Sentences with phrase «national champions from»

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.

Shared facts do not extend far beyond Heisman winners and national champions, and even the mythical national champion from a given season is often up for debate.

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.

Not exact matches

The National Rifle Association has championed the idea of «a good guy with a gun,» but no firearms will be allowed when Vice President Pence speaks at its annual meeting — sparking criticism from Parkland students, who say schools should be afforded the same protection.

Having the United States government essentially declare the firm a national champion allowed the chip maker to defend itself from rival Broadcom's $ 117 billion takeover bid.

The minister who took an axe to the CBC this week, cutting its funding by 10 per cent, unapologetically clung to the idea of being a champion of the arts on Thursday, touting a budget that slashed his own department's operations while shielding the Canada Council for the Arts, national museums and others from funding cuts.

CNN: From Kurt Warner's wife to «Christian famous» Brenda Warner used to known for her unflinchingly defense and championing of her superstar husband KurtWarner, former quarterback for the St. Louis Rams and Arizona Cardinals and two - time National Football League MVP.

Olympics national champion, who overcame several obstacles to not only succeed in boxing, but to be the first member of his family to graduate from high school.

Champions will inspire and mobilize national environment ministers from around the world to take action to reduce food loss and waste and help achieve SDG Target 12.3.

The 21 time champion jockey announced his retirement from professional race riding earlier this season that means that this will be his last Grand National.

And by Saturday at dinnertime the last of the verbal battles were raging from the Bluegrass Room to the Julep Lounge, from Gordon's Golden Horse to the Bit»n Spur, and even in that rare unequine setting, the Boom Boom Room, as to which team was going to win the national title: defending champion Cincinnati or its hated foe, the squad that has been ranked No. 1 for two straight seasons, Ohio State?

It is dawn in California's Yosemite National Park, and as the early - morning light changes from gray to gold, champion speed climber Hans Florine scans the sheer granite walls of El Capitan.

5Dimes has the odds of a national champion coming from within the conference at +420.

The table below, which uses preseason odds from 5Dimes and BetOnline, displays the title odds for the past nine national champions and preseason favorites.

Originally from Switzerland, Martin holds the Swiss national record for the 50m and 100m breaststroke and has been named Swiss national champion on numerous occasions.

A 10 - time national diving champion, he had done his work well and he agreed to an interview with a woman writer from the New China News Agency, who acted as an interpreter for a Western colleague.

He had recently received a call from a soul mate in Newport, Pa., Harry Boyer, the current national turkey - calling champion.

In the 800 - meter women's finals, the two favorites, current national and defending North American champ Michelle Conroy of St. Paul, Minn. and Peggy Hartrich, former national champion, from St. Louis, Mo., were both disqualified — Conroy for charging, Hartrich for pushing.

Of course it is still a reach to say the Mustangs, from a two - bid league, with a first - year head coach, in the same region as the defending national champions and pre-season favorites, can get to Glendale, but I haven't seen a more worthy team with that number next to their name in a long time.

Mountain Ridge from Las Vegas, which lost to JRW in the national finals, became the U.S. champions.

These are the top three or four seeds that everyone is putting in their Final Fours, and are almost always the group from which a bracket - filler chooses its national champion.

Reigning national champion and overall No. 1 seed Villanova got a raw deal by having Duke, a team many people believed would earn the fourth No. 1 seed from the Selection Committee, as its No. 2 seed.

After all these years of playing great at club level and for the current world champion national team he still heard from fans that he is just too slow and should be dumped immediately.

Crawford, who once raced a giraffe and a zebra on television (beat the giraffe, lost to the zebra), had won the 200 - meter gold on a surreal Thursday night, when the start of his race was delayed four minutes by Greek fans chanting the name of Konstantinos Kenteris, the 2000 Olympic champion and national hero who withdrew from the Games after missing a drug test, and Hel - las!

With the entire roster returning from last year's squad that went 27 - 7, and lost to eventual champion Mater Dei - Santa Ana in the CIFSS Division I semifinals, the Cougars have been riding high as an unbeaten state and national No. 1 team.

