Sentences with phrase «national championship titles»

Following the denial of USC's appeal of the NCAA ruling in the SC football program's illegal benefits case, the BCS has taken an unprecedented strike against a sanctioned team and moved to formally strip the Trojans of their 2004 college football national championship title.

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.

Not exact matches

This year the Newton, Mass. grandmother won the national senior doubles championship for her 44th American title.

When Georgia's gone 7 - 0 before, it meant SEC titles at least, and in one modern case — the hallowed 1980 season — it meant a national championship.

The Method: The current bowls are maintained with their automatic bids and allocations (sans the BCS national championship game), and after all bowls are played, the top two teams (according to, presumably, the BCS rankings) would play in the title game.

# 11 Karen Budge JACKSON Won women's combined title at 1967 National Alpine championship; North American women's champion in» 71.

In April he won the collegiate national championships; he is the first athlete to win both titles in the same year.

Kahsar, a 23 - year - old chemical engineering graduate student at UC - Boulder, won the overall title at the age group national championships in Burlington, Vt., in 1:52:18.

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.

His Kentucky team played in a conference championship and won a national title in the city, but he rarely ventured out and Bourbon Street isn't his style.

When it was over, the Crimson Tide had a 45 - 40 victory, their fourth national title since 2009 and the glory of prevailing in one of the best national championship games ever.

The first was under Steve Spurrier from 1990 to 2001, when they went 122 -27-1 with six SEC titles and one national championship running the fun - and - gun offense.

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.

In 14 seasons at Navy, Bilderback won nine national championships, including an incredible string of eight in a row from 1960 to 1967 when the title was decided by a vote.

In nine years, he's now won four national championships and gone undefeated in title games, with another title before his Tuscaloosa arrival.

If Kansas State is to maintain its national championship aspirations, its unpredictable, Tarkentonesque quarterback Michael Bishop (3,150 total yards) must convincingly lead the Wildcats, 11 - 0 but No. 3 in the Bowl Championship Series standings, past Texas A&M (10 - 2 and ranked No. 10) in the Big 12 title game at the TWA Dome in St. Louis.

«For now, the Bear vs. Saban is not much of a debate among the fan base, with Paul Bryant still holding the lead (longevity, tenure, SEC titles, national championships, impact on the game),» said Evans.

Phil Mahre of White Pass, Wash, won the giant slalom title at the U.S. National Alpine Ski championships in Mission Ridge, Wash..

Jones, who won the NCAA championship in the 50free for North Carolina State last March, is one of a handful ofAfrican - American males to have won a national title.

While at UCLA, Conine won the 1985 national junior championship racquetball title, but his three - year ERA was 6.06.

Between 1955 and 1965 he won six national singles championships and shared in four doubles titles.

He accepted the head job at Alabama, and college football would never be the same: Wade would win three national titles and four Southern Conference championships in eight years.

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.

Ursula Garza HOUSTON Words, a sophomore at Platte County (Mo.) Vocational College, and Garza, a senior at the University of Texas, won titles at the national collegiate weightlifting championships.

And last year, not only was Jackie Robinson West stripped of its national title, but the Georgia state championship team from Peachtree was ruled ineligible to compete in the Southeast regional after Little League officials discovered some teams in the league included too many 12 - year - olds.

Justina Bricka, 16, tennis southpaw from St. Louis who was runner - up in 1958 National Girls Indoor championship, took 1959 title at Brookline, Mass., with 6 - 1, 6 - 2 victory over Tory Fretz, Harrisburg, Pa..

The Jayhawks won the Big 12 conference tournament for the third time in six seasons, earned a share of the Big 12 regular season title for the 14th straight year, and are now in the Final Four with the hope of reaching their second national championship game since 2012.

He won the Scottish Formula Ford title in 2007 and won several national championships before a lack of budget cut his stint in racing short, so he switched to sim racing.

Monday's championship gave Alabama its fifth national championship since Nick Saban arrived in Tuscaloosa in 2007, and he tied Bear Bryant's AP titles record with the victory.

In front of 76,753 fans at the old Sugar Bowl in New Orleans, Eddie Robinson's Grambling ensured a share of the SWAC title and the Black college national championship with an easy win over Charles Bates» Southern Jaguars.

Pitino told his U of L team after a five overtime loss to Notre Dame on Feb. 9 that he wanted them to win the last seven games of the regular season, then the Big East Tournament title and then the national championship.

The Jaguars have won nine HBCU national championships and had already won 10 SWAC titles by the time Grambling, a school only two - thirds Southern's size, joined the conference.

It used 10 - year averages and didn't give bonus points for championships, which meant that Penn State fans were frustrated by a low 1980s ranking (yes, the Nittany Lions won two national titles; they also won eight or fewer games five times) and Nebraska fans were angry that their Huskers were overtaken by FSU in the 1990s (yes, the Huskers won 2.5 national titles; FSU won two and was generally better in the non-title seasons).

# 8 LaVell Edwards OREM All - Conference halfback at Utah State in 1950 has coached BYU football team to 251 wins, 19 conference titles and»84 national championship.

Osborne was one of the most successful coaches in college football history, with three national championships and 13 conference titles in 25 years at Nebraska.

North Carolina's title was Smith's 10th in 28 ACC tournament appearances, but his first since 1982, the year he won his only national championship.

They won their last national championship in»99 and lost a year later to Oklahoma in the title game.

Budke, an NJCAA Hall of Famer who won four juco national championships in the 1990s at Trinity Valley Community College in Athens, Texas — including the»96 title, with Serna at point guard — had transformed OSU in five years into a Big 12 contender.

College teams won seven conference titles and one national championship in 10 years; named Rice basketball coach to succeed Don Suman, who resigned under fire after Owls skidded into SWC second division.

He chose Florida State, which was in the middle of a dizzying run of sustained excellence during which the Seminoles finished in the top five for 14 straight years starting in 1987, won two national championships and on three occasions lost in the title game.

QBs from Hawaii staked 2 national title claims in 2017, 3 years after Marcus Mariota took Oregon to the championship game

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.

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.

Based on the current championship futures, Alabama (+600) is actually the favorite to win the national title.

It's interesting to note that North Carolina, who lost the title game in heart - breaking fashion, opened the season with the best odds (+800) of winning the national championship.

Primed by an overwhelming win in the national Vanderbilt Cup championship (SI, April 12), the Dallas team, now known formally as The Aces, is expected to put up a strong defense of its world title.

WRESTLING — IOWA STATE won the NCAA championship in College Park, Md., outpointing runner - up Iowa 133 - 108 and denying the Hawkeyes» bid to become the first school to win 10 straight national titles in any sport (page 36).

Ted Moehlmann from St. Louis won three titles in the senior division (over 40) of the national badminton tournament 23 years after winning three titles in the first national junior championship ever held.

In the past three years, in fact, Boston College had lost the Frozen Four title game twice, and the Eagles hadn't won a national championship in any sport since their hockey team's 1949 victory.