| Chess' popularity was boosted in the 1980s by championship duels between Gary Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov. |
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| The final of the Buster Under-19 basketball championship ended this year's Inter-Secondary School Sports program with a bang! |
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| Now he is ready, willing and able to face up to anything the championship can throw at him. |
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| Were the Gods contriving to do us down once more on the major stage of a Munster championship day? |
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| It was the Czechs' seventh win in nine world championship games against its neighbor. |
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| George Jackson successfully defended his seniors championship for old codgers over the age of fifty. |
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| At the championship the Bulgarian team will defend its titles in the heavy categories, which are scheduled for the end of the week. |
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| Two of last year's under-14 squad made their championship debuts and both players acquitted themselves extremely well. |
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| Certainly he was as shredded, and even bigger, than at his two pro championship victories earlier in the year. |
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| For those keeping count, the Welshman has accumulated 23 major championship medals. |
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| The sponsorship of the hurling championship is up for renegotiation next year. |
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| Earnhardt compares the chemistry to what he developed with Kirk Shelmerdine, who crewed for four of Earnhardt's championship seasons. |
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| A championship classic never materialised although both sides entered spells of entertaining football. |
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| She won four gold medals in different events at the championship and returned home triumphant. |
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| Commiserations to the seniors who lost the quarter final championship match to Moorefield on Sunday evening in Newbridge. |
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| Since then there have been 13 Olympic or world championship 100m races and 39 medals won. |
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| They also contested the opening match of the inaugural Asian test championship at Calcutta. |
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| She beat elder sister Venus in the championship matches at the French and US Opens and Wimbledon last year. |
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| These people deserve to be on a team that is gonna compete for the championship and have a chance to win races. |
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| The aim of the championship golf tournament is to promote youth golfing in the region. |
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| The slim hope of a final day denouement for the championship next weekend slipped away slowly in the second half. |
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| The hurling championship next year features the losers' group, which will see Galway entering at a much earlier stage than heretofore. |
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| A couple of months later, he proved he was indeed the king of rapid chess when he won the World rapid championship at Cap d' Agde. |
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| Sixty clubs throughout England competed for the championship title, sending their best athletes forward. |
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| They played hard, they made mistakes, but they were missing the X factor that makes championship teams. |
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| Ready, steady, go! As the teams line up for the new season, we run the rule over all the contenders in our comprehensive championship preview. |
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| But are we really training to be able to defeat a championship karateka, a professional boxer, or an Olympic wrestler? |
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| Prior to this, we had six game competitions, the interprovincial championship and the European Cup, and there was little room for that to happen. |
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| This is basically an even matchup, a toe-to-toe slugfest of a heavyweight championship battle in the making. |
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| Team selection was based on the top, consistent scores notched up by UK kneeboarders based on this year's national championship results. |
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| Although the championship may mark the pinnacle of Neil's career his rise to stardom has not been an overnight one. |
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| Indiana are the clear favorites to bring a championship back to the Eastern conference. |
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| At the time, the league had only 14 teams, and it would be seven years until the championship was dubbed the Super Bowl. |
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| Pakistanis have regularly won the world championship in squash, a court game similar to racquetball. |
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| This was a clean sweep by the Ulster side who remained undefeated in all of their championship matches. |
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| The West Sligo junior championship divisional final will be decided on Bank Holiday Monday. |
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| The team was also delighted to learn that a future world arm-wrestling championship would be held in Manchester. |
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| Forget the 43-year drought and three straight flameouts in the NFC championship game. |
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| Hopefully that will have happened, but if not brace yourself for another very extended championship season. |
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| Were the Gods contriving to do us down once more on the major stage of the championship day? |
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| Colorado coach Gary Barnett poor-mouthed his team before the Big 12 championship game as well as Lou Holtz ever did. |
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| It is superbly located, in the least developed part of Macau, next to a championship golf course. |
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| These are the basic exercises that have been used to build championship physiques year after year. |
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| This Pacific division championship was followed by two decisive routs in the Canada West final four. |
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| The Greek national soccer team was not the only team to shock odds makers with a dramatic championship victory. |
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| They spend hours scouring the wires and trolling for trade partners in search of the final piece in a championship run. |
