Sentence examples for failing team from inspiring English sources

As of the past week, he was captain of a failing team.

LeMond claimed he had sacrificed his own chances of overall victory that day to drop back and aid his failing team leader.

Ramsey played in both games and in 30 other international matches, on three occasions as England's captain.In 1955 he became manager of Ipswich, a failing team in eastern England.

Fenway Sports Group inherited a failing club, and Dalglish inherited a similarly failing team, but neither has made the progress either wanted, and that is the reason his second spell as Liverpool manager has now come to an end.

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Both South Florida and Tampa Bay had fought for years to draw big-league baseball here, either by luring a failing team into relocations or through expansion, but neither team has built a loyal fan base, the key to survival.

Propper's answer to hockey's problems is eliminating four to six failing teams.

In a statement, the N.C.A.A. questioned the Knight Commission's analysis, saying that its own calculations found that no more than 20 percent of revenue went to such failing teams.

Purists suggest that failing teams are simply poorly run and that if they moved to other, more baseball-friendly cities, they might attract bigger audiences.

As the N.F.L. wades through Black Monday — the day 12 teams get ready for the playoffs, and a bunch of others pull a shroud over their latest incarnations — owners of failing teams found themselves squirming nearly as much as their coaches.

The main obstacles according to the professionals were: lack of clarity of the guidelines, lack of knowledge and failing team-communication.