Sentences with phrase «world championship a year»

In 1947 the Indians had the makings of the team that would win the world championship a year later.

Although there will be no world championships this year, Europe's best will compete in Budapest in March.

Not exact matches

He'd run a team that was a perennial contender, had won the 2005 World Series championship and earned a Manager of the Year award.

When LeBron James (No. 11 on World's Greatest Leaders list) returned to Cleveland in 2014 after four years with the Miami Heat he didn't promise an NBA championship, or instant success.

At last year's world championships, Schooling finished third, behind le Clos and Cseh (Phelps was serving a USA Swimming suspension for a DUI and did not compete).

But as she proved at last year's world championships when she became the first swimmer to win all four freestyle distances — 200m, 400m, 800m and 1500m — distance isn't her only specialty.

This year's Telstra Rally Australia was the sixth world championship rally event Mr Lloyd has competed in during the past year.

Mr Lloyd said he would compete in eight world championships next year including those in Spain, Portugal, New Zealand, China, Italy and Kenya's safari trail.

Jamaican shot putter O'Danye Richards, who won bronze at last year's world championships and starts throwing Thursday, says the key to managing his McNugget and McFlurry habit is moderation.

Unless you've been living totally off the grid for the past 22 years, you know Venus Williams: ranked the world's No. 1 tennis player on three separate occasions; winner of 7 Grand Slam singles titles; winner of 14 Grand Slam doubles championships; 4 - time Olympic gold medalist... I could go on and on.

The book told the story of how Anthony was taken to China when he was four years old to be schooled in Kung Fu techniques, subsequently winning world championships and later becoming a bodyguard in Cyprus where he was convicted of theft and converted to Christianity in prison.

STAPLES Center's sixteen years have also been marked with performances and special events that brought international stature to the downtown Los Angeles venue including concerts by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band (who played the arena's first - ever public event on October 17, 1999), Mana, Prince, U2, Paul McCartney, Garth Brooks, Usher, Jay - Z, Kanye West, Taylor Swift, Roger Waters, Britney Spears, Beyonce, Katy Perry, Sade and Justin Timberlake, as well as world championship boxing, family shows and special events.

I (Rip) go to Maui every year to compete in the Xterra world championships and would love to visit the restaurant and then hike the Napali coastline.

RumChata sponsored an evening reuniting members from Chicago's 1985 World Championship Football Team at Soldier Field on January 26, to celebrate its victory on the exact date and time of the championship game thirty years ago.

The world championships take place every four years, midway between Olympics.

Two years later, at the 1958 FIS world championships in Bad Gastein, she took both the women's downhill and giant slalom and was hailed as the new ruler of the skiing world, the first girl since the great Andrea Mead Lawrence to win two gold medals in world competition.

«I want to be there when they do win,» he says of the team that has been without a world championship for 10 years longer than the Red Sox.

The Dodge Stables, winner of more world championships over the years than any other owner, added still another trophy to an impressive collection.

Walker, a 62 - year - old human resources manager who took up powerlifting after developing osteoarthritis, set world records for her age group (60 — 64) in the 70 - kilogram weight class for power squat (77.5 kg), bench press (45 kg), and deadlift (112.5 kg) at the World Drug - Free Powerlifting Federation championships in Muskegon, Mworld records for her age group (60 — 64) in the 70 - kilogram weight class for power squat (77.5 kg), bench press (45 kg), and deadlift (112.5 kg) at the World Drug - Free Powerlifting Federation championships in Muskegon, MWorld Drug - Free Powerlifting Federation championships in Muskegon, Mich..

This chestnut gelding, durable as Satchel Paige, seems as bright as when he won his first world championship six years ago.

The Cubs lost to the Washington Nationals, 8 - 4, on Wednesday and fell to 39 - 39 on the season, after winning 200 games over the last two seasons, including the club's first World Series championship in 108 years last fall.

The plan Dey and his companion, USGA President John D. Ames, crossed the seas to place before their British counterparts, the governors of Scotland's Royal and Ancient Golf Club at St. Andrews, was the establishment of a world championship amateur golf tournament, which would bring amateur teams from all the interested nations of the world together once every other year.

Professional bicycle racing was at its peak in the United States when Marshall Walter (Major) Taylor, one of eight children of a Negro Civil War veteran, won the 1899 world championship and the U.S. title a year later.

In the finals of last year's world championships, Jiang was down 21 - 14, 11 - 6 to Sweden's Jan - Ove Waldner when they played a remarkable point.

Last year (in my last year at junior level), I came 6th in the British U19 Junior Championships, 11th in the English U19 Junior Championships and 35th in the British U19 Junior Open which is similar to the world championships for squash.

Hot on the heels of Maurice Greene, the 2000 Olympic100 - meter champion, and Leonard Scott, the»06 world 60 - meter champ, zips46 - year - old Willie Gault, a former Tennessee hurdler and member of the 4 √ ó100relay team that set the world record at the»83 world championships.

