Sentence examples for improbable weekend from inspiring English sources

With the entire home Olympic experience threatening to turn rather giddily medal-coloured in the glow of an improbable weekend of athletic success, there was something resembling a rush for the exits on Monday afternoon as four British teams left their home Olympics within the space of an hour and a half – and not just these Olympics but perhaps even all Olympics.

Mike Lopresti of USA Today relishes how parity walked in through the front door this year, Mark Schlabach of ESPN.com runs down all the improbable happenings of the weekend, and Dan Wetzel of Yahoo.com recoils at CBS's unintentional snub of Northern Iowa (using the television identifier No Iowa) and proposes it should be Yes Iowa.

In the midst of the ongoing conflict in Gaza, which escalated over the weekend, an improbable and heartwarming story is unfolding.

In the moments after Denver upset the Pittsburgh Steelers in the weekend's most improbable playoff game, Fox was asked what he would have thought if someone had told him at the start of the season that he would be in this position now.

So I add to my toast an impromptu announcement, unauthorized but, I'm hoping, true: that Mike and Jenny have graciously agreed to host the second annual live-fire weekend next summer, thereby turning our improbable experiment into a tradition.

They'll have fans around the country rooting for them as an improbable No. 11 seed in the final weekend.

THE MATCHUP The biggest question entering the Final Four weekend will be if George Mason can continue its improbable run.

While he has not given up hope of masterminding an improbable escape with only 10 games remaining, his main objective this weekend is to restore the faith of the club's disgruntled supporters.

The whole weekend combines the atmosphere of a family-friendly rave with the improbable culinary logistics of a biblical miracle.

Unless Oracle mounts an improbable comeback, a summer's worth of racing may be down to its final weekend.

Scores of pedestrians have congregated in front of news stands after weekends for updates as the Foxes inched closer and closer to this most improbable feat.