Jinx Statisticians and fatalists know that everybody has to lose some time — but why does it happen so often for
a team the week after it's touted on the cover of SI?
Facing a 4 — 4 Indiana
team a week after escaping from East Lansing with a last - play win (the Hawkeyes beat Michigan State on Stanzi's seven - yard TD connection to McNutt as time expired), Iowa needed that pair of clutch bombs from its quarterback, a slew of favorable calls from the officials and — with the Hoosiers leading 21 — 7 and lining up two yards from another touchdown in the third quarter — a miraculous interception in which the ball ricocheted four times among three players before landing in the hands of Iowa safety Tyler Sash, who dashed 86 yards for a touchdown.
The line is too high on paper, but I can't play a Rodgers-less Packers
team a week after they got eliminated from the playoffs.
Not exact matches
Ten
weeks after team - building activities began there, workers, line supervisors, and managers speak of a workforce transformed.
After two
weeks of brainstorming, the group ultimately chose the name Spinergy because it was short and memorable and captured the sense of innovation that Connolly and the design
team hoped to convey.
A study by Millan's
team found that 76 % of owners who played audiobooks for their dogs reported that they were calmer and more relaxed
after a four -
week period.
In one study, a research
team from Massachusetts General Hospital looked at the brain scans of 16 people before and
after they participated in an eight -
week course in mindfulness meditation.
One thing to know: The Chiefs are looking more like their old selves by the
week, but it's still hard to trust the
team after its midseason collapse.
After more than a decade of research on the use of machine learning to detect disease - causing mutations in DNA, Brendan Frey, biomedical engineering professor at the University of Toronto, this
week launched his company, Deep Genomics, to bring the technology his
team developed to the public at large.
After weeks of silence, Amazon's retail
team informed Nest employees on a conference call late last year that it would not list any of the newer Nest products recently announced by the company, according to a person familiar with the call.
Less than a
week after the executive order was signed, Kalanick announced he was stepping down from a role on Trump's economic
team.
Then, you may be alarmed to discover that you are more likely to hand down longer sentences the
week after that bummer of a game than if your
team won.
After six
weeks of furious staffing and recruiting, Ben had a
team of 10 or so engineers, and I have vivid memories of all of them trying to look like Ben.
Research by an expert
team from Stanford reveals that a person's productivity declines
after putting in more than 50 hours of work every
week.
After suggesting last
week that the US would be pulling out of Syria «very soon,» President Donald Trump reportedly told his national security
team that he is open to keeping troops in the country for the time being, but wants to look to pull them out sometime soon, a senior administration official told CNN.
Sekulow told Reuters on Tuesday that
after the departure of Washington attorney John Dowd from Trump's personal legal
team last
week, Ekonomou will assume a more prominent role.
After his marketing company and his agent both dropped him for his partying ways, his
team had him sit out of
week 17's game.
Buzak and
team were correct —
after getting a strong start during Hack
Week, the product launched just one month
after its initial conception.
This update arrives just two
weeks after the FSA began organizing a
team of officials dedicated to virtual currency regulation.
After conducting the studies, the
team learned that they needed more clear communication and were able to re-adjust within a two -
week period before launch.
The Stormy Daniels affair has had remarkable staying power, both because,
after weeks of staying quiet, Daniels herself has decided she wants to tell her story, and because Trump and his legal
team are going to extraordinary lengths to silence her, including demanding $ 20 million for violations of the nondisclosure agreement she and her legal
team have allegedly already committed.
Ahlborn assembled a
team of volunteer engineers and scientists shortly
after Musk put forth the idea, offering equity in the company instead of pay to those willing to put in at least 10 hours of work each
week.
Although Ventura never completed the extra 26
weeks of training to become a SEAL, the UDTs were broken apart and combined with the SEAL
teams after Vietnam.
The policy decision by Tinder comes just a
week after the company's CEO, Sean Rad, said at the Code Conference that the
team was working hard to make the service more friendly and useful to transgender users.
Three
weeks after Hurricane Irma crashed into Florida leaving behind widespread devastation, the American Red Cross and a large
team of partners continue to work around the clock to provide shelter, food and comfort to people whose lives have been turned upside down.
Writing about the joy of sports, Michael Novak recalls the pleasure of following the exploits of George Blanda, a forty - three - year - old football player who passed and kicked his
team, the Oakland Raiders, to victory
week after week in 1970.
Three
weeks later the young lady and her mother arrived at our church (
after catching three buses) to thank the
team that had prayed for her.
