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.

The heavily favored Cubs took an early lead in Game 1, but James Loney's grand slam off Ryan Dempster changed the series ' momentum.

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.

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.

Wales was not colonised by the Vikings as heavily as eastern England.

" According to Mulvany, Viking metal draws heavily on sea shanties and media images of pirates and Vikings, and can be split into two types.

Though West Francia ( the future France ) was far less menaced by the Vikings than the Low Countries, it was heavily hit nonetheless.

Photo of the shoulder patch worn by the American Football League's Kansas City Chiefs in the fourth AFL-NFL World Championship Game, in which they defeated the heavily favored NFL Minnesota Vikings, 23-7.

Its sports coverage is heavily influenced by local rugby league teams Warrington Wolves and Widnes Vikings.

In a divisional playoff game against the Vikings on January 16, 2005, Mitchell caught a two-yard touchdown pass in the first quarter and celebrated by feigning to pull his pants up, a reference to the touchdown celebration by Vikings ' wide receiver Randy Moss, who pretended to pull his pants down to moon Green Bay fans the week before and was heavily criticized for doing so.

The Minnesota Vikings moved to within a governor's signature of getting a new $ 975 million stadium on May 10th after the state Senate approved a plan that relies heavily on public financing.

The local Istiqlal and U.M.C.I.A. offices did not campaign and lost heavily.

In ten years, the sector lost 7, 000 km² to imports, represented mostly in heavily subsidized agricultural products from the United States, as a result of this policy, with a critical impact on employment in rural areas.

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

** Ptolemy IV Philopator, Greek king of Egypt who has reigned from 221 BC and under whose weak and incompetent rule, heavily influenced by his favourites, much of Ptolemaic Syria has been lost and native uprisings have begun to disturb the internal stability of the country ( b. c. 238 BC )

She is drinking heavily, has lost her singing voice and much of her looks and spends time with card sharps and con artists.

These government monopolies were repealed during the Eastern Han period, and the lost revenue was recouped through heavily taxing private entrepreneurs.

The Korean army lost heavily, but the French abandoned the island.

In the heavily polarized Dutch general election of 2002, dominated by the rise and murder of Pim Fortuyn, the VVD lost fourteen seats, leaving only twenty-four.

Western creditors lost heavily, and a large part of Russia's fledgling banking sector was destroyed, since many banks had substantial dollar borrowings.

Stevenson lost heavily outside the Solid South ; he won only nine states and lost the Electoral College vote 442 to 89.

Coming in opposite the heavily defended Vierville draw, Company B of the 743rd Tank Battalion lost all but one of its officers and half its DD tanks.

In this area at least he had lost heavily in killed, wounded and prisoners, much of his artillery had been destroyed, and considerable disorganisation had set in.

The river is heavily managed in its lower course and water that was previously lost to the sea is now pumped upstream to increase the natural flow, recharge the Llobregat Delta wetlands and control seawater incursion.

The invasion led to a 3-year war, in which Vlastimir was victorious ; Presian made no territorial gains, was heavily defeated and lost many of his men as the Serbs had a tactival advantage in the hills, the Bulgars were driven out by the army of Vlastimir.

After Tropical Storm Gaston devastated Shockoe Bottom, the proposal lost some popular support but was still being heavily promoted by some city leaders.

But the college that had invested heavily in the South Sea Company lost their money when the ' bubble ' burst in 1720.

During that three-day period, Tiffin sustained more than $ 1, 000, 000 in property loss, 46 houses and 2 factories swept away, 10 factories damaged, 69 places of business heavily damaged, 6 bridges within the corporate limits destroyed, and — worst of all — 19 lives lost.

The Austrians had lost heavily in the 12 hours of fighting: 15 colours, 40 guns, almost 8, 000 taken prisoner, and 6, 500 dead or wounded.

Stone concentrated on convincing Denver voters during the October ballot, but the measure lost heavily, with 68 % voting against it.

" Bush's ties with Planned Parenthood also hurt him in heavily Catholic Connecticut, and were the basis of a last-minute campaign in churches by Bush's opponents ; the family vigorously denied the connection, but Bush lost to Benton by only 1, 000 votes.

Morgan lost heavily on the deal.

The AVP on the other hand lost heavily and retained only 6 seats.