Sentences with phrase «lesser teams late»

Summary: BYU is one of the steadiest entities in college football, typically combining a top - 30 defense with a top - 60 offense, splitting with power conference teams early in a given season, and romping over lesser teams late.

Not exact matches

Less than a month later, the team was evacuated due to Hurricane Maria, which struck the islands on September 20 as a Category 4 storm.

I have a theory that teams who are forced to pick with less value do better in later rounds because they get good at it through practice and more focus on finding late round gems and diamonds in the rough — whereas teams with lots of high value picks naturally focus on the early round players where it's harder to whiff.

The 24 - year old from Argentina came through the academy system at Arsenal and may well have thought he might never break through into the first team after being sent out on loan to no less than four different clubs, the latest being for the whole of last season with Wolves in the Championship.

In fact, there's a very interesting study that has come out from UEFA that shows that the points taken by the teams three days later are not less than after four or five days.

Mixon aced his first impression with the coach, and less than a year later — after a standout season on the freshman team — he made a second impression, this time with pads on.

Less than two years later, Manziel's turbulent time in Cleveland is over, the team announced.

What do you guys think of him playing a strong Arsenal team against Cologne with Chelsea coming less than three days later?

Lesser teams like Deportivo La Coruna have proved this system to be successful in their away game at Barcelona, (Where teams normally get hammered) they were 2 nil down, yet they thought back to get a 2 - 2 draw late on in that game.

It seems that of late, so called lesser teams are excited to face us as they know anything can happen.

If the Arsenal transfer rumours are true then it is hardly surprising that the Arsenal and Chile international star Alexis Sanchez has seemed less than pleased of late, because even though Mesut Ozil is a great player, I do not think you would get many Arsenal fans arguing that it is the Chilean who is more important to our team than the Germany international.

Though Aaron Harrison's game - winner with less - than 3 seconds left is what will be remembered most, the resiliency of Kentucky to stay focused and make a late run is what secured the team a spot in the Final Four.

So I have to question whether or not you even remember the actual «1 - 0 to the Arsenal» days, much less Bertie Mee's exciting teams of the late 60s and early 70s.

Ks - Gunner Poldi is his own worst enemy, he must decide weather to play for a «almost big» team or a lesser team, if its the later then he must go to Mid table or lower to get week and week out game but if he wants to stay and fight for us he must work harder, he has the talent but not the hart.

Our research has also shows that contrarian betting is exceptionally profitable in late season games, with teams receiving less than 20 % of spread bets posting a 31 - 21 ATS (59.6 %) record in December or later.

The longer the draft goes on, the less teams care about moving up one or two slots because it's less and less likely that they guy they want will be picked (everyone's board looks less and less alike in later rounds).

He is a relative late - bloomer, does not have a very special career goals / game ratio (less than OG in fact), scores fairly straightforward goals, is very awkward to play against and works incredibly hard for the team all over the pitch.

Marquette King, who was tragically cut by the Oakland Raiders in late March, took just a week to find a new home — with another AFC West team, no less.

Don't blame the process for the Sanchez situation, blame Wenger & Gazidis for not getting their business done earlier and / or not following through with the promises they have made to their high priced talent and their devoted fans... someone please give me an example of another supposed «top club» allowing their top player to go unsigned before the final year of their contract unless they were severely injured or the club was planning on selling said player prior to their final year... on a side note, Wenger might complain about the transfer window closing so late but just think about how problematic that could be for our team which usually waits until the last second to make deals... on the one hand we might have less «panic» buys, whereas on the other hand those same ridiculous purchases might just have come weeks earlier... Wenger will find excuses for his ineptitude in the transfer market regardless of the deadline date

we lost the players who had brought the invincibles (campbell, lehmann, cole, toure, pires, henry) less than two years later and we just didn't really replace them or have enough experience in the team and fabregas became the embodiment of arsenal after that despite being such a young age.

Unfortunately Wenger has over later years has selected smaller players, who are costantly bullied by teams, even though those teams are less gifted from a football perspective.

Otherwise the team will either (a) see us as needing that player and jump ahead of us, or (b) figure they can wait and trade up with a team later at less cost.

Since 2005, teams receiving less than 30 % of moneyline tickets have gone 544 - 713 with +57.06 units won and a 4.5 % return on investment (ROI) in games that start at 10 PM eastern or later.

Erratic results against the league's lesser lights plagued Liverpool's 2016 — 17 campaign (they conceded twice or more to non-top-six rivals on 10 occasions), but since conceding twice in a 3 - 2 victory over Leicester in late September, Liverpool haven't conceded more than one goal against a team outside of the top six.

