Though I have no doubt that the SEC champ for the foreseeable future will be among the top 4 teams in the country, recent history shows that we likely could not say that for the ACC or the Big East.
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Muhammad Ali, a special edition comic book which featured the champ taking on the Man of Steel.
Kevin Durant, the reigning NBA scoring champ from the Oklahoma City Thunder, led all players with 19 points.
Wiggins is the breakthrough British Tour champ, the first yellow jersey winner to follow victory in Paris with a gold.
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The 28-year-old, who has won the Champ Car title for the last three years, made the decision to fulfil a long-held dream to race in F1.
Across the Champ de Mars from the presidential palace in Port-au-Prince is -or was - a tall statue to the maroons, the runaway slaves who are the symbol of Haiti's fight for independence at the end of the 18th century.
Duhamel is the latest poker champ to highlight the connection between finance and poker.
Facebook may have taken some lumps, but the social media champ has passed the 1 billion-user mark.
Then, imagine you're a bobsledding champ on the Inn's tubing hill, offering a thrilling 500ft vertical drop.
And so it's time to stop asking whether women's tennis will ever have another champ in the mold of Martina Navratilova, Steffi Graf, Monica Seles, Martina Hingis, the Williams sisters, Justine Henin.
Yeah, the defending-champ Miami Heat are the runaway Eastern Conference favorites, and LeBron James and company looked ridiculous during that winning streak.
This year, UConn is in danger of becoming the fifth defending champ since 1985 to miss the tournament.
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BofA, though the champ in deposits, is an also-ran number five in mortgage originations.
Microsoft was the undisputed champ, after bundling Internet Explorer with its Windows operating system in the 1990s and destroying Netscape.
To induce sadness in the lab, he used video clips from the 1979 tear-jerker, "The Champ, " a widely accepted practice among psychologists.
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You'd have to be a Madison Avenue trivia champ to remember the commercial in which a father praised his son for getting into college.
But Ali has been, and remains, The Champ in a larger and far more difficult ring: working for peace in a world filled with violence.
Upending defending national champ Miami in the closing seconds in front of the whole country was the fitting exclamation point that propelled him to true legend status.
Linked to a digital network, this thin, gray device promises moves the champ can't yet match -- high-speed Web browsing, phone calls, shopping and games (once such things are available).
Calzaghe's hunger to compete will also give him an edge, especially because the champ has not been a contender since November 2008, when he beat Roy Jones Jr at Madison Square Gardens in New York.
His 80th birthday party, a grand picnic in the middle of the Champ de Mars, featured a cake depicting scenes from his life: a ten-metre tower of ganache and meringue decked in blown sugar, spun sugar and royal icing.
The NBA scoring champ will take four or five weeks to allow the injury to heal on its own first in an effort to avoid surgery, which would likely sideline him for three to four months and possibly threaten his ability to report to training camp.
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After racing the full 2007 Champ Car schedule, he was looking for work when the series merged with IndyCar in 2008 and ended up competing in the American Le Mans Series and was 14 seconds short of winning the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2011.
She also noticed that the unbeaten boxing champ looked to have smelled his partner's hair during the performance and "looked petrified!"
And Bourdais, a four-time winner of the US-based Champ Car series, admitted his relief at finally securing the drive.
This happens here in New York City with happy regularity the Super Bowl Giants last winter, the world-champ Yankees in 2009, and not long before that, a fat run of titles in the Joe Torre heyday.
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