Sentences with phrase «season championship by»

Truex can clinch the regular season championship by leaving Bristol with a lead greater than 121 points.

Not exact matches

The Knights kept their hopes of an undefeated season alive by knocking off Memphis for the American Athletic Conference championship, setting up Monday's battle in Mercedes - Benz Stadium.

Most of the season had gone by before the project was abandoned, and to make matters worse Kimi Raikkonen was challenging for the championship in an updated version of the 2002 car.

On this day, the Blue Devils claimed their fifth consecutive championship and finished their season undefeated against SJS foes without the late - game intensity endured by their male counterparts.

It wasn't enough to win the title, but he set up his championship - winning season in 2016 by taking victory at the first four races, giving him a seven - race run of P1 finishes.

Last year Brendon Hartley did something similar when he was signed by Toro Rosso while still completing his championship season with Porsche in the WEC.

The dynamic youngster has been called up by Germany for the Euro under 21 championships this summer and he will be keen to play and prove that he can be an important figure for Arsenal next season.

Porsche began the year by dominating the Daytona 24 Hours and the Sebring 12 Hours so thoroughly that it seemed they had a lock on the entire season and the manufacturers» championship.

After 254 days and 97 games, the Philadelphia Flyers concluded the longest season in pro sports history last week by winning their second straight NHL championship.

In 14 seasons at Navy, Bilderback won nine national championships, including an incredible string of eight in a row from 1960 to 1967 when the title was decided by a vote.

Though Brown's legacy has beentarnished by his nightmarish 2005 — 06 season with the New York Knicks, at thetime of the»04 championship he was the master of his domain, a Prospero ableto squeeze miracles from a team considered good but not great even when theplayoffs began.

Barbara Britch, 15, a Nordic skier from Anchorage, Alaska, compiled the nation's fastest times for her class as she won all but one of her races this season and became the state's first U.S. titlist by taking the junior ladies» championship in Duluth.

Dennis Trujillo led the Centennial High cross-country team in Pueblo, Colo. to an unbeaten season and its second straight state title by winning 11 regular season meets and individual honors at the state championships in Boulder.

By suspending Townley, Benton has taken away his Camping World Truck Series team's chances at a championship before the season even starts.

Bellerin will be heading off to Poland to compete in the under 21 championships with Spain but I would have expected him to have been moved up by now, even though his form suffered a dip in the second half of last season.

The Arsenal manager has been expressing his concern about next season already, after the Premier League clubs voted to accommodate next summers Euro championship tournament by starting and finishing the season early.

Kimi Raikkonen won the first race — the first time Lotus had done so since 2006 and 1978 and at this point in the season the entire field were separated by just 25 points in the championship — the closest title battle since Australia 2012.

when put like that, it actually is so disheartening to know that we can be usurped by a team from the f# c & ing championship, that in itself should tell wenger he does not possess what it takes to lead a team consistently around the top to the next level, but it's the same thing with arsenal every season, at least one more like this to come.

After Penn State won its first national championship, in 1982, the Nittany Lions stumbled out of the blocks the next season by losing their first three games en route to a 7 -4-1 record.

NASCAR's Winston Cup championship, which only two weeks ago looked as if it had been locked up by Dale Jarrett, has turned into a crapshoot with 10 races left in the season.

Since then State has won two more championships, and last season at the NCAA tournament it firmly proved the new status of Southwest basketball by beating Seattle and USC before finally losing to Utah.

There's Jean Alesi and Gerhard Berger's 412 T2 from the 1995 season, the dominant F2002 and F2004 driven by Michael Schumacher and Rubens Barrichello, and finally the F2007 that Kimi Raikkonen drove to the world championship in alongside Felipe Massa.

Still, as 1970 ski racing moves toward its competitive pinnacle — the FIS World Alpine championships next week at Val Gardena in northern Italy — there are signs that the season is about to produce one of sport's classic battles: the challenge of the crafty old kings of the mountain by brash young hotshots.

For example, one can bet a Super Bowl future prior to the beginning of the season by selecting who they believe will win the championship.

