In Africa, Burkina Faso and Gabon kept up their unlikely march on World Cup places with key wins.
"Snake & Mongoose" documents, sometimes languidly, how the men capitalized on key wins in major National Hot Rod Association events and took their rivalry to match races at what McEwen remembers as badly lighted, bumpy tracks around the country.
Da'Shena Stevens, a junior forward who is averaging 12.1 points and 6.5 rebounds, said, "We fought when we had to and got some key wins that we had to get".
But if there was a process to reopen and reduce the 17 proposed goals, key wins which were only included as part of a grand bargain – issue areas such as governance – would be likely to be the first to be discarded.
That combination of factors made the screenplay by (deep breath) Alejandro González Iñárritu, Nicolas Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris and Armando Bo a formidable contender for this award even before key wins from the producers' and actors' guilds boosted Birdman's overall standing in the race.
In more than 20 years with Frankfurt, however, Nikolov's coaches repeatedly pushed him aside, only to slide him back into the starting lineup and watch him lead his team to key wins, as he did this past season in helping his team to a 6th place finish.
