Sentences with phrase «of regular season»

Houston had surgery on his ACL in February and could miss the start of the regular season, but it's still surprising that he's not at least listed as a longshot candidate.

Our past research indicates that home underdogs are tremendously undervalued during the last three weeks of the regular season — particularly dogs of 8 + points.

For example, only 4.64 % of all regular season games have been decided by 1 - point, which makes it the seventh most common margin of victory.

Through one - third of the regular season, they have three.

Foles has struggled — throwing for 202 yards, one touchdown, and two interceptions during the last two games of the regular season — after taking over for Carson Wentz, lost for the duration of the season due to tearing his ACL in Week 14.

Let's take a look at each undefeated team and their approximate odds of running the table through the rest of the regular season (and, when applicable, conference title game).

San Francisco was eliminated on the final day of the regular season when Mike Piazza hit two home runs in a blowout at Dodger Stadium.

That's exactly what they did, beating arch-rival Arizona State and getting some help from Stanford to lock up the division title on the last week of the regular season.

I get the feeling they coasted the last month of the regular season and are turning it back on now.

Not 24 hours after the PGA Tour stunned the golf world by announcing that Woods had committed to play next week's final event of the regular season, the Wyndham Championship, Tiger said he had not actually decided whether he would tee it up in Greensboro.

The Warriors know what they need to do to get where they want to be, and they know how to manage the 82 game grind of the regular season so that they're fresh for the playoffs.

This would also be a good way for MLB to lengthen the postseason schedule and revenues as compensation for cutting down on the size of the regular season schedule.

Andre wasn't great during much of the regular season and neither was the team in general.

From Feb. 11 - 26, the Buckeyes lost three of five before rebounding to beat Northwestern and Michigan State on the road in the final week of the regular season.

The Packers and Vikings are scheduled to duel in Week 17, so if the race stays even in the next three weeks, it's entirely possible that the division could be decided on the final day of the regular season.

50,345 Miles the Seattle Mariners will have traveled by the end of the regular season, 6,000 more than the second - most - itinerant club, the Anaheim Angels.

My research found that over the past twelve seasons, the closing line at Pinnacle moved towards the favorite in 54.95 % of all regular season and playoff games.

The final week of the regular season did not disappoint.

But heading into the final month of this regular season, seven teams still haven't lost a game.

Thus inspired, Milwaukee beat the Kings 112 - 110 in overtime and went 24 - 10 for the rest of the regular season.

Since 2005, AL teams have received a majority of moneyline bets at our contributing sportsbooks in 57.05 % of all regular season games.

My research found that the majority of public bettors (more than 50 % of spread tickets) have taken the underdog in 16.1 % of regular season games, while the majority of public bettors have taken the underdog in 19.2 % of bowl games.

No date for Bell's appeal has been set, though it's expected that it will be heard before the start of the regular season, meaning that if it's not overturned, he would miss the first four games of the season.

The majority of college basketball bettors take the favorite in nearly 80 % of regular season games, which has historically created value on the underdog.

«Towards the end (of the regular season), we said play for the seniors, play for each other, because this is going to be the only 2017 Archbishop Mitty High School softball team ever,» Lucas said.

It was interesting to see that an October 17th matchup between Michigan -LRB--7.5) and Michigan State was the most heavily bet game of the regular season.

The Indians are currently on a 21 - game win streak and the odds of them running the rest of the regular season table are 25/1, while the odds of Cleveland losing...

... I had forgotten that Rowe had been out for half of the regular season with a nagging groin injury, came back at one point and re-injured it (Panthers).

In the preseason and the first 12 weeks of the regular season, 26 fines were assessed for late hits on the quarterback; there were 19 all of last year.

Each Tuesday night until the final weekend of the regular season, the Playoff selection committee will release a new top 25.

Teddy Bridgewater -150 or Blake Bortles +110 — Sammy Watkins total receiving yards: Over / Under 750.5 yards — Sammy Watkins receiving touchdowns: Over / Under 5 TD's — Mike Evans total receiving yards: Over / Under 850.5 yards — Mike Evans receiving touchdowns: Over / Under 5.5 TD's — Will Michael Sam be on the Rams 53 - man roster for Game 1 of the regular season?

If they were to beat the Tigers in Baton Rouge in the final week of the regular season, voters would obviously take kindly to that.

But at the end of the regular season, they were college football's only undefeated team, ranked No. 10.

While the trade would also serve as a recruiting period for Darvish, who might be the Cubs» preferred target anyway, that doesn't mean it wouldn't be hard for them to give up top prospects for two months of the regular season and however much postseason they'll get to enjoy.

The Super Clasico between America and Chivas is scheduled for 29th September, while the Clásico Capitalino between Pumas and America will take place on the final day of the regular season.

The Heat's last game of the regular season is April 11 against the Raptors, but the team is currently holding onto the eighth seed in the Eastern Conference.

Besides Boise, the only land mine was Washington at the end of the regular season, and both games were at home.

If Luck hadn't been taken off the list before the beginning of the regular season, he would've been ineligible to play in the first six weeks of the season.

And as the No. 48 team demonstrated last year, when it struggled for much of the regular season with Johnson going through a career - long 24 - race winless streak before embarking on a title run, there is still ample time to correct any issues before the playoffs begin.

On Monday the NFL announced that Lawrence Taylor, the New York Giants» star linebacker, had tested positive on a recent drug test, and because it was his second such offense, he would be suspended for 30 days, encompassing the first four games of the regular season.

Perhaps an eight - team (or 16 - team, or 32 - team) tournament will be a better event, but for those who want to preserve the importance of the regular season and not turn college football into the three months of bubble - watching that college basketball has largely become, the built - in mechanism for tournament expansion is disheartening.

It was a performance that stood out above the rest on the last weekend of the regular season, and it was certainly enough to earn him his first Hoss of the Week award, even if it did all come against the lowly Rams.

Boston College's stretch - run offensive explosion (36 points per game in the second half of the regular season) still feels too good to be true, and a meeting with the Hawkeyes — traditionally a stylistic kindred spirit — inside a baseball stadium should remind the Eagles of the first - to -14-points thrillers from whence they came.

Since 2005, the majority of college basketball bettors have supported the favorite in nearly 80 % of regular season games.

When two unranked teams play each other, the favorite has received the majority of spread bets in 82.6 % of regular season games.

«We will put (losing the final two games of the regular season) behind us and just focus on the playoffs,» Nelson said.

Since 2005, the majority of spread tickets have taken the underdog in 21.9 % of regular season games and 38.7 % of playoff games.

I'm not sure if he's actually better than any of them, but the lesson of this regular season is that Harden is good enough to start asking bigger questions.

In the final week of the regular season, Granite Bay struggled against Sierra Foothill League - rival Del Oro, especially in the second half of a 20 - 7 defeat.

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.