Sentence examples for capture the cup from inspiring English sources

He is currently in South Africa, where his country, Ivory Coast, is attempting to capture the Cup of Nations.

Despite their dominating position -- Prada needs to win five of seven races to capture the cup -- the New Zealanders are maintaining a low-key attitude.

And I believe that unless the United States goes on to capture the cup, soccer will once again become the sport that almost every youngster plays and almost no adult talks about.

Challenger Emirates New Zealand only needs to win three more races to capture the cup, while Oracle must win 11.

You can root for hockey almost anywhere in the U.S. and Canada and have a shot at seeing a local team capture the Cup.

Perhaps those opinions were based on the fact that Western Conference teams had captured the cup the past four years.

Until Ellison won the Cup in February, an American-owned team had not captured the Cup in nearly 20 years.

He has a number of memorable playoff hits, like the one on Slava Kozlov against Detroit in 1995, when the Devils captured the cup.

After things started up again, it was Jacques Lemaire's neutral-zone-trapping Devils who captured the Cup, ushering in an era of stifling defense and tedium on the ice.

In 1967, the yacht Intrepid captured the Cup for the New York Yacht Club, and Mr. Chance was subsequently hired to design a so-called trial horse — a development boat to test design elements — for a French team that was preparing to challenge Intrepid in 1970.

The first professional competition came one month later during the Wanderers' two-game, total goals challenge series, which they won 17 goals to 5. The smallest municipality to produce a Stanley Cup champion team is Kenora, Ontario; the town had a population of about 4,000 when the Kenora Thistles captured the Cup in January 1907.