It used 10 - year averages and didn't give bonus points for championships, which meant that Penn State fans were frustrated by a low 1980s ranking (yes, the Nittany Lions won two national titles; they also won eight or fewer games five times) and Nebraska fans were angry that their Huskers were overtaken by FSU in the 1990s (yes, the Huskers won 2.5 national titles; FSU won two and was generally better in the non-title seasons).

In that 2013 season, Granite Bay completed a 45 - 0 campaign by defeating Los Alamitos in the CIF Division I state championship.

The Brazilian made his debut with Sauber back in 2002 and had a long spell with Ferrari where he achieved 11 race victories, also coming desperately close to the world championship in the dramatic 2008 season finale, where Massa missed out on the title by a single point.

We need to sign an unknown championship player for # 500,000 who'll stun everyone by scoring 25 goals in a season.

That's a far cryfrom what was heard before the season opener, when Johnson — who also used thetriple option in winning consecutive I - AA championships in 1999 and 2000 ascoach at Georgia Southern — was besieged by a legion of vociferous doubters.

After many bold and locally unpopular midseason moves by general manager John Hart — 40 % of last season's American League championship team is either gone or injured — the Tribe has shown that it is better equipped for the postseason than a year ago.

Hill, who had made a surprise move to Arrows after being dropped by Williams after claiming the 1996 F1 championship, then shocked many at the Hungaroring mid-way through the season.

By winning 35 - 23 at Yale, Harvard (9 - 0 overall, 7 - 0 in the Ivy League and ranked 19th in Division I - AA) clinched not only its second conference championship in five years but also its first perfect season since 1913.

I can only hope that this attempt is taken more seriously than the largely muted and clearly unsuccessful protests of late last season... although the plane writing escapade brought some much - needed attention to the matter, it failed to resonate with fence - sitters and those who had just recently fell off the Wenger truck... without a big enough showing of support the whole endeavor appeared relatively weak and poorly organized, especially to the major media outlets, whose involvement could have significantly changed what was to follow... but I get it, few wanted to turn on their club, let alone make a public display of their discord... problem is, they are preying on that vulnerability, in fact, their counting on you to keep your thoughts to yourself... who are you to tell these fat cats how to steal your money... they have worked long and hard to pull the wool over your eyes... they even went so far as to pay enormous sums of cash to your once beloved professor to be their corporate spokesmodel so that the whole thing would be more palatable... eventually the club made it appear as if this was simply a relatively small fringe group of highly radicalized supporters, which allowed the pro-Wenger element inside the club hierarchy to claim victory following the FA Cup win... unfortunately what has happened to this club can't be solved by FA Cups or a few players coming in, the very culture of this club needs to be changed and that starts at the top... in order to change the unhealthy and dysfunctional narrative that has absorbed this club we need to remove everyone who presently occupies a position of power... only then can we get back to the business of playing championship caliber football, which should always be the number one priority of this organization... on an important side note, one of the most devastating mistakes made in the final days of this hectic and poorly planned transfer window didn't have to do with the big name players like Sanchez or Lemar, but the fact that they failed to secure Jadon Sancho, who might even start for Dortmund this season... I think they might seriously regret this oversight... instead of spending so much time, energy and manpower pretending that they were desperately trying to make big moves, they once again lost the plot due to their all too familiar tunnel vision

«I would be spent by the end of the year,» he says, «andthat had a lot to do with us not performing to our potential in the final 10races of 2004 and» 05 — and not winning the championship those seasons.

