Sentences with phrase «regular season months»

There might not be a picture of an Astros player on the cover, even though they were the best Horatio Alger story for five of the six regular season months.

Not exact matches

Another potential benefit mentioned by Lowe is that such a system could generate more interest in the late months of the NBA regular season, when the playoff picture usually starts to crystallize.

With just over a month of baseball to go in the regular season, maybe the Mets can still make it to the postseason, but they were already lagging behind three other teams in the NL Wild Card race, with another just a game back of them.

Perhaps Chicago peaked too early, as the Blackhawks have failed to win a game in the month of April, with four straight losses to end the regular season and three straight losses this postseason.

If you're looking for reason for optimism heading into John Bonamego's fourth season, though, the last month or so of the regular season provides some.

For the majority of the Regular Season five teams separated themselves from the pack... For close to 2 months it was a foregone conclusion that those five teams were going to wind up with Top 5 seeds, and it was really race among those five to wind up in the top 3, so to avoid another Top 5 crew in the Opening Round... That has all led to Team Kozin and Team Harmelech doing battle in the Opening Round.

Dropping a Regular Season Game to the 2x Defending Champs in December is certainly not a big deal for Team James - Hagari, but it's a nice checkpoint for them to look back upon in future months to see where they've improved when they get looks at other top Teams.

With the NFL schedule now out, it's time to make some way - too - early predictions on the Raiders» first month of the 2018 regular season.

Arsenal wonderkid Serge Gnabry is set to join fellow Premier League side West Brom on an initial six - month loan deal in a bid to gain regular first - team action this season, Mail Sport reports.

March Madness is the primary focus, of course, but there are many who enjoy partaking in a healthy dose of appetizers during the final month of the regular season.

We have all somewhat jumped on the LSU bandwagon over the last two months — they are on an unprecedented run and managed one of the greatest regular seasons of all time, while Alabama was relegated to being compared to Oklahoma State and having their national title credentials questioned.

Nothing about Tennessee's resume as we head into the heart of the regular season's final month suggests that it should be so readily dismissed.

Will their teams rise up or fall down during the final two months of the regular season?

The Grizzlies are a team opponents dread during the long, cold months of the regular season and the proverbial team no one wants to play in the postseason.

The regular season isn't for making excuses, it's for taking advantage of your opportunities and no one has been more opportunistic than the Blazers over the last month.

Seven times in nine weeks, the team with the No. 2 ranking lost, with more top - two upsets in two months than the 2013 - 2016 regular seasons combined.

With a little less than a month before the Chicago Bulls kick off the regular season against the New York Knicks,...

Miami eventually finished the regular season with a 40 - 41 ATS record, but they were woeful in the opening month.

It was a performance that was in keeping with his regular season, for which he should be awarded National League Rookie of the Year honors next month.

Tempted to slip out the back door after a poor effort in last month's regular - season finale against Georgia Tech — 8 for 16, but three interceptions — Belue realized that wasn't right and walked out the main door into the waiting throngs.

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.

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.

-- With the regular season down to its last month, weekday games are more prevalent including the always fun MACtion.

We're still months away from the start of the NBA regular season, but this off - season has been an exciting thrill ride in its own right.

This is particularly interesting because it's the most profitable month during the regular season, however, in the past we've discussed why contrarian betting is particularly lucrative during the postseason.

A path that includes Penn State at home, Oklahoma at home, about a month of gim me games after OU, and no Wisconsin in the regular season?

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

Narsingh, a 19 - cap Dutch international, has been a regular for PSV this season, but has not played for a month because of Holland's winter break.

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

The NFL preseason gets underway on Thursday and the regular season kicks off in less than one month.

The French manager has come under increased scrutiny in recent months, which is starting to become a regular occurrence in each season of late.

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I can't be convinced that the caps would blow the lead (twice) in that way if the game happened a month ago in the regular season.

Having scored in the FA Cup encounter with Exeter City last month, he has made just two appearances in all competitions all season and so therefore sees his future elsewhere in a bid to gain regular playing time.

In the last month of the regular season the San Antonio Spurs defeated every other team in the western conference playoffs on their home floor.

But after going more than 17 months without hitting in a regular - season game, Sanders went 2 for 4 on Opening Day against the Rockies, stole two bases, scored two runs and knocked one in.

Only four wins separate third place from eighth place in the standings however, setting the stage for an interesting battle for positioning over the last month of the regular season.

Abdullah's younger brother, Husain, in fact, has lauded the Kansas City Chiefs and how they guided him back from a concussion over the last month of his final regular season in 2015.

While Ottawa will head home for the spring and summer this weekend, the Penguins will take aim at history now that the long six - month slog of the regular season is behind them.

It was the second time he aggravated a pre-existing injury that began two months earlier in a regular season game against the Timberwolves, Thomas said.

Although the start of the regular season is still nearly three months away, there's often value placing your bets this early.

With the start of the NFL regular season just over two months away, Westgate has come out with their Yes / No odds for every team to make the playoffs.

Certainly the Regular Season could not match the intensity of last year's Playoff run, so maybe at the risk of over simplifying, they found themselves bored in the months of June and early July?

The 37 - year - old had most recently been with MLS outfit New York Red Bulls and was fully expected to continue his career elsewhere after running down his contract with the club at the end of the regular season last month.

The young winger Alex Iwobi started this season as the breakthrough star from the Arsenal Academy, and was a regular starter in the first half of the season, but although he had some excellent performances he didn't really follow that up with actually putting the ball in the back of the net very often, and he was finally squeezed out of the First team squad in the last couple of months and relegated back to the U23 reserve side.

-- The NBA regular season is still months away, but here's a little something for all the desperate hoop heads out there:

There are still almost two months of regular season left, but thanks to a strong weekend, it's the Cubs» wild card spot to lose.

As we enter the last few weeks of the regular season, it's hard to really be surprised by discrepancies from lines set more than 7 months ago.

Before the start of the season we posted look ahead lines for every regular season game, but obviously a lot has changed over the past several months.

After a historically good regular season, the Warriors faced the possibility of falling behind 3 - 1 and becoming an underdog for the first time in months.