Sentences with phrase «for national championships»

Famously, she was assaulted by Harding's bodyguard while training for the national championships.

Evans was one of eight sophomores called up to varsity for the national championships.

Another: a somewhat lopsided outlook for the national championships scheduled for Chicago.

In Ghana the participants were given cheap, little painter's caps with the U.S. stars names on them, and trophies were donated for the national championships in Arthur's and Stan's names.

There's programs within six hours of here that had one more win [the year prior, Pitt had exactly one more win than PSU did], but you would think they played for a national 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.

The Seminoles will be heavy favorites in this one, but as long as they're on track to play for the national championship, all eyes will be on Jameis Winston and Co..

At -1000, the oddsmakers believe there is more than a 90 % chance that Saban returns to Alabama to go for national championship number seven.

Then there's the high - water mark of the 2011 season, when, as Alvarez mentions, Wisconsin was two Hail Mary touchdowns away (given up to Michigan State and Ohio State) from being undefeated during the regular season and potentially playing for a national championship.

The Marjory Stoneman Douglas varsity hockey team are going to compete for a national championship, and on Monday the team got an incredible surprise — thanks to the NHL.

Hell, we already have one called the «national championship game» ready to host a battle for the national championship.

With Kansas State, Oregon and Notre Dame undefeated and sitting atop the BCS standings, which teams do you think will play for the national championship?

It also wasn't the sound of the guys in orange blazers bashing their heads against the walls, although given their dreams of matching Nebraska against unbeaten Penn State for the national championship, perhaps it should have been.

For 35 minutes or so, the Ramblers appeared poised to become the first double - digit seed ever to play for the national championship.

They will likely face Loyola — a team, incidentally, that has four Negro starters — and though all good Loyola fans know that Coach George Ireland's Ramblers and their mad - dash, 94 - points - a-game offense will play Cincinnati for the national championship, they should also know more about Mississippi State.

I've always said if I could get the top 30 players that came out of Houston every year, I'd play for the national championship every year.»

He sold the school to all of us, and he kept saying that he was building for a national championship.

At Arkansas, under head coach Nolan Richardson and then assistant Mike Anderson, Day led the program to a Final Four return and laid the foundation for a national championship two years after he entered the 1992 NBA Draft.

In the midst of the basketball scandals, ironically enough, 16 college teams fighting for a national championship were showing off the game at its glittering and unpredictable best.

The scores were lower than normal for a national championship and that made some upset, but it was a perfect modern test that rewarded all styles of play, so long as those styles were played well.

The locations for the national championship games following the 2015 and 2016 seasons are out, as the two finalists from the four - team Playoff will square off in Glendale and Tampa, ESPN's Brett McMurphy is reporting.

39 Test of the Nation's Best Basketball's NCAA tournament pairs 25 colleges who compete for the national championship

He was the Gators» offensive coordinator for national championship winners in 2006 and 2008.

When these boys return from Frisco and are asked how they spent their summer, they can simply say, «I played for a national championship.

The Fiesta Bowl has provided two of the most iconic bowl moments of the BCS era: Ohio State's double - overtime upset over Miami for the national championship to conclude the 2002 season, and Boise State's overtime upset over Oklahoma on New Year's Day in 2007.

With 65 % of bets, they have the highest percentage of spread bets we've ever tracked for a national championship game since 2005.

If # 4 Stanford wants to play for the national championship, they must put away the # 7 Ducks at home.

Using our bracket simulator tool, we also found that Duke was one of the most overvalued teams in the nation while North Carolina is one of the top contenders for the national championship.

After their wins last night in the Final Four, Kentucky (29 - 10 SU, 21 -14-2 ATS) will face Connecticut (31 - 8 SU, 21 -14-2 ATS) for the national championship.

Since seeding began in 1985, 11 Big Ten teams have played for a national championship, with only three coming away victorious.

The others were Alabama and Clemson (who will play for the national championship tonight) and Texas.»

Alabama coach Nick Saban announced Monday morning that Kiffin will not be with the team for the national championship game vs. Clemson.

Before Gonzaga, North Carolina, Oregon and South Carolina battle for the national championship, here are a few betting trends to know.

Let's also not forget that Michigan fans started the #FireBeilein movement last year, and all he did was take his teams to the Elite Eight, win back - to - back Big Ten tournaments and play for the national championship.

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.

Odds are up for the national championship game in college basketball.

The Great Debaters (PG - 13 for profanity, mature themes, brief sexuality, and the depiction of violence and disturbing images) Denzel Washington directs and stars opposite Forest Whitaker and Kimberly Elise in this fact - based drama, set in 1935, about a professor at a small black college who inspired students to form the school's first debate team and to challenge Harvard for the national championship.

But this 2009 film — based on the real story of Coach Cathy Rush and the Immaculata College women's basketball team's unlikely run for the national championship — is more like the female version of «Hoosiers.»

The Bulldogs began to prepare for the national championship game plus saw plenty of MSU fans at the Greater Columbus Convention Center.

Paul Plemenos and his 2006 Corvette Z06 readies for national championship in Utah If you want proof of the value of schooling, then you might...

If the U.S. Open or the U.S. Amateur is not in your future, this three - day tournament may be your only chance to compete for a national championship at beautiful and challenging Pebble Beach!

Even though there are spots with rocks in the water, the qualification for the national championship takes place there.

Fans, schools, and athletes have panned the series for failing to live up to its promise of having the best teams in the country play each other for the national championship.

Not exact matches

For example, as evidence of the growth of e-sports, many people use data from different sources to claim that the annual championship of Riot Games's League of Legends is watched by more viewers than the National Basketball Association finals.

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

According to Dan Patrick of «The Dan Patrick Show,» two sources «behind the scenes» at USC told him Seattle Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll was on the program's «short list» of coaching candidates and they thought he could be talked into returning to USC, where he coached for nine seasons and won two national championships.

In his first four seasons at Coastal, he led his team to the National Playoffs four times and three conference championships while being named Conference Coach of the Year twice, as well as AFCA Regional Coach of the Year in 2014 and winner of the prestigious Eddie Robinson Award for National Coach of the Year in 2015.

This past year, when Michigan beat Ohio State and went on to win the Rose Bowl and a share of the national championship, it (almost) made up for a half century of disappointment.

as our boys walked away from a national championship empty handed for the second time in six years.

NBC was the home of the U.S. Open, almost synonymous with the national championship for the past two decades.