In the NBA, official sponsors McDonald's, T-Mobile, Southwest Airlines and FedEx all score below-average lifts in their respective product categories, indicating that their ad dollars would be put to better use elsewhere.
Still, you can't always trust what credit-score providers are letting you see.
By contrast, the Wine Spectator didn't award a single 100-point score in 2012.
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He believes he's capable of scoring 20 goals or more in a full, 82-game season, he said, and he sometimes will ask himself, 'If I'm so good in the shootout, why don't I score more during 5-on-5 play?
They didn't let the Bulls get closer than four until Butler hit a 3-pointer with 31.1 seconds left in the third quarter, and Chicago couldn't tie the score until Deng hit an 8-footer early in the fourth.
Those efforts drove him to start the school in the first place, since he saw many promising high-schoolers who had earned straight-As but couldn't score higher than a 14 out of 36 on the ACT.
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While the rest of the world reacted with stunned disbelief -- legend has it several British newspapers didn't report the score at first, fearing that it had been mistyped and England had really won 10-0 -- back home Team USA's exploits had been met with almost complete indifference.
You can't score runs back in the dressing-room no matter what your attitude.
He completed six passes, rushed for 102 yards and didn't score a touchdown, clashing with then-offensive coordinator Tony Sparano.
Generally, though, you don't need to know your score on a day-to-day basis.
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The Thunder didn't score after Derek Fisher hit a 3-pointer with 1:58 left, a shot tying for the eighth and final time at 81.
No-one believed India wouldn't be able to score 300 runs even once in the six innings it has played so far.
If I didn't three-putt two times and lay up in a bunker my score would have been nearer where it should have been.
Players tend to show up with two cans of balls or more, and servers don't announce the score during games, which can lead to mix-ups.
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The NRA said it would include lawmakers' votes on the background-checks proposal in their rankings, but didn't score senators' votes last week to open debate on gun legislation, since the lobby typically doesn't judge lawmakers on procedural votes.
Score one for everyone overseas who can't use their now-relocked iPhone.
Because the appraisal didn't lower his loan-to-value ratio, and despite his high credit score, Mr. Lattas says he's going to end up with a mortgage rate that's a quarter of a point more expensive than the lowest rates available.
The uninspired score by Kim's countryman Mowg doesn't lift the so-so climactic shoot-out any, but the movie's tongue in cheek humor will buy off most of the target audience.
One is Michael Kidd-Gilchrist, the country's second-best freshman, who was saddled with early foul trouble and didn't score almost 30 minutes into the game.
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It's not clear how people manage to score so many good pictures of phones that aren't scheduled for announcement -- much less release -- for months, but who are we to complain?
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The first meeting between the two schools was an instant classic, a one-possession game in the final 30 seconds even though South Carolina didn't score again after Ashley Bruner's bucket with 2:52 left tied it at 69.
So he wasn't looking to beat anyone over the head with "The Bible" -- his latest score, for the breakaway hit on the History Channel.
The second-seeded Minutemen (21-12) led 25-21 with 7:05 left in the first half, but they didn't score again in the half.
Almost all of our week-to-week work on MOTD, MOTD2 (which didn't exist in 2000) Focus and Score is based around our Premiership contract.
The events are usually run by an MC who asks the questions, keeps score and hands out prizes, which range from bar vouchers to free food to t-shirts and hats.
But with poor results in the other categories--only one cover and a dismal likability score of 5--the late Anna Nicole Smith's ex didn't fare well enough to make the final cut.
Spain had possessed the ball for roughly two-thirds of its games, turning each match into a high-class version of keep-ball, and in the process, becoming the first team to turn passing the ball into a form of defense: Like a clock-eating drive in football, if Spain has the ball, its opponent can't score and the Spanish keep the ball so well that they barely give up any chances, let alone goals.
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