Sentences with phrase «won game contests»

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All receptionists, shuttle drivers, and cafe workers are decked out in Hawks gear today, and last week the winner of a «Big Game Blitz» employee contest won two tickets to the Super Bowl.

Another developer, Sean McCracken, won $ 10,000 in a contest last year for creating an aliens - themed video game for Glass, Psyclops, but Google never put it on the official hub for Glass apps, making it tougher to find.

The companies have argued, since their inception, that their contests are games of skill, since they can prove with data that certain users repeatedly win thanks to expertise and research.

@HeaveSent «Game over, God wins» You seem to be saying that life itself is a contest against God and His prize is sending your soul to hell.

Faced up against an inexperienced Reggie Jackson and an aging Derek Fisher, he's lit up the Thunder for 21.3 points and 6.7 assists per game during the past three contests, all Memphis wins.

Tampa Bay beat Los Angeles, 4 - 3, at home on Saturday night, winning its second straight game, and improving to 7 -2-0 in the last nine contests overall.

The Avalanche walloped the Islanders, 6 - 1, at Pepsi Center on Saturday night, winning their second straight game, and improving to 4 -1-1 in the last six contests overall.

The Cardinals have won 13 of the last 15 games Palmer has started, including seven of nine contests this season.

As each round is only three games long for each team with a tiebreaker if necessary, starting out 1 - 0 is significant: that and a win in Friday night's head - to - head contest could be enough to propel one of these two teams to the World Baseball Classic semifinals.

Of course, they also scored 42 points per game in those contests and won two of the four.

Bradley «quite possibly the odds on favorite to win the 3 pt contest (if eligible)» Deutsch tied the game up with 10 seconds with a top of the arc 3.

MCKENZIE FORBES Wing Folsom 6 - 0 Senior WHAT SHE DID: Forbes not only led Folsom to its best season ever but then topped it all off by winning the 3 - point shooting contest at the McDonald's All - American Game.

Forbes not only led Folsom to its best season ever but then topped it all off by winning the 3 - point shooting contest at the McDonald's All - American Game.

Now, with three road games remaining in four conference contests, Syracuse might struggle to put together enough wins to win its final Big East race.

Syracuse, which in big games has long been synonymous with ex-cuse, had won several testing contests (Florida, North Carolina) to get this far in the tournament, and Orange coach Jim Boeheim's changing defenses would continue to confound the master — «keep us guessing,» said Knight.

The Volunteers own neutral court wins over Purdue and NC State that look even better now than they did at the time, and they played a highly competitive contest against top - ranked Villanova in the Battle 4 Atlantis championship game.

While Vermont held the country's longest active winning streak coming into this game with 15 straight, UMBC entered the day's proceedings without a win over the Catamounts in a decade and one day, dropping 23 straight contests since March 9, 2008.

I was already leaning towards Mathieu Flamini as the best Arsenal player in the Capital One cup north London derby, and then the Frenchman came up with that stunning volley to win the game, so there was no contest.

Picking the Wings to win every game was counter productive to doing well in the prediction contest.

In the net singles final, against Verdy, Shults sprinted and lunged and rainbow - kicked all over the playing area (which is the size of a badminton court), but he was eventually done in by the vicious serve of his opponent, who won a tight contest, two games to one.

Jonathan Bernier stopped 28 shots and the Avalanche won for the third time in nine games (3 -5-1) to keep pace in a tightly contested race for the Western Conference's final two wild card spots.

The Bulls beat the Nets in a hotly contested seven - game series, winning Game 7, 99 - 93, on Saturday nigame series, winning Game 7, 99 - 93, on Saturday niGame 7, 99 - 93, on Saturday night.

The O's get three games against the 64 - 88 Diamondbacks next, and they need to win that series and maybe all three contests, as then they face the Blue Jays and Yankees for three games a piece to finish their season.