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| So England's men's championship drought continues beyond its 68th year or whatever! |
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| There is no doubt that we want to do well and of course we will try and win the championship if that is possible. |
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| She's a genius, a man-hater and the head drum major for our state wide championship marching band. |
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| He won five British championship titles and competed on the Grand Prix circuit for seven years during an impressive riding career. |
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| Whether it was senior championship or junior events, the trio had shut out the other nations to take the first three slots. |
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| The league is considered semi-pro, with some teams, like the championship squad of local Grenadians, displaying scary skills. |
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| He was odds-on to win a seventh championship despite controversy ahead of the 2004 turf season, but lost out to Frankie Dettori. |
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| Even so, Taylor said that the playoffs are a new season and the team is striving for a national championship despite being labelled as underdogs. |
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| He is also athletic enough to have played both ways at college football's highest level, starting at flanker on a national championship team. |
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| In all football championship matches the referee must have his own umpires and official linesmen and a standby referee are also appointed. |
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| I will go on trying to wrest the championship from his grasp and I still have age on my side. |
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| In 1972 the two had fought out an epic duel for the Open championship at Muirfield. |
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| Last year the calculator almost denied Shanahoe a place in the championship semi-final, but by a percentage point they got the nod. |
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| For the second successive year Driffield-based hunter breeders Michael and Jeryl Grubb landed the county championship for home-bred brood mares. |
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| The former European heavyweight boxing champion wears his championship medals round his neck, lest anyone should forget. |
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| City Arms added to their division one championship win by cleaning up all the competition trophies on offer. |
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| Willie is among Mayo's most ardent supporters and is a regular at all National Football League and championship games. |
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| Durham dodged the showers to record their first championship win at Chester-le-Street for two years when they beat Derbyshire by 30 runs. |
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| When the teams last met in the championship last year both teams wore their traditional colours of predominantly green. |
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| Posting spectacular times during the prelims and semifinals, Crocker entered the championship race as the favorite. |
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| But the championship got off to an inauspicious start with the tsunami wreaking havoc on the Kollam coast on the inaugural day. |
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| What we've got is the best touring car championship in the world and now we are exporting it to the world. |
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| This was his sixth championship match and he failed by only two runs to record his fourth century. |
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| The hotel conservatory and bedroom balconies have views over the fairways of the Lundin and Leven championship golf links. |
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| Last year's centenary championship elevated the sport to unprecedented heights, with over 100,000 members and more clubs registered than ever. |
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| North Carolina's boatload of elite prospects might form a championship team. |
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| The colt uncorked a devastating far turn run to sweep past the field and win by five lengths, earnings championship honors. |
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| The nation's No.1 team was a national championship novelty, a one-hit wonder led by the quarterback with the funny name. |
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| Our objective this year is to win a race even if we have to compromise our championship position somewhat, we will make the trade-off. |
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| After all, India had done well in the Asian Under-20 championship by qualifying for the final round. |
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| He established his championship mettle as the defensive heart and soul of the team. |
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| Rangers striker Peter Lovenkrands has warned arch-rivals Celtic that he is hungry for their Scottish championship crown. |
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| But if the team is left out of next year's European championship prospects will be significantly dimmed. |
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| Zambia has met Egypt in the final qualifier of the biennial championship and will play the first leg at home. |
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| The means may well have undershot her individual expectations for championship glory, but the ends were pure sweetness. |
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| Both teams have impressed at championship level in recent years and to be fair, both deserve the ultimate accolade of outright champions. |
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| Even now the disappointment prevails, ten days after our exit from the All-Ireland hurling championship at the semi-final stage. |
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| There was no question of Eriksson walking out on England before or during the European championship finals. |
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| Injury and illness to Fallon, the six-time title-holder, saw him concede the championship with three weeks still to go. |
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| A victory will give one side a considerable edge in the championship race but defeat won't be the end for the loser. |
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| Things are a little different here, as I was to see in one of my first championship matches. |
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| The two rivals have been engaged in previous tough tussles for the national championship title. |
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| I remember he came back for the championship game and the coach put him in and I was really upset. |
