Sentences with phrase «out of the tournament in»

Neymar, who is not with the Brazil squad preparing for Copa America because he opted out of the tournament in favour of playing at his home Olympics, reposted this video to his Instagram page.

The victory for Uruguay combined with defeat for Italy against Costa Rica on Friday saw England get knocked out of the tournament in Brazil.

Diego Simeone's Atletico knocked defending champions Barcelona out of the tournament in the quarter - final stage, before edging past Bayern Munich in the semi-finals.

After defeating his weak Round 1 opponent (Romo Lampkin, a character from «Battlestar Galactica»), the once - mighty Becker was unceremoniously knocked out of the tournament in the Sweet Sixteen round by Alan Shore of «Boston Legal.»

In 2007, an Ottawa team pulled out of a tournament in Laval after one of its players was asked to take off her scarf.

Not exact matches

But the size of crowds did not bother Japan's Kei Nishikori, who opened the men's singles tennis tournament on center court by knocking out Spain's Albert Ramos - Viñolas with ease, winning 6 - 2 6 - 4 in two sets.

I'm very conscious of making time for my kids, whether that means working with them (my oldest is interning in the office this summer) or carving time out to go to tournaments and games.

Inevitably, someone in your office will create a betting pool and ask colleagues to fill out a bracket predicting the winners of each matchup in the tournament.

I ended up going back to work, and flying out to Vegas for some of the big side games and tournaments, and eventually quit working and moved to Vegas to play full time in» 95

Yahoo owes a prize promoter $ 5.5 million for backing out of a contract to pay $ 1 billion for predicting every winner in the 2014 NCAA men's basketball tournament, and entering a similar contract with Quicken Loans and Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway, a court decided on Monday.

Technically speaking, the «new» version of «Unreal Tournament» has been out for a few years in a «pre-alpha» state.

This year's tournament was again held at The Ritz - Carlton Golf Club, Orlando, Grande Lakes where more than a full field of 39 teams, 85 percent of them returning from the previous year, sold out in a few, short weeks.

Our recent post on Joel Northrup, the high school wrestler who bowed out of the state tournament when he was paired with a girl, has whipped up a heavy debate in the comments section.

ive been wrestling since i was 9 years old and when i went into high school i had to wrestle a girl... growing up learning to wrestle i had ended up having violent style, i never was dirty or broke rules but i was taught to do anything in your power to win whehter it was to club down the head or grab the throat to gain position etc. unfortunately i was in the postion to wrestle a girl once and at the time i did nt care who you were boy / girl, white / black / purple it did nt matter im was going to go out there bounce your head of the mat and bury you, so i went out there and wreslted the same way i always wrestled, 110 % and always to put your oppenents back through the mat i dditn change my style at all bc she was a girl i wrestled the same against everyone but after i pinned her in the first minute i did nt even realize that i broke her ribs when i power doubled through her, now after that for the rest of the tournament i was heckled and berated for forcefully beating a girl ppl were telling my parents «hey, looks like you raised a wife beater» etc. etc.... ever since then i refused to wrestle girls and thank go i eventually grew out of the lower weights, moral of the story is that is great and all that girls are wrestling but they shouldnt wrestle boys even if they know what they are getting into because 1.

It is a sport so cruel that its popularity is anything but a credit to those that patronize it, / a number of plump ganders, whose necks are well - greased, are suspended at the regulation height, in much the same manner as rings arranged at ordinary tournaments The «knights» who enlist from the prizes dash out on their horses in courtly fashion and grab each of those down - hanging necks in succession as they pass, the most skillful rider and «puller» winning the prizes.

«Heineken is one of the main sponsors of that tournament in Europe,» Ubalijoro points out.

Sirs: The article by Tanya Matthews showing how American champion Bobby Fischer forfeited his way out of the recent world international chess tournament in Sousse, Tunisia, in spite of the sincere efforts of the officials and players to meet his almost incessant demands and to placate his petulant faultfindings, was eminently fair and factual.

The Virginia Slims Championships will return to L.A. next year (in April) with even more prize money offered, and the details are being hammered out now on a contract with CBS calling for live TV coverage of six 1975 tournament finals on Saturday afternoons.

But he almost had been out of the same kind of tournament at the Marina Hotel in Las Vegas the week before and had come in second.

We have a bunch of lottery tickets in addition to maybe the most talented Top 5 PSUMBB has ever had, how many of those guys turn out to be strong contributors will likely be the difference between a decent team and a good one capable of challenging for the tournament.

With the group stages of the 2014 FIFA World Cup now having drawn to a close, a number of the countries who were fancied for a tilt at the trophy have been knocked out of one of the most unpredictable tournaments in living memory.

Everybody still loves the big tournaments, of course, particularly FIFA's sponsors, but the long, drawn - out business of qualifying interrupts the season in frankly impolite fashion.

