Moritz doesn't even have a nose guard or hip pads but he's one of the most valuable members of the Longhorn team that will be heavily favored Saturday over Oklahoma in the Cotton Bowl.

Of the eight original American League teams, the Orioles were the last of the eight to win the World Series, doing so in 1966 with its four – game sweep of the heavily favored Los Angeles Dodgers.

In the 2003 World Series, the Marlins defeated the heavily favored New York Yankees in six games, winning the sixth game in Yankee Stadium.

That fall, Notre Dame upset heavily favored Army, 35-13, at West Point thanks to a barrage of Dorais-to-Rockne long downfield passes.

The heavily favored Vikings lost that game to the Kansas City Chiefs, 23 – 7.

In the playoffs, the Vikings rolled past the Arizona Cardinals 41 – 21, and came into the Metrodome heavily favored for their NFC title showdown with the Atlanta Falcons, who had gone 14 – 2 in the regular season.

The retro uniforms have since been heavily favored by many Brewers fans and many continue to campaign to have them be once again the regular Brewers uniforms.

The heavily favored Rams wilted in the stifling heat, and the Saints claimed their first-ever victory over their NFC West rivals, 24 – 20, on Manning's 1-yard quarterback sneak on the last play of the game.

Because Numidia was a favored client state of Rome, Roman rulings were slanted heavily to favor the Numidians.

Pittsburgh was heavily favored to win Super Bowl XIV and become the first team to win 4 Super Bowls.

The Bills were heavily favored to win Super Bowl XXV.

* The 1980 Winter Olympics are remembered for the Miracle on Ice, where a young United States hockey team defeated the heavily favored Soviet Red Army team and went on to win the gold medal.

* October 16 – The " miracle " New York Mets win the World Series, beating the heavily favored Baltimore Orioles 4 games to 1.

However, the agreement favored the government heavily, as Priests were required to register with the government and religion was banned from schools.

** The New Jersey Devils sweep the heavily favored Detroit Red Wings to win their first Stanley Cup in the lock-out shortened season.

When the war broke out, European public opinion heavily favored the Germans.

The Maquis heavily relied on airdrops of weapons and explosives from the British SOE, SOE parachuted agents in with wireless sets ( for radio communication ) and dropping containers with various munitions including, but not limited to Sten guns, Pencil detonators, plastic explosives, Welrod pistols ( a silenced specialized assassination weapon favored by covert operatives ) and assorted small arms ( pistols, rifles and sub-machine guns ).

Typically, blue-flowered species predominate in the Northern Hemisphere, with red-flowered species dominant in the Andes ( where bird pollination is probably more heavily favored by natural selection ).

As bidding evolves, this aids bidders in estimating the final pot size since the heavily favored teams that command the highest bids are auctioned at the end, thereby limiting the risk on the larger bets.

If the art was presented in a manner that favored the government, the artists were heavily promoted.

The following season, as the 15th seed, they lost the decisive game of their first-round series in overtime to the heavily favored St. Louis Blues.

The US team was running behind the heavily favored Germans, but the Germans dropped the baton, allowing Robinson ( who handed off the baton to Helen Stephens ) to win her second Olympic title.

In the playoffs, the Magic came close to stunning the heavily favored Miami Heat in the first round, extending the series to a decisive game five, after losing the first two games.

The team repeated as champions in 1995 with a memorable run as the 6th seed in the West and sweeping the heavily favored Orlando Magic led by a young Shaquille O ' Neal and Penny Hardaway.

He was heavily pursued by the contending Chicago Cubs around the trade deadline, and the soft-spoken McGriff waived his no-trade clause to allow himself to be dealt to Chicago on July 27, 2001.

The man took two short steps backward then sat down heavily on the pavement.

The whole thing, from the moment when they jumped heavily off the trucks, spread out and moved into position just behind the cover of that slight rise of ground and then jumped off, took maybe between twenty and thirty minutes.

Winston took out a pencil, admired the point, and wrote slowly and heavily, `` Clothes Stand ''.

Suetonius took a stand at an unidentified location, probably in the West Midlands somewhere along the Roman road now known as Watling Street, in a defile with a wood behind him — but his men were heavily outnumbered.

This is closely related to the increase in the size of armies throughout the early modern period ; heavily armored cavalrymen were expensive to raise and maintain and it took years to replace a skilled horseman or a trained horse, while arquebusiers and later musketeers could be trained and kept in the field at much lower cost, and were much easier to replace.

Constantly on call throughout the country, heavily engaged in fighting against the National Liberation Front and the Armée de Libération Nationale ( ALN ), the Foreign Legion was brought to the brink of extinction after some officers, men and the highly-decorated 1st Foreign Parachute Regiment took part in the Generals ' putsch.

Cleveland took strong positions and was heavily criticized.

Members of the Anglo-Norman nobility took up places in the Scottish aristocracy and he introduced a system of feudal land tenure, which produced knight service, castles and an available body of heavily armed cavalry.

Christianity took hold in the city during the Byzantine era and the area was heavily populated.

Australia lost heavily by ten wickets in the first Test at Sydney, when the bowling spearhead of bodyline, Harold Larwood, took ten wickets.

British and French traders invested heavily in cotton plantations and the Egyptian government of Viceroy Isma ' il took out substantial loans from European bankers and stock exchanges.

The last Shimomura-ha ( claimed ) headmaster, Nakayama Hakudō who is considered the 16th, created a sword drawing art called Musō Shinden Battōjutsu that was heavily influenced by his Shimomura-ha training, but also took elements from other iaido-arts and would later become the Musō Shinden-ryū.

The Aqua club tour featured Howe ( whose presence was heavily promoted ), who took the stage after the fifth song.

During the Second World War, as an important industrial centre, the city was heavily bombed and several skirmishes took place in September 1944 between the American troops and the retreating German forces.

They took WN-70 ( already heavily damaged by naval shells ), and joined the 5th Rangers for the move inland.

As a result German command, particularly Rommel, took steps to heavily fortify that area of coastline.

The area is heavily Republican, and John McCain took over 70 % of the vote in the 2008 Presidential Election.

On July 2, 1937, midnight GMT, Earhart and Noonan took off from Lae in the heavily loaded Electra.

Real estate and gaming became big business throughout Central Nevada, but Wingfield saw the end of the gold and silver mining riches coming and took his bankroll to Reno where he invested heavily in real estate and casinos.

Parker and his gang took advantage of the heavily wooded terrain to distill their bootleg booze.

In 1901, when Kōtoku together with Sakai took part in the first attempt to found the Japanese Social Democratic Party, he was not an Anarchist, but a Socialist — indeed, Sakai and Kōtoku were the first to translate The Communist Manifesto into Japanese, which appeared in an issue of the Heimin Shimbun and which got them heavily fined.

She also started to drink heavily as the pressures from the war and of supporting her daughter took their toll.

A 2004 article in Skeptic Magazine states that Däniken took many of the book's concepts from The Morning of the Magicians, that this book in turn was heavily influenced by the Cthulhu Mythos, and that the core of the ancient astronaut theory originates in H. P. Lovecraft's short stories " The Call of Cthulhu " written in 1926, and " At the Mountains of Madness " written in 1931.

The participation of Italy in the Second World War was characterized by a complex framework of ideology, politics and diplomacy, in which its military history took place often heavily influenced by external factors.