Sentences with phrase «overwhelming favorites»

The true challenge comes when one teams players cross the picket line, and the lovable losers are tasked with playing the overwhelming favorites.

Instead, we're going to note that Juventus and Real Madrid came into the second leg as overwhelming favorites... and they both won.

How do Warriors fans process expectation - setting when they are such overwhelming favorites?

Captain Marc Godlis and co. have their sights set on the first Ann Arbor League Crown and have established themselves as overwhelming favorites..

They are the overwhelming favorites and are more than deserving of their spot in the Final4.

Team Goldberg came into the Playoffs as overwhelming favorites.

If they were together and lost as overwhelming favorites, that would be a blow to the Euro side and an enormous mental boost for Team USA.

It's how they're overwhelming favorites to win it this year.

Remember we were overwhelming favorites in the League Cup final against relegated Birmingham but lost.

With the move, TSM appears poised to be one of the overwhelming favorites to win the split, although new rosters for Immortals, NRG and Cloud9 should pose threats.

We can appreciate the Cavaliers in Game 4 while still understanding that the Warriors are the overwhelming favorites to win this series, and probably in Game 5 when they return home.

The four regional winners in the NCAA tournament all arrived that day, with Wake Forest from the east and UCLA from the west joining the two overwhelming favorites.

The overwhelming favorite, though, is Cubs third baseman Kris Bryant, who fared well in both the traditional stats -LRB-.292 average, 39 HR, 102 RBI) as well as advanced metrics (8 WAR, according to Baseball - Reference).

Even with turnover in the skill corps, they will probably remain an overwhelming favorite to win a third consecutive conference title.

We're in a new post-Tiger era where there's no overwhelming favorite carrying ridiculous 3/1 odds like the Big Cat did for so many years.

Team Big Cheeze entered as the # 1 seed and the overwhelming favorite to hold the Crown when all was said and done later this Spring..

Team Darcy came into the Playoffs as the overwhelming favorite..

But the «Hoos have never been to the Final Four under Tony Bennett and don't feel like the overwhelming favorite heading into the tournament.

If Wisconsin wins: The Badgers become the overwhelming favorite to win the Big Ten title.

Tiger is still officially in the field this week, but there's a new overwhelming favorite, and it's new No. 1 in the world Rory McIlroy.

While Carolina was the overwhelming favorite to emerge from the NFC bracket and was incredibly impressive in its two playoff victories, Denver had serious questions about its viability as a top contender and had to win two close games to advance.

Perhaps that explains why Durant was once listed as the overwhelming favorite to win the scoring title at -200.

Unlike most conference tournaments we have recently previewed, there is not an overwhelming favorite.

Since that date, Bradford's odds have improved exponentially and he's currently listed as an overwhelming favorite at -1800.

Qiu Bo of China entered the 10 - meter platform competition — the marquee diving event at the Olympics — as the overwhelming favorite.

He's the favorite, and I'd be inclined to say he's an overwhelming favorite.

Anointing any one player as an overwhelming favorite to win any one event fails to understand how golf — and math — works.

One year Pearl River was an overwhelming favorite against Scooba and was at home, to boot.This brought out the best in Bull Cyclone.

Team ATO is the overwhelming favorite going into the Playoffs.

# 1 ZBT entered the Playoffs as the overwhelming favorite..

Team USA showed precisely why they're the overwhelming favorite heading into the Olympics during their tune - up in Barcelona against Argentina, but they also showed where they'll be vulnerable — inside — during a number of Argentinian runs.

While I'm sure if Benavidez, for instance, fought DJ a 100 times, he would eventually catch him a few times and win, most pundits agree that DJ is a overwhelming favorite in that matchup....

Spieth is now the overwhelming favorite to win at Augusta with 7/4 odds, according to Bovada.

#Yankees RHP Masahiro Tanaka -LRB--250) is the overwhelming favorite to win the AL Rookie of the Year award.

With a 34.6 % chance to win the 2015 National Championship, our Free NCAA Tournament Bracket Simulator projects Kentucky as the overwhelming favorite to win the NCAA Tournament.

Citrus Bowl officials met on Wednesday night in Orlando to vote on their preference and LSU was an overwhelming favorite to represent the SEC over Mississippi State and South Carolina, the source said.

City is now an overwhelming favorite to go from after thought to champion in just one season.

Several prominent pundits had models that listed Clinton as an overwhelming favorite.

Lopez mentioned an informal vote taken by Democratic county chairs yesterday in Albany that found Rice to be the overwhelming favorite.

Cuomo's positions may be a test of loyalty for Democratic lawmakers, who want to be on the good side of the man polls show is the overwhelming favorite to win the November election.

The overwhelming favorite to take his place is Brad Hoylman, the former chair of Manhattan's Community Board 2, who has been endorsed by Duane.

Hillary's status as the overwhelming favorite means Andrew won't be taking anybody to Washington, and people are angry that the governor said they're paid too little and didn't do anything to change the situation,» according to one of the sources.

Lawson is considered an overwhelming favorite.

The Triple Crown winner is the overwhelming favorite to win the 146th running of the $ 1.6 million Travers Stakes at Saratoga Race Course.

The WFP's labor wing wanted to back the governor because he was the overwhelming favorite and they needed to stay on good terms with the state's most powerful, and nakedly vindictive, elected official.

Florida Senate (R): Gov. Charlie Crist is the overwhelming favorite to win his primary against former state House Speaker Marco Rubio but that doesn't mean there isn't real drama in this race.

Whoever emerges from the Democratic primary is the overwhelming favorite in November.

She's running against Kevin Byrne, the recent president of the Putnam County Young Republicans and the overwhelming favorite of local party officials.

In the race for Governor - in which Governor Cuomo is an overwhelming favorite statewide - Cuomo leads Republican Rob Astorino, but the race is close in the 21st: Cuomo with 43 percent, Astorino, 39 percent, and Green candidate Howie Hawkins with 10 percent.

Most pundits, pointing to polls that show him the overwhelming favorite against a weak field of Republican hopefuls, predict that he'll win handily in November.