This annual event that has taken place for 20 - plus years has already booked out the Placer Valley hotels for that weekend due to the magnitude of the tournament and will require overflow hotel bookings in nearby markets.

Buffalo, a No. 13 seed and champions of the MAC, delivered a knock - out punch to Arizona in the first round of the NCAA tournament that no one saw coming.

Between them, they've won 50 out of 60 Major tournaments in the last 15 seasons and become stalwarts of a sport that is reticent to let them go.

Because of the usual and ongoing injury problems in the Arsenal camp, the England squad at Euro 2016 has way fewer Gunners in it than it would normally have had, so Kieran Gibbs, Theo Walcott, Danny Welbeck and Alex Oxlade - Chamberlain are all having to watch the tournament from the comfort of their sofas rather than hoping to help the three lions out on the pitch.

The goal for the 24 - year old now, as well as helping Arsenal to finish this campaign as strongly as possible and secure a place at Europe's top table next time, is to get match sharp and find some form ahead of Euro 2016, a tournament that Wilshere played a big part in getting England to, with Man of the Match awards in six out of the seven qualifying games he played.

The England boss included the Arsenal midfielder in his provisional 26 - man squad for the upcoming tournament, but could still drop Wilshere out of his final 23, which is to be named next week.

If, like Ronaldinho you will be sitting out the World Cup in South Africa or simply happen to be to be a Scotland supporter who isn't even aware that there is tournament going on, then we have a multitude of other ways to occupy your time this summer.

But while the world is full of countries that have never made it to any international tournament — of FIFA's 209 teams, 68 have never made it out of qualifying — rarer are those in the club that Wales are, in theory, about to leave.

The NCAA tournament is not won on a temporary court built in a football stadium in March but in sweaty gyms where kids who know Michael Jordan only as a small - market team owner work through the tropes of basketball success — hardship, effort, tricked - out Escalades — and adults hang on the decisions of high school juniors.

The Colombians have been one of the tournament's most entertaining teams and, in playmaker James Rodriguez, they have one of the stand out players in the World Cup so far, making them possibly the toughest opponents that Brazil have faced so far.

Also, we check in on our very own Seth Rosenthal, who has now checked out of the room he stayed in for the duration of the NCAA Tournament, and look at what he claims is 100 % perfect.

Imperturbable veteran Louise Suggs blasts out of trap in the opening round of Ladies PGA tournament at Pittsburgh's Churchill Valley CC.

You can watch video of the time Roger set that second record by finding, maxing out, and correctly answering both Daily Doubles in succession during the 2011 Tournament of Champions here.

If an 11 - seed gets hot and advances out of the tournament's first weekend next year, that team is destined to be covered in therms of «are they this year's Loyola?»

They dropped out of the poll and have been ranked just once since Jan. 1, but the Aggies are in position to avoid having to play five straight days to win the SEC Tournament next week, improving their chance of a second NCAA bid in seven years under coach Billy Kennedy.

They worked out both in the morning and the afternoon at the home of Dick Zausner, the Austins» host during the tournament.

The 1 - 0 win on the day combined with Barca's 2 - 1 triumph in Manchester have the Blaugrana a 3 - 1 aggregate victory, and knocked the final EPL team out of the tournament.

While Tom Izzo and the Spartans know how to play in the tournament better than just about anyone, Valpo came out of the Horizon league, which is deeper than people realize, and will be a dangerous team.

Your strength of schedule can impact your selection a little, but as it turns out, S.O.S. can severely impact your actual performance in the NCAA Tournament.

Eventually I figured it out, of course, and I stopped fishing in tournaments.

A freak back injury kept him out of that tournament, but he returned to action last weekend in the Wells Fargo Championship and looked sharp in a tied - for - second finish.

His outing was strong enough, in fact, to give slumping wing Ben McLemore of the Kansas Jayhawks a run for the top wing prospect if he continues to struggle through the tournament.

Paul Pogba is the stand - out name in the French line - up, and is rightly so the joint - favourite to earn the Player of the Tournament title, but I put it to you that Blaise Matuidi and N'Golo Kante could prove to be much more important this summer, and at much better prices.

If you were looking to have a nibble on the Player of the Tournament market, you should rule out all defenders, goalkeepers and strikers, with every award going to a midfielder since Henrik Larsson won the award in 1992.

But coaches love to foul the hell out of their opponents in the NCAA Tournament, which typically leads to the last two minutes of the game taking an hour.

And the title game is in Madison Square Garden, a classic hoops venue and far better place to watch / play basketball than some of the 70,000 - seat behemoths the NCAA Tournament's tried out.

It's too bad that «Dunk City» finally ran out of gas and lost to Florida 62 - 50, but the Eagles seemed to do the prudent thing and just enjoyed their time in the tournament.

Edinson Cavani has been heavily linked with a move to Old Trafford this summer and with Uruguay now out of the Copa America tournament, there could soon be some movement in regards to that deal.