Sentence examples for outsider teams from inspiring English sources

In most ways, this was an excellent World Cup, mostly because of the hosts and the outsider teams -- Senegal, Turkey, Japan, the United States and South Korea.

It just doesn't work that way for outsider teams that had their sweet little moments — George Mason making the Final Four of college basketball in 2006, the Tampa Bay Rays advancing to the World Series of 2008.

Those statistics were given greater validation by Football Outsiders' team efficiency ranking that ranks the Seahawks as the best team in the league for the second year running (although obviously the Seahawks didn't go on to even reach the Super Bowl last season).

The Band of Outsiders team would inform Banhart of the theme and give him a directive by knocking on the door and passing along an envelope containing a typed note with instructions.

Knightley's Lizzy is a naughty sceptic, a droll outsider; a team leader from the awkward squad, much given to fits of giggles and pert backtalk, with sisterly kicks under the table given and received.

They thrive on being the underdog, the outsider, the team that gets no respect.

The footage also might point to Amukamara as a bit of an outsider on the team.

Penn State was viewed by some as a newcomer, an outsider, an Eastern team in a Midwest league.

That's a challenge for any quarterback, but Josh had to do it as an outsider in a team going through a coaching transition.

The director Brett Ratner was in charge of Tucker in Money Talks, so Chan's very much the outsider in this team, as is Tom Wilkinson.

Recently, I interviewed a group of African-American executives, most of whom said they felt they were becoming outsiders in management teams whose members resent any advantage a potential rival may have — racial-diversity targets among them.