Sentences with phrase «of winning a big game»

And that greatly improves his chances of both winning the Big Game, and of keeping playing until he's in this 40s.

For a top selection and for a top cover, Arsenal need to sign - on Endison Gavani to properly upgrades their forwards and have a better chance of winning the big games.

Despite missing the entire 2011 season after undergoing neck surgery, Peyton Manning's addition has made Denver the favorite to win the AFC West as the Broncos have the sixth best odds of winning the big game.

«Everton was a very important game for us on that front,» Wenger continued, «because after the Bayern game, to be straight away capable of winning a big game, shows that the team is focused, resolute and has the capability of keeping the concentration at a high level.

«Everton was a very important game for us on that front,» noted Wenger, «because after the Bayern game, to be straight away capable of winning a big game, shows that the team is focused, resolute and has the capability of keeping the concentration at a high level.

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All receptionists, shuttle drivers, and cafe workers are decked out in Hawks gear today, and last week the winner of a «Big Game Blitz» employee contest won two tickets to the Super Bowl.

They needed to win three of their final four games to get bowl eligible this year, including a big upset win over Navy.

The upset came just a day after the ten - year anniversary of Appalachian State's wild upset over Michigan in Ann Arbor, but as ESPN notes, that game did not have a spread archived at the time it was played, making Howard's win the biggest upset in history in the context of Vegas lines.

(CNN)- Ask Dylan Thompson to name his career highlights, and fans might expect to hear about one of his big moments as South Carolina's backup quarterback - like the time he led the Gamecocks to victory over rival Clemson, or when he threw the game - winning touchdown with 11 seconds left in the Outback Bowl.

This is the type of person who will likely also pray for «his» team to win the big game, or pray that he get a specific gift for his birthday.

He tells the crowd around him how he won a bet in Nebraska: a bribed official in the Big Eight Conference «misofficiated» an important football game, and Jack, who was privy to the official's chicanery, won hundreds of dollars on the game.

My favorite quote in the book from Antonia is when she says, «At the end of the day, it doesn't matter if your experience of family is a mom and her preschooler coloring pictures and telling knock - knock jokes while they eat or a rowdy gathering of parents and kids, aunties and uncles, grandparents and friends fiercely debating which team will win the next big game.

I see lot of coments about how we can sign Reus «cuz he's a world class player.Yes, he is a great player BUT did you see how mutch this season was he injuried?The period when Dortmund win some games and comme forward in the table was the period when Reus was available, rest of the season he was injuried.This is one thing, the other think is that Klopp say he will leave Dortmund in the end of the season and looking for a new chalange.I'm pretty sure that he will leave to a big team and will take Reus after him.Sterling is exactly the same type of player as Sanchez, just doesn't have the same experience, he's not fully developed.I think he can be a first XI player for us and I think will be great alongside Sanchez, replacing Cazorla when he will leave.Sterling is an English player, will be great to see him at nationat team too, and we need as mutch as rest of the big teams from EPL home grown players.The coments who say that we have Gnabry and Wellington make me laugh, really?Do you want trophies?Or do you want to see more young players and waiting year after year to confirm or just see how they doesn't play anything?We are a top team, and need performance in UCL too, not just participaiting.Sterling is a young CONFIRMED player who will definetly help us.Agree that he's not fully grown but he will be a great player.

19 march will tell if we can still win the title or no chance Everton game is the biggest game of the season On per he has been good this season he let us down in only 2 games against southampton and chelsea Barcelona game it was flamini fault

Montana State, which did not lose a game in its Brick Breeden Fieldhouse last season, figures to win the Big Sky tournament for several big reasons, not the least of which is that the Bobcats will host Big Sky tournament for several big reasons, not the least of which is that the Bobcats will host big reasons, not the least of which is that the Bobcats will host it.

Man United's danger - man Romelu Lukaku will take most of the plaudits today, as the Belgian did well against a big West Brom defence as his side won their sixth games in their last seven.

Even if Auburn or a team like Missouri wins big over Alabama and Ohio State has close calls against arch rival Michigan and two weeks from now's Big Ten Championship Game against Michigan State, BCS experts like CBS» Jerry Palm and ESPN's Brad Edwards believe Ohio State's stature with the computers and standing with the humans alike, even including some of the more cynical around the country, should be more than enough for the Buckeybig over Alabama and Ohio State has close calls against arch rival Michigan and two weeks from now's Big Ten Championship Game against Michigan State, BCS experts like CBS» Jerry Palm and ESPN's Brad Edwards believe Ohio State's stature with the computers and standing with the humans alike, even including some of the more cynical around the country, should be more than enough for the BuckeyBig Ten Championship Game against Michigan State, BCS experts like CBS» Jerry Palm and ESPN's Brad Edwards believe Ohio State's stature with the computers and standing with the humans alike, even including some of the more cynical around the country, should be more than enough for the Buckeyes.

Well, John Champion summed it up perfectly at the conclusion of the game:» it's debatable if Arsenal still resonate as a big club anymore, what is without debate however is that more recently the often fail to win the big games».

In fact, in his 16 games as a starter, Chandler has accomplished what a decade of winning seasons at Washington couldn't: He has sold Don James, the conservative «Dawgfather» of the Huskies, on the big play.

The Big Ten Tournament Championship is a rematch of each team's final regular season game, which Ohio State won to prevent the Spartans from winning the conference title outright.

