Sentences with phrase «year of a major tournament»

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The NCAA Tournament is a major source of advertising revenue for television, generating more than $ 1 billion per year in ad sales.

In October 2015, rumors surfaced that the company was in talks to buy Major League Gaming, a well - known organizer of video game tournaments, though Activision (atvi) ultimately acquired the company earlier this year for $ 46 million.

Although The Players Championship is not an official major, it's considered one of the biggest golf tournaments of the year due to its stacked field and tradition on the PGA Tour.

Osaka has made it to the third round of every Major tournament this year at just 19 years old.

Lastly, there was Dennis Ralston, winner of no major tournaments, semifinalist at Wimbledon and Forest Hills last year, perennial close - but - not - quite.

The youngster is now a fully fledged England international and is set to make his second major tournament appearance at next year's World Cup in Russia as he hits the tender age of 20.

Maybe because the Welsh have been punching above their weight recently and have not qualified for the World Cup since 1958 and only one major tournament in the donkey's years will make their loss to the Republic of Ireland in the crucial final qualifier a little easier to bear, but I doubt it.

That is there is only one summer every two years where you aren't committed to a major tournament of some sorts.

Finally free of the pain that last year forced him to end his streak of playing in consecutive majors at 145, Nicklaus came to the Bell Atlantic to shake out the cobwebs and get his game in some kind of shape for his own tournament, next week's Memorial, and two weeks after that, the U.S. Open at Pinehurst.

She did that very nicely at the Nabisco, winning her third straight tournament, her third major and the 26th title of her 7 1/2 - year pro career.

The Red Dragons have qualified for their first major tournament in 57 years and will fancy their chances of claiming a famous scalp, with a motivated squad pulling around the talismanic Gareth Bale.

His playing partner, Tiger Woods, swept to his Tour - leading fifth victory of the year, though none have come in the tournaments that matter most to him, the majors.

Unfortunately there's been a shortage of buzz surrounding the majors this year without Woods, but there should be plenty of hype for this one as this is just the second tournament since March that he's has competed in.

This is still the same guy, of course, who said at this same tournament five years ago that he was never good enough to win any major:

So that's how you end up with a Tournament of Champions that's missing the winner of three of the four majors from last year.

The tournament will be missing a number of major names this year however with former Champions Ken Doherty, Steve Davis and Peter Ebdon all failing to make it through the qualifying rounds.

A good omen for the 33 - year - old, and the rest of Didier Deschamps» talented squad, is that France have won two major tournaments when playing on home soil — Euro 1984 and the 1998 World Cup.

Last year Martin Kaymer won this tournament at +4000 odds and there have been a number of big longshots to take the win in this major.

Phase 4 is next and will bring brand new windscreens with our logo, new fencing, a water jug filler, new ice machine and another major project which has not been approved yet!!!!! Hunter has served on the Board of Directors for the USTA for 10 years and has been on the Junior Council and adult tournament committees as well as the committee that hired the Executive Director.

Wales, inspired by Real Madrid star Gareth Bale, have reached a major tournament for the first time in 58 years, but most surprising of all perhaps was the fate of the Netherlands; the third placed side at the last World Cup failed to even make the play - offs, finishing fourth in Group A.

Bale was directly involved in nine of Wales» 11 goals during qualifying for Euro 2016, and he scored in every group game as Wales reached the semi-finals in the first major tournament they had qualified for in almost 60 years.

Meanwhile tournament hosts the Netherlands» achievement in winning their first major female football title, the 2017 Women's European Championship, was recognised with Women's Coach of the Year and Player of the Year awards for Sarina Wiegman and Lieke Martens respectively.

Expected Lineups: Norther Ireland made history winning their first ever match in major tournament in about 30 years when they got the better of Ukraine.

Snap Shot: Group C looks to be an interesting mix of teams that has everything from the tournament favorite (Spain), a team playing their first EURO in 24 years (Ireland), and a side caught in the middle of major match fixing allegations (Italy).

Dutch football is clearly at a low ebb, with one of the game's great nations facing up to watching a second successive major tournament at home after failing to qualify for Russia 2018, two years after missing out on Euro 2016.

I have watched 9 - 10 year - old baseball and softball, Little League Majors (11 - 12 year - olds) All - Stars and Honors teams, 13 - 14 year - old baseball on 80 foot and 90 foot diamonds, a college exposure fastpitch softball tournament, and joined my dad for an evening of USA Softball vs. Portland All - Stars on their pre-Olympic «Bound for Beijing» tour.

The hard work you put in is given back to you many times over when you are watching athletes at the peak of their fitness achieve the dreams they have held onto for years in a major competition or tournament.

we were a bit bummed last year when we went to the pebble beach for the US Open, they shut down all the major roads because of the tournament so we couldnt sitesee... but I guess the golf course wasn't so bad;) what a wonderful venue for a wedding!

The All Star Event is the final major League of Legends tournament of the year, in which the world's favourite players will battle it out over four days.

The event marked the last major fighting game tournament for the year, and possibly the last one before the arrival of the Street Fighter V for the PS4 and PC.

The son of a lawyer (Brett Rice, channelling Ned Beatty) and a harridan (Clara Jones), Bobby, because he was sickly, irritatingly fey, and dangerously over-protected as a child, becomes a great golfer, and, taking a moment to marry Nurse Grimace (Claire Forlani) while at Georgia Tech, continues onwards in his quest to become the first man in history to win the PGA's four major tournaments in one calendar year «Grand Slam.»

The city boasts truly world - class surfing, is home to the European headquarters of major surf labels including Quicksilver and Billabong, and plays host to the Quiksilver / Roxy Jam surf tournament each year — so it's not surprising that surfers flock there in search of the perfect wave.

«We have many years of experience working at major and varied sporting events so fans will be able see and live the tournament experience while safe in the knowledge that they are in very capable hands.

Its relatively bare schedule of major releases throughout the year only kicked off in March, and though Pokken Tournament turned out surprisingly well, a slightly - tuned HD remaster of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess wasn't exactly the kind of release to attract new buyers (even if that remaster was pretty damn good).

Major tournaments on college campuses, massive LAN parties that filled apartments and houses with Xboxes and TV's were a common sight for many years during the reign of Halo and Halo 2.

While these are far and few first party games and exclusives, for the rest of the year, the Switch will see major games that are multiplatform, such as FIFA, WWE, Rocket League, and NBA2K, in addition to more first party titles, such as Mario and Rabbids Kingdom Battle, Pokken Tournament DX, Super Mario Odyssey, and Xenoblade Chronicles 2.

The game's plot continues from the first game, featuring the next Mortal Kombat tournament set in the otherdimensional realm of Outworld, with the Outworld and Earthrealm representatives fighting each other on their way to challenge the evil emperor Shao Kahn.The game was an unprecedented commercial success and was acclaimed by most critics, receiving many annual awards and having been featured in various top lists in the years and decades to come, but also perpetuating a major video game controversy due to the continuously over-the-top violent content of the series.

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