Sentence examples for set of playoff from inspiring English sources

In the admittedly professional ranks, baseball would like to interrupt the hand-wringing with a rollicking set of playoff chases.

Discusses new schedule proposed by Bowie Kuhn which would divide each league into 3 divisions instead of 2, creating an additional set of playoff games and additional revenue from television coverage.

And besides, Strasmas helps fill the gap between the N.B.A. and the Stanley Cup finals games (where it only seems like both sets of playoffs actually began in 2007) and distracts you from the other huge developing story of the week: the game of Risk the major college conferences are playing in trying to expand beyond recognition.

A lot of playoff experience.

The victory set into motion a series of playoff dominoes.

Trophyless no more, New York is now set to vanquish the ghosts of playoff past.

Miami, an expansion team out of playoff contention, set the game's tone by dominating the first half.

Basketball should come first, yet when the N.B.A. has its own set of inverted priorities, when playoff continuity is sacrificed to a network's scheduling demands because of the fear of a smaller contract, the message is that the game itself is secondary, if not an afterthought.

And Chivas's counterparts in the East, wooden-spoon wise, will have their own say on the playoff race when D.C. host a Houston team who had the worst possible set of results for their own playoff hopes last weekend and find themselves on the outside looking in at the start of the last weekend.

The Bruins wear a set of deep scars from this playoff season, most of them on the face of forward Patrice Bergeron, who deposited the product of Jagr's handiwork into the net to end Game 3, Steve Buckley writes in The Boston Herald.

With August setting up to be a very difficult month of playoff contention teams, I want to see the Revs play consistently.