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| Their defence of the Scottish championship may be surrendered before they kick another ball. |
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| There is one down and two to go for Inveraray after their intermediate championship victory at Oban yesterday. |
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| Two years ago its players created history, capturing the county championship for the first time ever. |
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| But he takes over from Mike Atherton for what could prove to be the most important championship match of the season against the title-holders. |
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| At no previous stage this season have Celtic had such a lead in the championship race. |
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| We are all accountable, especially me, and no stone will be left unturned to make sure we act like a team with championship ambitions. |
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| Such people are not notable for their championship of libertarian causes outside the economic field. |
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| Best wishes are extended to young Glynn Egan when he sportily defends his Munster boxing championship title at Fermoy. |
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| Celtic fulfilled a fixture and moved towards a successful defence of their championship yesterday. |
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| Manchester United's championship drought is over and the fences with the manager have been mended. |
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| Crowds flocked to world championship duels on the Wanganui River, in Sydney and on the Zambesi River. |
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| The men and women's national teams currently hold five of the seven major championship titles. |
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| The fact that we will be playing for the Big Ten championship should really commove the crowd. |
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| Regardless of the level, dual meets are exciting and championship meets bring major breakthroughs. |
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| That single point gave the Yorkshireman a vital eight championship points in the series. |
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| Although he has won the Pike Hills Scratch Trophy several times, the club championship had eluded him in the past. |
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| Petter Solberg clinched his first world rally championship by winning the Wales Rally GB on Sunday. |
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| When the counties squared up in the championship in Killarney, the outcome was an emphatic win for Kerry. |
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| The Laois housewife and mother won yet another senior national cross-country championship at the Aer Lingus Sports Centre on Sunday. |
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| So what drives them on in search of their fourth national championship title? |
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| The Honda rider now has deficit of 43 points in the championship standings. |
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| More pertinently, the respective performances suggest that neither side can be too confident going into the championship in a month's time. |
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| That would at least be in line with his long-established championship of lost causes. |
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| In part because the Pistons won the NBA championship with hard-working no-names last season, the summer has been a boom time for Bartelstein. |
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| Third was the climax of The Karate Kid, in which Ralph Macchio snatches championship victory with a few nifty moves. |
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| The first major championship for eight long months doubles as a meeting place for just about every golf official and important personage. |
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| The duck boats hugged the shore, giving fans an up-close view of the championship trophy and the players. |
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| I needed to find someone who knew the perplexities of managing championship greens. |
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| Turns out television ratings for the CBC's coverage of championship curling have been less than stellar. |
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| He had won the USTA super national hard court championship last year to win a wild card for the US Open. |
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| There was no stopping the Swazis in the second set in this championship and they won the third and fourth sets 25-21 and 25-16 respectively. |
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| The country also clinched the team championship despite stiff opposition from Vietnam and Myanmar. |
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| Kate was in the back of a stretch limo and she was being driven to the championship game. |
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| If you go to a world championship boxing match, you know, one of the boxers will come in inevitably thumping his fists in time with the drumbeat. |
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| We went into this game as complete underdogs but produced a performance of grit and determination in true championship fashion. |
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| It was the second time he has won a British championship race having being victorious last year in the Brecon Beacons. |
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| Bulgaria's new football championship season kicked off last weekend, implementing some interesting changes from past years. |
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| Heworth, who were champions in 1998, may mount a realistic challenge in a championship race. |
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| Waterford have included five seniors who played in the Munster championship against Tipperary and four subs in their team. |
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| Kildare horsewoman Frances Cash won her 7th supreme hunter championship at a sun-baked Dublin Horse Show yesterday. |
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| All of Philadelphia is hoping to end that poor town's championship drought. |
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| Almost exactly 48 hours later, as the championship finished in the dusk on Sunday, we had the answer. |
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| The heavyweight boxing championship in cricket has been underway for a week or so now. |
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| From breathtaking championship golf courses to canyoning and hydrospeeding there really is something for everyone. |
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| Tipperary crashed out of the Munster championship at the semi-final stage because their attack was weak and they didn't have a settled backline. |
