Sentences with phrase «national title by»

The Longhorns celebrate the national title by placing a statue of Charlie Strong at Northgate.

FIELD TRIALS — McCASKELL»S MR. RANGER, a 3 1/2 - year - old liver - and - white pointer from Rockingham, N.C, won his first national title by taking the Open Shooting Dog Championships in Orange, Va..

Taggart was a star quarterback at Manatee, but he wasn't big enough or fast enough for a program that had just been led to a national title by Charlie Ward, who was so blessed athletically that he won the 1993 Heisman Trophy and then went on to an 11 - year professional career — in the NBA.

Not exact matches

Blackledge had a decorated college career with the Nittany Lions, highlighted by leading Penn State to its first national title in 1982 and winning the Davey O'Brien award as college football's best quarterback.

The Job Bank doesn't provide the flexibility of a Monster.com, however, and bases position titles on National Occupation Classification (NOC) codes, a system used by the federal government to categorize jobs.

That's one conclusion you can draw from a new research study, titled «Firming up Inequality,» published this week by the National Bureau of Economic Research.

And, oh, by the way, it won the national title with a long touchdown pass in overtime.

Peter Navarro, a longtime harsh critic of China's trade practices as well as the author of Death by China and producer of a sensational documentary with the same title, was named head of the newly created National Trade Council.

It shall be unlawful for any broker, dealer, or exchange, directly or indirectly, to make use of the mails or any means or instrumentality of interstate commerce for the purpose of using any facility of an exchange within or subject to the jurisdiction of the United States to effect any transaction in a security, or to report any such transaction, unless such exchange (1) is registered as a national securities exchange under section 6 of this title, or (2) is exempted from such registration upon application by the exchange because, in the opinion of the Commission, by reason of the limited volume of transactions effected on such exchange, it is not practicable and not necessary or appropriate in the public interest or for the protection of investors to require such registration

«After nearly 50 years of success for Title X, the Trump administration is trying to undermine it by shifting to a narrow and ideological vision of how people should live their lives,» said Clare Coleman, CEO of the national family planning association.

Weezer has announced that they are in fact releasing a new self - titled «White» album on April 1, which will be followed by a national tour this...

Over the course of his 23 - year career, Ryan has worked with some of the world's best chefs, launched a highly anticipated TV show on the National Geographic Channel, and was deemed the gastronomic superstar of tomorrow by 10 of the world's greatest chefs in the cookbook by Phaidon titled Coco.

Combining a few ballots from around SB Nation (SBNation.com, Rocky Top Talk, Troy Nunes Is An Absolute Magician) and way - too - early rankings by Athlon, CBS, ESPN, Fox, Sporting News, Sports Illustrated, USA Today, and Yahoo! Sports, plus early national title odds by the Westgate in Las Vegas, gives us a top 25 something like this (and, spoiler alert, the preseason AP Poll in August will look a lot like this as well):

Trojan Force Led by zealous coach Pete Carroll, USC is summoning up memories of Pac - 10 glory and making an impassioned run at its first outright national title in three decades

In his second season, the Knights ranked No. 1 in scoring offense and had a 13 — 0 record, capped off by a Peach Bowl win over an Auburn squad that beat both national title game participants.

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?

The upbeat, infectious defensive starlet led Mitty to a rather shocking 38 - 0 record, a No. 2 national ranking by MaxPreps and a state - record ninth CIF state title.

And after they topped that opponent, Clovis North - Fresno, 4 - 0, to win the CIF Central Section Division I title, they were named the Cal - Hi Sports State Team of the Year and were No. 1 in final national rankings by USA Today and MaxPreps.

This week, Boise State is favored by two touchdowns and hopes to move up in the National Title rankings, with several other big games (like Auburn - Alabama, above!)

Since 2009, only three favorites have covered the spread in the national title: All three teams were coached by Saban (2009, 2011, 2012).

By the time FSU went to Lincoln, the Seminoles were already out of the national title race, even if nobody knew it at the time.

Miami whooped No. 10 Notre Dame by 24 points, then took down No. 8 South Carolina (20 - 16) and No. 1 Oklahoma (20 - 14 in the Orange Bowl) to win the national title.

Over the past few weeks, Boise State has been favored by about 30 - 35 points as it chases its National Title hopes.

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.

Texas fans, annoyed by Oklahoma getting the tie - breaker in a three - way Big 12 South tie (and thus a path to the national title game), paid for a banner with the score of the game to fly over Bedlam that November.

