Sentences with phrase «game championship this year»

Not exact matches

San Antonio will also be full of Michigan fans, who represent 10 % of championship game attendees this year, according to StubHub.

The logic: Two teams that lost their conference championship game meet in the Alamo Bowl this year.

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.

A fresh push to popularize the game at this year's championship between Magnus Carlsen and Sergey Karjakin faltered.

As I was watching the game, I was prehending the past, remembering the first time I watched a Celtic - Laker championship twenty - five years ago as a youth of thirteen.

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.

It was my senior year, state championship game.

RumChata sponsored an evening reuniting members from Chicago's 1985 World Championship Football Team at Soldier Field on January 26, to celebrate its victory on the exact date and time of the championship game thirty years ago.

He'd like to see his team at least get back to the SEC championship game, after missing last year's.

In last year's Canadian national championships he dominated the best 16 - to 18 - year - olds in the country, scoring 18 points in five games.

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.

«Well he's a first year starter in his first playoff game / conference championship / Superbowl...» I'll ride the disrespect all the way to a ring like Philly just did.

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

The Cubs lost to the Washington Nationals, 8 - 4, on Wednesday and fell to 39 - 39 on the season, after winning 200 games over the last two seasons, including the club's first World Series championship in 108 years last fall.

I've yet to see anything much to reassure me his game's in a better place than it's been at earlier major championships this year.

The team surged into the championship game with a 29 - 11 second half record, defeating the Sonoma Stompers to win the team's third title in four years.

Barron Hilton was the best Charger owner ever and would have been revered like many of the best owners in the league today He was our first owner and started in the AFL in 1959 and took the Chargers to the playoffs 5 years and won the AFL championship game versus the Boston Patriots in 1965.

In nine years, he's now won four national championships and gone undefeated in title games, with another title before his Tuscaloosa arrival.

The reason that they haven't won a playoff game in 60 years is that their best players would rather chase money than championships.

The Hoyas played in three NCAA championship games during Ewing's tenure and won the title in 1984, his junior year.

Forgive Holiday, who was born in 1990 and was not even two years old when the Wolverines made itto the national championship game in the Fab Five's debut season.

The game of the year, and very likely the national championship, went to USC when its peerless but sore - footed runner finally outshone UCLA's matchless quarterback and his aching ribs

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.

The year - in / year - out (read: primary) goal of college coaches and college basketball programs is to win college basketball games (and championships).

He took his game to another level at Nike's year - end Peach Jam event, where he led Mokan Elite to the league championship.

But this year, far from printing championship tickets, the club has carefully refunded all the money on advance orders, with a cautiously phrased letter which says, «The game you are ordering tickets for has not been scheduled.

Potential new bets were brainstormed, the staff guessing which teams would emerge from the championship games (inevitably getting one wrong) and starting their work on updating the data for this year.

This year she averaged 24.4 points per game in basketball and led the Eagles to a runner - up finish in the NAIA volleyball championship.

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.

Amid 12 years that began with a game relocated by Hurricane Katrina, included the 2007 national championship and 113 other wins, and ended with an astounding loss at Auburn, LSU finally succeeded in firing Les Miles.

And if they don't lose before the Orange Bowl, this year will be the eighth time in the past 16 seasons that the winner of the Oklahoma - Nebraska game has either won some version of the national championship or at least contended for it in a bowl.

This year the 49ers have had some orders for tickets for a possible championship game, since they again started at a 5 - 1 early clip.

Only five pressures all year, none in the championship game, great in the running game.

For several moments, it seemed as though Gonzaga's quest to make it back to the Final Four and avenging last year's national championship game loss would end before it ever really got started.

He's at almost 70 % winning percentage in his career over more than 1,700 games and yeah... has five championships won throughout a 15 - year stretch.

That's what has happened in preparation for this year's national championship game, as Ohio State will get a big advantage over Oregon this week, according to ESPN's Brett McMurphy:

After lobbying its way into a BCS berth last season, No. 2 Texas could be left out of this year's championship game

Coaching his final game after 13 years at Marquette, Al McGuire was given a royal sendoff — a victory over North Carolina and with it the NCAA championship

At this point it seems very unlikely that USFL average ratings will fall below a mid-6 for the year — particularly with the expected rise in fan interest for the playoffs and the championship game in July.

Both were in the conference championship game in year two.

The Jayhawks won the Big 12 conference tournament for the third time in six seasons, earned a share of the Big 12 regular season title for the 14th straight year, and are now in the Final Four with the hope of reaching their second national championship game since 2012.

«Because I was being loyal to those other two who led us to a championship game a year ago and they deserve to be on that court.

Nick Saban and the Alabama Crimson Tide won another national championship season last year, and drew 78,526 spectators to Bryant - Denny Stadium Saturday for their spring game, called the «Golden Flake A-Day Game.&ragame, called the «Golden Flake A-Day Game.&raGame.»

Ironically, West's midrange game has found a home with the Warriors, who pushed the NBA towards modernity by cranking up the pace and 3 - pointers en - route to two championships in three years.

Even with the first section championship and perfect season in the school's 10 - year history, the Jaguars were not selected for the CIF Division II Bowl Game, although they were Northern California's only unbeaten team on the board.

That team won every match that year, all the way up until the last match of the season, the NCS Division I championship game, when No. 3 seed Liberty - Brentwood handed the Mustangs a stunning 2 - 1 defeat.

Well, the Dodgers did win a division title last year, and the 1984 Tigers won a world championship without even one game started by a lefthander.

Brian Daboll was hired as Alabama's new OC after Steve Sarkisian took the Atlanta Falcons OC job (another connection) after last year's national championship game.

After dominating the game from 1997 to 2008 with 14 major championships and a level of golf the sport has never seen, the 35 - year - old Woods has not won a major in three years or any PGA Tour event in nearly two.