By the time the game clock had reached nine minutes Wales had a 10-point lead, Rhys Webb having nipped round the outside to score a try that will have infuriated England's front row.
By the time the game clock ticked down to 6 32 left, Stanford was down ten.
Pity Eli Manning, the quarterback of the New York Giants, who, in a recent fourth quarter, became addled by the laws of the game clock and inadvertently left the Dallas Cowboys time for a game-winning drive.
In the second (Markov), we draw an inter-arrival time from the empirical distribution of such gaps (shown in Figure 2), advance the game clock by that amount, and generate a scoring event at that clock time.
With only 4 25 remaining and a lead well in hand, Stanford began running down the clock by executing running plays, which keep the game clock running as long as the ball carrier is downed in the field of play.
In possession of the ball and a large lead, Virginia Tech proceeded to start running out the clock by executing running plays, which do not halt the game clock at their conclusion as do incomplete passing plays.
Television replays provided by the Knicks on Friday supported their claim that the game clock and the 24-second shot clock stopped in each instance, when the Nets were attempting to score.
During this time, Tech concentrated on running out the clock by executing multiple running plays, which do not stop the game clock, unlike passing plays.
But as the time spun off the game clock, and with the Knicks down by 2 points, Sprewell found the kind of mismatch seen on an asphalt court.
But for the ensuing faceoff, the game clock was reset to 7.6 seconds, perhaps noticed by those at Madison Square Garden but missed by the NBC Sports Network's live feed.
