Sentence examples for beating the point from inspiring English sources

Rewarding football teams for beating the point spread would give players perverse incentives to manipulate expectations rather than to win games.

Many popular N.F.L. teams beat the point spread in 2012.

Rote remembered how his fellow Texans had bet heavily on S.M.U. to beat the point spread.

On November 13 , 1982 15 year old Scott Safran of Cherry Hill, New Jersey, set a world record of 41,336,440 points on the arcade game Asteroids, beating the 40,101,910 point score set by Leo Daniels of Carolina Beach on February 6 , 1982

There is a very slim line between Batman beating Ra's to the ground and leaving him on the train "unsaved," and Batman beating the Joker to the point he falls and then "saving" him.

"The police started beating the journalists and pointing the gun at those who managed to escape".

Conlan boxed cleverly to prevent Qais Ashfaq from re-opening the inch long gash, beating the Englishman on points in an entertaining bantamweight contest.

The Green Bay Packers were a 14-point favorite before beating the Patriots by 14 points in Super Bowl XXXI.

Halftime is almost over -- the Lakers are beating the 76ers by 5 points -- and Samaha rushes back to his seat.

The fund rose an annual 15% over ten years, beating the S&P by four points.

Over the past three years the fund has clocked an annual 12.8% return, beating the S&P by 1.3 points.