"He's a big manager, he has a big history with France and with Tunisia - he's won the European Championship and the Africa Cup of Nations, " he told BBC Sport.
When Louisville played at Notre Dame a month ago it took five overtimes before the Fighting Irish won 104-101 in the longest regular-season game in Big East history.
Michael Carter-Williams had a chance to win it for Syracuse, but he missed a shot just before the buzzer and the fiercest rivalry in Big East history was extended for another 5 minutes.
Microsoft is the smartest big company in history--I'd guess a typical employee IQ of 120, spread over 32, 000 people.
There, the big lesson of history is that they don't produce many winners.
Even after playing an extra 5 minutes, the teams barely eclipsed the lowest-scoring game in Big East tournament history, Georgetown's 46-41 first-round victory over Villanova in 2003.
Mr Smith, the culture secretary, initially strongly favoured this approach, but the tourism industry has mounted an effective rearguard action, arguing that avant-garde artists are never going to be as big sellers as history.
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From West Africa to the cities of the United States, to the U.K. and back to the West African source, Adams and Camara, like Vieux Farka Toure, are helping to tighten a big circle of history and music.
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In all their history, big pharmaceutical giants have made due with fewer than 500 drug targets.
Barker said he was excited to be joining a club with such a big support and proud history.
There have been other big moments in this history, and we will look at some of them shortly.
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Never in history have big corporations had more power, measured in both money and the amount of control that have on our psyches.
Whatever the outcome for reform and the economy, the split within the LDP is clearly a big event in the history of the ruling party.
Bill Clinton and Newt Gingrich, two large-living, big-talking, history-obsessed prisoners of their own appetites, have always been their own worst enemy and each other's salvation.
The company has paid dividends since 2003 and has a history of big hikes, even during the financial crisis four years ago, and a 60% boost to the payout last year.
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Assange: But not as big an impact as the history of a whole war.
Both Mr. Dhanin and Mr. Charoen have a recent history of funding big transactions with debt.
And third, history suggests that big current-account deficits always collapse in the end.
It was by far the biggest collapse in title game history at the Big East tournament, which began in 1980.
In the big picture that is our history, both of these men will pass through in a blink of an eye.
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"It was the premier rivalry during the history of the Big East, " Boeheim said while contemplating the end of an era.
An interesting choice for a guy with a big ego and a long history at the top of the securities business.
"It was the premier rivalry during the history of the Big East, " Boeheim said as he contemplated the end of an era.
Yet modern political history indicates that big midterm Democratic gains are unlikely, and presidential second terms are notably unproductive, most of all in their waning months.
Recommendations based on history suffer a big margin of error.
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"There's a big case for looking at history, " says Simonsen.
Argentina has had many big devaluations in its turbulent history.
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