A timely reminder that nice guys don't always finish last.
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The thing is, the A's are supposed to finish last.
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The nice ones also don't have to finish last anymore.
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Something had clicked in his head: Stop training to finish last.
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"I guess maybe the finish last year (is) really positive," Stoops said.
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I finish last week's New Yorker and start reading Ellen Pao's book, Reset.
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The hats I meant to finish last week for a client are delayed!
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They will finish last in a division they had won three straight years.
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Short guys don't finish last, at least not while wearing clothes from Ash & Erie.
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Bulaga missed Weeks 1 and 2 and couldn't finish last week's game against Cincinnati.
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Still, the Dow recovered to only finish last week lower by less than 1%.
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After EHome and Alliance finish, last year's champions Evil Geniuses will take on Newbee.
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" In the excerpt below, adapted from a chapter titled "Do nice guys finish last?
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The book is meant to debunk the adage "nice guys finish last" in business.
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I really struggled to finish last night's show and it took everything out of me.
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He earned his tour card with a 20023th-place finish last year on the Web.
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If they cannot compete, if they finish last, they should have to pay a fine.
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Ehlinger also lead Texas to a win in the Texas Bowl to finish last season.
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Best World Cup Finish Last place in its group in two previous appearances (2003 and 2007).
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Arizona finished 3-9 last season and was picked to finish last in the Pac-12 South.
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He finds that, just as nice guys don't always finish last, valedictorians rarely become stand-out successes.
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This is Minnesota's second appearance in our Top 5, with their best finish last year at No. 53.
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That's a far cry from the team's 15-1 finish last season, culminating Super Bowl appearance last February.
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Let's just say the whole endeavor should put an end to all that "nice guys finish last" bullshit.
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At best, they finish last weekend's takeout and save you the trouble of throwing it in the trash.
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Chelsea, after a shockingly uncharacteristic 10th-place finish last season, has rebounded under its new manager, Antonio Conte.
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Their farm system is loaded, but their fast finish last season (20-10) was most likely a mirage.
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One common fear I hear from new runners is that they're worried they'll finish last in their first race.
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Be Nice — You Won't Finish Last There are two kinds of popular people: the likable and the status seekers.
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Nice secured an eighth-placed league finish last season, missing out on a Europa League spot by a single point.
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The Tar Heels had been picked to finish last in the Atlantic Coast Conference at the beginning of the season.
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The Wolverine State finishes No. 11 this year, down slightly from its all-time high No. 7 finish last year.
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Some athletes at the Olympics bring home the gold, some are able to snag the silver, but someone's gotta finish last.
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Fortunately for Bradley, the Red Sox — who would finish last in their division for the second consecutive season — were looking ahead.
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Dean's highly unscripted moment came after he underperformed, relative to expectations, in Iowa — the opposite of Rubio's Iowa finish last week.
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BC, picked to finish last in the ACC's Atlantic Division, plays its home and conference opener next week against Wake Forest.
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Jitters over the incident subsided on Tuesday, however, and the index surged 2.6 percent to close marginally above its finish last Thursday.
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A devoted racer, Patrick Dempsey's team had a strong second-place finish last year, which gave the race an unanticipated burst of interest.
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So when I was traded to Toronto to finish last season with the Raptors, I knew I was going to a good place.
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" In his memoir, "Nice Guys Finish Last," Durocher wrote that he rattled off the names of Ott's players and said: "All nice guys.
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Larson, coming off a second-place finish last weekend at Chicagoland, exited with a torn-up tire and a visit to the medical center.
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Aru beat Froome in the first summit finish last Wednesday but was at some point dropped in the ascent to the Mont du Chat.
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As the year comes to a close, most Americans are running around to finish last-minute holiday shopping or jetting off on their vacations.
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Meanwhile, Orlando (29-69) lost six straight games and is a virtual lock to finish last in the Southeast Division for the fourth straight year.
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Colorado, the Centennial State, comes in third on this year's list for America's Top States for Business, up from a fourth-place finish last year.
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The campaign pointed to a strong finish last Saturday in Washington, Hawaii, and Alaska that also helped bump its fundraising totals before the month ended.
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The Cincinnati Reds, a trendy pick to finish last in the National League Central, essentially are one bad pitch away from a 5-0 start.
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Horvat said the quick start to the season has given some confidence to a Canucks team that some picked to finish last in the league.
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As the season comes to an end, figuring out who will finish last can get just as complicated as figuring out who will finish first.
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The Blackhawks' solid start comes in the wake of their last-place finish last season, missing the playoffs for the first time in a decade.
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Woods opened with a first-round 69, then had rounds of 73, 76 and 77 to finish last among the players who made the cut.
