The Eagles are 8 point underdogs -- the biggest underdogs of the NFL playoff weekend.
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The Lions are 5 ½-point underdogs for this weekend's game at New Orleans and will be underdogs playing at the Giants and the Cowboys.
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Ah, makeup brushes — the underdogs of the beauty world.
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The Philadelphia Eagles were the undisputed underdogs going into Sunday night's Super Bowl, but ultimately did what underdogs do, pulling off a major upset victory over the favored New England Patriots, 41–33.
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Worth reading in full: First, the weakening of old-style information gatekeepers (such as media, NGOs, and government and academic institutions), while empowering the underdogs, has also, in another way, deeply disempowered underdogs.
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Underdogs, however, need to shake things up and take risks.
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As Americans we love underdogs, disruption, and breaking new ground.
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The Carolina Panthers are home underdogs early in the season.
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It's always way more fun to root for the underdogs.
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In boxing or pro sports, I would take the underdogs.
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In any reasonable pregame assessment, the Huskies were the underdogs.
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When Tom Brady says the Patriots are underdogs First, HAHAHA.
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During the last two NBA Finals, the Cavs were underdogs.
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"I'm not buying any underdogs," he said of the Eagles.
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She just as clearly communicated her affinity with society's underdogs.
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When I watch sports these days, I pull for underdogs.
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And what of the underdogs, Tom Steyer and Deval Patrick?
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Historically, they like to bet underdogs in fights like this.
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Options on the Knicks, the underdogs, might sell for $40.
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Hardly surprising when you consider that they were the underdogs.
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So, they did what all underdogs do: Set up a trap.
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Nonetheless, the biggest winners from the NHL's absence are the underdogs.
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To us, we were the underdogs and we had to struggle.
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Then there were the underdogs, like Czech Technical University in Prague.
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While some fans love underdogs, casual fans prefer the recognizable names.
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UMBC, ranked No. 16 seed, went into the game as underdogs.
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It was the victory of seasoned performers, rather than plucky underdogs.
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They've shifted from titans to underdogs, from Big Three to who?
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Hiding behind their avatars, these men can cast themselves as underdogs.
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But bookmakers have them as 3-219 underdogs to do so.
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The Flyers would have another brush with greatness, again as underdogs.
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But the notion that they are the cultural underdogs is bogus.
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None of these candidates are massive underdogs in the public polling.
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These characters are underdogs, albeit oppressed by their own dumb decisions.
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The Ducks, as Ennis and his teammates preferred it, were underdogs.
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They would all be underdogs in a matchup against the Capitals.
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The Cavaliers were also underdogs when they defeated the Warriors in 2016.
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The Houthis have often been seen as the underdogs in the war.
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Social media helps popularize underdogs, and builds consensus around fan-favorite films.
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That debate will feature underdogs Carly Fiorina, Mike Huckabee, and Rick Santorum.
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Because both these teams are underdogs, whether you like it or not.
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That's what the underdogs always do, and that's when anything can happen.
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Both Fury and Wilder may even be underdogs in their next fights.
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However, it's just too tough not to back the Longhorns as underdogs.
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They have played eight postseason games as the underdogs and won seven.
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And that was proven at the last UFC were both underdogs won.
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That means the big money is backing the Bulls as home underdogs.
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Saudi Arabia, like most underdogs, probably expected to counterattack in this game.
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Guevara and Legette-Jack acknowledged the obvious: Their teams are underdogs. Again.
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In 2005, the Eagles lost by only 3 as 7-point underdogs.
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Please forgive the mixed bestial metaphor, but these Eagles aren't cuddly underdogs.
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Croatia, regarded by most as underdogs, had the ball, had the initiative.
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But while the Navarro Bulldogs dominate on the mat, they're still underdogs.
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That combination added up to a 7-0 lead for the underdogs.
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This spring, I released my first book, a middle grade mystery, The Underdogs.
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Don't call these Boston Celtics underdogs in front of their coach, Brad Stevens.
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HOLLYWOOD has produced plenty of films about underdogs rising to claim the limelight.
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After all, these candidates were little-known, little-funded, and always massive underdogs.
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The Sixers were huge underdogs to begin with and they were banged up.
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We'll be heavy, heavy underdogs, and I hope you guys will write that.
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Finally, for fans of underdogs and soccer, there's a historic match coming Sunday.
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A play on the theme of "underdogs" that gave their series its name.
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So it's time to start looking to the formalwear underdogs: fast-fashion retailers.
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It was bad news for fans who root for underdogs, to be sure.
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The early Obama-ites know what it's like to be passionate and underdogs.
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They came in as 16.5-point underdogs, yet beat Minnesota by 21 points.
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Underdogs are 5-4 on the field, and 9-1 against the spread.
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The Waves, who were 33-point underdogs, went into halftime tied at 42.
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And two weeks later, the Bills will be big underdogs at New England.
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The Dolphins are 21-point underdogs against the 2-0 Cowboys on Sunday.
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But each is running against an incumbent, and that makes them the underdogs.
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If they felt like underdogs in any way, they did not show it.
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Yet Trisolaris's dominance is far from assured, given the ingenuity of the underdogs.
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"Definitely everybody knows we are underdogs, except my team," the 44-year-old said.
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You can be underdogs on paper, but once the matches start, anything can happen.
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Litigation finance companies say they are helping the underdogs: small companies wronged by governments.
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Clearly comes from being bullied in school & wanting to stick up for the underdogs.
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Yet they are also viewed as the underdogs no matter which standard you use.
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We've always enjoyed the story of the rebels and the underdogs becoming the establishment.
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Three of the underdogs — Bush, Chris Christie and Rand Paul — had the best moments.
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But the people we're drawn to, the businesses we're drawn to, [are] almost underdogs.
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In addition to taking on authority, Breslin wrote about underdogs, small-timers and victims.
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South Korea are underdogs in Group F, where they face Germany, Mexico and Sweden.
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Gangs of blindly optimistic scruffy rag-tag underdogs in space are my thing 5ever.
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His tactical philosophy, which acknowledges that Atlético are the underdogs, is known as "cholismo".
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As the largely unchanging polls show, this year's underdogs never really had a chance.
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I suspect Arbus, a champion of underdogs and interesting misfits, would have preferred it.
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It was one more blow for the underdogs in this otherwise often-underwhelming tournament.
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It took four weeks, but the underdogs finally howled on Sunday in the NFL.
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I come from a community of underdogs, too, as I said in Miami tonight.
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"We were the underdogs coming into the O.V.C. tournament," the senior Khalil Davis said.
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Even with the political wind at their backs, most Democratic challengers will be underdogs.
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But they will always have the night they won as 17-point underdogs. Outright.
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Underdogs are often in bad shape when they fall behind in matches like this.
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"Anyone who thinks we won't keep campaigning like we're underdogs is wrong," said Garcetti.
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The Bison, a Football Championship Subdivision program, were 45-point underdogs against the Rebels.
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We felt like we were underdogs, the entire road through — at least I did.
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Turns out the rise of one-time political underdogs can have a similar effect.
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Republicans are underdogs in the Iowa, Illinois, Michigan and Minnesota gubernatorial races as well.
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If he's trying to position Spain as underdogs, he's about eight years too late.
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The Tampa Bay Buccaneers served up the biggest surprise of the day, taking down the Los Angeles Rams 55-40 as 10-point road underdogs, while Baker Mayfield and the Cleveland Browns also silenced their doubters as touchdown underdogs against the Ravens.
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They may be underdogs in this superhero world, but that's what makes them so captivating.
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This electorate stands out because it's not been particularly interested in insurgent candidates or underdogs.
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The dominant tribe turns on each and falls apart before they pick off the underdogs.
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Adjusting our expectations: By most statistical measures, the Texans were already underdogs against the Chiefs.
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We take a closer look at the underdogs of the Rio Olympics who emerged victorious.
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CM Punk will go down as one of the greatest underdogs in professional wrestling history.
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These days, though, it is often Sunni Arabs who feel and behave like the underdogs.
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Wolff, who said in Monaco that Mercedes were now the underdogs, acknowledged that it hurt.
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Accordingly, it's the biggest chance the underdogs have to shake up the math before then.
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The Bills are 7½-point underdogs, the biggest margin for any home team next week.
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Now we want to select the early-stage startups, the underdogs, to pitch with TechCrunch.
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But the show's commitment to the underdogs of society runs much deeper than mere representation.
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The 49ers are currently underdogs and will be the road team in Miami Gardens, Fla.
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Walter pointed to three special legislative elections in Kentucky last spring, races Democratic underdogs won.
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It signified that most NFL analysts had bet against his team: They were the underdogs.
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They were underdogs on Thursday night, but only slim ones, by 212 6/228 points.
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Iowa doesn't always help clear things up — and that's often to the detriment of underdogs.
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"I'd say the Liberals are the underdogs now," said David Coletto, CEO of Abacus Data.
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He has been winning real victories for underdogs in every role he has ever played.
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While Democrats admit they're the underdogs in Ohio's 220006th District — left open by GOP Rep.
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The bad news for Danny ... the Dolphins are 7.5-point underdogs going into Sunday's game.
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While most of us were cheering for Jurgen Klopp's underdogs, Jupp Heynckes' Bayern stole the show.
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"They really are the underdogs and they have such a great story," Ms. Cabral-Ebert said.
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Louisiana Tech assistant men's basketball coach Tony Skinn is sitting in his office, rooting for underdogs.
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Though they were underdogs in both matchups, the team's chemistry carried them through despite Wentz's absence.
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"We're all underdogs in some way, yet we're in the top of our fields," she says.
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Meanwhile, most of the underdogs who ousted them rate among the most aggressive in the sport.
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First, liberals must fight alongside and for the powerless, the underdogs of both society and economics.
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Best Actress race underdogs include Yalitza Aparicio (Roma) and Melissa McCarthy (Can You Ever Forgive Me?).
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Conversely, underdogs tend prefer a slow, grinding game, in which luck matters more and skill less.
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Author-columnist Jimmy Breslin, the legendary street-smart chronicler of wise guys and underdogs, has died.
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In the 0003th District, Democrats went beyond prodding underdogs like Ms. Tran, 52, to stand down.
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"Clearly comes from being bullied in school & wanting to stick up for the underdogs," Rose wrote.
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There will be opportunities for the underdogs to shake up the race in the coming weeks.
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The tournament may be about upsets, underdogs and uplifting narratives, but it's also about the money.
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As for your underdogs, it looks like the lovable (and tiny!) Iceland has a tricky group.
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But some Sunni Arabs, now the underdogs, belatedly advocate the creation of a Sunni federal region.
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But they were 24-point underdogs against UConn, and from the start, it was obvious why.
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The underdogs and longshots of 2018 have the potential to be frontrunners in 2020 and beyond.
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But with both players nursing injuries, the courts are wide open for the underdogs to impress.
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It was their first home loss in September since 2012, but they still covered as underdogs.
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On Sunday, they play the struggling Washington Redskins — and are between 7 and 9 ½-point underdogs.
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Complete underdogs come out of nowhere and are able to score big victories against stadium regulars.
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And they saw something in Rick White and The Underdogs and their hardcore approach right away.
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Joe Crowley in a primary in June, have both supported underdogs in key Florida Democratic primaries.
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He led the team to a stunning win as 17-point underdogs against Minnesota on Sunday.
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Despite being the No. 23 seed, the Eagles were underdogs because of quarterback Carson Wentz's absence.
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The final polls show Democrats remain underdogs for control of the Senate going into Election Day.
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The Bills, 213-point underdogs, beat the Minnesota Vikings, 22010-232, behind rookie quarterback Josh Allen.
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He was speaking just feet from the statue of Rocky Balboa, one of fiction's great underdogs.
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They are listed as 2 ½-point underdogs for their next game, at the 3-6 Jets.
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"The minaret campaign started as underdogs and was something the big parties didn't want," he said.
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Still, I figured heading into this game that they'd be underdogs by at least a touchdown.
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The black Turks were the underdogs, while the white Turks were the racists who despised them.
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The drama: Two of America's more prestigious basketball programs in recent years meet as underdogs here.
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Startups that once seemed like innovative underdogs now loom over the economy as vast, unaccountable monopolies.
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But alas, the Gods had only cooked up yet another cruel joke for our perennial underdogs.
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Mills said Lee's sister had told her that the sisters usually rooted for underdogs at the Masters.
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We know that the underdogs will triumph at the last minute, because they have the right ideals.
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With an absurd wrestling acumen, ridiculous power, and blinding speed, Romero is as live as underdogs come.
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Sprinkle a few bucks on all these teams and cheer for underdogs the rest of the way.
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More so, in some ways, because smaller groups and underdogs can be more strident in their beliefs.
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They were the underdogs in the beginning, which now, I think, they've totally come out on top.
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But Algiers, existing in opposition to whatever prevalent currents you got, are underdogs by disposition and design.
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Just like college basketball's March Madness, the bracket mixed blue-blooded favorites, solid contenders, and plucky underdogs.
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He rose from tragic beginnings to a position of power and has sworn to serve the underdogs.
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In fact, many old-world underdogs of the industry went through a transformation from reviled to revered.
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This seems to go against everything the underdogs, we freaks and we geeks, were told as teenagers.
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Schumer definitely wasn't the only highlight of the night, or the only person there for the underdogs.
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The Canadians followed up on their 4-1 victory over Europe's scrappy underdogs in the preliminary round.
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But in the other two dry scenarios, Eastern White Pines, the usual underdogs, come out on top.
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In Vukmir and Stewart's cases, both are underdogs worried that Republican voters will sit out the race.
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Witness Tom Brady's recent assertion that the Patriots are the "underdogs" going into the 2019 Super Bowl.
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At the same time, the players want to shed the idea that they relish being cute underdogs.
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The French like their underdogs, and Nadal has too often drained the suspense out of their tournament.
