Sentences with phrase «improbable wins»

Every single Battle Royale match has the potential for silliness or improbable wins, kills, and hilarious tales to tell after it's over.

In 2006, Gillibrand was one of a handful of blue women to stage improbable wins in red districts, including Gabby Giffords, who also ran as a pro-gun Democrat.

«20Gordonâ $ ™ s field goal gave Boston College an improbable win and knocked No. 1 Notre Dame from atop the polls.

It could very well be that their improbable win over the division - leading Falcons last week ends up being a catalyst to change the fortunes of their season.

Minnesota looks to hand Chicago its third straight loss overall and continue the Vikings» improbable winning ways this season.

The Pittsburgh Steelers are coming off an improbable win over the heavily favored Indianapolis Colts.

Upon following behind 16 - 15, Ashley proceeded to rattle off three successive kills — each with added emphasis — to give the Gaels what at times appeared to be an improbable win.

Wouldn «Äôt it have made more sense to give your cover to Todd Hamilton, who acknowledged his fellow competitors before himself after his improbable win at the British Open (A Horse for the Gorse, July 26)?

By the same token, Taylor had barely thrown for more than 50 yards in the game to that point, so if the Titans were able to get a couple of stops on defense, it was reasonable to believe they would be going home with an improbable win.

The final score of 27 - 26 gave over bettors yet another improbable win.

The Democrat Conor Lamb is close to pulling off an improbable win and keeping the Democratic momentum going in 2018.

Not exact matches

Her entire life has been a string of hard - won, improbable triumphs, and she is loath to lower her standards to anything less than spectacular.

However, 1986 was also the year of triumph, as legendary golfer Jack Nicklaus won his most improbable Masters Championship at the age of 46.

I know I'm not going to win you over with the idea of just how improbable something is, but would you not even for a moment think about how unlikely a humanoid species lightyears away could evolve so similarly to us along with such a similar religion.

It sounds most improbable, but Richard ran for a congressional seat in Brooklyn, on a left - of - mainstream Democratic ticket, and I explored doing the same in Johnstown, Pennsylvania» the seat that not long afterward the Vietnam veteran Jack Murtha won.

Those theories are so improbable they are about like someone saying they won the lottery every day for 1,000 years.

The ties over, so I would try to win the game but the players are only playing for the shirt imo, it's not impossible, but highly improbable they have a mean defense, let's cement 3rd and retain the fa cup (relatively poor) I know because of the expectation and all the noise the club was making last summer but its a slight improvement.

But not getting a shot for 40 minutes and winning has to be the most improbable feats ever.

So much must go right to win just one Championship, it's improbable to match it.

Team McNichols would not get a final look at the basket and Team Purimetla would leave with an improbable second win on the evening!

Then, the Texans» offense got hot and San Diego remembered it was San Diego, leading to an improbable 31 - 28 win.

Magic Act With a mix of power pitching and dugout sorcery, the once - reeling Cubs reeled off an improbable 12 - game winning streak

Winning the PL is close to impossible and whilst 2nd place is improbable I would prefer us to get closer to City rather than worry about Chelsea.

That was certainly the case for William Hill who had a bettor win an utterly improbable 20 - leg teaser this weekend:

Paddy Power, a popular Irish bookmaker, ending up paying out $ 4.5 million after the improbable Trump win.

The most improbable in that is Arsenal winning the Europa League with Wenger in charge.

But it was never easy, and it's a fine line between winning the improbable, close games and being humiliated by the other team.

I kind of try to stay as close to the present moment as I can, I guess — in the golf game, at least — and try to take one thing at a time, and so I really don't look ahead too much,» said Stricker, who cruised to a three - stroke victory in 2009, won by two shots in 2010 and clinched last year's title by one shot with an improbable birdie on the 72nd hole.

I personally don't think every team will take maximum points from their final fixtures and while its highly improbable its mathematically possible so all we can do is keep winning.

To win state, Cantrell will have to do the improbable: beat Long Beach Poly's Ariana Washington.

Since a 53 - 50 loss to Monterey Trail - Elk Grove on Dec. 28, though, Modesto Christian has won 23 of its last 24 games, including an improbable victory in the Northern California Regional Division III Championship last weekend at American Canyon High School.

But on the night the Isles would win their fourth Cup (May 17, 1983), completing an improbable sweep of Wayne Gretzky's favored Oilers, Rolfe couldn't get a ticket to the game.

Leonard had opened as a +1800 long shot to win the Finals MVP at Intertops, making him easily the most improbable winner in recent history.

The San Antonio Spurs were just seconds away from winning their fifth championship in franchise history before an improbable series of events helped the Miami Heat force overtime and eventually a decisive Game 7.

Coming into the bottom of the 6th inning late Monday Night, Team Maione found themselves down 9 - 3 but they battled and rallied and battled some more and made an improbable comeback to win 11 - 9.

No messing about lads and we should get a good win and build confidence for that mission improbable on Tuesday.

The Arizona Cardinals, who won in Dallas against a Tony Romo-less Cowboys team in Week 9, are sitting on an improbable 7 - 1 record and are firmly in the driver seat over in the NFC.

What's interesting is that prior to the start of the season, Curry actually saw his MVP odds drop from +2500 to +4000 during the pre-season, making him the most improbable winner in recent history (although Derrick Rose was +2500 before winning in 2010 - 11).

The improbable 93 - yard touchdown play sealed the Bulldogs 26 - 21 victory as Georgia moved into the No. 1 ranking and went on to win the 1980 National Championship.

3 - 0 does seem improbable and I would take a win by a goal.

The Flyers now need to accomplish the highly improbable — winning three straight games against the two - time defending Stanley Cup champions.

This naturally is not going to be an easy game for Blackburn to get anything out of, but remember there was that improbable 3 - 2 win over Manchester United back at Old Trafford, and we saw QPR shock the in form Arsenal on Saturday.

He scored once more, a header in stoppage time, to hand the L.A. Galaxy an improbable 4 - 3 win over LAFC.

All of the previous five Premiership clashes between the two have ended in Chelsea's favour, so in spite of the fact Wolves are seeking their third home success in their last four at Molineux, as opposed to Chelsea trying to better a miserable run of one win in eight, the likelihood of Wolves celebrating a win over Wolves still looks highly improbable.

Seven wins from the last nine and third spot preserved until at least after the F.A Cup weekend following Harry Redknapp's improbable triumph over Chelsea at The Bridge on Wednesday.

Signed midway through the 2010/11 season, after spearheading Wolfsburg's improbable Bundelsiga title win 18 months before, Edin Dzeko became an important squad member during his time at the Etihad.

His onetime favorite, Nassau County DA Kathleen Rice, has clearly fallen out of favor, and it seems possible — although improbable, given his concern that Staten Island DA Dan Donovan might win the general — that he could do nothing until someone wins the primary.

He has won two Scottish elections, the first as the largest party in a hung parliament and the second in 2011 with an overall majority, which, under the proportional voting system introduced after the 1998 devolution settlement, was forecast as highly improbable.

And while the November elections went as expected — Brown won a sixth term and the six Democratic judges on the ballot won seats on the bench — one unforeseen contest in September with an improbable ending would shock the borough and the country.

«Dear Evan Hansen,» a daringly unflinching exploration of loss, lies and loneliness in a high school community, won the 2017 Tony Award for best new musical, completing its journey from improbable idea to theatrical triumph.