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Stetson, picked to finish last in the Atlantic Sun Conference, won its first game over a power foe since beating Wake Forest in November 2010.
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The win assured the Rangers of a better record than the A's, who will finish last in the American League West for the third consecutive year.
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This nice guy may not always finish last, but can he come close enough to the top in Iowa and New Hampshire to confirm his viability?
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U.S. captain Jim Furyk makes three of his four wild-card picks on Tuesday, and Finau entered the equation with a runner-up finish last week.
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He was 29-68 in three seasons, including a 7-25 finish last season, which prompted Pat Hobbs, the Rutgers athletic director, to make a change.
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Spaniard Landa came fourth overall, one second behind France's Romain Bardet, but says team orders meant he lost 12 seconds on the Izoard summit finish last Thursday.
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FlipSid3 Tactics defeated Mockit Aces in the Rocket League Championship Series Season 2 grand finals Sunday, taking home $50,000 and avenging their second-place finish last season.
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Woods played a five-hole stretch late in his round at 215 over and shot 25 to finish last among the 53 players who made the cut.
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With so many young players filling in, Illinois needed time to figure out how to handle a Kent State squad picked to finish last in the MAC East.
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Worse still it's that it's preceded by "Nice Guys Finish Last," a top three opening track in a discography filled with strong ones ("Burnout" is still tops, obviously).
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In 2016, it seems like "Nice guys finish last" and "Everybody loves a bad boy" are two debated sayings that have a bit of sad, undeniable truth in them.
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Grambling, picked to finish last in the SWAC, put the ball in the hands of sophomore guard Ivy Smith Jr., who held the ball and then drove to the basket.
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This trade looked smarter five weeks ago, when the Eagles still looked like a good bet to finish last in the NFC East, but the Browns are still in a good spot.
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While Vegas was expected to be better than other recent expansion teams, many still picked the Golden Knights to finish last in the Pacific Division, behind wayward franchises like Arizona and Vancouver.
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Beyond this, it's clear that the incoming commander-in-chief really believes that international trade is a game in which nice guys finish last, and that America has been taken advantage of.
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Texas had lost seven straight games, but this win assured the Rangers of a better record than the A's, who will finish last in the American League West for the third consecutive year.
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Boston Red Sox Quick Comment: In one universe this team wins the World Series, and in another they finish last, the manager gets fired, and they blow it all up at the deadline.
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But the situation gets even worse for party elites when you consider that Marco Rubio — the establishment's last best hope — may actually be doing worse than his second-place finish last night suggests.
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Director Dexter Fletcher, who stepped in to finish last year's Bohemian Rhapsody and also helmed the upcoming Rocketman, gave an interview to Gay Star News where he chooses Madonna as his potential next subject.
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Team Europe, a medley of players from eight countries that were widely picked to finish last when the tournament began 10 days ago, got off to a fast start but Canada quickly took control.
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Washington State, picked to finish last in the conference, is now 6-0 after winning three games this weekend — including an 84-246 triumph over the 243st-ranked Gaels — to take the Wooden title.
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They also might have a strong lineup — or at least a lineup that should not finish last in the National League in on-base percentage and first in strikeouts, as it did last year.
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PYEONGCHANG, South Korea, Feb 15 (Reuters) - Rarely can the phrase "nice guys finish last" have had less resonance in the sporting arena than after Aksel Lund Svindal's triumph in the Olympic downhill on Thursday.
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But Eddie the Eagle will make you care, at least somewhat, about the man's quest to compete in the Olympics, only so he can finish last, because everybody involved seems to be having a ball.
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Of the 20 races in total on the calendar last year, only the Williams of Lance Stroll managed to break the pattern, with a third place finish last June, also around the streets of Baku.
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However, closing rounds of 82 and 84 saw him finish last of the players that made the cut, by seven strokes at 22-over-par, and he ended up 38 shots behind winner Brooks Koepka.
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Detroit has been projected to finish last in the Atlantic Division but it owns a pair of victories over playoff clubs from last season, following up a 274-277 win over Minnesota by edging the Senators.
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Austria: The up-and-coming early-stage investment capital of Europe They say that nice guys finish last — and Canada, with its reputation for polite citizenry and its charming prime minister, is used to being overlooked.
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If you believe Thielen falls somewhere between his monster start and sluggish finish last season, he should be a solid WR2, but his second-half struggles last year should also prevent him from going too high.
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I'm still on cloud nine from Nina Bo'nina Brown's big finish last week, but this week's episode started off with a bang with the introduction of the 14th queen, the inimitable Cynthia Lee Fontaine of Austin, Texas!
