Sentences with phrase «game stretch of»

Moyes and the boys will start their difficult last five game stretch of the season when they face Arsenal on Sunday at the Emirates Stadium.

Then, a five - game stretch of Washington State, Stanford, UCLA, Utah, and Washington will sort out how good this team will be in the interim.

Not exact matches

Amid the toughest stretch of the Cavs» season in which the team has lost five of their last six games, blame has reportedly been passed around the locker room, with players pointing fingers at each other, the coaching staff, Cavs ownership, and most recently, Kevin Love.

Every sales meeting must stretch and challenge team members» skills to keep them at the top of their game.

Memorable campaigns from the likes of Old Spice have used commercials as tent poles for campaigns that stretched across platforms, including Internet video and even online games.

They're not all practitioners of the confidence game; many truly believe what they are saying or believe it's worth it to stretch the truth to accomplish their political goals.

Sports fans and Twitter may go together, but it's still a bit of a stretch to see how a service that is fundamentally designed to distribute short bursts of content works with a three - hour program like a football game.

Two years ago, the team won just 10 out of 82 games and had the worst four - year stretch in league history.

Active management is not dead by any stretch of the imagination but many in the active management game may have to change the things they actively manage to stay relevant in the new world of lower fees.

He responded with a record - setting stretch of games in which he scored more points in his first five starts than stars like Michael Jordan or Allen Iverson had over a similar number of games.

If it were up to me, I would take advantage of their relatively weak closing schedule and — rather than keep grinding to get as high a seed as possible — to give Embiid, Simmons and Saric some staggered «load management» games off down the stretch, so that they have enough left in the tank to play a competative playoff series.

They will try and use wingers to stretch the play and I think this is the sort of game where we should play 2 strikers (Giroud & Alexis).

Whilst Giroud was for a serious stretch of games one of our weak links.

Craig Anderson was left out to dry in stretches of the third period, while Tuukka Rask blanked the Senators for nearly 70 minutes after giving up the first two goals of the game.

Perhaps they are waiting until the end of this 8 - game stretch to do it, but based on the videos that I have seen lately it seems like it is either put - up - or - shut - down time for Markelle.

But then came his dominatingstint with the Brewers down the stretch last year: Traded to Milwaukee inmidseason, Sabathia ignored the pleas of his agent and risked his loomingfinancial bonanza as a free agent by starting three games on three days» rest, throwing seven complete games, going 11 — 2 with a 1.65 ERA and carryingMilwaukee into the playoffs for the first time in 26 years.

Here's a few things to remind you why it's silly: The Rangers won 10 games in a row last year, there were two week stretches of last season where the Angels were better than the Astros, the Angels have yet to play a serious contender, as already stated the Reds were 1st in the NL Central to start the season, the Brewers were in first until a little bit after the all start break (if I remember correctly), literally thousands of other examples of teams starting hot and then finishing outside of the playoffs.

Arsenal controlled the ball for large stretches of the game and were the team pushing to win.

lol «not afraid» to lobby??? More like ready to lobby from before he gets out of his car before the game in the parking lot, practicing «I've been fouled» whiny faces in the rear - view mirror, stretching his neck muscles to jerk his head back like he's been hit in the face.

The Cavaliers had a grueling stretch of games coming into their Saturday night loss to the Clippers.

And it's not like they were slouches in the other months, either; in a single seven - game stretch in July, they scored 73 runs, which is more than the Royals scored in the month of April.

But being the only team in serious football not to sign an outfield player and then missing the title because our striker goes missing for a long stretch of games underlined the poor judgement and lack of ambition.

In the video, which was mostly captured on the international feed of the game but was also partially shown on FOX's main feed, Gurriel appears to stretch his eyes out in a mocking manner, mimicking Asian eyes.

Your absolutely correct that a lot of these losses have been winnable games and a very tough stretch awaits.

The visitors arrive full of confidence as they look to stretch their unbeaten run to 17 games in all competitions, but Arsene Wenger comes up against old foe Jose Mourinho against whom he has struggled in the Premier League.

With West Virginia and Texas on both sides of this game, this might be the only winnable game in that three - game stretch.

Gangi had one last awful performance, throwing three picks against Boise State, but in the other six games of that late stretch, he had 18 TDs to three INTs.

I'm hoping so, I don't have the constitution that Pop does to be able to weather some of those awful stretches in games or groups of games.

Closer John Axford, who lost his job briefly in early August after blowing seven of 15 save chances in a 26 - game stretch, has been flawless since Aug. 10.

A month ago, in the second round of the Irish Open, Garcia played a four - hole stretch in six over par and yelled, «This stupid game!»

Much has been made of this current streak, and for great reason, but it is two Wins that they earned all the way back in Weeks 1 and 2 (prior to this 12 - Game stretch) that mean the most right now..

Oddsmakers are often in a position where they have to issue lines / odds on a large number of games, so their resources are stretched and they are vulnerable.

This is a group with so much individual talent that it would be easy for any of them to just decide to go 1 on 1 for a stretch of the Game, but they don't.

Those of you that watched the game will agree with me that the team lacked the width to stretch the field of play.

Team Zimmerman looks to stretch their Win streak to 10 Games against Team Jones, who also are just a Game back of both of these clubs.

The offense for Boston has found its legs during the stretch run, averaging 5.24 runs per game since the beginning of August, after 4.66 runs per game during the first four months of the season.

The Bucs» 6» 5» 230 - pound beast seems due for positive touchdown regression considering he's gone scoreless in four consecutive games, tying the longest stretch of his career.

The Golden State Warriors or Cleveland Cavaliers have accounted for 35/80 of these games, going just 13 - 22 ATS (37.1 %) in that stretch.

In fact, they hung with them for much of the Game before Team Maione opened it up in the final stretch of the Game.

They are safe from finishing in the Bottom 4 (remember the bottom 4 teams heading into the Playoffs start with 1 - Loss in the Triple Elimination Tourney) but with a few Ws down the stretch they can avoid the the likes of Team Lalez in their first game.

Team Zimmerman just went through about as tough of a 3 Game stretch as any Team will have in the League this year..

Team Snyder was in it with Team Kowalczyk for much of the Game on Sunday and then they suffered a bad stretch and lost the Game as a result.

Maybe it's the stretched out schedule that resulted in the league having played almost three quarters of its games before the all - star break.

Matt Wolk had to exit just after halftime due to an errant elbow and they had to play the last stretch of the Game down a man.

However, they are going to kick themselves for not being able to utilize of their 5 - 4 advantage over the final stretch of the Game and overcome the deficit.

Not only did those guys play lots of minutes down the stretch, but they actually played hard enough to win games.

That stretch includes the past four WCC title games, three of which have been won by Gonzaga.

Two Premier League away games, at West Brom tomorrow and then Norwich City next Sunday, are punctuated by a must - win home clash with Croatian champions Dinamo Zagreb and with a stretched squad that is a tough eight days of football.

His adjustment to the North American game was a bit rocky, but he's looked better for the past stretch of games.

It was Ross Lonsberry who caught Orr with a devastating hip check early in the overtime period of the second game and left him stretched out on the ice for several seconds.