SKIING — NORWAY took five gold medals in the world Nordic championships in Oslo as BJORN WIRKOLA, a 22 - year - old shipping clerk, won both the Holmenkollen Hill special 90 - meter and the 70 - meter jumps, and 24 - year - old GJERMUND EGGEN took two individual cross-country gold medals — the 50 kilometer and 15 - kilometer — and anchored the winning 40 - kilometer relay team (page 51).

Jenny, 16, and Dragonfire Kublakhan, her 8 - year - old Morgan gelding, won the world championship in dressage for Morgans and Grand National gold medals in dressage and hunt seat over fences, both in Oklahoma City.

But there is a new behemoth in the National League Central in the Chicago Cubs, who captured their first World Series championship in 108 years on Thursday night.

Ginobili is one of this season's most anticipated rookies, a 25 - year - old slasher who led Argentina to its upset of the U.S. at the world championships this summer.

He probably won't earn a berth on this year's Olympic team, but, says Bruins throws coach Art Venegas, «this is a guy who could medal at the»97 and»99 world championships and could win a gold at the Olympics in 2000.»

«I was at a crossroads; the -LSB-» 99] world championships were coming up, followed by an Olympic year, and my Nike contract [a three - year deal signed in» 96] was up for renewal,» Miller says.

Led by Ruth, who runs his record streak of scoreless World Series innings to 292/3, the Red Sox win their fourth world championship in seven yWorld Series innings to 292/3, the Red Sox win their fourth world championship in seven yworld championship in seven years.

At last year's world championships only one American, Jennifer Parilla (16th), placed among the top 25 men or women.

The powers of amateur golf got a surprise in Mexico City when four unheralded Australians, led by a 43 - year - old scrambler, played it cool and quiet and confounded the favorites in a world championship

His career highlights at S.I. include road trips in search of sports on the equator, the world's most dangerous sport and Roman gladiators as the first sports superstars, a lengthy meditation on Don King's hair, the second - ever descent of Africa's Zambezi River, a weighty essay on the 580 - pound sumo wrestler Konishiki, an investigation into the questionable around - the - world run by Robert Garside, a look inside the mind games at the 1987 world chess championship between Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov in Seville, Spain, three weeks in the Sahara covering the 2002 Paris - to - Dakar Rally, a trudge through Panama's Darien jungle retracing Vasco Núñez de Balboa's 1513 expedition, and a journey into the world of Jeopardy! His essay on George Steinbrenner and the New York Yankees» line of succession was called the «scoop of the year» in the 2008 Houghton - Mifflin collection The Best American Sports Writing.

The Cavaliers were getting their championship rings a couple hundred feet away from where the Indians were trying to win their first World Series in 68 years.

Peggy Fleming, an 18 - year - old beauty from Colorado Springs who looks as fragile as a Viennese chandelier, waltzed her way with skillful ease to her second world figure - skating championship

A spectacular kickoff return in the first quarter set up the Philadelphia Eagles» first world championship in 11 years, but a stubborn unyielding defense made the run count

I think that as a 24 - year - old player who has played in the Champions League, played a quarter - final of the World Cup, took part in championships in Spain, France, England, Greece, Portugal, he has a very important background.

The 30 - year - old has won four world championships in skiing and also a Winter Olympics gold medal.

Yet there were 39 women from 13 countries at last year's world championships — more than those at the world championships for women's skeleton (26 from 13), which was added for the 2002 Games.

This year's all - star exhibition is Glendale, Ariz., where the New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks will meet with the world championship on the line a week later.

The Astros will win their first - ever championship, or the Dodgers will end their near 30 - year championship drought, as their last World Series appearance and victory came back when Orel Hersisher, who last pitched in 2000, was the same age Clayton Kershaw is now.

The World Cup finals were held in Argentina that year, and the home team won the championship before an adoring crowd.

Well, the Dodgers did win a division title last year, and the 1984 Tigers won a world championship without even one game started by a lefthander.

NBC signed a three - fight deal with Carbajal in November, and Arum, who has a two - year promotional contract with Carbajal, thinks he can become the first boxer of his weight class to win a million - dollar purse and only the second American ever to win a world championship in the 15 - year history of the junior, or light, flyweight division.

«If something happens,» says U.S. wrestler Patricia Miranda, a silver medalist at last year's women's world championships, «I can say I wasn't the idiot who was out alone at 11:30 p.m. with an American flag on my head.»

Sue Gillespie, 17, a winsome, blue - eyed blonde from Portland, Ind. who started pitching horseshoes three years ago, won her second world championship in Greenville, Ohio.

Carmen Basilio,jug - eared little puncher who won world welterweight championship by knockingout Tony DeMarco last June, was choice of New York Boxing Writers» Associationfor its annual Edward J. Neil «Fighter of the Year» award.