

The momentum quickly shifted in favor of Miramonte, however, as the No. 3 doubles team of Michael O'Melveny and Kyle Rechnitz bounced back from losing the first set and won the match, 2 - 6, 6 - 2, 6 - 3.

Of the teams on the outside looking in, Echo Fox has the best chance to make the playoffs, with a fairly good 5 - 7 record and at least two wins likely in its schedule, and another two — against CLG and P1 — that could be picked up should a few things break in its favor.

Hockey players don't quit as is evident by their record in 0 - 3 elimination games but the best way to know if a team on the verge of being swept will live to play another game is if they are favored to win.

Teams favored on the moneyline between -190 and -210 have won 65.9 % of regular season games since 2005.

Whether they're favored to win or lose, teams facing elimination haven't performed any better than the rest of teams at home in the playoffs.

The offensive opportunities favored the home team, who ground out a win that moved them to the top of the conference.

In fact the team has nearly a third of all the losses (11 out of 36) in baseball of teams that were favored by -200 or greater odds (the implied odds suggest these favorites should win 66.7 % of the time or more).

Donovan Mitchell, Rudy Gobert, Derrick Favors (and everyone on this team) are a group of humble warriors with a will to win and Jerry Sloan would have loved it during his coaching days.

His assists in the previous seasons at Napoli were lower Comparison: Match winning goals: (goals that mattered as opposed to goals scored when the game was already in favor of the team.

But when every candidate ends their speeches with «God bless America» and every athlete attributes his winning season to God (God must favor those teams with higher payrolls) those of us who really don't care one way or another tend to stay silent.

Pictured left to right from the winning team, which argued in favor of eliminating cash bail, were City Council member Daniel Dromm (District 25) and Fortune debater Felix Guzman, joined by Khalil Cumberbatch, Associate Vice President of Policy, David Rothenberg Center for Public Policy at The Fortune Society.

The fact that those are the things coming up in debates about the series» future — not squabbles as to whether a proposed tweak only favors the teams who are already winning, or a full - steam - ahead plow right into something that would kill off the competitiveness of smaller teams — is promising.

The win - lose mentality of litigating in Court is dispensed with, in favor of a collaborative team working with each other, not against each other, to craft a mutually beneficial solution.

The winning percentage is heavily in favor of the home team in most sports.