«At the end of the year, we may make some of the big expectations about us having a bunch of 20 - game winners come true,» says Glavine, who, in beating the Giants 6 - 4 on Aug. 24 and the Cubs 8 - 2 on Sunday, also won twice last week.

Following narrow wins over SEC and Big 12 teams to open the season, Toledo has rattled off five straight wins by an average of nearly four touchdowns per game.

We only took two Premier League points and people were saying that our title challenge was faltering but then we stormed back with three wins in a row and five of the next six, including the big game against title rivals Man City.

Instead, he got better in the biggest moments of the game, and capped it off when he threw a 22 - yard strike to Eric Decker for the game - winning touchdown.

The Bills, who started the season with a big win over the Indianapolis Colts, have now dropped two consecutive games and have a 3 - 4 record on the season, well out of the picture in the AFC East.

Last season when we began to rid ourselves of the unwanted rep of crumbling in big games, Coquelin was a massive part of our away win at the Etihad and we really need Flamini to do ma similar sort of job on Monday.

Three years after Ohio State jumped Baylor and TCU to make the Playoff and one year after Ohio State made it in despite not winning the Big Ten, some folks at Ohio State's 247Sports message board wonder whether ESPN, a company that wants lots of games between big - name teams, exerted influence against the Buckeyes» enormously popular braBig Ten, some folks at Ohio State's 247Sports message board wonder whether ESPN, a company that wants lots of games between big - name teams, exerted influence against the Buckeyes» enormously popular brabig - name teams, exerted influence against the Buckeyes» enormously popular brand.

The Houston Rockets and Portland Trail Blazers have put up big offensive numbers through three games of their first - round series — two of which required overtime — but it's the little things that have made the difference in the win column.

A draw wount be gud enough for dis game nd any other game, we need to imbibe dat winning mentality of a big club, nt hoping for a draw or a slim defeat against other big teams, wil it be an offence if we win our remaining 15 epl matches or win all our ucl nd fa cup matches?

The celebration of Chris Carpenter, Big - Game Pitcher is based on the rigthanded workhorse that was: a pitcher who has posted a career 51.5 percent groundball rate, led the league with 237 1/3 innings pitched in 2011, out - dueled none other than Roy Halladay in Game 5 of the NLDS, and scored a pitching «win» in Game 7 of last year's World Series.

Ask yourself honestly, how many of the big games against the trams we have to beat have we won in the past 5 years?

A team of truly big men (the interior of the offensive line averages 261 pounds), the Jets are slow to warm up but have an almost mystical ability to win, often in the nick of time, big games.

A goalie two years removed from winning the Vezina Trophy watched the first 100 - plus minutes of his team's opening playoff series from the bench, while his three - year backup was tabbed to ride his 10 - game hot streak into the biggest games of his life.

We have won most of the big games he started against Man United, Man City, and Bayern but lost against Chelsea.

They started off hot and kept the momentum going over the course of the night as they recorded 4 game wins and totaled 12 big points in the Standings against Team Kirshner (Sofia Live Lovely).

Their opponents coming in on Sunday night, # 11 Team Dean, is currently on a big roll, winning their first three Playoff games to along the middle half (1 - loss) of the bracket.

Arsenal haven't won a single game against any of the big boys domestically, not one clean sheet, and conceded first in all of them.

That feels so wrong, given that Wisconsin won 11 games two years ago in the same season Michigan won five and missed a bowl game, given that Wisconsin won at least nine games in six of its last seven seasons while Michigan has done it just twice, given that only Ohio State has won more games than Wisconsin among Big Ten teams this century.

After a few big free throws for Team Shamberg, they would advance and win their second ELIMINATION GAME of the Night..

We are on a run of three games without a win while our opponents have won two in a row to drag themselves out of the relegation zone so Big Sam has helped them gain in confidence.

For donkeys years now we have done the approximately same things: 1) We have a poor start 2) We pick up in September and we all think we are going to have a good year 3) Once the weather gets cold we lose games against all sorts and drop like a stone 4) Towards the end of March when the weather gets better we start winning again and we qualify for the Champions League (apart from last year) I have a feeling it will be broadly the same this year except Spuds and Liverpool are better for the last couple of years that they used to be and none of the big money three look vulnerable so we won't finish above them..

Although the Celtics are in the midst of a 5 - game winning streak, the Big Three are beginning to show their age and GM Danny Ainge has even discussed breaking up the trio.

«We will of course take the Europa League very seriously but we have as well to win big games because if you want to go far in the Europa league, you have to win big games as well.

«The expectations and ambitions are really big and that's why now we are a little disappointed about the season because we are out of the cups and Chelsea have won the» title with four or five games to go.»

Ospina has had a number of outings in big games in the Champions League and Europa League, and also played in the FA Cup final win over Chelsea last season in a big show of faith from Wenger.

That evening, in the Big 12 title game in Arlington, Texas» Colt McCoy threw the ball out of bounds to stop the clock and set up a game - winning field goal, but the clock seemed to expire.

We don't need to win every game to win the league, it would help of course, what we need to do is to stay solid in the big games.

His final line in the Kings» 90 - 87 win, to that point the team's biggest game of the season: a game - high 26 points, five assists and five rebounds.

In the wake of another win by the skin of their teeth, Tottenham have shown that not only are they capable of winning through a bad streak of games, but, doing so without big name players such as Gareth Bale and Michael Dawson.

Big week coming up we have Olympiakos and Man United, if we want to win these games Giroud must not start in any of them!