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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.)
When lured out of retirement a year ago--he was "bored to death" of fishing and golfing--the Pacers had just finished a miserable 39-43 season, had missed the playoffs, and were led by a core of aging, disgruntled players.
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.
With free-agency, expansion, and three levels of playoffs, it is much harder to win today than in past years.
By January 1989, when the Bengals reached the playoffs, what had begun as a struggle for individual expression ended in an avalanche of conformity.