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Go deeper, via the N.Y. Times: Rugby underdogs again, the U.S. team hopes to turn a corner
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So the Boston Celtics beat the Cavaliers, in Cleveland, on Sunday night despite being 16-point underdogs.
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In my case that is over three decades of fighting mostly for the underdogs against the powerful.
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Now, as then, they will be decided underdogs against a championship-driven team led by LeBron James.
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"I guess I've always considered my work as being representative of underdogs and outsiders," he has said.
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A Harris win would echo other victories for underdogs, women and minorities elsewhere during this election season.
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Though these teams were nearly always underdogs, sometimes significantly so, his picks were a sterling 13-21.
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Whatever the reason, both Publix and Wegmans, though technically underdogs in the grocery world, are fan favorites.
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And because in tennis favorites lose to underdogs all the time, successful fixes can often go unsuspected.
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Only then can it begin to give current and future underdogs a better chance at a better life.
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Natalia's problem is compounded after the immunity challenge, where the Orange tribe loses narrowly to the Purple underdogs.
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That's right, all the delicatessens, delis, and BBQ underdogs across the states (there's even a farm in there).
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The Packers are only 1-point underdogs at Washington, which also won a weak division at 9-7.
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But based on current form, they should be underdogs in every game, according to Inpredictable, which tracks lines.
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That equation will now change, as funders see more potential in the underdogs for future policy pay-offs.
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Underdogs still can narrowly focus their attention and cash toward breakthroughs in the small states where voting starts.
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In tacit recognition of the leftists' appeal, especially to society's underdogs, Mr Xi himself uses strikingly Maoist rhetoric.
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I think the naughty ones and the underdogs are always the best people to play and to watch.
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Cameroon went into this year's Africa Cup of Nations final as clear underdogs against seven-time champions Egypt.
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We were massive underdogs, but we qualified to play in LA, and took it all in our stride.
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Casual fans usually pick the underdogs, but in this case, they've both played the lovable loser for decades.
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Depending on the outcome of a Tottenham-Chelsea game today, the massive underdogs may just take the title.
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Naturally, these underdogs end up saving the day, becoming local heroes despite having been reviled for so long.
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And so there's something liberating for Few and his team to be able to feel like underdogs again.
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Although loaded with young talent, the Americans were heavy underdogs after losing four times in the group stage.
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Understandably, the Browns are 10 ½-point underdogs to the Patriots, even though they will be playing at home.
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"It's OK if we're called the underdogs, I kind of like it," Houston linebacker Whitney Mercilus told reporters.
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In Week 1, Wyoming pulled off one of the biggest upsets, beating Missouri outright as 17-point underdogs.
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He loves his passionate underdogs too much to challenge them in the sustained way that serial TV requires.
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But the brutal reality of the tournament is that the underdogs did not have much time to celebrate.
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The bad news: They get to play each other, while two underdogs face off in the other series.
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If you root for underdogs with a punching chance, well, the Milwaukee Brewers are exactly that right now.
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The men are underdogs, overshadowed by the wealth of Paris St.-Germain and the rest of Europe's elite.
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BOSTON — There will be no underdogs in the 114th World Series, which opens at Fenway Park on Tuesday.
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Egypt, the underdogs going in, played tenacious defense and will be much happier with the 0-0 scoreline.
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They also fought back as moderate underdogs accused them of imperiling the party's prospects of defeating President Trump.
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Jim is a parent's dream, sticking up for underdogs and making lunches for his hard-working single mother.
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"They live for the fact that they're going to be the underdogs," said Akiva Blumenthal, another Yeshiva student.
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They will be underdogs again, and even now few observers expect them to make the tourney's Final Four.
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As a business strategy, it worked beautifully, particularly when Democrats were in power and Republicans felt like underdogs.
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The best actress category is going to be a hard one for underdogs to crack into this year.
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"Everybody says that we're the underdogs but I think (it adds) fuel to the fire," Jones told Reuters.
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Jen Nguyen from NC recommended "David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits and the Art of Battling Giants" by Malcolm Gladwell: I'm not really someone who typically reads non-fiction book for fun, but the second half of the title, "Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants" really appealed to me.
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The movie portrays the Soviets as plucky underdogs battling a lack of resources, scheming sports bureaucrats, and health problems.
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The hosts have been consumed by bloodlust, leaving humans as hapless underdogs in a hell of their own making.
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They'll feature tournament favorites like Brazil and Belgium, as well as underdogs like Russia, the host nation, and Sweden.
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In the annals of great underdogs, a Canadian subsidiary of a Japanese mega-retailer makes for an unlikely entrant.
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It is important to note, however, that both GOP candidates would be big underdogs to Clinton in the general.
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That means that a few underdogs are likely to walk away with big wins in Cleveland—odds be damned.
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In elections on May 224th the underdogs triumphed over the ruling coalition led by UMNO, the Barisan Nasional (BN).
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The riposte is that underdogs, after holding back their opponents for 120 minutes, deserve an even chance at glory.
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Movie heroes come in many different forms: from cultural icons and unsuspecting underdogs, to classic superheroes and brave warriors.
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Rose scoffed at the notion of favorites or underdogs this week, saying Europe had no reason to feel overmatched.
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I grew up with the understanding that for half the year, my city and I were the planet's underdogs.
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France, who as late challengers for the America's Cup were regarded as underdogs, face Sweden's Artemis Racing on Saturday.
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In many ways the new version captures the spirit of the original, given that its key characters are underdogs.
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But his city is not so lost and alien that we don't feel for its (canine and human) underdogs.
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But many Africans also identify with the Palestinians, who are seen as oppressed underdogs in the Middle East conflict.
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It is reduced to cheering for the underdogs to beat the high and not-so-mighty through sheer determination.
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Made will once again be giving young underdogs the opportunity to team with experts for life coaching and reinventions.
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The Texans came in as 16-point underdogs, on the wrong end of the biggest postseason line since 26.
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The two underdogs will have another chance to make their cases to voters during tonight's Republican debate in Florida.
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But on Sunday the six-point home underdogs turned the spread, and the NFL's dominant narrative, on its ear.
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The show was a high-school musical that put queer kids, weird girls, and underdogs in the lead roles.
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Go FOURTH and shine, underdogs, and May the FOURTH be with you … oh, hang on, that's the other date.
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They're really awesome underdogs that paved the way for so many kinds of industrial and other kinds of bands.
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In back-to-back matches on the main Philippe Chatrier court, Argentine fans will be cheering for considerable underdogs.
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The final six episodes dropped the existing plot lines for a more serialized and naturalistic comedy about office underdogs.
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The Patriots are 6.5-point favorites in Week 1 against the Texans, while the other three teams are underdogs.
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The Americans, who have not won the Cup since 2007, will be underdogs on the outdoor clay in Zadar.
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I've always liked exploring things we tend to take for granted, and I have a soft spot for underdogs.
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It has been drummed into the minds of North Koreans that they are outsiders, underdogs, and the ultimate survivors.
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The Cavaliers are the heavy underdogs and the Warriors, once the league's darlings, are flirting with the villain's role.
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For the French, who won gold in London 2012 and Beijing 2008, defeat to the Danish underdogs was bitter.
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But with 70% of bettors taking the Tigers, we'll back the Bulldogs as underdogs and hope for the best.
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The Rams were Super Bowl contenders all season, but faith in the Patriots turned Sean McVay's team into underdogs.
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They were heavy underdogs against the Kobe Bryant/Shaquille O'Neal Lakers, but they won the first game of the series.
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It's ludicrous that anyone would consider this ultra-talented group of beautiful and diverse women the underdogs of any story.
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We still have plenty of games in which we are the ostensible underdogs, but never in a meaningful mechanical sense.
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I should also say, I have a tendency to lean toward underdogs, and Happy Hollow's not much of an underdog.
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It comforts Trump-endorsers to think they are standing up for underdogs, but they are letting themselves off too easily.
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Trump assures his followers that they're the underdogs: that the nation's most powerful institutions are dedicated to silencing their views.
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Any side that begins with a technological advantage will see it erode quickly as the underdogs improve their improvisation capabilities.
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When the chips are down, grassroots underdogs holding the right cards can sometimes outplay the top dogs on Capitol Hill.
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Over all, the Democrats would gain around 26 or 27 seats, making Democrats pretty clear underdogs to retake the House.
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That's why the world built the media: To tell the stories of the underdogs who win despite the bad odds.
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The Jets were eighteen point underdogs and I bet my grandfather $5.00 that the Jets would win, taking no points.
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They weren't the underdogs, hungry for even a modicum of success, where his P. T. Barnum-esque salesmanship sold well.
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You can't be the underdog when you're the No. 1 seed in the N.F.C. There's no underdogs in this game.
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But until the services return to the city, people probably won't notice much of a difference riding with the underdogs.
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Okay, so that thing I just said about backing home underdogs as one of the laws of gambling on football?
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I wanted to write an album that was in support of the underdogs and I think that's the main theme.
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Arthur: When you talk to underdogs, they always have these complex one- or two-state strategies with a hope for momentum.
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It is in this context that a group of big men will enter an event on All-Star weekend as underdogs.
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Since they drew against group favourites Portugal in their opening match, Iceland have been the plucky underdogs everyone's been cheering for.
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The "movement" defines itself as the underdogs and strikes at the powerful who are, of course, the source of most misery.
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These doubts have made the Broncos the underdogs at home, where they are 23-4 in their four seasons with Manning.
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The best bets for a win are the Jets and Bengals home games, in which Miami could be 4-point underdogs.
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The president's opponents are still the underdogs in the coming votes, to be held early and for the first time simultaneously.
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They come off as bullied underdogs, but ask anybody who played with them, and you'll hear tales of homicide narrowly averted.
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"This book makes all of us underdogs feel like we're capable as anybody else," said Smith in an interview with Lifehacker.
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The plaintiffs were the heavy favorites in this early round of the case; Trump and the other defendants were the underdogs.
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In fact, he notes in an episode of Sports Illustrated's Underdogs, many of his players were once a part of them.
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Perhaps. But to delight in underdogs only when they win is rather to miss the point of what an underdog is.
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As a child, Edson Arantes do Nascimento (Leonardo Lima Carvalho) kicks the ball around with fellow ragtag underdogs wearing homemade uniforms.
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Thus the Thunder, the winners of 24 games and the No. 22 seed in the conference, were seen as the underdogs.
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They were competitive in both of their home games and are only 2 ½-point underdogs to the Indianapolis Colts this week.
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He prided himself on being seen as a model to the world's underdogs and he had developed an empathy for Taiwan.
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And for players in pools that award bonus points for picking lower seeds, selecting these pseudo-underdogs should almost be automatic.
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Unlike a number of other starry-eyed recruits to the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, Mr. Berg never outgrew his devotion to underdogs.
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Then, getting more into the NFL, I started watching more and more of the games and feeling bad for the underdogs.
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From the favorites to the underdogs to some of the Bee's most notable moments, here's your guide to this year's competition.
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Underdogs went 10-4 against the spread, leaving those betting favorites (ourselves included) left looking to bounce back in Week 7.
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Last season, Central Florida was also unbeaten and beat Auburn in the Peach Bowl by 7 despite being 10-point underdogs.
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The Cardinals (1-1) also played nothing like the 34½-point underdogs they had been labeled for the programs' first meeting.
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The team was rated as underdogs against Switzerland and perhaps still lack the world-class edge that Zlatan Ibrahimovic once brought.
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Pundits largely see Democrats as favorites to win back control of the House but as underdogs in winning back the Senate.
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We like to pay attention to past greats, the underdogs and try to look for things in people we can elevate.
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But here's something to consider: the underdogs of the market, emerging startups, may actually provide a more valuable experience for young professionals.
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Its themes of healing racial divisions and of underdogs banding together couldn't be more relevant after this roller coaster of a year.
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"We love to be the underdogs," Lovren said in the wake of Croatia&aposs England 2-1 extra-time win over England.
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For them, he's there to help fix those black people—those underdogs—a notion that they reject as antithetical to true equality.
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McCarthy opted to try his luck as underdogs on the road in overtime, and the Packers never got the ball again. 3.
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Of course, we are the underdogs and it's hard to take on the whole power of the establishment; the CBI, Whitehall, Brussels.
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Make no mistake, these are not underdogs fighting an uphill battle, but enormous corporations unloading nine figures on very public lobbying efforts.
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When it comes to body positivity and reflecting diversity in fashion, doesn't it sometimes feel like the underdogs are leading the charge?
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Oddsmakers make them underdogs against the deep and tradition-rich Los Angeles Dodgers, who had the best record in baseball this year.
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Republicans are already fairly clear underdogs, so it's hard for me to see them making a comeback unless Trump leads the way.
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Week 4 of the NFL season saw the underdogs howl, with the Buccaneers, Browns, Raiders, and more all winning their games outright.
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Analysis After tearing up millions of brackets on Thursday and Friday, underdogs in this year's N.C.A.A. men's basketball tournament flooded the weekend.
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What helped these open-source underdogs grow was real-world successes — not, as some entrepreneurs think, pricey consulting services to augment deployments.
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So it's a company that spent $220-22012 billion dollars on this thing, and you might consider them underdogs in this race?
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"Bernie and his movement do their best work as underdogs," said Neil Sroka, a strategist with the progressive group Democracy for America.
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Horowitz suggested, for example, that conservative legal organizations pick cases in which they represented underdogs against big institutions associated with the left.
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" After the book came out, Bloom apologized in a tweet, citing her "three decades fighting mostly for the underdogs against the powerful.
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It was a Cinderella ending for the Eagles — the underdogs of the game —after losing Wentz in December due to a knee injury.
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They've long been successful with a gritty band of underachievers at receiver, and a mix of stars and underdogs on the offensive line.