Masih was arrested last
week, but her hearing was delayed until today
after a
team of medical experts determined the girl to be a minor, which will transfer her case to a juvenile court.
The government can be so inept that it took them nearly 5
weeks to deploy these
teams after they arrived.
Today is
Team Dan & Rachel's ninth anniversary and so far we have celebrated by staying home, eating a frozen lasagna, drinking cheap red wine, and watching SNL reruns... because that's EXACTLY what we needed
after last
week.
After picking their chins up off the floor, Axelrod and her
team got to work and delivered the 6,000 - case shipment in six
weeks, just when the chain requested it be delivered.
Sunday
after Sunday, we watch football from noon to night — this year our
team did badly (booooo Bears) but we still watched each
week.
Typically I'm in gym, dinner, sleep mode
after work but this
week has been packed full of fun events — greens demo on Monday, vision boards with the RVA Lululemon
team on Tuesday and then a blogger dinner with KERF tonight!
All new partners go through a thorough four - to six -
week training program
after joining the company along with daily support from the Pizza 73
team.
After weeks of recipe development (over 50 individual recipes created), this
week the
team at the Cotswolds Distillery took 12 of the best to a panel of experts at Campden BRI.
Elsewhere, and as revealed by Street Talk Online, Mark Malouf will be sole head of JPMorgan's Australasian equities business
after Richard «Spider» Newton joined the equities syndicate
team this
week.
Aberfeldy, Scotland, December 21, 2017 — The
team at Perthshire's Dewar's Aberfeldy Distillery is seeing out the year in style,
after capturing three industry awards in as many
weeks.
Intriguingly, Allardyce then went on to draw parallels with the Liverpool
team of the 2013 - 14 season, which burned so brightly — with Luis Suarez, Raheem Sterling and Daniel Sturridge starring — but fell short of the Premier League title
after losing their way in the final
weeks of the season.
Now
after just 2
weeks we are in the middle.of another disruption with yet more injuries, plus every
team near enough will be trying to bed in new players.
Alabama will certainly remain No. 1
after shutting out an LSU that could still be ranked, Clemson and Michigan will jostle around in the next two spots (I could see UM jumping this
week, since the
team it beat has a better record than the
team the Tigers beat, but it doesn't matter a ton), and we'll all yell about No. 4.
Alabama is still the nation's top
team in the
Week 7 BlogPoll, but two other SEC
teams are slicing into the Crimson Tide's share of first - place votes
after big
Week 6 wins.
Here's a few things to remind you why it's silly: The Rangers won 10 games in a row last year, there were two
week stretches of last season where the Angels were better than the Astros, the Angels have yet to play a serious contender, as already stated the Reds were 1st in the NL Central to start the season, the Brewers were in first until a little bit
after the all start break (if I remember correctly), literally thousands of other examples of
teams starting hot and then finishing outside of the playoffs.
After two top - five
teams went down in
Week 13 — thanks for keeping us entertained, Baylor and Oregon — at least one more top - five will fall in
Week 14.
The
team that Arsene Wenger suggested this
week was the one to fear most is Real Madrid and they look set for second spot as they need to beat an in form Dortmund in their final game and it comes just a few days
after an El Clasico clash with Barcelona and it looks like Bale will be out with injury.
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Now hopefully over his injury problems and growing in confidence
after a run in the
team in recent
weeks, Oxlade - Chamberlain showed yesterday that he can be a big - game player for the club, and his form in attack could give Arsene Wenger's side a whole new dimension to their game, with the youngster providing a little more width, pace and directness than players like Mesut Ozil and Santi Cazorla in that area.
France international Kondogbia, 24, has had a massive falling out with his club Inter Milan this
week after refusing to turn up to training last
week, which has lead to the player being forced to train on his own and away from the first
team, as reported by Talksport, with the midfielder having been fined # 200,000 following the incident.
In a sense, for these two
teams, the season begins here
after the soft launch for the first few
weeks.
Petr Cech remained alert throughout and was equal to any threat posed by his former club, and the shot - stopper is joined by defender Hector Bellerin in the BBC
team of the
week after the Spaniard was again crucial from an attacking point of view and showed his exceptional pace to produce a vital defensive stop on Pedro.
If Nigel de Jong has indeed turned down a # 100k a
week deal to stay at Man City we can assume he has done so not because he wants an even more obscene wage packet but because he may be ready to show some ambition and give up on the Premier League leaders
after seeing his first
team chances limited this term.