Predictably, then, Mark Hughes is targeting nothing less than a flawless finish from his team, hoping the lure of a top - half finish and making club history will be enough motivation to maintain the high standards Fulham have set at home this season, especially of late.

«There's a very interesting study that has come out from Uefa that shows that the points taken by the teams three days later are not less than after four or five days»

He rejoined his boyhood club just two years later though and went on to rack up another 48 months on the club's books, making less than 50 appearances despite keeping World Cup winner Bodo Ilgner out of the team on a number of occasions.

Both Anderson and Darren Fletcher in the middle are a million miles away from being classed as world class material, while this young and inexperienced back - line has been found wanting against lesser teams of late, namely Norwich and Basel.

Many experts believe that if your child waits to play on a select team until sixth grade or later, and waits until high school to specialize in a single sport, he is likely to be better adjusted and happier, have a more balanced identity, and less likely to be better adjusted and happier, have a more balanced, and less likely to have an identity crises when his competitive sports career ends, as it is likely to do after high school.

And it looks like Team Spitzer does need to keep spending: While the latest numbers still have Spitzer beating Stringer by either four or twelve points (according to Quinnipiac University and Wall Street Journal / NBC Marist polls, respectively), the very recognizable former governor's lead sounds less impressive when you consider that, in the last three weeks, he has spent three times as much as the increasingly feisty but still somewhat unknown Manhattan borough president has spent on his entire campaign.

At last week's meeting here of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, another team of U.S. - based researchers looked at a slightly later but somewhat less severe warming period, which happened about 53 million years ago.

Metal hands that were clearly mechanical were rated the least humanlike, but less eerie overall than prosthetic hands made to look like real hands, the team reports in the latest issue of Perception.

This suggested to the team that the first Americans migrated down the west coast of the Americas; only later did smaller bands — with less genetic diversity — move inland.

When the Columbia team surveyed a similar group in Mississippi six months later, it found even higher rates of distress despite the fact that Mississippi had suffered less damage and had an additional half a year to recover.

GE also asked Yan's team to use the resulting model to determine whether the pulsations might manifest in a new GE engine incorporating DOE - funded technology and due to be tested in late 2015, less than a year away.

His team's study looked only at babies less than a month old, and it's not clear whether the babies will retain the memories as they get older, or whether in utero learning has an effect on language learning or ability later in life.

However, Hoang's team said the effects of exercise in early adulthood on late - life mental health are much less clear.

It was a little less than a year later when the Healthy Eating Specialist at Whole Foods called me up and told me Barb had lost 50 pounds, and was being featured as their healthy team member of the month — and when they interviewed her and asked what had inspired and guided her journey, she said, «Betty Rocker!»

The first hint that metformin might also have anticancer properties came a decade later, when two research teams separately reported that diabetes patients were less likely to develop cancer, and less likely to die from the disease, if they were taking the drug.

I'm a day late, but none the less still excited to announce that I've teamed up with some of my favorite bloggers to give away a $ 370 Target gift card!!!! Hello amazing!

Despite these triumphs, Leonard's reputation mainly rests on the series of six musical films he made with the singing team of Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy; Leonard directed all but two of their features, including Maytime (1937), long established as the uncontested favorite of the cycle.In Leonard's late career, the properties he handled were somewhat less auspicious, though there is a surprise in the hard - boiled melodrama The Bribe (1949), a respected film noir that is the only film of its kind in Leonard's canon of 161 known titles.

Black's 2005 film Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, where Robert Downey Jr's sneaky thief is mismatched with a gay detective played by Val Kilmer, was more or less a warm up for his latest, The Nice Guys, which sees louche private investigator Holland March (Ryan Gosling) team up with thug - for - hire Jackson Healy (Russell Crowe).

Their team found that, as early as third grade, math scores help to predict who will be awarded patents in later life — that's the metric they used for «Einsteins» — but also that such scores explain less than one - third of the «innovation gap» between those growing up in high - versus low - income families.

Tony Stewart's team once again had problems in the late going, as gearbox trouble sent his car to the garage area for repairs with less than an hour left in the race.

Fitch's team won both classes that year, prompting Corvette Racing's present - day manager Doug Fehan to lead his drivers years later in a standing ovation for Fitch after accomplishing in less than two months what an entire dedicated organization takes years to do nowadays.

Being chronically late is bad for team morale, as associates who do follow the rules become resentful and less willing to help out, negatively affecting the customer experience.

I stay with you loads and as a manager I work late (cos I'm paid to do so), so interesting that my team who arrive earlier (and less frequently) always get the executive rooms.

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[Andy Revkin — On Arctic ice trends, I have a post coming shortly on the latest update from the world's leading teams of sea ice experts, showing this year's retreat is unlikely to match last year's, while the long - term trend is still heading toward ever less summer ice.

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