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As one of the underdogs of the phone world, I want to see HTC rise back from its ashes as much as anyone.
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By joining forces, Cruz and Kasich aren't becoming the underdogs conservatives root for, they're highlighting the fact that Trump is the inevitable nominee.
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Teams from Asia, Africa and North America remain the underdogs, but ought to have had more fairytale runs like South Korea's in 2002.
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They pen indelible melodies and deftly combine them with lyrics that speak to the disenfranchised, the underdogs, the LGBTQ community… and the romantics.
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Lundin told The Verge that they were underdogs, a team that didn't have the history or experience together that some other squads had.
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The Cubs were no longer scrappy underdogs but a dominant team of talented young stars that won 103 games in the regular season.
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But coming off their bye, the Dolphins finally covered their first spread of the season, losing to Washington as 6-point home underdogs.
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With Matthew Stafford nursing an ankle injury, the Lions now find themselves as underdogs against the wildly inconsistent Ravens (6-5, 67 percent).
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" He said of the Eagles, who won three playoff games as underdogs, "They weren't favored to win, either, but they won it all.
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But Sunday was a feeding frenzy for the underdogs in this epic tournament as five top seeds went down one after the next.
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No. 7 Nevada and No. 11 Loyola-Chicago both entered the tournament as heavy underdogs, yet will face off at 7:07 p.m.
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Much less has been written about anti-bubbles, which are in their way equally compelling tales of underdogs moving quietly toward surprising comebacks.
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This cheeky ensemble comedy about an airline crew of underdogs making weekend flights from Los Angeles to Las Vegas ends its first season.
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While some underdogs have become strong nomination contenders, others have faced harsh scrutiny -- and still others are largely a mystery to debate-watchers.
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The Tennessee Titans were lovable underdogs, but their luck ran out on Sunday against the Kansas City Chiefs, who beat them, 35-24.
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What some athletes might view as failure, however, only enhanced Poulidor's status among French cycling fans, who have a soft spot for underdogs.
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You paint a really vivid picture in the book of how tech companies position themselves as underdogs who are disrupting the modern workforce.
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The Celtics were not getting much respect; they had been underdogs with home court in the conference semifinals against the 76ers as well.
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The announcement from -owned Instagram further solidifies Facebook as one of the most dominant companies in online advertising, posing a challenge for underdogs.
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Article of the Day Article: N.C.A.A. Tournament: Familiar Favorites and Compelling Underdogs Before Reading Read through this collection of slides about March Madness.
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On the battlefields of the 23s, the Germans often do come across as underdogs facing vastly more numerous opponents with bottomless reserves of equipment.
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But when it comes down to it, it doesn't like give much thought to what causes some people to feel like underdogs and misfits.
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The Atlanta Falcons, a band of rising underdogs, will go to battle against the New England Patriots, who have dominated the NFL for years.
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The Blue Raiders never trailed the Spartans, and they didn't need a spectacular shooting performance to pull off the upset, as many underdogs do.
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The tater tot people have always been the underdogs when it comes to fried potato side dishes because so many restaurants only offer fries.
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In the years after 'Moneyball,' Lewis mulled over the idea of a sequel, called 'Underdogs,' that would chronicle the players' lives since the draft.
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Kraft-Unilever: Project Jedi When a group of nimble underdogs takes on the bloat of a giant empire, "Star Wars" is the obvious comparison.
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We've always viewed our free petition tools as a resource for the underdogs, the Davids fighting Goliaths to make the world a better place.
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It's a weird convergence of two underdogs, but makes some amount of sense when you look at what's supposed to be next for Essential.
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He just wants to work hard to "be stronger than that big guy," which is an excellent message to send to toddler underdogs everywhere.
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Despite the fact that females have less upper-body muscle mass, biologically deeming them underdogs, this woman merked rep upon rep of unfathomable weight.
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We were there to appreciate good Dota, and the universal fan-favorite team quickly became Pain Gaming, the Brazilian underdogs who outperformed all expectations.
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Over the years, there have been dozens of sports movies pitting the lovable underdogs against the seemingly unbeatable elites — it's a classic American story.
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Old Dominion (240-2410) prevailed in its first-ever game against a team ranked in the AP Top 1104 despite being four-touchdown underdogs.
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The underdogs led by 19 early in the fourth quarter, despite the influential Goran Dragic spending much of the third period on the bench.
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Fans and announcers were stunned late Saturday when Aqua and Nyhrox, two underdogs, beat out 503 other teams, many from larger, more funded organizations.
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Personal tragedy transformed Kennedy, allowing him to, for the first time in his life, empathize with black folk and political underdogs of all stripes.
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Will the title go to the Oklahoma Sooners, the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, the Clemson Tigers, or those scrappy underdogs, the Alabama Crimson Tide?
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Since becoming labor secretary in 2013, Mr. Perez has continued to be an advocate for underdogs, most recently issuing new rules to protect investors.
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In two other races, the Democrats would be considered slight underdogs: Scott Wallace in the 1st District and Susan Wild in the 7th District.
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But while an upset seemed almost unthinkable in those years, there seemed to be little separation between the favorites and the underdogs this season.
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The underdogs will need to make at least a small dent in Mr. Trump's lead to have a chance at some at-large delegates.
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They were certainly the neutral's choice among Italian fans elsewhere, and were seen by many as likeable underdogs despite Parmalat financing their meteoric rise.
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Twelve years ago, he was just 19 when Portugal lost the European Championships final to Greece, the underdogs, by a score of 1-0.
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Nor did it end last week, when the Eagles, underdogs at home despite holding the N.F.C.'s top seed, eked out a playoff win.
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With a subtle knack for storytelling, he has done as much as any columnist to build a narrative about his players as lovable underdogs.
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Betts's Red Sox are no underdogs; they have the highest payroll in the majors and have now won the last three A.L. East titles.
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The 49ers have not won a division title since 2012 and came into Sunday as road underdogs against the Rams, last year's N.F.C. champions.
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On Sunday, they dominated the Rams, last season's N.F.C. champions and a division rival, in Los Angeles, 20-7, despite being 4-point underdogs.
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The movie "possesses all the elements of a traditional film about underdogs, retrofitted for a new generation," Lovia Gyarkye wrote in her Times review.
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A few facts about Carroll, whose Seahawks are 4-point underdogs against the Green Bay Packers on the road at Lambeau Field on Sunday.
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Directed by the female duo Bert & Bertie, "Troop Zero" possesses all the elements of a traditional film about underdogs, retrofitted for a new generation.
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Ohio State dominated the power rankings all year (and remains No. 1 at Sagarin), so it's a surprise to see the Buckeyes as underdogs.
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The Dolphins did show up as home underdogs last weekend against the Bears, with Brock Osweiler doing enough to get Miami an overtime win.
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Every March, millions of Americans fill out brackets (more than 40 million people, by one count), cheer the underdogs and tune in on television.
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Croatia will now face England on Wednesday in Moscow and after two long and tiring games they will surely start as heavy-legged underdogs.
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In a flashback that reminded me of picking teams in junior high gym class, the "underdogs" were Jaymes Mansfield, which I totally get, and Valentina.
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The underdogs didn't score again until Trent Hosick's 15-yard scramble in the fourth quarter, which WVU answered on Howard's 21 pass to Kennedy McKoy.
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Wales usually defend strongly and counter very effectively; however, that won't be the case against Northern Ireland, who come into this game as clear underdogs.
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We create the appearance of a land of opportunity, where underdogs who hope and dream can overcome all challenges and fight their way to success.
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They are underdogs, their roster is stocked with likable and socially conscious players, and they're coached by an affable man who looks like Tank McNamara.
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Sports movies are all about the underdog, which is something I've been many times in my life so I'm thrilled to get to celebrate underdogs.
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THE TAKEAWAY Austin Peay : The Governors were 41-point underdogs and hung with UCF for much of the first half before running out of steam.
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Baidu has nonetheless held onto its commanding position in a market where Google is absent and smaller players like Bing and Sogou remain the underdogs.
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Hollywood scriptwriters could have a field day with this scene, pitting the ragtag band of underdogs in white against the highly efficient men in black.
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In 1999, it was briefly easier to tell a story of underdogs battling a professionalized, high-tech military and not be overwhelmed by uncomfortable resonance.
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Let's take a closer look at the key battles in each series, and what the underdogs can do in order to come out on top.
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While Austin may not have followed in his sister's footsteps, the Swift siblings do have one thing in common: a history of feeling like underdogs.
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Despite being 7-point underdogs and with a rookie quarterback making his first NFL start, Pittsburgh took an early lead they would never give up.
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The plucky underdogs from UConn went on a 24-0 run in the first half, led by 28 at halftime, and were never seriously challenged.
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Still, for all of the inequities of the current system, Holzman likes the long-shot nature of the N.C.A.A. tournament, which makes midmajors perennial underdogs.
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His first band called The Underdogs played house parties and a few recreation centers and caught the attention of guys like Mark and Ray 13.
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The Dodgers may never be underdogs again, not when they carry roughly double the payroll of the Milwaukee Brewers, another team desperate for a banner.
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But so long as they position themselves as underdogs, they risk empowering those who seek to use their invented victimhood as a smokescreen for bigotry.
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That includes the Giants' victory over the 12-point favored Pats in 2008, and the Patriots topping the Rams as 14-point underdogs in 2002.
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The Eagles, coming into the game as underdogs, defeated the five-time National Football League champion New England Patriots 41-33 in Minneapolis on Sunday.
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In "Bitcoin Billionaires," Mezrich goes in a slightly different direction, caricaturing the Winklevii — as the brothers are collectively nicknamed — as grumpy geniuses and sympathetic underdogs.
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But the Philadelphia Eagles, despite having all that on their résumé, head into Saturday's divisional round matchup against the Atlanta Falcons as 22-point underdogs.
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Nerds were smart and decent underdogs who just needed a good-hearted lady to notice them and maybe get them a pair of contact lenses.
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Though Iran now has three points in their group, they will have to be considered big underdogs to Spain and Portugal in the days ahead.
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At one point, Las Vegas had the Eagles as 6-point underdogs, but that has been lowered to 4 points, which seems closer to reality.
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After a 43-win season, they were decided underdogs to the 61-183 Spurs, and had to play the first two games on the road.
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An aggressive James has 1023 points after a quarter, and those underdogs from Cleveland just recorded a 30-point opening quarter against the supposed invincibles.
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Now they are under immense pressure to rally against the spirited Senators, who are not playing like the underdogs they were considered before the series.
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I'll be watching this year's contest with excitement and avid admiration for all the players (big and small) and the teams — defending champions and underdogs.
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Las Vegas oddsmakers had cast the Orioles as +420 underdogs that afternoon, making this perhaps the biggest upset in baseball in at least 15 years.
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There's still no clear leader in the best picture race and there's still a chance that several underdogs could find themselves in the directing category.
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It seems hard to remember, but in Week 1, the Patriots were 8½-point underdogs to an Arizona Cardinals team that had impressed last season.
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Thanks to Penn State, Arkansas, and Arizona State all covering as big underdogs, our picks went an impressive 5-2 against the spread last weekend.
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Underdogs with more ideas than clout, they much resemble the Silicon Valley startups whose innovation has set the stage for the ongoing drama over automation.
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Until then, the pressure remains on the Wolverines, who, despite winning their last four games, were underdogs by 9 points to Ohio State on Friday.
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In the first Super Bowl of the Brady era, in February 2002, the Patriots were 14-point underdogs to the 403-2 St. Louis Rams.
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And while the roster he built isn't quite the ragtag squad of underdogs that won the hearts of Americans in 1980, they're not far off.
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Anthony Bourdain was a master at articulating his experiences: He was an outspoken advocate on behalf of immigrants, women, and overlooked underdogs around the globe.
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They'll be big underdogs moving forward, but the Ducks are currently one of the hottest teams in the country and have won 10 straight games.
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The group stage ended in two draws against an extremely poor Russia side and an underwhelming Slovakia, as well as a narrow win over underdogs Wales.
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And the coverage that has existed has primarily featured the underdogs as antagonists of not-very-popular frontrunners rather than scrutinized them on their own terms.
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Continuing the sports analogy, Mr Baldwin says that today's trade is like the coach of a top team being allowed to offer his services to underdogs.
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Both are currently underdogs in a crowded gubernatorial primary — and sources close to both teams confirmed to BuzzFeed News that they are fielding calls to run.
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The global event traditionally sees fans adopting underdogs and cheering on the very last competitor to cross the line, rather than throwing shade in any direction.
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"At this stage of the economic cycle, let's call it the 8th inning, I would rather own the favorites right now than the underdogs," he said.
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"When you look at a team like that, you think of small guys, underdogs, yet their lineup has about three guys that are 7'0" or above.
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New England would finish off the third quarter with a field goal, giving the "underdogs" a commanding 230-3 lead over the Greatest Show on Turf.
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Over centuries, England, and then Britain, has strutted the global stage as an imperial overlord whose people sometimes seem more comfortable in the guise of underdogs.
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Today, there are rules concerning which wins merit a memorial: the Seminoles must be underdogs, or the victory must be in a championship or bowl game.
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Despite being four-point home underdogs already down by seven, Kelly chose to punt rather than take better-than-even odds to keep the drive alive.
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With the underdogs howling, our picks were caught sleeping, going a ghastly 3-11 against the spread to drop back down to 50% on the year.
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The Dolphins are underdogs despite an undefeated start, Baker Mayfield tries to get the Browns on a winning streak, and Khalil Mack tries to end FitzMagic.
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In this environment, Parker and Stone were genuine underdogs, two young guys fresh out of film school making an offbeat cartoon for a fledgling comedy network.
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Pick: Titans Line: Browns by 24 The Jets (23-23) are on a two-game winning streak, but they are slight underdogs against a winless team.
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Surely some of those teams should have known they were underdogs if the game went into overtime, and mistakenly avoided a risk they should have taken.