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| Tom took the chequered flag in eighth place, gaining three points in the championship plus an extra point for leading the race. |
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| For the first time in years I attended a championship match not as a reporter but as a spectator. |
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| The national championship should be decided on the field by football players, not by the whims of the sports punditocracy. |
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| If he capitalizes and continues to ride high, his championship hopes are good. |
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| It's these inconsistencies that have left them way off the pace in the championship race. |
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| Menlo College, who was ranked fourth in the division, captured the championship for the first time ever. |
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| But it was day two that created the most interest when Canada and United States faced off in both the men's and women's championship eights. |
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| It was too little, too late but the home support were appreciative of the late heroics even if their championship dreams were over. |
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| His six wins in 2001 are the fewest in any of his championship seasons, but he led 100 or more laps in seven races he didn't win. |
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| The event Ugric Rumble will host the sixth world championship of Kalevala chanting. |
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| Until teatime, yesterday was a day without parallel for Europe's golfers in the first major championship of the year. |
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| They'll come second, but should really be staking a claim for a championship challenge. |
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| This year he managed the Irish Youths team which competed in the Euro championship in Poland. |
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| It was a desperately disappointing championship for the conglomerate of Scots. |
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| With the championship only around the corner, things are beginning to heat up. |
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| The British touring car championship always was the best and it always should be, but right now I'm not so sure. |
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| He was picked up by the touring cars championship and his elevation to the full factory squad this year has released his talent. |
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| Gary helps his local Australian Rules football team win the championship by accident. |
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| Rome has not been shorn of its potential for glory but Scotland must finish the championship on a high. |
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| The Inter Club waterpolo championship was the second tourney on the waterpolo calendar. |
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| The conclusive victory was narrow, but Celtic's command of the championship utterly emphatic. |
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| Every hoser and his brother knows tonight is the championship game of the World Cup of Hockey. |
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| If the champs choked in Pittsburgh, it would be the end of their 1912 championship bid. |
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| Just beyond the third green a new championship tee has been constructed on the fourth hole with the lake on the left now visible off the tee. |
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| What we're witnessing here in what was supposed to have been a championship season for Democrats is a potential train wreck. |
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| He's playing a high school coach who takes a misfit group of kids and turns them into a winning, championship ball club. |
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| The plain fact is, he kept the Giants afloat in a strange, uneven championship season. |
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| Back then retired champs used to go to and care about the big championship fights. |
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| Leeds, for all their excellent progress in the Champions League, can realistically kiss the league championship goodbye after this defeat. |
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| Based in Huggate on the wolds, Milner was making a welcome return to the championship after taking a year out of the sport. |
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| They say that retaining a county championship is a difficult task to say the least. |
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| Williams scored first, but it was Hunter who made the frame and championship winning contribution as he cleared a sizeable cluster of reds. |
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| He thought he had got their attention when he made the World championship semifinals. |
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| The German was branded a cheat and scratched from that year's drivers' championship for unsportsmanlike conduct. |
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| But he has now gone seven years without the world championship and has not indicated a serious intention to wind down, never mind quit. |
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| A world championship biking event is coming to England for the first time and will be staged in the local area. |
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| But we lost both matches in the championship and the league, and I didn't enjoy that one bit. |
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| In the world championship final in Paris she was left standing by a 67-second lap. |
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| He had his first race just two days after his sixth birthday at the world championship track near Swindon. |
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| In detail England looked like world-beaters as last season's championship kicked off with a 44-15 drubbing of Wales at the Millennium Stadium. |
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| I can still see that mighty frame of his winning crucial challenges in vital championship games. |
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| The championship regatta comprised eight races, with the best six results to count. |
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| The newcomers will be going all out to claim the team championship in a special six-a-side event. |
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| Manchester United have won through November in a manner that should presage a championship challenge. |
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| Richard Hardy showed his all-round ability by winning the second York Lightning championship with maximum points. |
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| The talk of moving the championship started last year and the rumours made the rounds this year as well. |
