Sentences with phrase «national championship as»

Rick Pitino is just a month removed from winning his first national championship as the Louisville Cardinals head coach and he...

Still, with the national championship as his playing field, editor Wade has a broad swatch to pluck from, and his book covers lots of territory, with some nice sidesteps from the obvious that include former USGA top dog Frank Hannigan's insights into course setup and some skinny from John Feinstein on the wit and wickedness behind the pairings.

They plucked national championships as easily as other people picked grapes.

Not exact matches

This week Fortune caught up with Jarred Kennedy, the co-head of esports at Riot Games, to discuss the world championship (the finals will take place Nov. 4 at the Bird's Nest National Stadium in Beijing) as well as the overall growth of the esports industry and Riot's plans, much like rival Activision Blizzard, to remodel its own esports league after major professional sports leagues like the NFL and NBA.

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.

Haskayne has won 73 national ICBC championships, more than twice as many as any other university.

In his first four seasons at Coastal, he led his team to the National Playoffs four times and three conference championships while being named Conference Coach of the Year twice, as well as AFCA Regional Coach of the Year in 2014 and winner of the prestigious Eddie Robinson Award for National Coach of the Year in 2015.

Chad is the author of God and Football: Faith and Fanaticism in the SEC — a funny, insightful book that I especially enjoyed as an Alabama fan because it recounted the season in which Bama won its most recent national championship....

as our boys walked away from a national championship empty handed for the second time in six years.

He was a big part of Villanova's run to the 2016 national championship and made major strides as a shooter last year, jumping from 29 percent from three - point range to 39 percent.

The Seminoles will be heavy favorites in this one, but as long as they're on track to play for the national championship, all eyes will be on Jameis Winston and Co..

In addition, the story accompanying the picture refers to the 1960 national championship team as being quarterbacked by Archie Manning, who graduated in» 71.

He brushes aside such claims to fame as the fact that he donated the only gold cup in American bridge competition — the von Zedtwitz trophy for the Life Masters Pairs event, the 44th running of which will be an important feature of the Summer National championships beginning this weekend in Washington, D.C..

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.

Entering the season there were many well - respected, sharp bettors picking Iowa as a longshot candidate to win the national championship.

The program has won eight North Coast Section championships and earned national rankings as high as No. 1 over the years.

Into town had come 700 coaches, 200 newsmen and half the population of Ohio to see two furious basketball teams that were bent on settling a national championship and their own civil war in what would long be remembered as the great grudge match of Louisville.

As far as the NCAA is concerned, Louisville only has one national championship in program historAs far as the NCAA is concerned, Louisville only has one national championship in program historas the NCAA is concerned, Louisville only has one national championship in program history.

It's interesting to note that Gonzaga entered the season as an 80/1 longshot to win the national championship, but the Bulldogs now have the sixth best title odds at 10/1.

Later, after the national championship and grown men from the Bayou running naked down Bourbon Street, the Tigers would put the phrase on the back of their equipment truck, so the whole world could kiss their gear's ass as it rolled down the highway.

Then there's the high - water mark of the 2011 season, when, as Alvarez mentions, Wisconsin was two Hail Mary touchdowns away (given up to Michigan State and Ohio State) from being undefeated during the regular season and potentially playing for a national championship.

The 2015 - 16 college basketball season ended in the most dramatic fashion possible, with Kris Jenkins knocking down a buzzer - beating three - pointer in the national championship, as the Villanova Wildcats defeated the North Carolina Tar Heels.

Ed Jucker, the masterful coach of defensive basketball who in his only two years as a head coach had won two national championships, was half asserting these things, and half asking.

I'd prefer to sell recruits by 2020 the exact same way as OSU, Alabama, USC (i.e. you can come win national championships at Maryland).

In death Berringer was recalled as a dedicated, caring and studious athlete who performed ably in helping the Cornhuskers win the national championship in 1994 and then sat with dignity when beaten out for starting quarterback by Tommie Frazier the following fall.

Even as Alabama won another national championship, its imperfections were on display.

Her assistant coach, Mickie DeMoss, is whipping through Tennessee's recruiting scrapbook as if she were sitting on a mound of fire ants: Here's the arena, here's the library, here's the»89 national championship — O.K., Michelle, any questions?

Western State College of Colorado, a small liberal arts school in Gunnison, gave Thompson an athletic scholarship, and in 1982, as a junior, he led the Mountaineers to a national collegiate cross-country championship.

For several moments, it seemed as though Gonzaga's quest to make it back to the Final Four and avenging last year's national championship game loss would end before it ever really got started.

 West Virginia never had a chance as Lou Holtz cemented his legacy as a great coach by winning his first national championship in the then - Sunkist Fiesta Bowl.»

A spectator, for example, not close enough to see the details, might have concluded at the national championships that Gary Morris of Iowa, as good a bet as any to take either or both the 50 - or 100 - yard freestyle, was not up to form.

That's what has happened in preparation for this year's national championship game, as Ohio State will get a big advantage over Oregon this week, according to ESPN's Brett McMurphy:

Oulton Park still hosts plenty of high - level national championships, such as British F3, British GT and the British Touring Car Championship.

With their leading scorer, Grayson Allen, surprisingly deciding to return for his junior season Duke was already listed as the pre-season favorite to win the national championship.

He'd coached Division I at New Mexico State and San Jose State, and would go on to win two national championships, the first as quarterback coach at Division III Linfield College and the second at Southern Oregon University, an NAIA school.

Brian Daboll was hired as Alabama's new OC after Steve Sarkisian took the Atlanta Falcons OC job (another connection) after last year's national championship game.

I've competed thrice, and in the national championships, but none of that really matter much, as far better fighters say dumb shit all the time, especially when it comes to judging.

The last time Alabama won a national championship was the 2015 season, Smart's last as defensive coordinator.

Little - known Rick Wohlhuter, who is 5» 9», and Steve Williams, who is 6» 2», were the big guns at the national AAU championships and lead a U.S. team that shapes up as a winner against Russia next month

Pender will most likely settle the middleweight championship — andeliminate the confusion and controversy surrounding it — by taking on GeneFullmer, who is the National Boxing Association champion, acclaimed in allstates save Pender's, as well as Asia and South America.

In his first tenure as coach of the Trojans, from 1976 to» 82, he led them to three Rose Bowl wins and the 1978 national championship and won 82 % of his games, third highest among currently active Division I coaches.

In any case, we're betting the odds will continue to churn as Woods kicks off his season at Torrey Pines, where he has won eight times — including that ’08 national championship and PGA Tour win No. 74 in 2013.

The Hurricanes have won four national championships during your 14 years as president, but they have done so at incalculable cost to the university's reputation and integrity.

The Crimson Tide (+535) were listed as the pre-season favorites to win the national championship, but the Huskies were listed as 66/1 long shots.

The scores were lower than normal for a national championship and that made some upset, but it was a perfect modern test that rewarded all styles of play, so long as those styles were played well.

A 2001 graduate of Williams, she was co-captain of the»01 national championship team, making her one of only two women in D - III tennis history to win titles as a player and a coach.

The locations for the national championship games following the 2015 and 2016 seasons are out, as the two finalists from the four - team Playoff will square off in Glendale and Tampa, ESPN's Brett McMurphy is reporting.

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.

The Spartans (+1200) have the sixth best odds of winning the national championship, yet Brennan only ranks them as the 13th best team in the country.

We can also assume that based on those championship futures, Oklahoma (+825) and Baylor (+1450) will open as the favorites to win the National Championship.