players like Ozil always present the fans with a bit of a conundrum, especially when times are tough... if you look around the sporting world every once in awhile there emerges a player with incredible skill, like Ozil, Matt Sundin or even Jay Cutler, who have a different way about themselves... their movement seemed almost too lackadaisical, so much so that it seemed to suggest indifference or even disinterest on the part of the player... their posture always appears somewhat mopey and they generally have an unflattering «sour puss» expression on their face... for some their above average skills are enough to keep them squarely in the mix, as their respective teams try desperately to find a way to get the best out of them visa vie player acquisitions or the reworking of tactics... when things go according to planned the fans usually find a way to accept their unique disposition, whereas when things go awry they become easy targets for fans and pundits alike... in the case of Ozil and Sundin, their successes on the international stage and / or with their former teams led many to conclude that if we surrounded such talented individuals with players that have those skills that would most likely bring the best of these players success would surely follow... unfortunately both the Maple Leafs and our club chose to adopt half - measures, as each were being run by corporations who valued profitability over providing the best possible product on the field... for them, they cared more about shirt sales and season tickets than doing whatever was necessary... this isn't, by any stretch, an attempt to absolve Ozil of any responsibility for his failures on the pitch... there is no doubt oftentimes his efforts were underwhelming, to say the least, but this club has been inept when it comes to providing this prolific passer with the kind of players necessary for him to flourish... with our poor man's version of Benzema up front, the headless chickens in Walcott, the younger Ox and Welbeck occupying wide positions far too often and the fact that Carzola, who provided Ozil with great service and more freedom to roam, was never truly replaced, the only real skilled outlet on the pitch was Sanchez... remember to be considered a world - class set - up man goals need to be scored and for much of his time here he has been surrounded by some incredibly inept finishers... in the end, I'm not sure how long he will be in North London, recent sentiments and his present contract situation seem to suggest that he will depart at season's end, but how tragic would it be if once again we didn't put our best foot forward and failed to make those moves that could have brought championship football back to our once beloved club... so when you think about this uniquely skilled player don't be so quick to shift all the blame on his shoulders because he will not be the first or the last highly skilled player to find disappointment at the Emirates if we don't rid the club of those individuals that are truly to blame for our current woes

The 23 - year old Gooner has just capped a very good season on loan with West Ham by being the best player for England in the under 21 Euro championships, but that does not appear to be enough to get Jenkinson what he wants; a place in the Arsenal first team.

Last year he also received silver medals at the world championships in Belfast and the Goodwill Games in Brisbane, Australia, getting outpointed in each final by a seasoned Cuban.

Thus did Oscar Robertson, after 11 frustrating seasons in the National Basketball Association, celebrate the world championship won by the Milwaukee Bucks last week.

Terry Stotts and the Portland Trail Blazers are flying in the face of «defense wins championships» this season, piling up victory after victory by riding the best offense in the NBA.

«Given the losses we had over the winter and a cut in payroll, the challenge to build a championship - caliber team was more daunting than in past years,» says general manager John Schuerholz, who was ordered in the off - season by owner Time Warner (also SI's parent company) to slash last season's $ 95 million payroll by $ 15 million.

In knocking off the six - time North Coast Section championship program from Danville — by a slightly sloppy, yet still convincing score of 34 - 7 — it had become the first Lions team to begin a season 4 - 0 in more than 40 years.

Amat had come into California's Southern Section Division I championship game against Mater Dei High (from Santa Ana) as the top - ranked team in the nation — unbeaten, untied and unseen by the person who had made Amat No. 1 for most of the season in USA Today's Super 25 national high school football rankings.

Not only did Golden State receive the highest percentage of spread bets this season, they were also pounded by bettors who thought they would win the championship.

Given that I eventually won the championship by less than 25 points, this risky strategy early in the season had to work and it did.»

Miranda was unable to compete in the Central Coast Section Cross Country championships a season ago, but he made up for it during the spring by winning the 3200 meters at the CCS Track and Field Championships.

That would be the first of three wins for Wilson that season, which along with seven other podiums was enough to give him the championship by a record margin over runner - up and future fellow F1 driver, Mark Webber.

On that basis, BMW driver Antonio Felix da Costa sticks around for another season with the team, whilst the luckless Robin Frijns is out, replaced by another driver from BMWs books - Tom Blomqvist, runner - up to Esteban Ocon in the 2014 European F3 championship (although Kamui Kobayashi will drive in the first round in Hong Kong).

Now they knew their driver had the championship, if by the skin of his teeth — and that they would win the Sears Craftsman pit crew championship, a title earned by a crew's car spending the least amount of time in the pits in 10 selected races during the season.

This is the pitcher whose world championship season of 1967 was only briefly abridged by a broken leg he suffered from a Roberto Clemente line drive that left a vapor trail on its way to fracturing the righthander's right leg just above the ankle.

The Warriors secured their second championship in three seasons by finishing the playoffs with an incredible 16 - 1 record.