Sentences with phrase «more national championships»
Pobo Efekoro, now a student at Forest Hills High School in Queens, was juggling school, class presidency and a budget that was about to put the brakes on the IS 318 chess team, which had won more national championships than any other in the country — and out of an inner city school populated by low - income students.
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For example, as evidence of the growth of e-sports, many people use data from different sources to claim that the annual championship of Riot Games's League of Legends is watched by more viewers than the National Basketball Association finals.
In the month leading up to Notre Dame's first trip to the national championship game in more than two decades, Irish faithful have created a series of T - shirts bashing their opponent, Alabama.
Nearby St. Mary's University also provides more exhilarating entertainment, with the men's hockey team taking the national championship in 2010.
Haskayne has won 73 national ICBC championships, more than twice as many as any other university.
There's programs within six hours of here that had one more win [the year prior, Pitt had exactly one more win than PSU did], but you would think they played for a national championship.
Games such as this Saturday's between Notre Dame and Ohio State are suddenly more meaningful, and the air may yet thicken with controversy if the eventual Rose Bowl and Sugar Bowl matchups preclude a true national - championship game.
More money has been bet on the Michigan Wolverines to win the national championship than any other team @LVSuperBook.
At -1000, the oddsmakers believe there is more than a 90 % chance that Saban returns to Alabama to go for national championship number seven.
Since 2014, only Alabama, Clemson, and Ohio State — winners of the last three national championships — have won more.
Only four teams have attracted more money than Jim Harbaugh's Wolverines in the national championship futures pool at the SuperBook.
The next was with Urban Meyer from 2005 to 2010, when they won two more SEC titles and two national championships with Meyer's spread offense.
They recall that Harry Payne Whitney, by sending Regret down to run in and win the 1915 Derby, became the sporting and inspirational force in elevating the Derby from a more or less local spectacle to the level of a national championship.
More money has been bet on Michigan to win the championship than on any other team at the SuperBook, and Jim Harbaugh's squad has attracted 10 percent of all the national title bets at William Hill's Nevada book.
Villanova won the national championship last year, the Wildcats are the No. 1 overall seed in this tournament, they have more wins entering the NCAA tournament than any defending national champion before them, and they have maybe the best player in the country in Josh Hart.
They will likely face Loyola — a team, incidentally, that has four Negro starters — and though all good Loyola fans know that Coach George Ireland's Ramblers and their mad - dash, 94 - points - a-game offense will play Cincinnati for the national championship, they should also know more about Mississippi State.
Now 43, he has won more national offshore powerboat championships (five) and more races in one season (six) than any driver in history.
Helen won more national titles than I did, and at the time of her virtual retirement from tournament competition she had won more major open championships than any other players except Howard Schenken and John Crawford.
Their Sylvia Pankhursts were their great golfers who could not fail to be imitated by other women and to be admired by the men: Mrs. Dorothy Campbell Hurd, a Scots girl, who (circa 1910) won the Scottish, British, Canadian and American championships; Cecil Leitch, the first woman who decided that there was no reason a woman shouldn't attack the ball forcefully like the best men players, and who did so with such a natural dash; the incomparable Joyce Wethered, who succeeded Miss Leitch after World War I as the queen of the British links and is remembered as the most consummate of women stylists; Glenna Collett, the pertinacious girl from Providence, the first great American champion, who won our national title six times between 1922 and 1935, and in more recent years such superb players as Patty Berg and the majestic Babe Didrikson Zaharias who «made» women's professional golf after she had become in 1947 the first American to win the British Ladies Championship.
But consider that she shot an amazing 62 percent from the field and 43 percent from beyond the arc while helping her team to the NorCal Open championship game, and the top - shelf national reputation starts to make more sense.
Beating a giant is fun, but it's a lot more fun if it comes in a national championship season.
«I look at those close calls as a positive sign for having given myself so many opportunities in our national championship and I believe that I'll have more opportunities,» Mickelson told reporters Tuesday at Pinehurst, where, in 1999 playing with Payne Stewart and about to become a first - time father, he notched his first of a record six runner - up finishes.
More top players have signed (Warren, thehighest - rated guard ever to commit to Oklahoma, says one of the main reasons hedid was to play with Griffin), the Sooners are off to their best start in 23seasons, the Big 12 championship is within reach, and a national title is apossibility.
The Crimson Tide have won two more national titles since that game, while Notre Dame hasn't won a championship since 1988.
The day after the Sugar Bowl, when Stallings was asked why he didn't seem more overjoyed at having won the national championship, he explained that for him the joys of coaching do not lie primarily in victories.
Brown, a 6 - foot - 5, 240 pound sophomore, had actually applied at TSU and been admitted during the fall, more than a month before the national championship game.
Walker put the Huskies on his back for one of the greatest March runs in college basketball history, first winning five games in five days to capture the Big East tournament title, and then winning six more straight to earn a national championship.
Again, once Duke for example wins its Sweet 16 game, the Blue Devils would be more likely to advance to the national championship game and win it.
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As a minimum, eight places are reserved exclusively for «locally - trained players» and no club may have more than four «association - trained players» listed on these eight places on List A... A «club - trained player» is a player who, between the age of 15 (or the start of the season during which he turns 15) and 21 (or the end of the season during which he turns 21), and irrespective of his nationality and age, has been registered with his current club for a period, continuous or not, of three entire seasons (i.e. period starting with the first official match of the relevant national championship and ending with the last official match of that relevant national championship) or of 36 months.
«Big Game Bob,» Stoops earned his nickname with a national championship over Florida State in 2000 - 01 (his second season in Oklahoma) but has since drawn the ire of Sooners fans for the team's apparent «choking» in big games (reached the title game three more times and lost in all of them).
Donte DiVincenzo led the Villanova Wildcats to a national championship in the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament on Monday night and was named the Most... [Read More...]
«Since its inception, ORDA has successfully hosted more than 300 major national and international events — including numerous world championships and world cups,» Blazer told the Sun.
He has covered 30 U.S. Figure Skating Championships, 13 World Figure Skating Championships, 12 World Track and Field Championships, two Pan American Games and more than two dozen other national championships in Olympic sports.
But perhaps more important than forging youngsters into a competitive, top - flight band capable of winning national championships was the fact that Prof simultaneously served as a father figure to so many who were being raised without a male role model.
Yes, that tight - knit squad enjoyed unparalleled success on the court, including the national championship title, but this moving documentary focuses as much on their achievements away from the sport to drive home more important points about the value of loyalty, persistence and integrity in overcoming any adversity.
But this 2009 film — based on the real story of Coach Cathy Rush and the Immaculata College women's basketball team's unlikely run for the national championship — is more like the female version of «Hoosiers.»
April 2, 2018 • College basketball has one more game — the men's national championship.
September 3, 2014 6:55 PM PITTSBURGH (KDKA)-- Some of the kids at City Charter High School are volunteer recyclers, a student - run business that led their classmates to a national championship and competition in Moscow for the World Cup presented... Read more»
More than 50 years ago, the Alabama - Georgia matchup resulted, not in a national championship, but in a legal ruling that expanded the First Amendment protections we now enjoy.
If you're looking to do more golfing, you're also close to the championship golf course at Trump National.
He has covered 30 U.S. Figure Skating Championships, 13 World Figure Skating Championships, 12 World Track and Field Championships, two Pan American Games and more than two dozen other national championships in Olympic sports.
He has covered 30 U.S. Figure Skating Championships, 13 World Figure Skating Championships, 12 World Track and Field Championships, two Pan American Games and more than two dozen other national championships in Olympic sports.