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Luc Devoldere, editor of the journal The Low Countries, tells me that Belgians traditionally felt better and achieved better results when they saw themselves as underdogs.
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Still, not everything worthy is stageworthy, and soliciting applause for championing underdogs, as this "Clarence Darrow" relentlessly and without nuance does, can also undermine the gesture.
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And though the Academy tends to favor "obvious" choices for its awards — movies about Hollywood or history; movies with big, showy performances — sometimes underdogs break through.
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As a David and Goliath narrative, it was just as easy to view the Tar Heels, notwithstanding their five championships, as the underdogs in this fight.
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That rule lasted one week, as last Sunday, I decided that the Bills weren't getting enough respect and took them against the Ravens as home underdogs.
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Last weekend, our picks went 5-2 against the spread, with Penn State, Arkansas, and Arizona State all coming through to cover as double-digit underdogs.
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This time around, the Eagles appear to be underdogs not just in name, but also in terms of overall talent compared with the Bears (12-4).
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The weapon of clarity works differently depending on who's wielding it: It tends to be a blessing for insurgent underdogs and a curse for domineering overlords.
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The Packers-Cowboys winner meets the survivor of Saturday's game between the Atlanta Falcons (11-5) and Seattle Seahawks (10-5-1), who are five-point underdogs.
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"I mean, I think I said probably most of it, but what I really wanted to say is that … we feel like underdogs, I think," she explained.
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O'Rourke touted investments in everything from health care and crumbling infrastructure to legal and legislative protections for American workers, immigrants, college students and underdogs of all stripes.
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The Washington Nationals beat the Houston Astros 12-3 on Wednesday, getting the underdogs a pair of wins in the World Series, The Ringer's Ben Lindbergh reports.
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One of her recurring themes is that through an endless succession of despotic emperors and sultans, the city's underdogs have always had their say in its destiny.
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They are still perennial underdogs in North London, and should still appeal to those who shun their Premier League neighbours in search of a more esoteric experience.
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"Tweeters are typically highly motivated and perhaps those who see themselves as the underdogs in the debate [and] are not representative of the wider public," Cram said.
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He said in an email that black cats are wonderful and because they're generally "underdogs" and they "tend to shine more to stand out and get attention."
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"They both see themselves as underdogs, but their understanding of what it means to be an underdog are playing out in very, very different ways," Johnston said.
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Mr. Dolan's films, a cri de coeur for tolerance, are invariably populated by outcasts and underdogs, a reflection, he says, of his own feelings of not belonging.
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The stock market has been climbing for a decade, and in that time, tech companies like Apple, Alphabet, Amazon and Facebook have gone from underdogs to overlords.
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Fans all across the country rallied behind them because we like to root for the underdog and we feel joy when we see the underdogs finally win.
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It did not show how close this tournament of underdogs was to having a minnow, somehow, some way, get its jaws all the way around a whale.
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BROADLY: In the book, you say you're drawn to heroes that are underdogs, and that you have a hard time with superheroes because they seem so invincible.
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"I know we are underdogs," said Duncan Gondi, 28, a former bus driver who played for Mowasalat, a multinational team of Kenyans, Eritreans, Moroccans, Egyptians and Ghanaians.
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Belgium wasted no time in the second period as Mertens quickly opened the scoring and as the underdogs started to chase an equalizer the space opened up.
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It bonds them, too, as working-class underdogs in a system that tilts to the elite and as men who struggle to combat the forces against them.
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This week, we&aposre back this week with seven more bets, and backing some heavy underdogs and a few wild favorites to keep the winning streak going.
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Despite being one of the biggest underdogs of the night, Nakamura made this one a fight by completing three takedowns and threatening with a second-round omoplata.
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"As an 11-year-old kid in a nowhere town on Long Island I could identify with the '85 Mets because they were still underdogs," Stegemann said.
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Initially 214.7-point underdogs in Saturday's FIBA Under-1003 World Cup semifinal, Canada held a 2100-point lead over the juggernaut USA Basketball program at that point.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The triumph of the underdogs at the U.S. Open this week shows the sport is in good health, according to Australian great Rod Laver.
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" A natural cheerleader, especially for underdogs, she also posted this on her Facebook page: "Never give up, no matter how things look or how long they take.
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It was a good decade for N.C.A.A. underdogs: Clemson in 1981 and Miami in 213 each started the football season unranked and ended it as national champion.
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"We've been a close team for quite awhile now — we like to be underdogs and try to prove people wrong," said forward Jonathan Phillips, the team captain.
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But after so many retirements and a redrawn map in Pennsylvania, Republicans would seem to be clear underdogs if Democrats won the popular vote by seven points.
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Week 2 should be approached with an open mind — even in Miami, where the Dolphins are underdogs with one of the widest spreads in recent N.F.L. history.
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For a party that celebrates diversity, pitches itself to underdogs and prides itself on being future-minded and youth-oriented, that's a freaky, baffling turn of events.
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With two terrific defenses facing off, the Bills' unit must have one of its best days for the 20173-point home underdogs to pull the upset. 22017.
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But in a wild-card playoff game on Saturday night, they will be underdogs at home to the Pittsburgh Steelers, whom they beat for the A.F.C. North crown.
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Through paranoia, mistrust, and the quixotic quest for the Survivor resume, the Kamas have given the Lesus the upper hand, and the underdogs have become the top dogs.
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The term literally means "death bashing", suggesting they are activists willing to fight to the death in defence of society's underdogs, such as farmers and the urban poor.
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A pack of hyenas, led by their queen, are looking to overcome their station as underdogs (no pun intended) in the shadows of the powerful Marsh Pride lions.
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This liberal subcaste would retain the left's traditional goals of bettering the world and attending to underdogs, but it would increasingly pursue those aims in market-friendly ways.
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The hosts are underdogs against a Croatia side that beat Nigeria, Argentina and Iceland in the group stages before overcoming Denmark on penalties in the round of 16.
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If the Broncos trail at all—and they are 5.5 point underdogs, for whatever that's worth—then it is hard to see Hillman getting a lot of carries.
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Where to watch it: Netflix One of last year's TV underdogs returned for a second season carrying an armload of Emmys — and perhaps the heightened burden of expectation.
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That the Irish had managed to work their way up the social ladder in the cities where they made their home added to their image as plucky underdogs.
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Peyton Manning's dad -- legendary QB Archie Manning -- says Las Vegas is DEAD ON with its Super Bowl line ... agreeing that the Denver Broncos are DEFINITELY underdogs on Sunday.
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Tom Brady and the Patriots have really convinced themselves they're the underdogs in Super Bowl LIII ... which couldn't have been more obvious than at their send-off rally.
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As much as they like to shock us, the showrunners have never given us a hard-fought episode-long battle that wasn't ultimately won by the plucky underdogs.
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As Wednesday's editorial predicted, New York's presidential primary results brought renewed calls for Bernie Sanders and John Kasich, the Democratic and Republican underdogs, to withdraw from the race.
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The media might focus on the Democrats' high-profile losses, even though most were either underdogs (like O'Rourke) or incumbents in states that Trump won two years ago.
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Fantasies of individual power and collective victimhood are marketed to flatter obedient ticket buyers with the conviction that they are masters rather than minions, underdogs rather than lackeys.
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Many of these characters are the types often relegated to the role of best friend: underdogs, men forced to play wingman to their more beautiful and dopey companions.
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"The cherry on top of all of this in 2019 is that the Patriots are claiming to be underdogs, which is well and truly hilarious," Lyles told me.
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Proehl spent another season with the Rams before signing with Carolina, which entered the Super Bowl in February 2004, the first in franchise history, as 7-point underdogs.
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"There's so many characters in the show who are underdogs, and they get really badly treated by life and people, so they have to rise up," Gosnell said.
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But only about 2-1 underdogs; that translates to about a 33 percent chance of winning the series, far better than the 6 percent that history might predict.
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Although the Jaspers, who came in as 213-point underdogs, hung tough for most of the game behind a game-high 73 points from leading scorer, guard Zavier Turner.
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Though the Eagles were clear underdogs against the five-time Super Bowl champions, getting to the championship game despite their whirlwind season finale was a success all its own.
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When the transfer window closed Friday without any new arrivals to his squad, Lampard suggested that Chelsea had made itself "underdogs" in the race for a Champions League spot.
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Goliath is driven more by this tribal concept of underdogs facing off against top dogs (each year, the two seasons tend to switch off between gimmick and tribal concept).
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Our deep and empathetic coverage of the underdogs — from Democratic socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to Republican Young Kim — set us apart from traditional newspapers that largely ignored these women.
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This, in part, has been responsible for the resurgence in poptimism—critics bandwagoning for the musical winners instead of sticking their necks out for the deserving underdogs of music.
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Reed told us he was super impressed with Allen's play during the 27-6 win over Minnesota ... especially since the Bills were 17-point underdogs going into the game.
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"I think that coming into the tournament, a lot of people saw us as huge underdogs, but we never saw it that way," Israel right fielder Zach Borenstein said.
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One series forecast that incorporated these roster additions, calculated before the surprising first-game result, gave the underdogs a one-in-four chance of progressing to the next round.
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The Belgians would be wise to remind themselves of Euro 2016 when they reached the quarter-finals but surprisingly crashed out to underdogs Wales, with their backline falling apart.
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For different reasons, my brother, just a year older than me, and I were social underdogs, and Rocky's low-tech perseverance gave us something: it said transformation was attainable.
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At least the English, who relish their underdogs (if perhaps not at the expense of their national honor), can take some small consolation from the 25-year-old Willis.
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The third-seeded Wolverines (33-7) had a bit more trouble against the bracket's favorite underdogs, overcoming a frightful first half to send Loyola-Chicago and Sister Jean packing.
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This year has always had a different vibe for the Sharks, with so many having written them off that they felt like plucky underdogs instead of pressure-weary favorites.
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Kagan's Crimson were the underdogs going into the game with a #6 seed -- facing a #3 seed in Georgetown, which also happens to feature college basketball star Mac McClung.
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This is evident in Turkey, where Mr. Erdogan's supporters still pose as oppressed underdogs, even though they now control the news media, business and the government at all levels.
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Of the 20 House Republicans who voted "no" on the health care bill, half have either decided not to seek re-election or are underdogs to return to Congress.
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A week after shocking the world by winning as 16.5-point underdogs, the Buffalo Bills came into a game against Green Bay expected to lose by at least 9.5.
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" Among the wide range of underdog debunkers, Sports Illustrated may have hedged its bets the best, noting, "The Patriots are underdogs in their own minds, and that's what matters.
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This one was for Princeton, East Tennessee State, Western Carolina — all the No. 2121 seeds that had come close to upsets as the biggest underdogs on the biggest stage.
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Foles earned MVP honors as the first and only player in Super Bowl history to both throw and catch a touchdown, and his underdogs won the game 41-33.
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While Kerr had joked about the concept of taking the Warriors as underdogs, D'Antoni brushed off the idea that his team was the favorite during his pregame news conference.
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On Sunday, he leads the Titans, who will be big underdogs again, against the Kansas City Chiefs in the A.F.C. championship with a Super Bowl berth on the line.
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But when they play Louisiana State in the national championship game on Monday, they will be 5½-point underdogs and the team that most gamblers will be rooting against.
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The genre exploded during Bill Clinton's presidency and has thrived in the last eight years, under President Obama, as right-wing writers forged a united front as ideological underdogs.
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Head coach Doug Pederson and the Eagles have been postseason underdogs plenty of times in the past three years, and I seem to remember those games working out alright.
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Her characters are no longer underdogs on a hero's journey to return magic — now they are leaders who are suffering from the consequences and trauma of their previous quest.
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The only games in which they'll be clear underdogs are at Michigan State and at Maryland, but Iowa's shocking win at Purdue's Mackey Arena makes road victories seem possible.
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So while Nike is one of the biggest and most powerful companies in the world, its advertising has been aimed at women and minorities, the "underdogs" of the world.
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There is a way for tough guys to lose and make a comeback, which is by recasting themselves as heroic underdogs who are fighting against the odds, like Rocky Balboa.
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Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho, who saw his chances of winning a fifth League Cup ended, mixed praise for the victorious underdogs with the observation that they were also "lucky".
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Of course, the G-men haven't looked so hot in 2019 ... they're just 2-6 and are big-time underdogs against the Dallas Cowboys on "Monday Night Football" next week.
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The Dubs' simultaneous scrappiness and gold-plated grit, and the way their unstoppable superstars still manage to read as underdogs, reflect a flattering vision of the Bay Area's own future.
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Illinois (4-4, 03-3 Big Ten), which knocked off unbeaten Wisconsin last week as 30.5-point underdogs, forced two turnovers and held the Boilermakers scoreless into the fourth quarter.
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The Tigers will still be comfortable underdogs, but there's enough on hand to at least pester Alabama, which is about as much as any team can hope for these days.
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But when Trump and his administration are positioned as embattled underdogs who are fighting a bullying liberal elite, believing them against all evidence to the contrary becomes a political act.
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The postseason tournament is so much larger, so much more diverse, an endless array of great teams and brilliant individual players and small-conference underdogs and underachieving major-conference squads.
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In particular, Ali would often suggest his black opponents were tools of the (implicitly or explicitly white) man, while he himself was on the side of the people, the underdogs.
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This is the tumultuous 2016 football season, where up is down, footballs throw you, and last second hook and ladders actually work from underdogs with the clock at zero seconds.
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Just consider Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, a young Cuban-American raised by working-class migrants, with the knack of advancing sternly conservative policies while expressing personal sympathy for underdogs.
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But she's more than that, too — she's a scared teen who misses her dad, and she's a former mean girl who wants to make a fresh start helping Riverdale's underdogs.
