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Example sentences for: playoffs

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Of course it wrote a suck-up about Michael Jordan during the NBA playoffs, a suck-up about Robert Redford for the release of The Horse Whisperer , a suck-up about Warren Beatty for Bulworth . (Click for another reason Brown favors celebrity.)
The Ames, Iowa, straw poll, the site advises, is like baseball's regular season, the primaries are the playoffs, and the general election is the World Series.
A Red Sox victory over the Yankees in the playoffs and over the Mets in the World Series, he says, would redeem the fallen team's century of ill treatment by the sinners of New York and "restore the earth's moral balance just before our great calendrical transition.
Boston pitcher Pedro Martinez threw six no-hit innings in the final game against Cleveland to make the Red Sox only the fourth team ever to overcome a two-game deficit in the playoffs' first round.
2) The Arizona Cardinals made the playoffs for the first time in 16 years by winning their final game the same exciting way they won three other games down the stretch: on a field goal as time expired.