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"national champion" refers to an individual or team that has won a championship in their country. It signifies that they are the best in their field or sport among all the competitors from their nation.
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Pro: To an extent, this maintains what was originally the goal of determining college
football national champions, namely that the «best team of the entire season» wins the title.
For their subjects they chose three types of cricket players, ranging in skill from
national champions down to university players.
She also turned out to be a three -
time national champion in freestyle artistic roller skating who had recently retired to coach the sport and was in Portland to judge a competition.
His Rebels beat Alabama in Oxford a year ago, then topped that by beating the eventual
national champion in its home stadium.
Brown's Trojans have gone 21 - 5 in the last two seasons, beating LSU this fall and scaring the hell out of
eventual national champion Clemson last year.
«The NCAA recognizes Auburn
as National Champions in 2010, 1993, 1983, 1957 and 1913,» the school's website generously claims, above the following image (these links has since been updated with a link to the NCAA's FBS record book):
After biting their lips for a week while the Miami Hurricanes woofed and howled their contempt for the Crimson Tide, the Alabama players dominated and, perhaps more satisfying, muzzled the defending
national champions with a 34 - 13 win in the Sugar Bowl on New Year's.
Notre Dame has been consistently one of the top programs in college soccer over the past several seasons, especially the year the program was crowned
national champions for the first time at then - PPL Park back in 2013.
Regardless of where they take on the challenge, all 2017 Triple Triple Challenge participants will be trying to dethrone California's Molly Schuyler — the three - time
reigning national champion who set the fastest Triple Triple Challenge time on record in 2014 (38.95 seconds --
With two seconds remaining in Death Valley, freshman kicker Kyle Bambard had a 33 - yard kick to beat eventual
national champion Clemson but pushed it wide.
And with their strongest divisional foe now behind them, the Gators have established themselves as the team most likely to challenge defending
national champion Alabama for the SEC title.
The state title game versus De La Salle - Concord felt like a coronation, and when it was all over, The Huskies finished 35 - 0 as California's first mythical
national champion since a Tyson Chandler - led Dominguez - Compton team in 1999 - 00.
That's why Helou chose the Australian Competition Tribunal route, based on national interest and
national champion arguments, rather than sticking to a narrow definition of whether a local takeover might decrease domestic competition.
The Utes led the nation in free throw shooting in» 95 - 96 (78.4 %) en route to a 27 - 7 season that ended with a Sweet 16 loss to eventual
national champion Kentucky.
They definitely could have, and if they had gotten to play De La Salle and beaten the Spartans prior to winning the CIF Open Division, this could have been one of the state's very best ever and a
mythical national champion as well.
She has also been active in the Quarter Horse show circuit, and she is a three - time
Canadian national champion in Western Pleasure and Hunter Under Saddle.
Any move by France to sell most or all of its Renault stake could prove politically risky for President Emmanuel Macron, already under fire for letting
national champions such as TGV train maker Alstom fall into foreign hands.
Glory Road, 2006 When he was cast as a member of the 1966 Texas Western basketball team that wasthe
first national champion with an all - African - American starting lineup, Nichols, never big into team sports, hadn't played roundball since he was aguard in junior high.
I could see measures being taken by the Chinese that would be directed and specified, particularly in areas in which the Chinese have their
own national champions.
Brian Gottfried, a 12 - year - old from Cape Coral, Fla. who has been playing tennis seriously since he was 8, became the new 12 - and - under
national champion by defeating Randy Thomas of Imperial Beach, Calif. 11 - 9, 6 - 2 in the finals in Chattanooga.
Arizona and Michigan State are being hailed as the big winners from the annual period of spring decision - making, while Oregon and reigning
national champion North Carolina are being widely labeled as the biggest losers.
Alabama earned the top overall seed in the four - team playoff, and they will begin their quest to repeat as
national champions against # 4 Washington in the Peach Bowl.
Garza, the reigning
U.S. national champion at 123.4 pounds, earned her third collegiate title with a body - weight win over Lea Rentmeester of the University of Wisconsin Green Bay in the women's 132.2 pound class.
Well, he is the
French national champion from Versailles, and he speaks English well enough to respond to the Texan in Bermuda shorts who quite smartly said «Mishoor Gene» to him.
A great win to be sure, but Canada has
beaten national champion Clemson & Penn State in the same year with inferior talent.
While the backcourt duo of Peyton Siva and Russ Smith came to define the 2012 - 13
national champions from Louisville, it was big men Gorgui Dieng and Chane Behanan who toyed briefly with the idea of a leap to the NBA the year before.
Last year, Kansas was also a No. 1 seed, and made it all the way to the Elite Eight before losing to eventual
national champion Villanova.
DC will be looking to challenge Sanderson once again, The guy loves wrestling more than anything else,
coaching national champions adds to your legacy, and DC is all about how he is remembered.
He says the money Xiaomi stands to make doesn't interest him in and of itself; those in his orbit say it's more what the money represents — the company joining the ranks of China's so -
called national champions, the likes of Jack Ma's Alibaba, Pony Ma's Tencent Holdings Ltd., and Robin Li's Baidu Inc. «I wanted to lead a Chinese company,» the 48 - year - old says, «to become No. 1 in the world.»
It's easy to see why: misconceived central planning, ill - judged attempts at
creating national champions and the inefficiencies of public ownership in the 1970s and 1980s were powerful evidence for the prosecution.
After a 79 - yard touchdown run by backup quarterback Zander Diamont, the Hoosiers trailed defending
national champion Ohio State by just seven points in the fourth quarter.
The Volunteers began in shaky fashion, losing at No. 12 California by 14 and at No. 5 Florida by 39, but they won eight of nine, taking down ranked Georgia and South Carolina teams at home, then scaring the daylights out of eventual
national champion LSU in the SEC title game.
The defending
national champions finished the regular season ranked second in the nation in scoring defense allowing only 12.8 points per game.
John Heinricy, multiple
SCCA national champion and a retired GM engineer, took the Exorcist to the track to show a new owner what he is in for.
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