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It's been a slow news week, so in honor of these conference tournaments, we're letting you know which underdogs you should root for in the lead-up to Selection Sunday.
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Unseeded Johnson, in the fourth round of a grand slam for the first time after beating Grigor Dimitrov, said Querrey's exploits were a shot in the arm for the underdogs.
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" Or, as Evelyn Waugh wrote in his California-based satire of Anglo-Americanism, " The Loved One " (1948), "You never find an Englishman among the underdogs—except in England of course.
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As a result, the reader is unable to suspend a feeling of disbelief as Moore's plucky underdogs scrap their way through various twists and setbacks while struggling toward their endgame.
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Week 6 of the NFL season was a wild one for bettors, with underdogs going 10-463 against the spread, including a huge win from the Jets over the Cowboys.
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Aside from the joy of actually learning the rules of cricket, it's fun to watch the underdogs school a bunch of mutton chop-having 1890s imperialists at their own game.
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We could argue all day about whether, on paper, Democrats should be considered one-point or 10-point underdogs in an open race in Georgia's Sixth in a wave environment.
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But these new underdogs blow up everything we thought we knew, and set the stage for a blood-soaked, era-defining thriller about class warfare and all its moral complexities.
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The Philadelphia Eagles hold the dubious distinction of being the only home team headed into the weekend as underdogs, clinching a decidedly lackluster NFC East with a 9-7 record.
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Elimination from the group stage would be an unbearable humiliation for Argentina and Sanchez, while admitting his side were the underdogs, said they were determined to reach the next round.
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Despite Oakland&aposs issues, the Dolphins could be playing even worse at the moment as evidenced by the fact that they will be 33 23/21-point home underdogs on Sunday.
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The U.S. has both a men's and women's team that are legitimate underdogs, as well as a brother-sister pair that will represent the U.S. in the new mixed doubles competition.
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The heaviest underdogs in a decade entering the 2019 World Series, the Nats closed the odds gap with their 5-4 win over Astros and ace Gerrit Cole in Game 1.
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Even setting aside popular fan theories, Daenerys Stormborn and Jon Snow have served as two of the show's biggest underdogs, characters who have been constantly counted out, betrayed, discarded, and ignored.
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NEW YORK — Author-columnist Jimmy Breslin, the Pulitzer Prize-winning chronicler of wise guys and underdogs who became the brash embodiment of the old-time, street smart New Yorker, died Sunday.
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A late equalizer from Eden Hazard ended Tottenham Hot Spurs' hopes of catching up to Leicester City, which means the 5000-to-1 underdogs are the new kings of English football.
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RAJINDAR SINGHColorado Springs, Colorado Leicester City becoming champions of the English Premier League was a source of celebration and inspiration for almost everyone, except The Economist ("Underdogs are overrated", May 7th).
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But we were the underdogs and some folks had chips on their shoulders about EverQuest and how it conquered the marketplace using "just" DIKU MUD mechanics and the classic fantasy tropes.
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With the offense finally opening up for Mariota, and underdogs like Rishard Matthews and Tajae Sharpe making explosive plays, the team everyone tagged as a sleeper this spring is waking up.
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And while they remain long shots, or underdogs at best, Democrats have nominated potentially strong candidates in Georgia, Oklahoma, Tennessee and South Carolina, some of the reddest states in the country.
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C. media, where the audience's vicarious thrill comes not from watching scrappy underdogs heckle their supposed betters, but from watching guys sitting comfortably atop social hierarchies belittle and dominate their lessers.
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Hancox writes with a fan's zeal, recounting the rush of hearing paradigm-shifting singles for the first time, and the pride of seeing underdogs like Wiley and Skepta ascend to superstardom.
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When the New York Giants shocked the undefeated Patriots in Super Bowl XLII, they were bigger underdogs (12 points) than what the Jaguars are facing (8.5 points) to start the week.
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"This is the Lebanese society situation at the moment, full of underdogs, full of oppressed people that are extremely frustrated and that is looking for a window of hope," he said.
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When the won against the Mets, even if you were a Mets fan you could get behind the Royals because they were such a fun team and were such lovable underdogs.
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The field includes muscular fund-raisers like Mr. Sanders, Senator Kamala Harris of California and former Representative Beto O'Rourke of Texas; intriguing underdogs, like Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Ind.
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The aliens take on Lovecraftian form ("The tendril mass looms, ethereal and pale") and are fought off by a multi-ethnic, multi-gendered posse of underdogs—people Lovecraft would have hated.
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For the first time since people started monitoring such things, the Mets — the perennial punch line, the professional underdogs — had eclipsed the Yankees in popularity among New York City baseball fans.
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The curse of the top seed: The Sooners may be underdogs, but the No. 4 seed has more titles in the past five years (two) than the No. 1 seeds (0).
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Yes, the upsets in the early rounds of the N.C.A.A. tournament were entertaining, and the evolution of Loyola-Chicago from lovable underdogs to genuine contenders captured the imagination of the nation.
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Then, in the last year, as the Dubs went from underdogs to big dogs, there was another reason for local solidarity: It was us against a world rooting for our defeat.
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The Senate battleground map has shrunk dramatically in recent weeks — a net plus for Democrats but not enough to change their status as heavy underdogs to win the chamber in November.
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Less than two months before the Iowa caucuses, the race remains highly fluid, with considerable room for movement not just among the top few candidates but among the underdogs as well.
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If Democrats have any hopes of recapturing the 24 seats needed to take back the House, they will depend on a lot of anti-Trump energy and underdogs like Mr. Ossoff.
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The road so far: Despite being labeled underdogs in both series, the Senators knocked out the Bruins and the Rangers in six games each, winning five overtime games along the way.
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Last year, in which Mercedes presented themselves as underdogs to Ferrari for the first part of the F1 season, proved the best yet for the German manufacturer across the various motorsport series.
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Meanwhile, thanks to scandals ranging from Theranos to #juicegate to basically everything about Uber, the public now sees tech entrepreneurs not just as innovative underdogs but cruel moguls, con artists, or both.
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Bradly Boaz from Wilmington, N.C., became a basketball enthusiast because of bracket participation: The March Madness tournament games have been astounding this year, the underdogs giving a good fight for the win.
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MONACO (Reuters) - Once-dominant Mercedes are now the underdogs in the Formula One title race, team boss Toto Wolff said after rivals Ferrari took a resounding one-two in Monaco on Sunday.
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On the biggest occasion in their history, in a match where they are huge underdogs to win their first World Cup crown, Croatia will need their big-game players to step up.
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Wiz Khalifa, "Fuck Apologies" JoJo is one of contemporary pop music's unappreciated underdogs, and "Fuck Apologies" is the first single from her first album in almost a decade, the forthcoming Mad Love.
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In "Moneyball," he tracked the astonishing success of Billy Beane, the general manager who turned the Oakland A's from underdogs into championship contenders by relying on statistics rather than acquiring star players.
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EPSOM, England (Reuters) - Formula One world champions Mercedes say they are now the underdogs to Ferrari in this year's title race but Nigel Mansell is taking that with a pinch of salt.
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Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff said after Ferrari finished one-two in Monaco last month that the champions were now underdogs and revisited the theme ahead of this weekend's Canadian Grand Prix.
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Previously she had explained to the man that her parents had a tendency to be cold, but the coldness was more a reflex from years of being underdogs than their natural state.
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Southgate lowered expectations before the tournament, highlighting his team's youth and inexperience, with the result that the public was ready to be forgiving and began to view the side almost as underdogs.
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At the same time, the Thunder will finish with roughly 45 wins and enter the first round of the playoffs as underdogs, with virtually no shot at making it to the Finals.
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This article originally appeared on VICE Sports UK. When the Republic of Ireland take to the field against France at the Stade des Lumières on Sunday afternoon, they will be huge underdogs.
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When the draw was made for Wimbledon this year and betting was opened on the match, Sousa and Mayer started out as 26/25 underdogs, implying a 227 percent chance of winning.
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This is why underdogs work so well in children's literature, where, to the target readership, everything from a school bully to a burdensome homework assignment can feel as overwhelming as a supervillain.
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In June, Brent Goldfarb assessed the company's prospects: Silicon Valley investors love to talk about "disruption" — they are besotted with the storyline of small, scrappy, high-tech underdogs upending boring "legacy" corporations.
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He hollered at the thousands of assembled fans about how a team of underdogs defied expectations by going for it with a trick play on 4th and 1 to win the championship.
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And instead of appreciating these underdogs roaring in the final and deciding game of the Western Conference Finals, all I could think was: When will the Warriors release the Hounds of Hell?
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In 2018, the group, which is led by Stanford law school professor Barbara Fried, raised about $500,2050 for 20 different Democratic congressional challengers, many of whom were underdogs to win their bids.
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What happened in Australia, far from being a one-off, has become a sequence of success that has re-arranged the Formula One landscape with champions Mercedes already presenting themselves as underdogs.
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Miami (2-2) got touchdowns from DeeJay Dallas (1-yard run) and K.J. Osborn (123-yard reception) as the Hurricanes survived an upset attempt by the Chippewas, who were 31-point underdogs.
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He turned to music, migrating from soft rock to grunge rock to heavy metal, before landing in third-wave ska groups like the Worms and Blinking Underdogs, which attracted a local following.
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You could imagine Al Qaeda or Timothy McVeigh identifying with Luke blowing up the Death Star — plucky underdogs destroying symbols of invincible power with dollar-store equipment and an audacious, suicidal plan.
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I'm curious about this idea of underdogs and how you might identify with it, whether it's because you're a Calgary-based techno musician or if there's something more to it than that.
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Many of the fans engaged in Sunday night's celebrations wore plastic dog masks to symbolize the Eagles' status as underdogs against several opponents including the Patriots, who were the previous N.F.L. champions.
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Although you might wonder whether the state matters at all, given that it's about to hand victories to candidates who will remain significant underdogs, it could have big consequences for the Republican race.
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The scrappy underdogs are given limited resources and asked to perform miracles, all while trying not to die horribly at the hands of aliens that are bent on blasting human civilization to oblivion.
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Initially, he convinced the team, club and supporters that in order to be successful they had to fight like the underdogs they were; he then convinced them that having heart could rival money.
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Chapecoense, who qualified for the final after overcoming Argentine club San Lorenzo, were underdogs for the match against the Colombian club going for a rare double after winning the Copa Libertadores in July.
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The underdogs won out this time, defeating eUnited 3-1 (which you can watch here and here), giving Team Gigantti a solid start to the first season of Blizzard's $100,000 Overwatch Contenders league.
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If you think Khabib has NO CHANCE to beat Floyd Mayweather in a boxing match, one of the biggest underdogs in sports history is here to tell you ... YOU'RE WRONG ... and he's proof.
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There isn't a whole lot of subtext going on here, apart from the vague hand-waving confirmation that big companies and corrupt cops are bad, and little-guy underdogs and justice are good.
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The acronym we have for what were once upstarts or underdogs—Facebook to Amazon to Netflix to Google—hints at the now ominous nature of their place in the world, F.A.N.G. What happened?
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The French beat Germany in the Euro 2016 semi-final setting up an encounter in Paris against then-underdogs Portugal, who stunned them 1-0 in extra time to win the continental title.
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Clear underdogs at 200-1 to win the World Cup, Peru are ranked 11th by FIFA and have been growing in confidence after a storming end to the two-year South American qualifiers.
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The running line is that systems and networks, social classes and societal configurations, determine and shape history more than we like to admit, and that underdogs are our last best hope against them.
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For that reason, we're getting back to basics this week, betting the favorites that look ready to blow their opposition out of the water, and the underdogs that look feisty to win outright.
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And while the case of the Green Bay Packers isn't exactly a story of underdogs, they had to earn their Wild Card spot to get to Dak Prescott, Zeke the Freak, and crew.
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The Wolfpack entered the game as 11-point underdogs at home, and at halftime trailed Purdue 24-7, but would mount a comeback in the second half to bring the game within reach.
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Any time I get the chance to bet the Seahawks as underdogs, it's worth strong consideration, and they should serve as the toughest test the 49ers have faced yet in their undefeated campaign.
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And at Wimbledon, underdogs celebrated victories on Tuesday over several top-ranked players, including Petra Kvitova, the oddsmakers' favorite to win the women's title, who was defeated by the 50th-ranked Aliaksandra Sasnovich.
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"We know we have a daunting task ahead of us, but we've been the underdogs all year," Blair-Lewis said of having six players miss time for various injuries, including five knee operations.
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Coming into the playoffs without Wentz, the Eagles got little respect as the No. 21 seed and were rated as underdogs at home against the Falcons (by 2½) and the Vikings (by 3).
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Fairly or not, the Tigers, with their generational quarterback and their up-tempo offense, are touchdown underdogs in tonight's game, seen as inferior to Alabama's old-school pro sets and replacement-level quarterback.
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But rather than portray the Canadian victory as a case of underdogs exhibiting perseverance—and free-market capitalism defeating communism—Team Canada is viewed here as the Apollo Creed to the Russians' Rocky.
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Jim Renacci and Lou Barletta have been successful in winning Senate primaries — in Ohio and Pennsylvania, respectively — but neither was especially impressive against lackluster opponents, and both are underdogs in the fall. Rep.
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Dallas entered the game as 2019-point underdogs against the Patriots, meaning that Cowboys bettors needed the team to either win or lose by less than 6 in order to cash their bets.
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Thornton connected on two free throws with 8:35 left in the game to pull Boston College within 67-23, but Louisville went on a 28-249 run to put the underdogs away.
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It is one of several fitness options thriving in this somewhat improbable niche; Nerd Fitness, the online self-described "community of underdogs, misfits and mutants," says it has more than 40,000 paying members.
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As we all know, HIV is a stigma and people with the disease are unfortunately at times treated differently … She was able to leave this world helping those underdogs she fought so hard for.
