Sentences with phrase «playing bigger schools»

They're always playing bigger schools, though few at the time took women's sports seriously.

«We get to show everybody that we can play these bigger schools,» senior linebacker Ben Leber said last week.

By playing a big school.

Not exact matches

Telfer is also a big presence on the Canadian case competition circuit, playing host to the first annual Diversity and Inclusion MBA contest in 2016 and sending teams to the John Molson School of Business tournament every year.

I secured advertising by calling up big brands from the school phone box, telling them their rivals were already advertising with us and playing them off against each other.

Pippen, on the other hand, was a late bloomer who played college ball at a small NAIA school via a work - study grant, not a full ride at a big time school.

Roy D. Simon, a professor emeritus of legal ethics at Hofstra University School of Law, suggested that the practice has helped «level the playing field» by providing resources for people to mount cases against big institutions that would be impossible otherwise.

Since none of those Big Ten schools play the Bruins over the next four years, Clark can transfer to them, according to ESPN's Tom VanHaaren.

One of the things that kept him in school was the opportunity to play a season in the Big Ten.

My parents always (said) they were way more comfortable with me playing sprint than they were (with me) even playing high school... You'll still have big - time collisions.

That the Tigers — last year's biggest surprise with a 12 — 2 record and a No. 4 finish in the AP poll — were anything less than elated after a win over a Top 25 team that played in a BCS bowl last January shows how expectations have dramatically changed at a school that hasn't won a conference title since 1969.

His Midwestern background (he played at Michigan, and in 2007, famously shot down reports that he'd taken the UM job) and stern commitment to thumpy, whole - grain offense would make him a strong candidate for any Big Ten school.

Polak is interesting in that he was good enough to get recruited by big schools & a team like the Braves could get him more cheaply in the draft than if he continued playing at a big name school.

Cosentino was a four - star recruit out of high school and has a strong arm — here he is throwing a football over a four - story building — but he doesn't quite seem up to the task of playing minutes in one of the biggest bowl games of the college football season.

He had starred at three schools in the Dallas area — he bounced around so he could play for specific coaches — and played on a junior national team with future big leaguers Justin Upton, Austin Jackson, Billy Butler and Homer Bailey.

I think that playing close to home with guys he's known since grade school (Joe and Patrick) is a big attraction, not to mention Fran's playing style and the other talent we have on the roster.

Trice, already big in high school, played football on several very good teams at East Tech under a very good coach, Sam Willaman, who had starred at Ohio State.

Alcorn State's Steve McNair spurned bigger schools so he could stay near home and play quarterback like his big brother

Four times this year, a bigger school has paid the COF between $ 500 and $ 2,500 to play on its campus.

Play the billionaire card all you like but Atletico just schooled the two biggest teams in world football last season through superior management and tactics.

Traffic on the Ohio Turnpike is a coffle of tractor - trailers as Golden Flashes coach Gary Waters argues that the RPI, that mystical set of numbers the NCAA tournament committee consults when it hands out at - large bids, should R.I.P. Every mid-major coach is sympathetic to Waters's argument, because big - time schools insist on playing nonconference games in their own arenas, with officials of their choosing, and the RPI doesn't penalize them for refusing to go on the road.

Playing on the anniversary of the school's first Sweet 16 berth in 1988, the No. 11 Rhode Island Rams couldn't punch their ticket to the Big Dance's second weekend this year.

Smith was featured on the big screen and the DJ played one of his old school tracks «Gettin Jiggy With It» over the PA..

The new seats — about 12,000 of them, which will bring the stadium's capacity to 44,500 — are being built because of the school's recent football success and because of the complaining of former coach Tom Coughlin, who thought Boston College could never become a big - time football operation while playing in a dinky stadium.

One of the biggest surprises of the week came when Oklahoma Christian, an NAIA school playing a rare game against an NCAA Division I team, came through with a 90 - 76 triumph at Memphis State.

