People who experience so much poverty and hardship really knew how to celebrate when their football team won, but really suffered when they lost so many of their finest young men.
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Villa only sporadically threatened, but the home team won their first penalty following a run of tremendous determination by the increasingly influential Young.
The Scilly ladies team won their veterans race in the Emma-Louise.
Should the Czechs win they would complete a rare double after their women's team won the Fed Cup in the same arena two weeks ago.
The Bruins center scored a hat trick, including the game winner in overtime as the Boston team won their second-straight game on the road against the Toronto Maple Leafs.
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Wells and Lyle Overbay also went deep against their former team as the Yankees won for the eighth time in 10 games.
Lyle Overbay and Vernon Wells also went deep against their former team as the Yankees won for the eighth time in 10 games.
And an All Black triumph would strike a blow for gender equality: in 2010 the Black Ferns, New Zealand's women's team, won their fourth successive Women's Rugby World Cup.
Sussex are certainly the in-form team, having won their last eight one-day games, including Sunday's four-run Pro40 win over Hampshire at Arundel.
The team have won only one of their 53 Tests and just six one-day internationals against teams from the top eight nations.
Last season, Button and the Brawn GP team, helped by their revolutionary rear diffuser, won six of the first seven races, but experts are predicting a much closer tussle this year.
End-of-season calculations showed City were almost twice as likely to emerge triumphant with Tevez in the team (they won 55% of their matches when he played and just 33% in his absence).
It is clear by watching Gill's team perform their time-consuming daily tasks that Hanford won't be decontanimated quickly.
His 2011 squad won their division with an all-Jewish team, but in 2012 he's planning to bring both Arab and Jewish players.
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In 2004, a self-described team of Red Sox "Idiots" won their first World Series in 86 years while flouting the basic standards of decorum and grooming.
Moseley will arrive at the Memorial Stadium having won their last three games and with a team that includes several Gloucester squad players including James Simpson-Daniel's brother Charlie.
As the Islanders' primary star following their dynastic period of the early 1980s the team won the Stanley Cup each year from 1980 to 1983 LaFontaine, now 47, is to the Islanders what Don Mattingly was to the Yankees: a fan favorite from a letdown of an era.
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Pearson and Criddle, who will be appearing in their third Games, both won two individual titles and a team gold four years ago.
The world's top team, Mike and Bob Bryan, who have won their first two matches in London, are fortunate to share not only DNA but also U.S. citizenship.
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Aside from the prevailing notion that the Knicks the fifth-best three-point shooting team in the league won't keep missing their long-range shots forever, there is one particular statistic that works against Boston.
Although Ancelotti's team have failed to fully replicate their form of last term where they won the Premier League title, they are still in the Champions League and are currently 10 points behind league leaders Manchester United.
There's got to be something wrong with our system when we can't break down a team like Algeria, who came in having won just one of their previous eight games.
In 2001 the Patriots won their first Super Bowl, led by a cast of selfless team players including quarterback Tom Brady and wide receiver Troy Brown, an eighth-round selection in 1993.
In 2009 the England women's cricket team won the World Cup, the World Twenty20, and retained their Ashes, with batsman Claire Taylor the first woman named in Wisden's Cricketers of the Year.
They have bought the Brawn team that last year won the drivers' and constructors' championship in their debut season, after former owner Honda quit F1.
BMW's team had given themselves three years to win the world championship and won their first race in 2008 but have amassed only eight points this season.
The duo combined impressively as Ireland won the European Team Championship in July and McIlroy clearly believes that their partnership can work just as effectively at Royal County Down.
But Brawn, whose team won the drivers' and constructors' world championships last season in their former guise as Brawn, said he believed his team were still lagging behind their rivals.
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England are the team in better form going into the Twickenham encounter having won three of their past four games, their only defeat coming at the hands of the world's top ranked side, New Zealand.
In the case of Major League Baseball, as Michael Lewis showed in "Moneyball, " the Oakland A's won for a time with their number-crunching strategy, but the team faced a host of imitators after a few seasons.
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