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It can give underdogs a huge boost toward their party's nomination — like it did for then-candidate Obama in 2008 — or put a front-runner's campaign on the skids, like it did to Clinton.
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Despite rolling to the second-best record in NBA postseason history through the first three rounds of the playoffs, the Cleveland Cavaliers enter their Finals rubber match with the Golden State Warriors as underdogs.
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Research on N.F.L. betting over two decades indicates that underdogs at home football games cover the point spread more than half of the time and yet they draw only 40 percent of betting money.
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They've promptly gone from -21 series favorites to +22018 underdogs, and they are analytically now something closer to a 22/50 proposition to move on rather than the 70/30 they came in at.
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The Eagles look like clear favorites in four of their games — against the Cowboys, the Giants, the Redskins and the Texans at home — and clear underdogs in two — at the Saints and the Rams.
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It's a bit strange how this all worked out, how in a year that felt so rife with absurdist possibility, all the true underdogs were eliminated by the time the Sweet Sixteen came around.
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Year after year, subjecting yourself to the tedious boredom of one botched half-court possession after another, with the only joy being the possibility of "underdogs" like Princeton upsetting a public school basketball powerhouse.
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It's a work that seeks to redress wrongs on many levels, by starring black singers and musicians, speaking of slavery, of underdogs, of torture, of those who lost as well as those who won.
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In short, if Richard and the other characters actually became the major successes the show is clearly building toward them being, they would cease to be the lovable underdogs fans of the show love.
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Though the line is small, they still are underdogs to the Panthers this week, and with a win would most likely face a road game against the potent Cardinals, also a favorite of the oddsmakers.
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I desperately wanted Chrissy to pull out her super idol and save her Mom Squad ally Katrina — partially because I wanted the underdogs to seize control, and partially because chaos is just fun to watch.
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Meadows' latest album, 2017's First Cigarette, even features a song called "Underdogs" which he wrote with Judd's husband, Michael Scott "Cactus" Moser, who lost his leg after a Harley Davidson motorcycle accident in 2012.
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Because, well, with eye-catching innovation stalled among the usual suspects (who're nonetheless raising high-end handset prices), there's at least an opportunity for buccaneering underdogs to smash through, grab attention and poach bored consumers.
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But thanks to C.J. McCollum's emergence and Damian Lillard's chip-on-the-shoulder hero ball, the Blazers played their way back into the postseason, and became America's plucky Pacific Time Zone underdogs along the way.
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The show garnered modest ratings (for a niche pay cable network) but glowing criticism, because even though the characters are often reprehensible, they gave us a world to escape to and underdogs to root for.
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During his time at Goldman, Cohn was featured in Malcolm Gladwell's "David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants," which painted the bank executive as an example of a successful underdog story.
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MONTREAL (Reuters) - There was a sense of urgency, but no panic, as Formula One world champions and self-proclaimed underdogs Mercedes prepared to take the fight to Ferrari at the Canadian Grand Prix on Thursday.
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Sagittariuses tend to be optimistic underdogs, and are likely to bond with Earn as he pursues his dreams against all odds—and trust me, throughout the seasons, there are A TON of odds to beat.
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In this Midwest baseball face-off, the Cleveland Indians have also been known as appealing underdogs — and Cleveland is trying to build on the positive reviews it got for hosting the strange, makeshift Trump convention.
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"The majority of the players in the N.F.L. are underdogs, and it's the same now," said Edebali, who flew to Nashville this week for what turned out to be an unsuccessful tryout with the Titans.
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It is one of the last major Democratic congressional rivalries before the November elections and sets up a clash of change versus experience in a restless national political climate that has favored women and underdogs.
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The underdogs instantly became fan favorites and a symbol of the Olympics, which posted a photo of Madrazo carrying the Mexican flag on its social media accounts, where it generated tens of thousands of likes.
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The internet does help signal boost complete garbage like BoyBoy West Coast's "You Was at the Club," but it also has the power to make deserving underdogs, like Lil Nas X and Roddy Ricch, superstars.
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At first, the audience is led to cheer on a family as they pull themselves up by the bootstraps; it is an impossible mission, and you long for the underdogs to pull off their heist.
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The Reggae Boyz will be firm underdogs against Bruce Arena's Team USA in Santa Clara but have proved desperately difficult to break down in the tournament so far, conceding just two goals in five matches.
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Fast-forward one week, and the Patriots are underdogs not just in spirit but also in reality against a team that spent most of the season with people assuming it would reach the Super Bowl.
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I love any fiction in which America is invaded or is otherwise on the decline because it allows us to imagine ourselves as idealistic underdogs, which is way more romantic than being a global empire.
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The Cubs, meanwhile, will cruise to first place in the NL Central as the Cardinals edge out the Pirates for the second wild card spot, and cement their new status as gritty Central Division underdogs.
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It is now turning its attention to young campaigners who wave the same Marxist flag as the party, but who use it in defence of society's underdogs rather than as a bludgeon against the party's critics.
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In other words: acknowledging just how difficult some races are for an underdog to win, and what structural barriers have been put in place to ensure that underdogs keep losing races that were rigged against them.
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It's no surprise that he delivers on the promise, or that viewers might find something exciting and even heroic about a working-class man wielding these tools of terror on behalf of underdogs and little guys.
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PYEONGCHANG (Reuters) - The Canadian women's ice hockey team head into the Winter Olympics as the underdogs to a top-ranked U.S. squad, but they know they have a mission to fulfill: a fifth straight gold medal.
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Apart from returning shows on the CW and Netflix originals, Hulu has your next-day broadcast network darlings and underdogs — as well as a formidable movie library adding no less than 12 Godzilla movies this month.
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It was probably just a coincidence that Vivian Girls the band began in "the Orphanage," but all things considered, it seems like a self-fulfilling prophecy that the band would leave a legacy as misunderstood underdogs.
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Longtime Disney composer Alan Menken's music has never been brighter, and the time has never been righter for a bubbly story about a labor-rights uprising told by a bevy of singing, dancing, working-class underdogs.
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The Giants came into Sunday night as enormous underdogs against the Denver Broncos, but in a winless season in which nothing has gone right for them, they had a night where they could do no wrong.
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Though sweeps of this magnitude do happen (2006 and 2008 both saw huge Democratic sweeps), they're rare, especially as the parties have polarized geographically and because Democrats are underdogs, in Alabama and North Carolina in particular.
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Despite being heavy underdogs heading into Sunday&aposs contest, Watson and company surged to a 21-0 lead in the first quarter in Kansas City before Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs offense began a huge comeback.
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The Commodores, 20 1/2-point underdogs, stunned Kentucky by taking a 35-28 halftime lead as Richards — the reigning National Player of the Week — played just five first-half minutes due to having two fouls.
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Mike Vrabel's squad came away with the 28-12 dub over Baltimore in the divisional round of the playoffs on Saturday (they were 10 point underdogs) ... one week after taking down Tom Brady and the Patriots.
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And the story lines that ran through all those old movies — the scrappy underdogs who band together to take down the Yankees, the disillusioned veteran who rediscovers his love for the game — have aged even worse.
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The Dolphins are 21-point underdogs against the 2-0 Cowboys on Sunday after being thrashed 59-10 by the Baltimore Ravens and 43-0 against the New England Patriots at home to open the season.
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While local sponsors may support the underdogs and athletes who haven't medaled, the biggest endorsement deals typically just go to the top one or two competitors in each sport — headliners like Shaun White and Lindsey Vonn.
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First, Bannon and Breitbart, long used to pumping up underdogs, are going with the frontrunner: former state Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore, the top vote-getter in the August primary and the leader in recent polls.
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The Eagles were underdogs throughout the NFL playoffs, and just as most expected little from fictional Philadelphia boxer Rocky Balboa, few onlookers outside the City of Brotherly Love expected them to beat the defending Super Bowl champions.
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Carroll, Iowa (CNN)With just a couple of tables, a stack of boxes and some Bernie Sanders posters tacked to the wall filling their one big, empty room, there's no doubt: This crew looks like the underdogs.
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The Texans won the AFC South with a 9-7 record and knocked off fifth-seeded Oakland 27-14 in the first round of the playoffs, but they are more than two-touchdown underdogs against New England.
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This year's "right-track" numbers are about as bad as in those two cycles, even though everything else seems to point toward a more normal election — one where the Democrats would be slight but not big underdogs.
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But Division I men's basketball, symbolically the N.C.A.A.'s most open sport — with a postseason tournament renowned for binding together 32 otherwise disparate conferences and for featuring unpredictable upsets and lovable underdogs — is far from a democracy.
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This year, hundreds of people showed up outside the studio wearing the school colors of their alma mater, as legendary boys' high school Kingston College and cross-town underdogs St Jago High faced off in the finals.
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Even if the Raptors win Game 4 on Tuesday and tie the series — they are 2½-point underdogs — they will face two of the last three games in Milwaukee, where they lost by 8 and 22 points.
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Philadelphia has taken great pride in being underdogs in both of their playoff games despite being the top-seeded team in the N.F.C., and they are sure to continue that trend when facing Brady and the Patriots.
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To those who wept especially for the Red Sox and Patriots and Bruins and less so the Celtics over the years, Boston teams and their fans will always be underdogs, no matter how much success they've hard.
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The Redhawks (25-29), who came into the game as heavy underdogs, led by many as 753 points in the first half and five points midway through the second half before Forrest and the Seminoles assumed control.
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In response to a well-wisher, Merritt&aposs father added: "Cambridge lost a proud son and a champion for underdogs everywhere, but especially those dealt a losing hand by life, who ended up in the prison system."
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They lost in their two previous regional finals, in 1999 and 2015, when they were underdogs, and the only other time they were seeded No. 1, in 2013, they lost to Wichita State in the second round.
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Wisconsin has beaten two top-21 teams in a season for the first time since 211, while extending its road-winning streak to a program-best eight games but are still considered double-digit underdogs in Ann Arbor.
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With the team playing lights out in January, diehard Philly fans (like Bradley Cooper) believed the team could pull off an upset and win their first Super Bowl — even if they were clear underdogs against Brady's dominant Patriots.
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The Eagles were listed as major underdogs coming into the matchup for the Lombardi Trophy, since they were then being led by backup quarterback Nick Foles after star player Carson Wentz was injured late in the regular season.
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Even mammals, the supposed underdogs of the Mesozoic, occasionally had their day in the sun: Repenomamus, something of a 130 million year old murderous wombat, was discovered with the remains of a baby dinosaur fossilized in its belly.
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It put the Blue Devils in the unfamiliar position of being scrappy underdogs, even though the program is loaded with blue-chip recruits—a turn of events that's particularly hard to swallow for the "Anybody But Duke" crowd.
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There aren't too many sports stories this morning, because Yesterday, Tottenham could only manage a 5-226 tie with Chelsea, which means Leicester City, 22-22016 underdogs at the beginning of the season, became the Premier League champions.
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Avoiding the sentimental pitfalls of movies about underdogs in competition, it follows his struggles once he takes it upon himself to train the alienated Maori teenagers in Gisborne to compete for the junior national chess championship in Auckland.
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Underdogs are fun, but next year, the teams we grew up with and the teams that have had the biggest impact on the history of college football will factor in the conversation for more than name recognition alone.
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Playoff underdogs are mostly just less talented or seamless than their opponents, but the right kind of underdog—the inexplicably overachieving in Portland's case, or the dazzlingly chaotic in Oklahoma City's—can seem like something more than that.
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Ahead, everything from the most wanted ranks of Everlane's "Choose What You Pay" to Brooklinen's "Last Call Bedding" and Luluemon's "We Made Too Much" — plus, a few surprise warehouse URLs, sample sales, and like-new refurbished underdogs too.
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So don't be fooled by a boring Wild Card weekend of favorites blowing out underdogs: All the winning teams have serious flaws, and they'll be lucky not to be on the other end of a blowout next round.
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Lucky for me last night, watching the backup Eagles quarterback Nick Foles and his team of underdogs convincingly beat the five-time Super Bowl winner Tom Brady and his superstar squad, I learned to believe in magic again.
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Though playing on the road, the Packers were just 1-point underdogs in their first two playoff games, against the Eagles and the Falcons, then were favored at the Bears, whom they had finished behind in the N.F.C. North.
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One more fun thing for 2018: if you're a big fan of Cool Runnings and underdogs, then put your cheering behind the Nigerian womens bobsled team, the first bobsled team from Africa to ever qualify for the Winter Olympics.
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Rodgers had also heard before Sunday's wild-card playoff game that his Packers, losers in their final two regular-season games, were cast as the struggling underdogs against the surprising Redskins, who were riding a four-game winning streak.
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Mugler & Herrera: The Underdogs Who Came Out On Top Ahead of his Carolina Herrera debut, designer Wes Gordon was certain he was going to nail it: "Get ready for the era of Herrera," the brand posted to their Instagram.
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But what "The Underdogs" lacks in rigor and self-awareness it makes up for in the cry-inducing narratives of children and the dogs who sniff, nudge and tug them toward something that looks a little more like peace.
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For the underdogs in both parties, those results point the way toward a hard fight for delegates in the Midwest, where Mr. Trump's appeal is limited among Republicans and Mr. Sanders's hard-left message plainly appeals to liberal whites.
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Team Europe, a composite team from eight countries with smaller N.H.L. footprints, had plenty of skeptics, but the scrappy team of underdogs proved to be the surprise of the tournament, losing to Canada in the best-of-three finals.
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Buffalo will once again turn to Derek Anderson as its quarterback, and while they would undoubtedly lose at home regardless of which of their passer options started, Las Vegas went very aggressive with Buffalo being named 14-point underdogs.
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And having benefited from the hollowness of fake change, he became it — a rich man who styles himself as the ablest protector of the underdogs, who pretends that his interests have nothing to do with the changes he seeks.
