Had Hoyer not found Hawkins for the 28-yard gain, Cleveland's odds of winning would have dropped to 37percentt needing a 50 plus yard field goal for the win.
The Treasury, rather, hopes to release as few details as possible, lest markets gain information at odds with the increasingly rosy scenario that the administration, the Fed, and the banks themselves are painting.
Chris Evans took over the Radio 2 breakfast show from Terry Wogan and, against all the odds, gained 1.5m listeners, only to lose most of them six months later.
Under her leadership the party achieved important electoral gains against difficult odds in the 2004 general elections, which earned her the nickname "Queen of Elections" in the media.
If your best friend gains weight, your odds of piling on the pounds triples, even if her kitchen is hundreds of miles away.
The prospect of financial loss affects people more acutely than that of financial gain, even if the odds are the same.
Rush cites Australian films such as Snowtown and Bran Neu Dae as innovative work that has been able to beat the odds and gain exposure.
But I have never seen anything in her of the egotism, narcissism, and ambition that usually characterize the person who welcomes journalistic notice in the belief that he can beat the odds and gain control of the narrative.
Even if a founder is able to gain traction against these odds, scaling is hard because of poor infrastructure, an ill-suited financial sector and uncertainty in the legal and political contexts.
But, of course, the tournament has yet to begin, Kentucky has yet to gain entry, and the odds don't favor the traditional powerhouse anyway.