Despite the success of both schools, neither will be playing in the Big Ten Championship (Wisconsin vs. Penn State).

A much bigger reform involving this idea would be for the NBA to have a separate draft with high school players only and require them to play half a year in the D - League.

ESPN noted that, beside Paramus Catholic and its St. Frances (Md.) opponent, 14 other teams were slated to play this year at the Big House, and all were Michigan schools.

Pro and major - college sports, with their cheering throngs in big - time stadiums, were not to be played anywhere in the U.S. Away from the New York metropolitan area, it was deemed acceptable to play most small - college and high school sports, which went on as scheduled, accompanied usually by a pregame prayer, moment of silence and patriotic salute by the school band.

Michigan's 38 - 31 Rose Bowl win over Washington salvaged a modicum of pride for the once powerful Big Ten, which, with Ohio State's 21 - 14 loss to Georgia in the Citrus and Illinois's 27 - 17 loss to Hawaii in the Holiday, is now 48 -57-1 in bowl games and a woeful 29 -44-1 since 1975, when the conference began allowing member schools to play in bowls other than the Rose.

«I'd had success in high school playing against guys who were going to big - time schools,» says Linehan, who was averaging 11.9 points at week's end for 13 - 10 Providence.

Only once the LWF secured a big school bus, so that players never had to walk an hour through withering heat to play away games, did the KPL take off.

Tomlinson wonders sometimes what might have happened had he gone to a Big Ten or Big 12 school as a wrestler, but he's sure playing both sports wouldn't have worked.

Though they never got the respect due from the College Football Playoff committee, which continuously put them low on its rankings because of their weak schedule, the Badgers had one of their most memorable seasons in years, finishing the regular season undefeated for the first time in school history and coming a few plays away from a Big Ten title.

Mo Hurst, who played fullback Xaverian Brothers High School in Westwood, Massachusetts, said at the Big Ten Media Day that he's hoping to join Chris Evans and Khalid Hill in the backfield for a few plays in 2017:

As is normally the case with big, out - of - state high school football games these days, ESPN played the part of middle - man in negotiations.

And there are a lot of variables, from how close you want to be to home, how big a school you want to attend, and what your chances are of playing a lot of minutes.

Bama tends to play up to their opponents while failing to cover bigger spreads against lesser schools, so if you can get Bama below -14 this weekend that's probably the sharper side.

In recent years scholarships had been reduced from 18 to 15 a team, more high school stars had chosen schools at which they could play immediately instead of big - name colleges where they would be substitutes; new conferences with big arenas and instant TV exposure were springing up; and, most important, stall tactics had been making scores closer.

Ohio State LB commit Antjuan Simmons, who plays at Ann Arbor Pioneer High School (across from Michigan Stadium), was spotted at the Big House getting some runs in on Monday.

Also I think Jokic has very foot work, he's creative back to the basket player so I don't see the point of him working with Hakeem, he already has shown that he can execute Hakeem like moves without working with him, just ask Draymon Green and some other big guys, especially in the previous season when team played him in the post more, he was schooling great defenders like Antony Davis, he would just shake his head in disbelief.

Arthur, a highly talented big man coming out of high school, had earned All - Big 12 Rookie honors as a freshman, but opted not to return for one more season to try and play his way into the lottery a year latbig man coming out of high school, had earned All - Big 12 Rookie honors as a freshman, but opted not to return for one more season to try and play his way into the lottery a year latBig 12 Rookie honors as a freshman, but opted not to return for one more season to try and play his way into the lottery a year later.

In the 20 - game conference schedule, teams will play home and away games against seven Big Ten schools.

As a kid growing up the biggest motivation to play sports is those school trophies in different sports up for grabs.

Why the public loves Cuse: Squares love big name schools and recognizable head coaches, especially in tournament play.

The award recognizes the school in the Big East with the best performances by their student athletes in academics and citizenship in addition to success on the various fields of play.

Preschool for big brother, swim lessons for both kids, farm school, library dates, not to mention errands and play dates.

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