The league would expand the playoffs to 12 teams next season.This season featured only three teams that failed to make the previous season's postseason.The New York Giants, who were eliminated on the final day of the 1988 season, rebounded to win a division title, while the Denver Broncos and Pittsburgh Steelers recovered from disappointing seasons....
His .344 batting average was the best in that year's Interstate League, Levan's first professional batting championship.For his efforts, he was named to the league's postseason all-star team....
They report to summer leagues after completing their spring collegiate season with their NCAA, NAIA, and NJCAA teams.Some players arrive late due to their college team's postseason play, which sometimes runs into early June.In some cases, players are drafted during the collegiate summer season....
Cepeda attended the 1969 spring training on West Palm Beach, being welcomed to the team by Hank Aaron.This marked the first time that the league's postseason had best-of-five-game playoffs.The Braves won the National League West with a record of 93-69, before losing to the New York Mets in the playoffs....
The team will also be playing the W-League Playoffs for the first time ever.The club's postseason schedule has yet to be released....
Another change before the 1972 game concerned the Big Ten's postseason policy.The "no-repeat" rule concerning Rose Bowl trips was abolished, meaning that Michigan could go to Pasadena for the second year in a row with a win or a tie....
The following year, they went 19-11, finishing second in the league.That year, they participated in the league's postseason festival, making it to the semifinals.In 1990, they played an abridged season and went 1-5....
The Red Sox swept the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim in the ALDS and defeated the Cleveland Indians in the ALCS after trailing three games to one, taking the final three contests by a combined score of 30-5.Neither participating team was in the previous year's postseason.The Rockies' eight-day layoff was the longest in MLB postseason history, caused by their sweep in the NLCS, the ALCS going seven games, and scheduling by MLB....
It was his first home run since September 30, 2004.Boston's postseason winning streak was snapped at eight games with this loss....
Though the ball would have remained in play if not for Maier, and could have been caught by Tony Tarasco, the home run stood as called, tying the game.It marked the first home run of Jeter's postseason career.The Yankees won the game and defeated the Orioles in five games....
The Manning Award has been presented annually since 2004 to the collegiate American football quarterback adjudged by the Sugar Bowl Committee to be the best in the United States.It is the only quarterback award that includes each candidate's postseason-bowl performance in its balloting.The award is named in honor of former University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) quarterback Archie Manning and his quarterback sons Peyton and Eli....
He also scored 14 runs and drove in six.The 14 runs Rice scored is the fifth most recorded by an individual during a single year's postseason play.The Red Sox went on to lose the World Series to the New York Mets, 4 games to 3, the fourth consecutive Series appearance by Boston which they lost in seven games....
However, Young eventually came back, as did Rice for one and a half quarters (before getting another unrelated injury to his knee), and the team, with the league's number one defense leading the way, pulled together and finished strongly at 13-3.Towards the end of the season things appeared to be going well for the 49er's postseason prospects.However, in the second to last game of the season Jerry Rice was injured again and deemed out for the playoffs....
The indoor program does not compete in either the Little Three Meet (held in the spring) or the NESCAC Championships (sponsored only in the outdoor season).Thus, the team's postseason play consists only of regionals and nationals.It has had one relay and seven individual national champions and also won the team National Championship in 2007....
His sophomore year would be far less successful, with Ford playing just twenty games in the season.Similarly went the following season, but he scored double-digits in the team's postseason game against Creighton.In Ford's final season, he recorded over nine points eight times through the season and logged a career-high 16 points as a starting guard against Grambling State....
With the team's playoff seed clinched, Head Coach Sean Payton chose to rest Brees and other starters in the final game of the season, resulting in a 23-10 loss to the Carolina Panthers.The string of defeats cast a cloud over the team's postseason chances.Still, they clinched the #1 NFC playoff seed and scored 76 points in their two playoff wins en route to their first ever Super Bowl....
The only Wildcat to score in double figures was Dunlap, who had 31 points and 13 rebounds.The conference's postseason awards announcement, made immediately after the end of the regular season, became a Kentucky coronation.Matthew Mitchell, after leading the Cats to an all-time best of 11-5 in SEC play, was named the SEC Coach of the Year....