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These twin wagers have meant an unusually large number of underdogs are forging ahead against the odds, ensuring that the historically large Democratic field remains unwieldy and that the lagging candidates must go to new lengths to get attention.
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While it is possible that the opponent could be a team like Australia, it seems more likely to be Saudi Arabia or Uzbekistan, teams that while far from terrible, would be clear underdogs even to a struggling American team.
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Coming in the midst of the designation fight, the Amazon giveaway suggested to Ms. Wyden a city traitorously kowtowing to a predatory monopolist posing an existential threat to neighborhood retailers, while burdening local underdogs and mainstays like the Strand.
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TMZ Sports spoke to Glenn Dorsey -- a 2-time first team All-American for the Tigers -- and asked him if his former team, who are 13 point underdogs AT HOME, have any chance to beat the #1 ranked Tide.
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Andrew Smith, who helped put Butler University in the national spotlight as a member of two Final Four teams that twice reached the N.C.A.A. championship game as admired underdogs, died on Tuesday in Indianapolis after a two-year struggle with cancer.
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Throughout last night's telecast, underdogs like *Orphan Black'*s Tatiana Maslany actually won, TV's growing diversity was celebrated (take that, Oscars), and streaming services proved their method of shaking up the TV model was working by scoring scads of trophies.
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"Hidden Figures" (2016) American underdogs don't come in purer form than the women of color who worked for NASA during the can-do crunch days of the Space Race, the country's crowning achievement, which coincided with the tumultuous Civil Rights struggle.
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The crowd-pleasing plot has been retooled to uplift other underdogs, from sex workers (Pretty Woman) and struggling athletes (Rocky; The Karate Kid) to, more recently, the stripper-turned–rap hero Cardi B. Now it's being pushed as Meghan Markle's narrative.
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And thanks in part to a soundtrack heavy on retro pop and rock, the show also has echoes of countless '80s high school rom-coms, where underdogs overcome the insults and pranks of the popular kids to find companionship and love.
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The Baby Squad, like the Foxes, were the underdogs, born from a mob of casuals who lived for three things: football, fashion, and "absolutely having it at the weekend," as one ex-member—who didn't want to be identified—said.
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They and other technology companies have preached the benefits of working with multiple cloud providers — the kind of marketing message one would expect from underdogs in a category that could one day engulf the huge market for business software and hardware.
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We have conspiratorial thinking about an area (like not trusting 'big Pharma') which makes us not trust the larger scientific body in that area, and instead place trust in who we perceive to be scientific underdogs (for example, anti-vaxxers).
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" Dems' battleground map looking more in their favor - Politico: "The Senate battleground map has shrunk dramatically in recent weeks — a net plus for Democrats but not enough to change their status as heavy underdogs to win the chamber in November.
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Philadelphia were home underdogs throughout the NFC playoffs and are comfortable taking that label into the biggest game of the year where they will seek their first Super Bowl title after falling short in the game twice before (1981, 2005).
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The Eagles are the NFC's top seed but they have been home underdogs in both their playoff games, a label the players have embraced with many wearing dog masks after games and even during the buildup to the Super Bowl.
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If you balance the ledger of franchise suffering, of course, you might argue that the A's don't quite fit the role of the plucky underdogs of the AL West that many have embraced for them over the past couple of weeks.
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"We portray Confederates because they were the underdogs and they had all the odds stacked against them," said Bill Adams, known as "Pork Pie," an engineer from southern Michigan who has been playing a Confederate soldier for the past 35 years.
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In 1867, the critic Vladimir Stasov appealed to public sympathies for the local underdogs in a rave review of a Pan-Slavic concert when he invoked divine protection for "this mighty little handful of Russian composers" — a term that stuck.
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For a couple of hours on Friday night, he was the voice of the ultimate underdogs, the about-to-be-vindicated sports fan who got to revel in something historic — with an audience of millions high-fiving his every remark.
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I personally have been plagued by a recurring dream in which Luis Suarez, Edinson Cavani and Diego Godin, Uruguay's own departing trio of trophy-laden underdogs, goad me with their medals and piss all over my face from a motorway bridge.
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And there are the skilled underdogs, determined to break out of the pack: Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, a fastidious moderate, said she has watched the crowded Republican primary debates of 2012 and 2016 to soak in the highly fluid format.
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Fluent in the language of online irony and absurdism, and adept at producing successful memes, alt-lighters have pulled off something remarkable: They've made far-right ideas hip to a subset of young people, and framed themselves as society's forgotten underdogs.
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The Cavaliers, 12½-point underdogs on the road, led by 11 early on with James showing his greatest-of-all-time form (his 51 points were a career high in a playoff game, and he had eight rebounds and eight assists).
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That will give Luke Falk a second start, and while the Eagles (2-2) would be favored no matter which quarterback ended up under center, there is reason enough to believe that the Jets should not be two-touchdown underdogs.
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Trick plays are more frequently run by underdogs willing to employ high-variance tactics to make up for structural disadvantages, and Petersen's team is again an underdog, to an Alabama squad that many consider one of the best college teams ever.
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And despite being heavy underdogs heading into Sunday&aposs contest, Watson and company surged to a 21-0 lead in the first quarter in Kansas City before Patrick Mahomes and the electric Chiefs offense began to surge back in the second.
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The decision was met by a chorus of boos but the crowd, now firmly behind the Canadians, rose to their feet minutes later when the underdogs scored the best try of the match with a superb finish by winger Andrew Coe.
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The alpha of this pack of underdogs is Sarge (the astounding Liza Colón-Zayas), a short, pugilistic butch in combat boots, her hair pulled back in a lacquered bun, who carries herself like a pit bull, leading with the chest.
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They and other technology companies have preached the benefits of working with multiple cloud providers — the kind of marketing message one would expect from underdogs in a category that could one day engulf the huge market for business software and hardware.
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With the 6-5 Steelers and 5-6 Browns playing as near equals this season after years of abysmal performances by Cleveland teams, the Steelers find themselves as at-home underdogs in the matchup for the first time in recent memory.
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In an attempt to remove human error from our picks, we decided to back five of the six home underdogs that played last Sunday, trusting a trend that had been hitting at a 14-7 clip so far on the season.
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For all that, Mr. Kolb said he recognized the long odds at beating Mr. Cuomo, but invoked the biblical story of David versus Goliath and the similarly themed Hollywood saga of Rocky Balboa as examples of underdogs winning the day.
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"I come from a law enforcement family, but at the same time, I come from a family that taught me to stand up to bullies, to stand up for those who are less fortunate, for the underdogs," Crowley told Vox.
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But the peaceful exterior is deceiving, and the truth for The Eternaut's nerdy underdogs — who aren't just a part of a sci-fi story but of "an exploration of the human condition," per scholar Martin Hadis's foreword — is anything but.
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When Ninji, ¥o-landi and God hooked up with The Black Goat and started recording Die Antwoord's 4th album around 2 years ago the mood of the tracks we started banging out was rough and tough and mischeivious and wild and hard and dark and at that point we were going to call this album RATS RULE, because in life you get the champions and the underdogs and in our minds we sometimes feel like 1 level below the underdogs in this fucked up pop world, but we also know our time is coming, and soon we gonna take over this whole bitch.
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And stuff like this relatively needless argument over a four-letter word, resulting in the underdogs being put in their place courtesy of the sheer financial impossibility of fighting their corner, inevitably absolutely sours expectations and opinions prior to properly playing the thing.
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The Finals are a big deal regardless of who is playing, but the two top teams in the East — the Cavaliers and the Toronto Raptors — both have much weaker records than either the Warriors or the Spurs and would be significant underdogs.
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Listen to this week's Keeping Score podcast, with sports marketing expert Rick Horrow: A wrap up of the week in sports news: America's ultimate clash: The Philadelphia Eagles walk into the Super Bowl clear underdogs against the New England Patriots on Feb. 4.
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Their tale of underdog redemption was undermined somewhat by the fact that they had just thumped the shit out of Bradford City, the actual underdogs, who had gone on a great run that included victories over Wigan, Aston Villa and, naturally, Arsenal.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Belgium outclassed underdogs Tunisia with an impressive display of speed, power and attacking football but they will quickly need to improve their defense if the country's golden generation are to live up to expectations and go far in this World Cup.
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And while it's too soon to tell whether SpoonRocket's situation mirrors other underdogs in the on-demand food industry, other start-ups are likely to follow SpoonRocket and exit the space, said Brita Rosenheim, food and lifestyle industry strategist at Rosenheim Advisors.
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Endlessly pushed around, Matt and Jake are our underdogs: two sad-sack lackeys who share a tiny windowless office, while making jokes about suicide, free office food, and the aspirational genre of pornography that involves all the women who've ever dumped you apologizing.
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Clinton's frustration with Mr. Sanders's continuing challenge betrays "a little trace of entitlement," a sense that because she's worked hard, paid her dues and reached high levels in the party, she deserves better than having pesky underdogs still nipping at her heels.
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Samwell Tarly (John Bradley) certainly seemed like an underdog when he was introduced in Season 1 — but author George R. R. Martin has proven that he's a big fan of underdogs; or "cripples, bastards and broken things," as Tyrion Lannister once famously observed.
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Had they met while Curry was nursing an injury several weeks ago, the Cavaliers might have started as favorites for the best-of-seven series but instead they will be big betting underdogs against a rejuvenated and largely healthy Warriors line-up.
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The Premier League victory by the 2850,21.3-234 outsiders cost Ladbrokes about 252.3 million pounds ($249 million), it said on Thursday, but the triumphs of Leicester and other underdogs through the season cost many more customers their bets on the likelier winners.
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"We may be the outsiders, the misfits, the weirdos, and the underdogs of the mainstream world, but as a result we have created our own world—one built on a rock-solid foundation of community, creativity, joy, and love," says the official website.
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With their No. 63 starter Jason Vargas and his 26 ERA on the mound, the Mets were underdogs heading into Tuesday's game against the Reds and their Opening Day starter Luis Castillo, who took a major league-leading 22 ERA to the hill.
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The first win at Super Bowl XLII was one of the most shocking upsets in all of sports, with the Giants entering the contest as the overwhelming underdogs against a Tom Brady-led team that enjoyed a perfect 16-0 regular season record.
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As long as there are underdogs and misunderstood kids fighting to be noticed (and paid), there will be stories like this one, walking the line between cliché and classic with grit, conviction and just enough cynicism to keep things from getting too corny.
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It has had, as the F.A. Cup must, a series of giant-killings, days on which underdogs roared and the high and mighty fell: Wolverhampton Wanderers beating Liverpool; Sutton beating Leeds United; Millwall overcoming Leicester City, then the reigning Premier League champion.
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Last December, when former England footballer and Match of the Day sports presenter Gary Lineker tweeted about what he'd do if underdogs Leicester City won the Premier League, he almost certainly wasn't expecting to have to make good on his promise. YES!
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When Kevin Durant left the Oklahoma City Thunder this week to join the Golden State Warriors — who have somehow morphed from lovable NBA underdogs into the league's most loathed team — you knew there would be blowback from former players (especially those without a championship).
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Prospects: Serbia's chances of advancing to the knockout stages of the tournament are likely to rest on the opening two games against Costa Rica and Switzerland, as they will be underdogs in their final group match against Brazil, winners of a record five World Cups.
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I could do more than quibble with his summary of the history of computing and point out that there's also quite a history of underdogs calling for openness, but the larger point stands: Microsoft thinks that mixed reality is going to be a Big Deal.
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And the unusual system prompted two underdogs in the Democratic primary race for governor to take an unusual tactic in the race and team up, endorsing each other for second place in an attempt to leapfrog the rest of the pack and gain the nomination.
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And yet, based off what Indiana and Chicago actually wanted in exchange for their franchise players, a deal might well have narrowed Boston's window to compete for a title while doing nothing to change their status as underdogs to come out of the East.
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The Rockets, Celtics, Raptors, Sixers, and Thunder may not favorites, but they're not underdogs either—all of them should be better than the Lakers—and if you pick any one of them, you've done so because you believe they will win the whole damn thing.
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However, Garoppolo, charged with replacing Brady during the future Hall of Famer's four-game suspension for his alleged role in the Deflategate controversy, brought his team back and proved the Las Vegas oddsmakers, who listed New England as 9-point underdogs, to be dead wrong.
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The 6-foot-5, 265-pound defensive end already sat out of Saturday's 13.53-14 rout of the Maryland Terrapins — who were more than 40-point underdogs even without Young lining up against them and currently sit at a meager 1-6 in conference play.
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That hurdle is the big reason why, though the current Senate has 51 Republicans and 49 Democrats and therefore Democrats would need to flip only two seats to reclaim control of the chamber, Democrats are still the underdogs in the 2018 battle for the Senate.
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He could bet the lone New Jersey team — the Devils — to win the Stanley Cup in 2019 at odds that are about 80 to 1, or wager on the Jets or Giants, who play in New Jersey, as underdogs to win the Super Bowl.
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Others said the film was totally plugged into the moment, with its story of a ragtag threesome of underdogs — a mute woman (who is sexually harassed), a black woman and a closeted gay artist — who work to save a demonized "other" from the man.
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Wake Forest, which came into the game as 11 1/2-point underdogs, carried a 31-24 lead into halftime behind 12 early points from Childress, while Florida State center Christ Koumadje nearly had a double-double by intermission with eight points and seven rebounds.
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KOBE, Japan (Reuters) - Even the most optimistic U.S. rugby fan would struggle to sound upbeat about their chances of beating England at the World Cup on Thursday but Eagles coach Gary Gold says that being severe underdogs will allow his team to perform without pressure.
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For the first time since I was in college and they were scrappy underdogs, their every victory makes me want them to win more — to boldly go, like Neil Armstrong and James T. Kirk, where no team has gone before … … sorry, carried away again.
