They have certainly done better in the FA Cup so far this season, knocking out Horsham, Canvey Island and Slough before winning a fourth qualifying round replay 4-3 at Blue Square Premier side Eastbourne Borough after drawing the initial tie 3-3.
Littler, captain for the day, enjoyed a fairytale ending to his Salford career with the winning try to round off a mistake-littered contest between two clubs who have endured miserable seasons.
And you needn't stop there: Both No. 10 and No. 12 seeds that pull first round upsets have a 50% chance of winning in round two.
Casey Dulin scored 13 points to lead the Red Foxes (26-7), who have made a name for themselves by winning first-round games as double-digit seeds, advancing to the second round as a No. 13 a year ago and as a No. 10 in 2011.
Though this generation is sticking around longer, the results aren't always wonderful: 13 of the 30-something men lost their first-round matches without winning a set, almost as many as the 14 who won their matches.
The world No. 2 won 12 points in a row to extend her winning streak to 16 matches and set up a fourth-round clash with Poland's Urszula Radwanska.
The 34-year-old former paratrooper aced the 16th hole and then birdied the last for a final round 68 and a two-stroke 14-under winning total.
"I definitely got very lucky out there, " a relieved Federer told BBC Sport after winning in three hours and 18 minutes to book a second-round meeting with Serbia's Ilija Bozoljac.
Some had Pacquiao winning all but one round and hardly a boxing scribe could be found who had Bradley on top.
Ireland require a two-goal winning margin against Saudi Arabia to assure themselves of a place in the second round.
Shavers' winning run had been ended by a first-round defeat to Jerry Quarry in 1973.
You practise hard to be in the last round in with a shout of winning.
Higginson went from the first qualifying round to within a frame of winning the title 12 months ago before losing 9-8 to Robertson.
The 1998 Commonwealth Games champion reignited his career by winning Prizefighter last year and then scored a 12th-round knockout against Michael Sprott to win the EBU heavyweight title in April.
It was the Scot's lowest round since winning the 2007 European Open and a welcome return after an admittedly poor season.
In Sunday's late match, South Africa ran in nine tries to dispatch the United States 64-15 to round off their perfect winning record in Pool A which they topped from England.
Everyone on the winning team receives an item, and then a sort of bonus round occurs.
Some ringside observers had Bradley winning only one round in the 12-round bout, yet a loss is a loss.
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Not many people would have put money on the Argentine winning the title, after he endured a nightmare start in the final round.
The far-right National Front also fared well in France , winning nearly 40% of the vote in the first round of a parliamentary by-election in the southern city of Toulon.
By winning through to the second round, we put ourselves in with a chance of qualifying as a 'lucky loser' - meaning that if another team pulled out of the main draw, we would be in.
Wambach and company spent much of the match balancing a pair of ambitions: winning and conserving energy for the Olympic knockout round.
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Marshall's father, Tyler Marshall, walked away from journalism after winning a Pulitzer Prize at The Los Angeles Times, bought out in a round of downsizing at the venerable newspaper.
Indeed, executives at Unilever reckon that absorbing the cost themselves might mean short-term discomfort, but long-term gain in winning consumers round to the idea that the new crops are, actually, a good buy.
In the match-play golf format, nearly every early round match is a tossup, with the higher-seeded golfer only winning at a 58% rate in the first two rounds.
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On Wednesday, No. 1-ranked Serena Williams extended her career-high winning streak to 26 matches and improved to 69-3 since a first-round loss at the French Open a year ago by beating French wild-card entry Caroline Garcia 6-1, 6-2.
The Rangers have a bit of recent history to draw upon, as well, as they came back last year from a 3-2 hole in the first round against the Ottawa Senators winning Game 6 on the road and completing the rally at home in Game 7 when they were the No. 1 seed in the East.
The second seed has been in stuttering form in the early rounds, but extended her grand slam winning streak to 28 with a 6-1 6-2 victory over the Canadian in their fourth round match.
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