While the 2006 loss kept the Sooners out of the running for the national title game, the»08 and»15 Sooners both made the title game / Playoff, each time losing in the Orange Bowl to a team with orange helmets quarterbacked by a dual - threat star (Florida's Tim Tebow and Clemson's Deshaun Watson).

Nebraska players are surrounded by reminders of their back - to - back titles (shirts, posters, stadium banners, bumper stickers), and highlights of their epic 62 - 24 thrashing of Florida in last January's Fiesta Bowl, which clinched national crown number two, ran incessantly on stadium scoreboards during timeouts in Saturday's game.

Clemson's front seven must have been mulling its public image all night, because the Tigers earned a national title rematch by holding OSU to 215 total yards and no points.

By season's end he'd thrown for 2,251 yards and rushed for 1,153, and the Mountaineers had defended their national title.

They shivered as they waited to clap or honk or wave when the Nittany Lions rolled by on the last 100 - mile leg of the team's return from the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans, where they had beaten Georgia 27 - 23 to win their first national title.

Welbeck is a great squad player and title winner with United, previously backed by Ferguson and with a very good record with the national team.

Other notable selections: All - America Dick Ricketts of Duquesne by Milwaukee Hawks; Minnesota's Dick Garmaker by Minneapolis Lakers; Maurice Stokes of St. Francis (Pa.) by Rochester Royals; Ken Sears of Santa Clara by N.Y. Knickerbockers; Ed Conlin of Fordham and Don Schlundt of Indiana by title - winning Syracuse Nationals; John Horan of Dayton by Ft. Wayne Pistons; Oregon's Jim Loscutoff, Virginia's Buzz Wilkinson, Tulsa's Bob Patterson and Wake Forest's Dickie Hemric, who set major college four - year scoring record of 2,578 points, by Boston Celtics.

To me, the best point in this discussion is made by Stewart Mandel: whether we like it or not, the current system is designed so that any talk of resumes is meant to determine who plays in the national title game.

TENNIS — Wimbledon champion BILLIE JEAN KING of Berkeley, Calif. gained her third straight National women's indoor title by defeating Rosemary Casals 6 - 3, 9 - 7 in the finals in Winchester, Mass..

Inspired by a devastating defense, Georgia roused itself against LSU and looked like a national title contender

Last season they first lost 75 - 74, and then in a January rematch had them down by 18 points before the momentum turned and they finally fell, 112 - 104, only a month before the Bulldogs would go on to a shot at the NAIA Division II national title.

Because when ESPN does show up for college basketball around here, the cameras focus on the Allen Fieldhouse and the KU Jayhawks, a colossus by any standard of NCAA basketball, a team with 43 tournament appearances and three national titles.

To this day Krzyzewski is convinced that his first national title three months later — keyed by Hill's dunk on a half - court alley - oop pass from Hurley in the title game against Kansas — was the direct result of their efforts.

# 32 Charley Boswell BIRMINGHAM Played football and baseball at Alabama; blinded by enemy fire in World War II; won 16 national titles as blind golfer.

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).

They're created by the networks and not just the two participating schools, making it easier for national - title hopefuls or aspiring Top 25 programs to find quality opponents.

Going by the SEC's own bragging bylaws, though — established when the league was winning every national title from 2006 - 12 and again in 2015 — the title goes to the ACC.

Auburn, despite its 13 - 0 record in» 04, may have been aced out by USC for the national title, but with the Washington Redskins using first - round choices on cornerback Carlos Rogers (ninth) and quarterback Jason Campbell (25th), War Eagle was the undisputed war room darling.

But her eyes misted when the band struck up her old national anthem, the title of which is, by coincidence, Where Is My Home?

State was followed by two other national champions, Georgetown and Villanova, which won the title while competing far afield.

The Heisman Trophy may be Texas Tech quarterback Graham Harrell's to lose, but the voters could still be swayed by what happens in a handful of games with national - title implications

The cheerleaders are actually the University of Tennessee dance team, the national title - winning UTDT, as they're described by their coaches.

According to its coach, the team that won Johns Hopkins» 35th national lacrosse title by mauling Maryland is the Blue Jays» best ever

By the late - 1970s, Osborne had clearly built a strong, sturdy program at Nebraska, but following in Bob Devaney's footsteps, Osborne was not immediately able to win a national title, and despite overall success he started facing increasing pressure and at least some bitterness.