If Bath could beat Toulon, they may even clinch a home quarter-final.
The Red Storm must win two of their remaining four games to even clinch a National Invitational Tournament bid.
They did not even clinch a playoff berth until the day of their 81st game, blowing the Pacific Division title in the final week of the season.
The Giants could even clinch a playoff berth with a loss next week if Detroit loses at Giants Stadium to the Jets.
The final voiceover, in which the mystery of the title is revealed, resolves perhaps too easily its dissonant music into a euphonious clinch, and might even borrow unconsciously from Sam Mendes's American Beauty, a movie whose price in the reputation stock-market is bearish.
We would like to add the role of the New Ballard Scoring and, as they may help clinch the diagnosis, even where suggestive fortuitous circumstances as in this case (distinct marker separating the two fertilizations in the form of bleeding on implantation of first ovum) are not available.
And that is before Mr Obama has even clinched the Democratic nomination.
And the Cowboys walloped the Eagles, 24-0, and even clinched the home-field advantage for a rematch this week.
Tony La Russa insists the Cardinals have not clinched the pennant even though it is impossible for anyone to beat them.