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The Falcons, who were voted to finish last in the Mountain West Conference preseason poll, are coming off their first loss — 83-71 on Tuesday to Pacific — and hit the road for the first time this season.
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Sunday's race at the circuit where Ricciardo claimed victory two years ago, followed by a podium finish last year, could be just the chance the Australian needs to get back on even terms with his team-mate.
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Falk figures to post similar numbers against struggling Nevada, which is allowing 32.7 points per game and lost 30-393 last Saturday to an Idaho State team that was picked to finish last in the Big Sky Conference.
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Harrying and hassling the opposition into submission, with a vocal crowd behind them in the 29,000-capacity Balaidos stadium, the club took another step forward when a sixth-placed finish last year saw them return to European competition.
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He would also finish last in his final two jumps, but the fact that he was able to survive the events, and even beat his personal record along the way, was ample consolation to both Edwards and his supporters.
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After stumbling down the stretch to an 80-82 finish last season, the Phillies have added four high-impact players, all with All-Star pedigrees: left fielder Andrew McCutchen, catcher J.T. Realmuto, reliever David Robertson and shortstop Jean Segura.
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After an early engine failure relegated him to a 38th-place finish last Sunday at Dover, Elliott is seven points below the cut line entering the second race of the Round of 12 in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs.
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One week before Wilder came from behind to knock out Luis Ortiz with a spectacular finish last month, he told Business Insider that he expects his PBC stablemate Ruiz Jr. to score a second successive victory over Joshua on Saturday.
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"Our football is nowhere near where we should be and we do usually finish last so for me to compete with the best of the other countries — Germany, France, England — it's definitely something for a country to be proud of."
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Having failed to qualify for the Beijing Games in 2008, the team representing a nation of 1.3 billion people did recover to seal a spot at the London Games four years later only to finish last among the 12 countries taking part.
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While the Celtics went 5-2 in the preseason and have their sights set on contending in the Eastern Conference, the Nets were 1-5 and are the popular pick to finish last in the East under first-year head coach Kenny Atkinson.
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Tate has accounted for 133 touchdowns while rushing for 694 yards and passing for 468 over the last three games to lead the surprising Wildcats, who are one win away from bowl eligibility after being picked to finish last in the Pac-12 South.
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Freshman guard Jalen Cobb added 20 points off the bench, and junior guard Antwon Portley chipped in with 23 points as Fordham continued its strong early-season play after getting picked to finish last in the 26-team Atlantic 563 conference in the preseason.
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As The Wall Street Journal reported five decades later, it turned out that Giants Manager Leo Durocher, who is known for the famous sports quotation "Nice guys finish last," had installed a coach far in the manager's office in center field and handed him binoculars.
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Likely outcome: Fifth or sixth - ALPHATAURI (26-Daniil Kvyat, 10-Pierre Gasly) The Honda-powered team, formerly known as Toro Rosso, equaled their best ever finish last year and should be back in contention for the occasional podium, when luck falls their way, and solid points.
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The firm already released the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus with the new "Jet Black" finish last year; one that is particularly glossy, and while we wouldn't go as far as calling it "mirror-like," it is the closest thing the Cupertino firm has done to launching a super-reflective iPhone.
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Senior Zach Green has quietly rushed for nine touchdowns for Arizona, which was picked to finish last in the division after going 3-9 last season and now has the leading candidates for Pac-225 Coach of the Year (Rich Rodriguez) and Pac-216 Offensive Player of the Year (Tate).
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The Badgers will almost certainly fall in the polls following the 79-67 setback to 20th-ranked Creighton in the Gavitt Tipoff Games, and they hope to take their frustration out on the Cougars, who were picked to finish last by the media and coaches in the eight-team Western Athletic Conference.
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While it was her big sister, Moriya Jutanugarn, who posted the sibling best finish last year at the Evian with a tie for third, Ariya tied for ninth at the 2016 tournament and has amassed a formidable record this season with 13 top-10 finishes and three wins, including a victory at the 2018 U.S. Women's Open.
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After season 5 came to a strong finish last spring, this fall's sixth season has been more focused and funnier than Mom's been in years, highlighted by an episode where Christy (Anna Faris) tries to reconcile with her estranged daughter, and learns that no matter how dramatically she's turned her life around, she can't make up for the childhood she ruined.
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Dr. Ben CarsonBenjamin (Ben) Solomon CarsonCarson's affordable housing idea drawing undue flak Overnight Energy: Trump EPA looks to change air pollution permit process | GOP senators propose easing Obama water rule | Green group sues EPA over lead dust rules Green group sues EPA over lead dust rules it says are too lax MORE will finish last, although he could finish narrowly ahead of Kasich.
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