Sentences with phrase «up their road game»

They have picked up their road game at a good time.

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Feldstein called up a map of Fort McMurray on his smartphone, and noted how the roads recalled the circularity of a Nintendo Super Mario Kart game.

And thanks to accounts like Nate Jackson's riveting football memoir «Slow Getting Up,» we know that the game we love depends on legions of no - name guys who quietly sacrifice their bodies to the NFL's culture of constant pain, only to exit to a road to nowhere.

The global phenomenon would have probably passed by parishioners at Birmingham's City Road Methodist Church, which has a full - time 20 - strong congregation, until one avid gamer turned up on their doorstep.

For our live taping of the RELEVANT podcast's 600th episode, the gang follows up on a super serious true - crime investigation, brings out the fun and games for special guest John Mark McMillan, discusses road trips through the Netherlands and the merits of donut races, plus a lot more!

The Lightning, who wrapped up a four - game road trip against Western Conference foes, dropped to 12 -2-0 against teams from the West.

New York took control of this series with its win in Game 5, but to avoid Game 7 on the road, the Rangers will need to lock things up on Saturday.

It's really a question of match - ups, and Hak can't control that on faceoffs in road games.

Tampa Bay lost, 6 - 2, in Edmonton on Monday night, snapping a two - game win streak, and finishing up its eight - game road trip that bracketed the All - Star break with a mark of 5 -3-0.

because winning a division game on the road, which may put us up by two games on Atlanta, will put us in a great position by mid season.

For example, it is well known among insiders that DLo is the most popular Net with the ladies and he regularly has someone lined up during road games at his hotel.

Arsenal make the short trip to Vicarage Road to take on Watford in Saturday's evening match - up, and we have some doubts coming into the game.

After dropping seven consecutive games and losing its coach, Ole Miss rebounded with an impressive offensive performance against a stellar defensive team, and showed enough fight to pick up its first road win in conference.

They'll have a double header in Hoops down the road to make up for the missed Game..

Portland, up 2 - 0 after two road victories, was gut punched after losing its first game at home on Friday.

At Logan International Airport in Boston, a crowd of 10,000 showed up Sunday night to greet the returning Red Sox, winners of six straight games on the road.

Texas A&M: The Aggies looked a bit better with Hogg's return, but will need to play much better if they hope to get back on track with tough SEC road games coming up.

Now the Warriors need to come up with another great performance on the road after getting the job done for the first 44 minutes of Game 1.

For more on the easy roads created by chaos in the 2016 NCAA Tournament, watch Ryan Nanni and Dan Rubenstein discuss the games so far and what's to come in «Wake Up, College Basketball!»

That sets them up nicely for a road game at Cincinnati before welcoming the Ravens and Browns to Pittsburgh in the final two weeks.

Road trips to Ohio State and Illinois could trip Wisky up, but the Huskers are far and away the best team left on the Wisconsin schedule — and may well end up dancing with the Badgers again in the Big Ten Championship Game.

They will make up ground with 11 games in December, but their only road match before Big East play comes on Dec. 17 at Kentucky.

The winner of this game is very likely to end up having the top seed in the NFC overall, and I am sure the Packers would rather be at home in the playoffs rather than on the road at any point.

Kopitar became the first Kings player with a four - goal game since 1993, Jonathan Quick stopped 29 shots and LA picked up another valuable road win by cruising past the Colorado Avalanche 7 - 1 on Thursday night.

He had to announce a recent 11 - game road trip standing up.

Minnesota's run up a seven - point lead, and if Denver doesn't get a handle on this game on the road, this one can get out of control in a hurry.

The Jazz finish up with two road games, at Minnesota on Monday and at Memphis on Wednesday.

If they can keep that up against better teams, they have a shot to win some games coming down the road.

Betting on the Bad Titans to show up in a road game in Foxboro is probably pretty safe, and it seems a lot of people agree with me as 59 percent of the action is on the Patriots and the line had shifted to 15.5 as of Thursday afternoon.

Things don't get any easier for Crystal Palace this week, following up their 5 - 0 shellacking on the road against Manchester City with another road game against Manchester United.

And while they came up short in the SEC Championship Game against Alabama, the Buffalo Wild Wings Citrus Bowl, just down the road in Orlando, seems like a pretty nice consolation, right?

Mahoney's 36 points tied Murray State's Jonathan Stark for the Ohio Valley Conference single - game high this season and the Redhawks (9 - 11, 3 - 4) picked up their first Ohio Valley Conference road win.

We understand that we need to take care of it at home, we understand that we have a big road trip coming up that's not going to be easy, so we can't just give away games right now.»

However, with the loss coming in their most recent outing, and being an astonishing 7 - 1 loss to Norwich City, morale is likely to be low with the Royals, and they'll certainly have to pick up their game if they are to avoid such a defeat on the road again.

They obviously need this game, down 0 - 1 in the series with a road trip coming up next.

Barring a miraculous finish (unlikely with a road game against the 12 — 1 Eagles up next for the 5 — 8 Cowboys), Parcells will have to wait until next year — at least — to make his 10th trip to the playoffs.

The Cowboys won't get Bailey back Sunday and if his injury is serious, the team will undoubtedly scoop up a kicker before a road game against Washington in Week 8.

If they don't do it now, they'll wake up down 2 - 1 with two more games to play on the road.

But if you just count straight up consecutive road losses, whether or not there are home games in between, then last year we had a stretch where we lost 6 in a row on the road, plus two more stretches where we lost 5 in a row.

The claim that what we saw was us not turning up is as pathetic and utterly unacceptable an excuse to use because we've been down this road before, WEEKS were spent hyping Arsenal up, players, fans and coaching staff alike spent weeks in advance talking about our real chances winning the league, our players back from injury and on the first game of the season, where we had renewed optimism and were swelling with expectation we cracked under the pressure to a team you expect to finish no higher than 8th.

Arsenal's next game is a trip to Vicarage Road to face Watford on October 14, but they're now unbeaten in their last seven in all competitions following that defeat to Liverpool, winning six and picking up one draw in the away day at Chelsea.

The up - coming title will feature over 170 cars, including 11 recently - announced Porsches and both road and racing versions of the Ford GT, and the largest track roster of any console game.

Not until Collins met with his power forward one - on - one before a road game in Cleveland on March 17 did the two patch things up.

1 W in Milwaukee would be great, but given our road game status, well... please destroy all the way and show this team why they should've hoped for a different 1st round match - up

All of the teams around us also seem to have easy games in midweek, so it is vital that we keep up the pressure with a good win at Loftus Road and also that we increase our goal difference.

Which Michigan State shows up: the one that's beaten two top - 10 teams on the road, or the one that sleep - walked through about half of each other game?

A relatively meaningless non-conference game that would have further clogged up roads as people tried to evacuate didn't need to be played, and so it was scrapped.

The league leaders are struggling a bit on the road picking up all three points in just two of their last five away games.

Philip Rivers started out his career with a 17 - 1 straight - up record when playing outdoors on the road in December and January regular - season games.

Knowing that road underdogs had performed well in games with low totals, but large underdogs had not lived up to expectations, we wanted to know whether we could look at the flip side of the equation.