Barcelona are yet to lose a game so far in the league this season, despite the fact that they've had very difficult away ties to all of Valencia, Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid to contest with, and their 3 - 0 win over Real showed exactly why Barca are so hard to beat under Valverde.

It was their third straight victory in this series, but all three of those games were played on Phoenix's home floor; the Thunder have won their last 12 home contests against the Suns.

Walter A. Williams felt mixed delight and regret when he received word that he had won eight box seats to future Phillies games in a newspaper contest.

Although describing the contest in David and Goliath terms would be going too far — clearly there were a number of a priori good reasons to think that Man City were the hot favourites to win the game on Sunday even before a ball was kicked.

For example 4 -3-3 concentrate less on playing in the centre and attempting to dominate it as it's contest Arsenal will win and take advantage of the fact that the full backs haven't got pace, which normally means the defensive midfielders or center backs often end up doubling up on the wingers... thus clearing a space in the middle and allowing people like Ozil and Giroud to play to the strong points of their game.

It's common knowledge in ESPN circles that if the Spartans (who started the season with a 139 - game win streak) had not agreed, then no high school football contests were going to get on air and may not have ever gotten on air.

This will be the 200th Premier League game contested at the Emirates — Arsenal have won 129, drawn 47 and lost 23 of the 199 currently played there.

As mentioned, Mourinho's men come into the contest on the back of Thursday's crucial 1 - 0 win over Celta Vigo, a result which takes the Reds a step closer to the Europa League final, while extending our unbeaten run to 12 games in all competitions.

Thursday's Game 2 might be the only contest that could result in an upset: the No. 12 South Carolina Gamecocks won just two games in the SEC this season and will go up against the nine - win No. 5 Alabama Crimson Tide.

The last time they won their first 5 + contests following the All - Star Game was in 1999 - 00, when they won their first seven games following the break.

Have a lot of friends in Calgary and got a call from one of my very good friends telling me that his buddy had won a contest to compete for a 2010 Dodge RAM truck during the 2nd intermission of the Flames - Sharks game.

The Panthers are on a four - game skid while the Falcons notched their first victory in as many contests in a 27 - 17 win over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in Week 10.

He threw for 309 yards against Michigan State despite a broken finger, but he misfired on a surefire game - winning pass late in the game and missed last week's contest against Georgia State.

Over the last two seasons, Boston has won seven of eight games against Tampa Bay, and has scored at least three goals in all eight contests.

We have won an ugly contest tonight but i will gladly take it this is how a champion team win these kind of games now tomorrow i would love to see qpr beat chelsea to close the gap to only 5 pts and then a man utd draw with man city..

Finals are usually tightly - contested, highly - bet games where the public likes to pick a side to win.

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The Magic have lost nine straight games since beginning the season with eight wins in their first 12 contests.

They got their wish, but were foolish to take on the Germans at their own game — Germany have contested seven penalty shootouts at major tournaments now, winning six.

Team USA faced little resistance on its march to the championship game, clubbing Brazil by 44 points in the semifinals and winning their first four contests by an average of 34.5 points.

They as the # 1 Seed have earned the advantage of being well - rested for their Elite8 Game while whoever they play will have just won a hotly contested Playoff battle..

Undoubtedly no coincidence, all three games were won by the home team, as were nine of the first 13 Big Ten contests.

The Cavaliers enter tonight's contest on a four - game win streak, scoring at least 120 points and shooting better than 50 percent from the field in each outing.

The Wizards have won seven of their last nine contests and have scored 100 or more points in 10 straight games heading into tonight's contest.

The Wizards have won the last two games in this series, with both contests going into overtime.

Finals are usually tightly - contested, highly - bet games where the public likes to pick a side to win but 3 of the last 5 finals have gone to extra time.

Tampa Bay dropped a 2 - 1 overtime decision to Buffalo at Amalie Arena last night, snapping a four - game win streak, but extending its point streak to five straight contests.