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Resting the starters is the substitution of regular players on a sports team with backup players, and it occurs when a team has clinched at least a playoff berth, often its division, and in many cases, home advantage, and no further regular season losses would hurt the team in the standings (or, inversely, if the team has been eliminated from playoff contention and has nothing further to gain ...
The team with the best overall record ignoring interleague play. The team with the best record in the final 81 games of the season, ignoring interleague play. The team with the best record in the final 82 games of the season, continue one game back until the tie is broken (since teams in the same division play each other as many as 19 times ...
The team with the best record in the final 81 intraleague games of the season. The team with the best record in the final 82 intraleague games of the season (provided the game added is not between the tied teams), continue one game back until the tie is broken (Interleague games are skipped and ignored in this process.)
Volpe's grand slam brings NY back to life: Yankees 5, Dodgers 2. NEW YORK - If a bullpen game is something of a house of cards, it finally came tumbling down in the third inning of World Series ...
Navy quarterback Kaipo-Noa Kaheaku-Enhada puts the ball over the goal line for a two-point conversion at the 2007 Poinsettia Bowl. In gridiron football, a two-point conversion, two-point convert, or two-point attempt is a play a team attempts instead of kicking a one-point conversion immediately after it scores a touchdown.
1. New Orleans was supposed to get Super Bowl III, in which the New York Jets upset the Baltimore Colts, in part as a thank you to two Louisiana politicians who played a big role in the AFL-NFL ...
The Hornets hold a 2-5 record this season and have lost three straight, including back-to-back losses to the Celtics. The Hornets went just 21-61 last season and missed the playoffs for an eighth ...
Often, an eliminated team will now have the opportunity to play the role of spoiler – that is, possibly eliminate one or more teams from contention that had a chance to make the playoffs (especially if they were "on the bubble," or holding one of the lowest qualifying positions while still in contention and, as a result, their own ...