Sentences with phrase «game season championship»

You'll have to win 30 games and complete a nine - game season championship, but with matches lasting a total of five measly minutes getting the platinum trophy isn't too bad.

Not exact matches

Although Riot funds the championship prize pools and pays $ 12,500 stipends for pro players and coaches for each season split, teams have become increasingly vocal about sharing the revenue Riot makes when it sells world championship sponsorships, strikes distribution deals to stream games and tournaments online, and sells team - branded in - game goods.

The bigger problem is adding yet another game to the schedule of the two teams that reach the championship game, making their seasons 16 games long.

He overcame a depressing physical disability that manifested itself in spring training (he had to pack his elbow in ice after each game during the season) and spread - eagled baseball as he pitched the Dodgers to the world championship.

A championship game matching two undefeated teams — Alabama and Texas — in a regular season that finished with five of them will lack meaning and validity.

The NFL had a singular championship game even before the Super Bowl era, but the college game didn't adopt a system with a guaranteed consensus champion until the Playoff began in the 2014 season.

«That means in the first eight games we lost our championship and that's what we have to address next season and start strong.

NOTES: The Lightning honored the 2004 Stanley Cup championship team before the game as part of a 25th season celebration.

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.

On this day, the Blue Devils claimed their fifth consecutive championship and finished their season undefeated against SJS foes without the late - game intensity endured by their male counterparts.

The College Football Bowl season is nearing an end, with the big BCS championship game coming up on Monday, January 10, 2011.

This season, they finished third in the extremely competitive West Catholic Athletic League, then came up a two - point conversion short in a 31 - 30 loss in the Central Coast Section Open Division II championship game to Serra - San Mateo, which also won a state bowl title in Sacramento.

Shelton helped Chino Hills reach the CIF State Division I championship game during his freshman season and was the sixth man on the Huskies record - setting 35 - 0 team that won the Southern Section Open Division and CIF Open Division championships during his sophomore campaign.

Still, it'd be very surprising for Monday's championship game to be as lopsided as that one, or either of the two meetings between the teams this season.

We have had many missed opportunites earlier this season in PL and a terrible run of 14 games with 5 losses, 5 draws and four wins with two of those wins against championship sides.

It doesn't matter what sport you follow, if you look back at any team that's every won a championship, there's always one game during the season that players and fans can point to as the turning point that made a season something special.

After 254 days and 97 games, the Philadelphia Flyers concluded the longest season in pro sports history last week by winning their second straight NHL championship.

Barcelona, behind quarterback and likely MVP Jon Kitna, won the WLAF first - half season title, which means that the Dragons will host the championship game.

In the minutes before the kickoff of Nebraska's season - opening 55 - 14 starching of Michigan State, Cornhuskers coach Tom Osborne urged his players to embrace a possibility — an unprecedented third consecutive national championship — that would customarily send a coach searching for new ways to say, «One game at a time.»

But a close second was the NFC championship game that same season, over SF at Candlestick swamp.

With Duke and North Carolina having played the best basketball of the season, fans yearning for a momentous college game turn their eyes to Chapel Hill and ask, Is this a preview of the March 30 national championship game in San Antonio?

The Hopkins game closed out the regular season amid reports that Maryland needed a victory to be selected for the NCAA championships.

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.

Kansas hasn't received much respect this season as a legitimate contender, finding itself as a 1.5 - point underdog in the Big 12 tournament championship game against West Virginia and a 3 - point underdog in the Elite Eight against No. 2 Duke.

Though Detroit just won the National League championship after a bruising 70 - game season, the top four (of six) eastern professional teams have been whacking away at each other all over again to decide who wins the real championship.

He broke Barry Sanders» record for all - purpose yards in a season in the Pac - 12 championship, another game where he single - handedly dominated an opponent.

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.

But the Big 12 decided to add a conference championship game for next season, even though it only has 10 teams and no divisions, in part because the conference believed it would improve its chances of making the Playoff.

During the Tigers» championship season of 1968, he caught 155 of their 162 regular - season games and all seven in their World Series victory over the St. Louis Cardinals.

They displayed the kind of defense that helped get them to the national championship game last season, forcing the Blue Demons to commit 18 first - half turnovers and miss 14 of their first 15 shots.

For Joe Paterno, the defining moment of the 1982 championship season came not in the last seven seconds of the pivotal Nebraska game, when quarterback Todd Blackledge completed a winning touchdown pass to second - string tight end Kirk Bowman, who happened to be a former offensive guard nicknamed Stonehands.

The Bulls now will have to beat UCF on the season's final day to even make the American Conference championship game.

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

Wenger told the media yesterday: «During the season, (that criticism) was not very welcome when you fight for the championship, especially after the Tottenham game, when we were a bit unlucky,»

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.

After Penn State won its first national championship, in 1982, the Nittany Lions stumbled out of the blocks the next season by losing their first three games en route to a 7 -4-1 record.

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.»

Also when comparing Coqs stats he is immediately at an advantage with him — first of all not having nearly as much games — secondly his games this season will mainly have been in the championship where loose passing and bad play is the norm.

With victories over Georgia Tech and Virginia, Miami will get a rematch with the Seminoles and a chance to avenge its only loss of the season in the conference championship game (Dec. 3 in Jacksonville).

Tom Brady's season started with a four - game suspension and ended, in dramatic fashion, with his fifth championship after the Patriots overcame the largest deficit in Super Bowl history.

Need keep winning, we need be ready for cska cause we need get back into champions league as for fans that do want watch the stoke game yer not true arsenal fans I'd never miss arsenal game unless I had go funeral like really some arsenal fans make me sick ya very bad season but I think we have plans in place or why would ozil sign new contact he sees the plans ahead and likes wat he sees otherwise he would be gone so come on arsenal send stoke championship with shawcross and do job on cska cause we need bring lead bk to Russia and let's get bk into champions league oh and I'd like say if we get atl Madrid trust me over 2 legs or in final arsenal can beat them u wait see it's just or confedence was shot

Doing brilliantly tho 19 goals in 30 games in league one then 11 in 17 in the championship 30 goals so far this season.

The striker situation is that we have giroud, walcott who now wants to play on the wing and will probably get injured and possibly akpom who scored three goals goals in 34 games last season in the championship.

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.

Somebody please tell me that this is just a typical bad game from a championship contender, because that is what I was really hoping the Wizards would be this season.

This Packers season reminds him of that path, a team that has created hope and rebirth in marching to this NFC North championship - deciding game.

The University of Oregon Ducks» Autzen Stadium, where the championship game was scheduled, was turf; they weren't hitting at this point in the season; practicing in the controlled atmosphere of the armory seemed a good decision.

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.

It's time for baseball, in tandem with expansion, to focus on quality over quantity and reduce the number of regular season games so that (a) the front - end of the season is more likely to played under more favorable conditions than it currently is and (2) the determination of the sport's champion is played in conditions that showcase the championship and let it be determined without exposing those games to weather extremes.

His senior season, he scored the game - winning touchdown in a 37 - 31 Bayou Classic victory; it sent the Jaguars to the first - ever SWAC championship.