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If the Eagles make the Super Bowl they will have won two games playing as underdogs at home; there is not a lot of respect for the Wentz-less Birds, and it would take an unexpected thumping of Minnesota for the Eagles to get any.
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I think the fact that they put this "argument" in the mouth of Lisa's character, the character who usually champions the underdogs and is supposed to be the most thoughtful and liberal, is what makes this the most ridiculous (as in worthy of ridicule) and toothless response.
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The story of a man and and a woman trying to be together, but thwarted by everything from meddling parents, side chicks, and vengeful exes is recreated over and over again to define clear heroes, villains, and underdogs that that the LHH audience can root for.
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This article is adapted from Game Changers: How a Team of Underdogs and Scientists Discovered What it Takes to Win by João Medeiros Back then, McLaren had two former world champion drivers, Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button, and was one of the main contenders for the championship.
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Waititi's four feature films vary in scope and subject matter, but they share some uniting factors that have garnered him a devoted set of fans: an interest in underdogs and outsiders, and a self-referential comedic sense that never gets in the way of real feeling.
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It was especially important that these underdogs were given such breathing room, considering the winner for Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay was ultimately a massive insult—Green Book's white savior narrative is offensive and tired—and there wasn't a single woman nominated for Best Director.
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Read more: These photos of 90-year-old Japanese men competing in full-contact rugby are all the fitness motivation you needFrance, Argentina, and Scotland are underdogs as always, however are not to be sniffed at, while Olympic gold medalists Fiji are the tournament's dark horse.
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Ms. Pressley's triumph was in sync with a restless political climate that has fueled victories for underdogs, women and minorities elsewhere this election season, and it delivered another stark message to the Democratic establishment that newcomers on the insurgent left were unwilling to wait their turn.
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However, it's the many the underdogs — smaller operators ranging from city neighbors like Mountain Creek in Vernon, N.J., to remote snow-blessed areas like Wolf Creek Ski Area in Southern Colorado — that play an important role in the ski universe, often as teaching hills and budget alternatives.
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With fond memories of growing up in a small city in the Midwest, where the population (and housing prices) have barely budged in recent decades, I admit to having a soft spot for some of the underdogs on Amazon's list of finalists: Indianapolis; Columbus, Ohio; and Nashville.
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Indeed, The Lego Movie, though a critical and commercial hit, failed to get a nomination in 2015; the selections that year were indie underdogs Song of the Sea and Princess Kaguya, alongside blockbusters like Disney's Big Hero 6 and DreamWorks' How to Train Your Dragon 2.
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Winning Iowa turned John Kerry and Barack Obama from underdogs into frontrunners in 24.5 and 23, respectively, and it could do the same for one of the six candidates who debated on Tuesday — especially if the victor is someone other than former Vice President Joe Biden.
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There have always been underdogs qualifying for tournaments, of course, but UEFA's decision to expand its flagship championships to 24 teams from 16 — Euro 2016 was the first extended version — seems to have encouraged those who had all but lost hope of reaching a major finals.
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"The big teams must watch out for us, because everyone thinks we are the underdogs, but we can make it," Abilla told Reuters at the Kenya Rugby Union's sports field, where the team had its last training session before leaving for an invitational tournament in Hong Kong.
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She prefers chronicling underdogs to celebrities, and when I ask which documentary is her favorite, she pulls out a DVD from her bag about the fight to save a brown pelican soaked in oil found in the waters off New Orleans after the BP spill in 2010.
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Capitalizing on those same erotic tropes that defined a 1974 genre of soft porn, or a "sexy" 2000 fashion trend, they managed to present themselves as the real underdogs: the most punk rock of us all, going beyond the boundaries of outrage, morality, and good taste.
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Both would, of course, reject the assertion that they were punching above their weight — Liverpool has won the European Cup five times — but, in financial terms, both remain underdogs when compared with their prospective opponents, Real Madrid and Bayern Munich, and their recent victims, Manchester City and Barcelona.
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One of the striking things about the current tenor of reactionary politics in the United States is their fascination with the perceived power of victimhood, and their tactics are often fixated on both painting themselves as the true underdogs while denying the experiences and pain of their targets.
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Once someone has pulled ahead in the delegate count on Super Tuesday it's virtually impossible for others to catch up, not just because of money and momentum, but because the rules push underdogs out (although with online fundraising, candidates can choose to stay in long after they're not viable).
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Despite four straight losses, Arizona State proved they're more than capable of coming through in big spots as underdogs early in the year, and have given Oregon fits during trips played in Tempe, even beating the Ducks in 2017 when they were ranked No. 24 in the country.
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In his 2013 book David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants, journalist Malcolm Gladwell details the work of psychologist Marvin Eisenstadt, who found that from a selection of 573 famous or high-achieving individuals, a quarter had parents who passed away before they were 10.
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In paying tribute to them, we'll pass over the underdogs who were most known for beating the unbeatable: Rulon Gardner stunning Alexander Karelin, the United States Olympic hockey team topping the Soviets, Buster Douglas knocking out Mike Tyson, the aptly named Upset dealing Man o' War his only loss.
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This small New England state has a well-documented history of elevating underdogs and leveling frontrunners, and political experts here told me it's as likely to have a "dark horse" candidate surprise as it would be for the top three to finish well in both Iowa and New Hampshire.
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Ms. Eilian and her partner, Lisa Blau, originally became interested in women-led wellness companies not because they saw them as sympathetic underdogs but because those companies were "an arbitrage opportunity" — a way of saying that start-ups that are run by women or oriented toward women were undervalued.
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The internet collectively sobbed over Queer Eye's success stories and rooted for Drag Race's underdogs, as representation became a critical component of captivating reality TV. While viewers have yet to see its effects, one the biggest entertainment trends of this decade is already in motion and making huge waves.
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The Federal Communications Commission approved the merger in May, but the Justice Department maintained concerns that allowing the two companies to combine would harm competition in the wireless market, as it would remove the two underdogs and create a third giant that's relatively equally matched to competitors AT&T and Verizon.
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Because even if your heart was sailing on soon-to-be snuffed out hopes that NCAA-challenging Nigel Hayes and his No. 8 seed Badger underdogs were going to upset No. 4 seed Florida, you simply could not ask for a more spectacular ending in the purest sense of the word.
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He rode to power in 1977 in part by harnessing the resentment of Israel's social underdogs, the Mizrahi Jews who hailed from North African and the Middle Eastern countries, and he gave them a political voice after decades of discrimination at the hands of the Ashkenazi elite of European descent.
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For a generation that has started to define itself as anti-elite, on both ends of the political spectrum, these "they're just like us!" stars make sense – and in all their white, middle-class glory they can present themselves as underdogs who are as flawed and normal as they are talented and revolutionary.
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There was a serious subtext in Mr. Booker's lighthearted comment: The sudden entry of two experienced candidates, Deval Patrick and Michael R. Bloomberg, could pose risks to the Democrats who have been running for months, affecting underdogs like Mr. Booker and front-runners like Joseph R. Biden Jr., the former vice president.
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Ms. Nixon and Mr. Williams are the underdogs in the contest and the backing of Indivisible, with 400 registered chapters in New York scattered all across the state, according to the group, provides them a potential network of supporters for her shoestring candidacy to tap into during the race's final six-plus weeks.
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They are the ultimate underdogs, the smallest nation ever to play in a World Cup — just as, two years ago, they were the smallest nation ever to play at a European Championship — the team that knows a substantial proportion of its fans by name, the team that is managed by a dentist.
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Revered by his new team for the quality of shots he creates for others as well as his longstanding defensive prowess, Rondo joins Anthony Davis and Jrue Holiday in leading the visiting underdogs from New Orleans into Saturday night's Game 1 of the Western Conference semifinals against the mighty Golden State Warriors.
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Jacksonville, looking to make some noise as extreme underdogs, went for the win rather than the tie, and while Leonard Fournette was stopped short on a 2-point conversion attempt, and the Jaguars lost, 13-12, it was hard to argue that Minshew hadn't inexplicably turned Jacksonville into a must-watch team.
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This is actually easier because China, for example, is already the largest economy in the world according to some criteria and also because new ways of waging war work out to the advantage of the challengers and underdogs (for example, Russia has taken over Crimea and parts of the Ukraine using hybrid warfare).
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Hollywood is awash in sad-eyed brooders (Ryan Gosling, Jake Gyllenhaal), muscled he-men (Channing Tatum, Dwayne Johnson), sophisticated gents (Benedict Cumberbatch, Eddie Redmayne), high-spirited underdogs (Michael B. Jordan, Ryan Reynolds), bug-eyed misfits (Rami Malek, Jared Leto), and the interchangeable hunks known as the Chrises: Evans, Hemsworth, Pine, and Pratt.
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"A couple of perennial winners, Apple and Alphabet, have been transformed into what can only be called underdogs — maybe even losers — overnight, both stocks more than 4 percent today, while Amazon's become like the Patriots, with Jeff Bezos acting as the stock market version of Tom Brady, " the "Mad Money " host said.
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"A couple of perennial winners, Apple and Alphabet, have been transformed into what can only be called underdogs — maybe even losers — overnight, both stocks more than 4 percent today, while Amazon's become like the Patriots, with Jeff Bezos acting as the stock market version of Tom Brady, " the "Mad Money" host said.
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Although the Buckeyes are considered by many to be the country's most complete team, ranking first nationally in scoring (48.7 points per game) and second in total defense (247.6 yards per game), they were leapfrogged by L.S.U. in the final playoff rankings and are 2-point underdogs in this matchup in Phoenix.
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The strategists at Street firms are collectively huddled in a tight group looking for a slim 2017 gain for the S&P 500 of about 5 percent - sort of the equivalent of the handicappers predicting that the home-team underdogs will cover the spread but lose the game (I'll explain this to you tomorrow, Wilf).
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Justice Democrats, which was founded by Sanders campaign staffers, and Our Revolution, the Sanders-endorsed 501(c)(4) run by former Ohio state senator Nina Turner, are also backing progressive candidates and combatting what they see as their institutional disadvantages, trying to propel candidates who once would have been unmentioned underdogs into a general election.
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"I think the fact that they put this 'argument' in the mouth of Lisa's character, the character who usually champions the underdogs and is supposed to be the most thoughtful and liberal, is what makes this the most ridiculous (as in worthy of ridicule) and toothless response," wrote comedian W. Kamau Bell on Twitter.
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Our crony-capitalism index found a slight improvement in the degree to which companies were getting A little help from their friends around the world, and while we weren't as convinced as many Britons that Underdogs are worth supporting no matter what, we were quite taken with the city of Leicester (Brimful of Asha).
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The Islanders may enter their first-round series against the Atlantic Division champion Florida Panthers as underdogs, but among the facets in which the Islanders will have an advantage is the penalty kill, in which they ranked fourth in the N.H.L. The Islanders killed 84.5 percent of penalties in which they were short-handed.
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The Boilermakers fell short in their upset bid of No. 16 Louisville as they dropped a 35-28 decision to the Cardinals in Indianapolis, but the 24.5-point underdogs were competitive for four quarters, and they hope to take another step in the right direction by notching their first win under new coach Jeff Brohm.
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"Part of the challenge of the show is — part of the appeal of Pied Piper — is they are underdogs, so one of the tricky things is how to create progress in the story and progress with your company without turning them into the more obnoxious well-heeled tech people like Gavin Belson," Zach Woods, who plays Jared, tells Mashable.
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The game marked the first time the U.S. and Venezuela, at number 953 the second-lowest ranked nation in the tournament, had ever met on the Olympic stage and the South American underdogs were at least able to walk off court with heads held high having battled their opponents to an 18-18 draw in the opening quarter.
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Beloved by her teammates as a fussy, bright-eyed darling, Ruth—who, like Debbie, believes that "it's never easy" for her—that her life is plagued by false starts and misadventure—basks in the glow of success, all the more luminous for the shadow at her back, where the underdogs of GLOW stand and patiently abide.
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Kirk registers to lobby MORE (R-Ill.) and Ron JohnsonRonald (Ron) Harold JohnsonGOP senators call for Barr to release full results of Epstein investigation FBI Agents Association calls on Congress to make 'domestic terrorism' a federal crime Senators renew request for domestic threats documents from FBI, DOJ after shootings MORE (R-Wis.) are big underdogs in their races.
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To behold a dark horse in the Olympics is always a treat, if only because the world is generally very good at sniffing out its world-class athletes, and because sports media is good at making sure we know everything about them; most of what we're sold as underdogs are simply true-blue purebreds we haven't met yet.
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As music's eternal underdogs, Nickelback get probably more than their fair amount of stick—they had, for example, an extended beef with Slipknot earlier this year, though frontman Chad Kroeger gave as good as he got, in all fairness—so Billy Corgan has stepped forward to be their champion; their white knight in a sea of darkness.
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Super Bowl LII The Eagles' run to a Super Bowl victory over the Patriots last year was fueled by outrage about being declared underdogs, in large part because Wentz, the Philadelphia quarterback and a candidate for the N.F.L.'s Most Valuable Player Award, was lost for the season after he tore a knee ligament in Week 2705.
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In the days following the victory, a handful of stories trickled out about the Chilean desert underdogs who won their first national championship—but there was no recognition of the practices that ended in water-jug showers, no recounting of the 34 days spent in a hotel far from home, no tie to the disaster of the floods.
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That contrast was perfect, and got better still when Klobuchar chimed in, because what the two women said brilliantly cast them not as trailblazers who had something extra to prove, not as outsiders who had finagled a way in, not as underdogs urging voters to take some extraordinary leap of faith, not as high-minded gambles.
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What makes this particular American so popular, however, is that he is in many ways a Russian, or at least a close approximation of the image that many Russians have of themselves as tough, unrelenting underdogs, righteous champions of the weak against the powerful and pure-hearted avengers of the crimes committed by the strong, notably the United States.
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