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| During his reign as manager, English helped Tipp to win one All-Ireland, one Munster championship and two National League titles. |
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| So my aim in the Asian championship was to play games that would be entertaining to the spectators. |
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| He hasn't looked happy so far in the championship at centre half-back and was miles off the pace in the frenetic first twenty minutes. |
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| Leicester move into fourth place but still have a lot of work to do to seal their place in the championship play-offs. |
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| The championship game was a rematch of last year's final, as it pitted the two top seeds against each other. |
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| For the first time, an NFL championship game would be decided in sudden-death overtime. |
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| Grammar chose to have an off day that did their championship hopes no good, and they will need to look to their laurels in the weeks ahead. |
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| The winner of each division would meet in a championship game at the end of the season. |
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| America's 4x100m team clinched world championship gold after anchorman JJ Johnson pipped Britain's Dwain Chambers on the line. |
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| Sweden finally beat Canada at the world ice hockey championship but there was no gold medal at stake on Saturday. |
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| What a sensational way to win a first ever county minor football championship title. |
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| Henry, the world championship silver medallist last year, has been happy to slipstream almost unnoticed. |
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| A member of two Super Bowl championship teams, Sanders ' shining moment in baseball came with the 1992 National League champion Braves. |
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| To pass 500 in your first innings but lose, and for a seventh time in eight championship games at that, is patently demoralising. |
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| We had a few battles a couple of years ago, but to do it in a major championship would be really something. |
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| She retired in 1997 with 14 singles, 20 doubles and three mixed doubles championship wins. |
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| I did enjoy one championship season as the starting left halfback on an undefeated team, but that was the high-water mark. |
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| He saved four more championship points serving at 5-6, finally winning the 24-point game when his opponent dumped a backhand into the net. |
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| The result was a 5-4 decision that gave Canada its first world championship in ice dancing. |
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| He had won the World championship and had qualified for Athens too, but did not make the Australian team after the selection trials. |
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| Wonderful for one so young, Noel will be eligible for that championship for two more years. |
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| He then captured the jockeys' championship in his second season with a record of 182 winners. |
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| These two titles in Barcelona take his world championship tally of titles to five. |
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| Cumbria team manager Roger Hackney said he felt the county championship was being downgraded. |
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| I watched both of the swimmers progress from age group athletes to junior championship qualifiers to national championship finalists. |
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| This championship soil may be virgin territory for the team and the city, but the player has been here before. |
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| Besides, I can't think of any university that boasts a championship 18-hole miniature golf course. |
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| World championship quarter-finalist Steve Foster will get another surprise visit before the most important fight of his life tonight. |
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| In 1964 he captured the heavyweight championship for the first time in a surprising sixth-round technical knockout of Sonny Liston. |
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| He regained fitness but not form, offering a series of ordinary performances in the championship run-in. |
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| Susannah, in between her sophomore and junior year at the time, had just won the Silver State barrel racing championship in Nevada. |
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| We did not manage to defend our championship title, but this tournament was really outstanding. |
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| He rejoined the race in sixth place but fought back to finish in fifth place and had to settle for picking up championship points. |
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| The sectional championship program will provide a niche and serve a purpose for a broader range of individuals and teams. |
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| World title and bronze medal was taken by Bulgarian wrestlers in Greco-Roman style at the championship in Moscow. |
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| Favourites Den Bosch from the Netherlands retained the championship with a 8-2 thrashing of Ukrainian side Kolos Borispol. |
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| The North Yorkshire side still have the opportunity to lift the championship and go into the game looking to return to the top of the division. |
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| There's no doubting the raw materials they have to construct a championship contender. |
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| They provided me with the best opportunity to be a competitive racer, and I never would have contended for the championship without them. |
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| Omagh were forced to play three championship matches in eight days in October. |
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| He has height and pace and is rated highly by the England management, but has not played a championship match since June. |
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| Victory at the Deutsche Bank championship lifts Singh to number one in the world rankings. |
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| If she claims an eighth crown over two laps, it would be a championship record. |
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| The host club are still involved in the Kildare senior championship and are making a determined effort for honours. |
