Nine is not enough for team to raise the bar
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Boston College arrived in the Orange Bowl looking to record its 10th win of the season and bronze its legacy as one of the school's elite teams.
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it does not go on for ever. The Blues have stormed to the top of the Premiership while Arsenal are battling to hang on to their coat-tails.
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The New Jersey Institute of Technology menâs basketball team has not been able to overcome substantial obstacles and has lost more games than all but two N.C.A.A. Division I teams.
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Sports Authority's partial reports can't hide dismal numbers.
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Hate to be blunt Pack fans, but your club is a bad team that richly deserves to be three games under .500 for the first time since November 1992.
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San Diego -- The sports cliche about taking them one game at a time does not apply in a final-week drive for the playoffs. That, the players say, is looking too far ahead.
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It was not enough for Arsenal to make their mark by pulling level with Nottingham Forest&#39;s record of 42 League matches undefeated.
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THERE is a need for this Australian team to be challenged. At the moment, it is so imperiously successful it can do what it likes when it likes and to whom it likes.
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Latest from the fourth Test as Australia are struggling to chase the 107 they need to win.
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The number 23 has become a benchmark for the Knicks. Last season, the number represented futility as they only won 23 games. This season, it inspires hope.
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Five seniors on a basketball team is usually a mark of experience. But for two-time defending Division 4 champion Cathedral, that isn't the case.
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The Knicks have discovered how to be competitive. They just have not figured out how to make the plays that matter most.
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What it doesn&#39;t have is a front office for said team, a permanent stadium, an actual owner, or a radio-television contract to broadcast games.
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Scoring is nice. So are defense, consistency, and staying in games. But not if they're coming in losing efforts.
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Overcoming a poor history can be tough in sports. Keeping a strong team consistently on top might be even harder.
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FOXBOROUGH - For a team that has rampaged through its first eight games and was coming off a 52-7 victory over the Redskins yesterday, the words seemed a bit misplaced.
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TAMPA -- Perhaps it would be foolish to consider last night's match against the Tampa Bay Lightning a must-win game.