Just 72 hours after their shocker at Wembley Stadium, though, Wigan lost to Arsenal in a league game on a chilly Tuesday night, a defeat that ensured the club would finish 18th in the 20-team Premier League.
In a goal-kicking sense, the Swans have generally stepped up when it's mattered this season, overcoming their shocker against GWS in the qualifying final to beat Adelaide (a game in which they kicked 7.3 in the first quarter and 10.5 by the main break) and Geelong (the Swans were 7.2 at the first break and 11.3 at the half).
Mr. del Toro took notice of their pocket shocker, and while he took only an executive producing credit on the feature-length "Mama," it fits with the more successful movies he's signed onto.
Changing sports allegiances is like changing political parties, only harder, so even critics of the Kochs continue to cheer for their beloved Shockers and continue to pack Charles Koch Arena.
In 1982, the feminist writer Rita Mae Brown and director Amy Holden Jones set out to satirise the usual slasher fare with their low-budget shocker The Slumber Party Massacre.
But on the evidence of Huddersfield's jittery performance in squeaking past the Crusaders last Saturday, and the 60-point belting they received from Warrington in a cup-tie in the spring, the Wolves should have more than enough to bounce back from their latest Knowsley Road shocker.
This is especially true considering their non-traditional elopement, which in 1932 was a real shocker to their families.
For most of their history, the Shockers were known, if at all, for their mascot, WuShock, a giant shock of wheat with an unsettlingly murderous mien, who was introduced in 1948.* The program was not well funded — to raise money in the eighties, an athletic director staged camel races and charged an entry fee, among other promotional stunts.
John August and Craig Mazin, both highly reputed Hollywood screenwriters, invited Weiss and Benioff to discuss the shocker on their Scriptnotes podcast.
Uruguay had a shocker in their opening World Cup game against Costa Rica and, if he plays, Luis Suarez cannot be fully fit after knee surgery, but England's next opponents are still very dangerous.
By cool we mean maybe a celebrity in the mix or maybe some women so I don't have to fish through 500 pictures of guys throwing the shocker from their cubicles.