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| Their league form has been inconsistent yet in the white heat of the championship they have produced some of their best moments. |
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| With two meetings and four races to go the championship is too close to call. |
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| Olympic hammer champion Szymon Ziolkowski of Poland set a new world championship record to win gold ahead of Asian record holder Koji Murofushi. |
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| The polytechnic won the championship shield, three gold medals, one silver medal and five bronze medals. |
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| And some of the names are real startlers, with world titles and championship medals to boot. |
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| It was a close contest, without doubt, and both men deserve credit for a decent heavyweight championship bout. |
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| Tommy swore to prove him wrong and went on to win the world exhibition dancing title in Paris and the regional British championship six years running. |
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| This was designed to protect the integrity of the championship because of the possibility of leading contenders being paired together in the first round. |
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| Yet, if tries were impossible to come by and this Irish side have still scored eight in the current championship there were some memorable moments in a bruising challenge. |
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| For the fourth consecutive year and for the seventh time in the past nine years the County Carlow Darts championship perpetual trophy rests in Ballon. |
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| Also a special word for Steve Bacon, who added to his recent heroics in the varsity match to ease his way to the singles cuppers championship as well. |
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| One could only pity Laois as they took a hammering from mighty Tipperary in the All Ireland senior hurling championship qualifiers at O'Moore Park Portlaoise on Saturday. |
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| He continues to outwork and outthink coaches half his age, and shows the same thirst for a potential record ninth championship ring that he did for his first. |
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| However, it is believed that he would be favourably disposed to carrying on in the position he has held for the last three championship campaigns. |
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| After their see-saw battles, which boxing fans regard as perhaps the best ever heavyweight championship series, Ali reached the status of athletic godhead. |
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| There are particular numbers that indicate which championship teams obliterated all contenders and which ones barely snatched the brass ring from their rivals. |
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| Michael Schumacher does not expect to run away with an eighth world championship when the new Formula One season begins in Melbourne, Australia, on Sunday. |
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| In the process of winning his second championship ring James may finally have rehabilitated his public image. |
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| A spate of postponements in the north left the morning's leaders Cove Rangers kicking their heels and allowed Huntly to move into pole position in the championship run-in. |
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| He said the players who went for last year's championship in Namibia complained that they could have finished better than sixth position had they been dressed properly. |
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| It has just sharpened their edge for the championship ahead. |
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| The affable Jim, who captained both East Kerry and UCC to county championship honours, has adapted to the small ball game with the greatest of ease. |
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| When C. P. Scott died, the innumerable tributes to him all emphasized his courage and integrity, his humanitarianism and his championship of unpopular causes. |
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| Each team of four women will earn points toward bragging rights of being named the championship team, plus championship buckles and other awards from sponsors. |
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| First, championship goalies are as scarce as square wooden pucks. |
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| In the end, the 69th National billiards championship held at the Hari Niwas Palace in Jammu will be remembered more for the boardroom tables than the green baize tables. |
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| Bingley's Rob Jebb, who lives at Staveley, was a disappointing ninth, four places behind his main challenger for the British championship title, Ian Holmes. |
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| The championship will include team events, singles and mixed doubles. |
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| Brgs has a long history of achievement in sport and has enjoyed recent success at national and county championship level in netball, basketball and orienteering. |
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| Cork and Galway have played nine championship games between them. |
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| He finished that season with only 270 runs from nine championship outings. |
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| They filled five of the top ten positions in the championship table. |
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| They have made a massive contribution to English cricket, but not recently, and more than 30 years have passed since they last took the championship pennant. |
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| The Minnesotan believes he has more major championship wins ahead of him. |
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| However, the Irishman was far from downhearted as he looked to a refreshing break and he claimed the destination of the championship was still in Celtic's hands. |
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| Clifton Hotel have finally got their nose in front in the race for the Sunday Afternoon League championship after a fine 3-1 win over York Police. |
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| Success isn't quantified by the millions in the bank but by the tally of drivers' championship titles and Formula One records which appear after his name. |
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| Harada took his 68-kilogram category with ease, and he used the tournament to wrestle his way into another all-American performance at the NAIA national championship final. |
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| England have qualified for the Euro 2004 championship finals, but it was a passage to sunny Portugal darkened by one of the most unedifying weeks in the game. |
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| United could ill afford to drop a point in the championship race but after Paul Scholes slammed them into a 15th minute lead that possibility was never on the agenda. |
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| With both teams preparing for the start of the championship on May 1, this game was a useful exercise in showing there is a lot of work to be done. |
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| With the school's championship finals looming and Jimmy's confidence in tatters once more, his dreams of being spotted by a City talent scout look distant. |
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| Today, as a fellow countryman challenges for the championship lead, he worries that the sport's decision to re-embrace computer aids could put drivers at risk in Monaco. |
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| He won the Yugoslavian chess championship a record 12 times. |
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| Despite constant pressure from New York City media and fans longing for an NBA championship after a 30-year drought, Thomas waxes positive on his team and his position. |
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| That was enough to lose him that world championship he desired. |
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| Maj. Gen. M.A.R. West, commanding commonwealth Division, ceremonially dropped the puck in the regimental championship game. |
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| So in the vein of March Madness, here are my picks for the Final Four of the 2014 GOP championship of crazy. |
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| En route to the 36-hole championship the 21-year-old Smith was involved in a collision in his car less than a chip shot away in distance from the entrance to the club. |
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| Shaquille was suspended for the Southeastern Conference championship game the following day. |
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| The first division championship race in the Horwath Pulleyn Heselton York Vale League is hotting up but Ovington maintained their lead after beating Stamford Bridge. |
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| Decisions will have to be made in relation to the various championship formats, and then of course there will be the championship draws to spice up the occasion. |
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| It is the foremost championship for talent spotters to seek future stars and with the Graduate Cup, people will find it easier to see the progress of emerging drivers. |
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| Four top-line car manufacturers are lining up to claim this year's DTM championship, recognised by many as the most prestigious touring car championship in the world. |
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| The victory augurs well for the upcoming championship in August. |
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| I cannot take the risk of relying on a player who has not displayed anything essential during the pre-season fixtures and the championship games in his club. |
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| Yesterday's meeting of the touring car championship was the first of 12 to be held at circuits throughout Britain, including Silverstone and Donington. |
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| To use a sports metaphor for a moment, the history of sports is littered with teams that had lots of individual stars on them, but never made it to the championship game. |
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| In CFA ragdolls compete in provisional classes, but they could become eligible for championship competition and full acceptance as a pedigreed breed as early as next year. |
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| We all know that there's no such thing as a free lunch but the monies involved in going to see your county in action in the championship isn't for the faint-hearted. |
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| In 1969 the Turkish Van was accepted for the championship show in Britain. |
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| A loss against India will mean the champions are out of the championship and their final league match against Bangladesh will be only of academic interest. |
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| If Celtic appear uncatchable in the championship by then, Advocaat is likely to begin long-term planning for his fourth and probably final season in Scotland. |
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| Despite all the bravery, determination and skill that saw Kildare so nearly bridge an unbridgeable gap, their interest in the championship is over. |
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| The 31-year-old set the pace throughout the race and finished strongly to cross the line in two hours 08.31 minutes, a new championship record time. |
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| He said that Ndhlovu did a lot for soccer in the country and the Charity Shield, the only unsponsored soccer championship in the country, was the best that came to FAZ's mind. |
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| It is close to the well-known local golf links and a new championship golf course which is currently under construction on the outskirts of the village. |
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| In 1898, U.S. Open champion Fred Herd, a renowned boozer, was asked to leave a deposit on the championship cup, because officials were afraid he'd hock it. |
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| There were some fine individual performances in the match with all the team acquitting themselves very well even though some were only making their championship debut. |
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| Mayo supporters probably didn't think so at the time but last years championship defeat by Sligo has worked out as a type of blessing in disguise. |
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| That win puts them into the divisional final for the first time in more than a decade and a half and has given this whole championship one massive lift. |
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| Watch championship sheepdog trials, flower arranging, traditional wrestling and show-jumping competitions, and admire prize-winning bulls, horses, chickens and dogs. |
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| Tom junior and Dermot have each won the point-to-point jockey's championship twice. The brothers have considerable experience, too, of showjumping and eventing. |
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| Now this weekend, the Inter Dominion harness racing championship winds up with the pacer's Grand Final, this year worth a record prize money of a million dollars. |
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| A golden opportunity to raise the profile of club rugby and bring what has been an intriguing and at times compelling championship to a dramatic conclusion has been missed. |
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| John's Call, the venerable gelding who rose from obscure steeplechase races to two Grade 1 victories and the brink of a championship at the age of nine, has come to an end. |
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