His statistical record that year, when Texas won only one game and lost nine, was far from impressive: he carried the ball three times for a net gain of 10 yards, punted once for 39 yards and caught one pass for 13 yards.

The Texans won the game through ball control, with Quarterback Cotton Davidson throwing only 17 passes.

Turk Lown was tagged with the loss, his second against no victories, while Ray Moore won his second game against a single loss.

In July 2009, it was revealed that Universal Studios had won the rights to adapt the game into a film.

Spassky won the first game as Black in good style, but tenacious, aggressive play from Karpov secured him overall victory by + 4 − 1 = 6.

Sutcliffe went on to make 161 and England won the game comfortably.

The team has also won four division titles (,,, and ) since their 1947 – 1948 NFL championship game appearances.

In the 1978 season, the Falcons qualified for the playoffs for the first time and won the Wild Card game against the Philadelphia Eagles 14 – 13.

The Falcons won that game, 14 – 3.

After the ceremony, the Diamondbacks won the game against the San Diego Padres 6 – 5 after a walk-off home run by Chris Young, who also led the game off with a home run in the Bottom of the First Inning.

It turned out that the Cubs and Giants ended the season tied for first place, so the game was indeed replayed, and the Cubs won the game, the pennant, and subsequently the World Series ( the last Cubs Series victory to date, as it turns out ).

Despite having lost the test series to South Africa by game three, the Lions won the final test.

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On each deal, each side is said to be either vulnerable or not vulnerable depending upon whether or not it has previously won a game ; if it has, the side is said to be vulnerable ; if it has not, it is said to be not vulnerable.

He returned to playing in an FA cup tie against West Bromwich Albion on 1 March ; the game was a draw and United won the replay 1 – 0.

The Orioles won that game, and designated hitter Chris Davis received the win.

The Orioles won their 81st game on September 13, ending the streak of 14 straight years with a losing record, as well as ensuring that the team would spend the entire year with a record of. 500 or higher.

On September 16 they won their 82nd game, securing the first season with a winning record since 1997.

He was run out for 18 after a mix up with Marlon Samuels ; England won the game by 1 run.

In addition to checkmate, the game can be won by the voluntary resignation of one's opponent, which typically occurs when too much material is lost, or if checkmate appears unavoidable.

The specific object varies with each game and can include taking as many tricks as possible, taking as many scoring cards ( or as few penalty cards ) within the tricks won as possible, taking as few tricks as possible, or taking an exact number of tricks.

The game won several major awards in the following years:

Until their win over Occidental on February 22, 2011 the team had not won a game in conference play since 1985.

* 1963 – Charles Ingram, English game show contestant and author

* 1889 – Charles Darrow, American game designer, created Monopoly ( d. 1967 )

Charles notably presented the gladiator-style game show Robot Wars and narrated the comedy endurance show Takeshi's Castle.

Charles provided the voice-over commentary for the UK version of the Japanese game show Takeshi's Castle, shown on Challenge and Ftn ( 2002 – 2004 ), in which contestants attempted to pass a series of near-impossible physical challenges, to reach the final showdown at the castle and win cash prizes.

Charles presented the virtual reality game show Cyberzone ( 1993 ) on BBC2 ; the late-night entertainment show Funky Bunker ( 1997 ) on ITV ; the reality television show Jailbreak ( 2000 ) on Channel 5 ; and the late-night chat show Weapons of Mass Distraction ( 2004 ) on ITV.

Charles was a contestant in the Celebrity Poker Club tournament ( 2004 ) on Challenge, where he reached the semi-finals, and in the Channel 4 reality game show, The Games ( 2005 ), which documented the contestants ' intensive training regime and each live Olympic Games-style sporting event, in which he came fourth overall in the men's competition.

The first explanation is that the ancestral game was introduced to Britain from France during the reign of Charles II of England, and was played under the name of paille-maille or pall mall, derived ultimately from Latin words for " ball and mallet ".

The game of mall was a fashionable amusement in the reign of Charles the Second, and the walk in Saint James's Park, now called the Mall, received its name from having been appropriated to the purpose of playing at mall, where Charles himself and his courtiers frequently exercised themselves in the practice of this pastime.

In Game 7, Craig Counsell's sacrifice fly in the bottom of the ninth tied the game at 2, then, with the bases loaded and two outs in the bottom of the 11th, Edgar Rentería's soft liner glanced off the glove of Cleveland pitcher Charles Nagy and into center field to score Counsell and give the Marlins the win.

Charles Henry Goren ( March 4, 1901 – April 3, 1991 ) was a world champion American bridge player and bestselling author who contributed significantly to the development and popularization of the game following upon the heels of Ely Culbertson in the 1940s and rising to prominence in the 1950s to the early 1960s.

By the 1970s, the idea that the game had been created solely by Charles Darrow had become popular folklore: it was printed in the game's instructions and even in the 1974 book The Monopoly Book: Strategy and Tactics of the World's Most Popular Game by Maxine Brady.

* 1959 – Quiz show scandals: Twenty One game show contestant Charles Van Doren admits to a Congressional committee that he had been given questions and answers in advance.

Its current name was coined by Charles L. Bouton of Harvard University, who also developed the complete theory of the game in 1901, but the origins of the name were never fully explained.

Another of the early enthusiasts of the game was King Charles V of France, who had a court set up at the Louvre Palace.

It is important to note that this game, called " French ruff " by Charles Cotton, is similar to écarté.

Most recent designs are For The People and Empire of the Sun, each of which won the Charles S. Roberts Award for best game in their category.

** John Charles Daly, South African-born journalist and game show host ( b. 1914 )

It appears in Charles Dickens's 1861 novel Great Expectations, as the only card game Pip, the book's protagonist, as a child seems to know how to play.

It was a waiting game Charles won: the battle began on the seventh day, as ‘ Abd-al-Raḥmân did not want to postpone the battle any longer with winter approaching.

During his years in Oxford, Blunden published extensively: several collections of poetry including Choice or Chance ( 1934 ) and Shells by a Stream ( 1944 ), prose works on Charles Lamb ; Edward Gibbon ; Keats's publisher ; Percy Bysshe Shelley ; John Taylor ; and Thomas Hardy ; and a book about a game he loved, Cricket Country ( 1944 ).

Game show hosts Bob Eubanks, Wink Martindale, and Chuck Woolery served on the panel, as did frequent 1970s game show panelist Jimmie Walker, and Match Game regulars Brett Somers and Charles Nelson Reilly shared a square for the week.

Players like Candace Parker of the Sparks, Maya Moore of the Lynx, DeWanna Bonner, and Samantha Prahalis of the Mercury, Angel McCoughtry of the Dream, Sylvia Fowles of the Sky, Tina Charles of the Sun, and Liz Cambage of the Shock brought a new level of excitement to the game, adding talent to the teams of young veterans such as Diana Taurasi, Seimone Augustus and Cappie Pondexter.

King Henry III of England banned the playing of the game by his archers, and in the 14th century, Charles IV and Charles V of France also forbade the sport to commoners.