Sentences with phrase «season sweep of»

Although I do think the season sweep of the Chefs is on the optimistic side.

The Clippers could not only clinch their first division title, they could complete a season sweep of the Lakers Sunday.

They are 10 - 4, tied with the New Orleans Saints atop the NFC South with the Saints owning the tie - breaker lead due to their season sweep of the Panthers.

Tennessee pulled off its first regular - season sweep of Kentucky since 1999 with a 61 - 59 toppling of the Wildcats Tuesday night in Lexington.

If the Shockers win, they'll share the title and take the top seed in the league tournament thanks to a season sweep of the Bearcats.

Not exact matches

After sweeping the grand jury and audience awards at this year's Sundance Film Festival, Nate Parker's directorial debut, in which he plays slave Nat Turner who orchestrates an uprising against slave owners in Virginia, is receiving a lot of award - season heat.

Surprisingly, James and Stephenson mostly avoided any incidents in the Cavs» first - round sweep of the Pacers last season.

In some countries, however, eruptions of violence or widespread labor unrest periodically disrupt commerce, and governments seem to sweep in and out with the seasons.

We complain that the festive season starts earlier and earlier, sweeping the spiritual roots under the carpet in favour of how many mince pies can be sold.

I never thought about the conundrum of living in the always warm tropics and still finding yourself swept up in the pumpkin season cravings — yes this would be perfect!

If they can repeat their West Division sweep from the opening Weeks of the Season they will be the # 1 Seed entering the Playoffs.

She swept every Player of the Year award in college basketball this season, and though she came short in this year's run, she won a National Championship for the South Carolina Gamecocks the year before.

Hayes Jones completed his sweep of all indoor hurdle races this season, taking the 50 - yard high hurdles in 6.1.

His strength and ability to accelerate, much of which he has learned from track, have helped make him a lineman who allowed only one sack in the last two seasons and who is quick enough to pull and lead sweeps, which is unusual for a tackle.

He believed coach Mike Ditka had been swept up in the hoopla over Perry, who during the season had generated Kardashian-esque amounts of hype as an over-sized and very part - time running back.

Sunday's AFC South game in Indianapolis, where the Texans (7 - 6) swept their season series with the Colts (6 - 7), has put Houston in control of its own destiny for the final three games.

In a moral victory for the otherwise moribund Sonics, they finished 4 - 0 against the Lakers to become the first team in seven years to sweep L.A. in a regular - season series of at least four games...

The win was a back - to - back sweep for the Sharks, their second of the season.

Including a three - game sweep of the Avs last season, Calgary is 4 -0-1 in its last five tilts vs. Colorado overall.

Miami already got swept by both the New York Jets and Buffalo Bills this season and have almost no hope of leapfrogging either team for a wild card spot.

None of the above will happen to Arsenal who are still billed to finish 1st on the table and lift the title trophy with Leicester and Spurs looking helpless, hopeless and dejected and unable to do anything to stop the football tsunami that have swept them off their feet from this weekend which wno» t abate until the end of this BPL season.

The Rangers swept a pair of games from Colorado last season, improving New York's record to 5 -1-2 versus the Avalanche since 2013 - 14.

Mertesacker got his own criticisms earlier this season when he was played out of position, with a different partner every week, in a role he's not so good at (the aggressor, as opposed to sweeping).

Dumped out of the FA Cup by Watford, swept aside easily by Barca (that seemed to play more leisurely than purposefully for the most part) and trailing Leicester and Spurs by 11 and 6 points respectively, it appears the prospects of a title this season are non-existent.

A sweeping, tricky track packed full of varying demands, it's become a fan and driver favourite — helped by F1's frequent visits for pre-season and in - season testing.

The Gunners finished third in 2014/15, but looked one of the country's in - form teams in the second half of the season as they won some big games and convincingly swept aside Aston Villa in the FA Cup final.