The Flutie years: the 11 - car train to New Haven for the Yale game; the 10,000 BC fans who flew to the Tangerine Bowl in what one Eagle follower calls «the largest airlift from Boston to a single destination since World War II»; beating Alabama at Foxboro; tying national champion Clemson at Clemson and then beating Clemson at home the next year.

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.

Champ also participated in the Nature Valley First Tee Open at Pebble Beach, a Champions Tour event that featured junior players from more than 60 national First Tee chapters.

And Florida State commitment De'Andre Johnson, of Jacksonville (Fla.) First Coast, will be looking to show why the National Champions accepted such an early commitment from him.

The LSU Tigers, taking a page from their 1958 playbook, pulled defending national champion Florida down to earth

Going from preseason No. 3 to having to defend yourself against internet detectives in order to leave no doubt about your right to be in Shreveport, Louisiana, all after your national champion head coach left you before your hastily rescheduled game against ULM: officially one of the strangest seasons ever.

BASKETBALL: A touring women's team from the People's Republic of China beat Cal State - Fuller - ton 63 - 60 at UCLA, lost 73 - 70 to AIAW champion Delta State at Memphis (page 64) and to the U.S. national team 94 - 82 at Rochester, N.Y.

Alas, shortly after that victory he said he would once again retire from the sport, at the end of the summer, leaving the U.S. with yet another, national freestyle champion to replace.

In each of the last two years, the national champion has come from the worst of the major conferences, the Big Ten last year and the ACC in 2013.

Muir, who will make her Olympic debut next month, dominated the race from the off to set a new national record of 3:57.49, breaking that previously held by double Olympic champion Dame Kelly Holmes.

So the story after the game was that Michigan is still a national title contender, and perhaps a stronger one because it survived the scare from a plucky team that every national champion seems to face.

Their women's team, meanwhile, entered the 2017/18 campaign fresh from becoming European champions for a fourth time and landing an 11th successive national title.

The attacking trio came top in a poll of journalists from each of UEFA's member national associations and the overall winner will be announced in a live vote during the Champions League group stage draw in Monaco on August 29.

World Youth champion Harry Coppell among 28 athletes to receive support from national governing body

Over at the Vitality Reading Half Marathon and Lily Partridge transferred her success from the country to the road, the English National and Inter-Counties cross country champion clocking 70:32 to take more than four minutes off her PB.

April 12 — The International Champions Cup (ICC), the summer pre-season «tournament» from US marketing agency Relevent Sports, is to launch a four - team women's summer competition including Manchester City, Paris St. Germain, and North Carolina Courage from the National Women's Soccer League in the US.

The international striker refuses to be pessimistic and says the Reds already eliminated from UEFA Champions League and seventh league, rallied before the end of the national competition, where he hopes to finish between the top four.

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The Campaign for One New York has employed some of the mayor's advisers and has pushed for some of his most high - profile priorities, from universal pre-k to affordable housing, in addition to championing his national presence.

Mr. de Blasio has, at times, stumbled in prior attempts to make himself into a national figure championing liberal policies, but his appearances this week have made it clear that on matters of race, he speaks from a firmer, more familiar ground.

Listen to a National Poetry Slam champion, learn to long jump or see excerpts from three new plays.

He held a number of senior jobs and championed causes ranging from the rights of workers in Hong Kong - where he had done national service in the RAF - to the anti-apartheid campaign, when he helped to harness the power of sport to the cause.

I mentioned Alesi's local troubles to a national LGBT activist yesterday, who more or less shrugged that off, telling me his organization is a one - issue outfit and has championed «yes» voters from other states regardless of their baggage.

«To commemorate Astorino's visit to the 112th Assembly District («The land of Champions»), Tedisco will present him with championship shirts from the NCAA National Champion Union College Men's Hockey Team and Class A State Champion Scotia - Glenville High School Boys Basketball Team.»

Governor Andrew Cuomo will be honored at the U.S. Capitol next month as a «champion for charters,» during National Charter Schools Week, according to a release from the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools.