Sentences with phrase «game against favored»

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Eli Manning is being benched for Sunday's game against the Oakland Raiders in favor of Geno Smith.

The New York Giants» decision to bench Eli Manning in favor of Geno Smith for Sunday's game against the Oakland Raiders is being met with harsh criticism, and no critic is louder or in possession of a larger megaphone than long - time New York sports talk radio host Mike Francesa.

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wenger needs 2 be cautious with ozil rotate him regularly don't play in away games especially against physical teams like stoke use him more in home games given that refs never favor us while playing away Oscar made several tackle 7 got a yellow card in 88th min while chabers got his yellow after making his 2nd challenge

S&P + projects the Zips only 119th and favors them in only three games, two of which are tossups (0.3 - point favorite against Kent State, 1.8 against CMU).

They beat Tennessee, 35 - 33, but the closest was the game against Jacksonville, which went to overtime and ended 16 - 13 in favor of the Colts.

Things did not go in the LA Clippers» favor during Thursday's game against the red - hot Cleveland Cavaliers.

The Browns were actually favored in one game this season according to the lookahead lines, which was Week 12 against the Giants.

The scoring difference in their games against Iowa: 55 points in Wisconsin's favor (which happens to be the total OSU surrendered to the Hawkeyes).

you can definitely tell that these guys are just getting warmed up in terms of their physicality and without chippy it was towards the end of the game no doubt in my mind something is going to happen and I'm worried it will go against our favor.

One factor that strengthens this trend, for both the full game and first five, is when the favored team is playing against a really crappy team -LRB-.400 winning percentage or lower).

With a heroic game going in the favor of the Wolverines this Saturday against Minnesota, Michigan players were excited to get...

I personally wonder how much he would improve if Wenger openly said he would accept # 10mil from any CL club for him and then benched him in favor of Welbz and Theo, I wouldn't bet against Giroud stepping up his game and then people moaning at Wenger for selling such an asset.

But Kentucky played its best game of the year against the Vols, losing by a respectable 34 - 31, and that apparently tipped the scales in Curry's favor.

Roberts previously stated that he only wanted three outs from Jansens in Game 6, so he's especially lucky this one worked out in the Dodgers» favor because having to explain why he went against his own logic in the postgame presser if Jansen blew the save sounds like an absolutely miserable task for him to face.

The CL is a complete different animal, you play against teams with different styles and when you go against them you need to switch gears and change your dynamics altogether just for that game, and then 3, 4 days later go back and play EPL football, which let's not hide it is physically much more demanding...... these favors teams who don't play European football and the results are there, they have been more consistent.

The world cup game in Brazil could be a perfect example to illustrate my point, here: In the match between Spain and Netherlands, Van Gaal had setup his Dutch side in the 3 -4-1-2 system, and relied solely on counter-attacking against a Spain side known to favor tiki - taka, over any other Footballing philosophy.

They're going to be favored in two out of their last three remaining games against the Patriots, Vikings and Jets, but a 9 - 7 record likely wouldn't be enough to capture a playoff berth considering the strength of the AFC West and North.

Kansas State did the hard part against Auburn, shutting down the Tigers» run game and tilting the field in their favor.

Not everything was in the Chicago Bulls» favor heading into Monday night's game against the Toronto Raptors.

When the Rams cover, they not only cover but usually win the game, including W's against heavily favored Seattle and San Francisco.

If they can squeeze by, I actually think they'd be favored against either # 4 Team Horwitz or # 13 Team Apuli in their second game on the Hoops court.

They already know that they will be starting in the # 6 - 11 range (meaning they are in the Opening Round) but if they can get a Win in Week 7, they all but assure themselves that they will be near the 6 - 8 range and that means playing a Team they'd be favored against in their first Playoff Game.

External, am yet 2c an Arsenal game where the referee will be balanced, not biased against us and none where they ever favor us.

It's even higher if you include all games in the entire season (SEC title game, CFB Playoff): Alabama is favored by 329.5 points against their opponents.

Despite failing to cover both SEC Tournament games, Kentucky is in the Finals and favored against a solid Arkansas team.

This makes some sense since sportsbooks have to anticipate Alabama being big favorites in the SEC title game — last year Bama was favored by 21 against Florida and it wasn't that close (Bama won 54 - 16).

The top performance by a favored receiver goes to Stefon Diggs and his 40.3 - point explosion against the helpless Bucs, while Amari Cooper's 47 - point breakout in Kansas City was the best game by an underdog.

This factor favors the Celtics (95.6 points against per game) this season.

It's the first time the Raiders have been favored since a Nov. 3, 2013, game against the Philadelphia Eagles.

The game purposefully stacks the odds against the player's favor.

But he decided against adding Dedede in both the original game and Melee, as he didn't want to favor his own characters.

There is one argument in favor of emulation that even the game industry has a hard time making a case against.

As stated, he contemplated putting Dedede in the original game and Melee, but decided against it as to not favor his characters (and Dedede would have actually made sense back then, seeing as he's Nintendo's third most recurring villain).

Formerly a partner at Greenberg Glusker, where she was instrumental in establishing the Video Gaming Practice Group, Ms. MacIsaac achieved landmark success for her clients including an out - of - court settlement for video game developer Spark Unlimited in a suit against Activision Publishing, as well as a $ 13 million award in UbiSoft's favor following mediation with MGA Entertainment, then - owner of the «Bratz» property.