The win over the Lakers gave the Heat a sweep of the two - game season series, though it did nothing to improve Miami's 0 — 9 mark through Sunday against the Spurs, Celtics, Bulls and Mavericks, the other four teams in the league with better records.

True, Phoenix had finished a 59 - 23 regular season by winning eight of its last nine games, had swept the Portland Trail Blazers in the opening playoff round and then last week had blown out Houston in Games 1 and 2 in Phoenix.

Detroit has advanced to the AL Championship Series in each of the last three seasons, going on to win the pennant in a sweep over the Yankees in 2012.

Pittsburgh swept the season series from Tampa Bay in 2016 - 17, potting at least four goals in each of the three wins.

The Hurricanes did end the regular season on a four - game winning streak, including a series sweep of ACC foe Virginia Tech.

Compounding the Lakers» chances are Kobe Bryant's Achilles injury and the rocky season that saw them barely make the playoffs and then get swept by the San Antonio Spurs in the first round of the postseason.

The Pocono IndyCar weekend fueled by Sunoco in July was a turning point in the season for Scott Dixon and the entire Ganassi Racing operation, as all three cars came from the second half of the field and used strategy to finish the race sweeping the top three.

During the regular season, the Yankees took four of six games against the Twins, including a sweep just a couple of weeks ago.

The Trailblazers swept CIF divisional state titles in basketball for the 2014 - 15 season, won a CIF Southern Section title this fall in girls volleyball and were the 2015 - 16 Cal - Hi Sports Division IV State School of the Year.

According to Joe Lunardi, MSU could be placed ahead of Michigan even though the Wolverines swept the season series.

Last season, they managed to finish the regular season with 109 points, but were swept in the opening round of the playoffs by Nashville.

The Penguins have mostly been a mile ahead of their cross-state rivals every season since, until this year, when they finished just two points up in the standings despite a series sweep that required two overtime wins.

The win capped off a 4 - 0 sweep for the Spurs and marked the end of a miserable season for the Lakers.

And put on his special anniversary blanket to celebrate the first sweep of the 50th season, but alas, Sweemper doesn't like to rush things.

A three - year starter for the Mustangs, Dailey helped Monte Vista finish out a 30 - win regular season with a 3 - 0 sweep of cross-town rival San Ramon Valley - Danville on Oct. 26.

Blues skipper Gary Cahill's weak headed clearance was pounced on by Arnautovic, who cut the ball back for Hernandez to sweep the ball first time past Courtois for his eighth goal of the season.

This season's Stats Zone Premier League Player of the Year has swept up the annual awards, and Michael Cox says it's because Jose Mourinho has been forced to make another exception...

Four goals and five assists was a big improvement on 2013/14, and the 31 - year - old played every minute of every Premier League game this season (with the exception of coming off after his late red card against Manchester United at Old Trafford in October) for a Chelsea side that swept the competition away.

A poor pass from Gross followed by indecision from Gaetan Bong allowed Son to slip into the box and, after he went down under pressure from Ryan and Dunk, the ball broke for Kane to sweep home his 26th league strike of the season.

That haul earned him the honour of sharing the European Golden Shoe award with Real Madrid's Cristiano Ronaldo, as well as a clean - sweep in English football's end - of - season awards.

While the champions - elect have swept almost all before them without meaningful resistance, there are similarities in the approaches of the sides who have stretched City this season, with lessons to be learned for future opponents.

After all, it halted a run of four straight defeats and a difference in confidence was plain to see as they started the stronger of the two and unsurprisingly took the lead after 19 minutes as Aaron Cresswell's first - time cross was wonderfully swept home by Lanzini for his second goal of the season.

After that first weekend of the season it seemed clear how the season was going to pan out: Chelsea would sweep to victory under the keen oversight of the reinstated Mourinho, the two Manchester clubs would bash it out for second and third, and Arsenal would struggle to make even the Europa League with Liverpool and Tottenham both brandishing a number of notable new signings.

«He hasn't come in and swept the place clean with a new broom, but he could see by the run at the end of last season that there were a lot of positives and added to it.