Your team's virtues are widely recognized!
Davenport became the second- seeded team by virtue of beating Vancouver.
Shawn Johnson and Nastia Liukin earned automatic berths to the team by virtue of finishing first and second last month in the Olympic trials.
Last month, Paul Hamm, the reigning world all-around champion, and Brett McClure made the Olympic team by virtue of their scores at the national championships and the trials.
His team, by virtue of their third-placed finish, will come up against one of the winners from the other Uefa Cup groups.
In 2010, Anthony's last playoff season in Denver, the Nuggets won 53 games and gained the fourth seed over Utah, also a 53-win team, by virtue of winning the regular-season series.
In 2006, two of the top figure skating coaches in the world, the Russian-born Marina Zoueva and Igor Shpilband, were minutes away, in Canton, where they also coach Ms. Davis's and Mr. White's biggest rivals -- the Canadian ice-dancing team Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir, who won the gold at the last Olympics and the silver at last year's world championships.
Despite various jinxes and collapses leering over their shoulder, the Red Bulls are currently a winning team, by virtue of Sunday's 2-0 victoverover San Jose in dank and yawning Giants Stadium, in front of a crowd generously listed at 9,053.
The Red Sox were the home team by virtue of a coin toss.
The St. Francis football team, by virtue of its 29-22 nonleague road victory against Righetti on Friday, is ranked fourth in the Western Division.
Her enthusiasm is infectious in the converted apple store in east Cork where Allen and her team extol the virtues of time-honoured but forgotten skills.
