Sentence examples for supposed contender from inspiring English sources

The O's experienced one of the worst Augusts in recent memory by a supposed contender 11-188) and only just this Wednesday climbed back up to.500 after completing a sweep of the similarly woe-begotten Washington Nationals, essentially playing themselves out of the race for anything but the second wild-card spot.

This year will probably be remembered for the depressing sight of Steve Nash making friends with the necessity of his career dying, Pau Gasol not looking much better and Nick Young getting far, far too many minutes of playing time for a supposed contender.

Most of these reports of wheelbarrows full of money being lumped on a supposed contender are publicity-seeking ruses, well-worn exercises in kite-flying to get the company name into the public conscience.

The kid clearly is on the road to being a solid major league starter, but can a supposed contender afford to have someone with such pitch limitations take that journey on their pitching mound?

Similarly, in 2000-01, as has been the case this season, supposed contenders fell off dramatically the Pacers lost Rik Smits and Mark Jackson; Miami's Alonzo Mourning missed most of the season; and the Knicks dealt away Patrick Ewing, paving the way for Philadelphia to rise to the top of a watered-down bracket.

Walsh — who left the Pacers in 2008 to deconstruct the Knicks so they could be built into a supposed title contender — was in his old pregame courtside perch Sunday afternoon.

His most recent, highly publicized nine-match scoring drought resulted in a paltry 2-3-4 record for the supposed playoff contenders.

Unlike the Slovak, Chinese and Russian women, who were here frankly for the learning experience, the Swedes were supposed to be a contender.

With 16-cores and 32-threads, the AMD Ryzen Threadripper, announced earlier this month, was supposed to be a contender for the world's most powerful consumer CPU, but it looks like Intel has taken back the mantle for now.

And with the addition of Al Jefferson, this team was supposed to remain a contender in the West.

The trade deadline is supposed to be for contenders.