Article: Chinese Wild Card Endes Dream Open Run

Article: Wild card Yang to challenge Ding in World Snooker ...
Xinhua News Agency;  March 20, 2006 ;     414 words ...Wild card Yang to challenge Ding in World ... Harold of England 5-2 in the wild card round here on Monday. Yang ... Yang and Yu were the only two Chinese wild cards to enter Tuesday's ... Chinese players survived the wild card round.

Article: Wild Card Proving a Plus for Baseball
AP Online;  October 20, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... frontal attack on tradition was adding wild-card teams to the playoffs but the surprise ... Florida is back in the World Series as a wild-card team. The Marlins used that route to ... creating baseball's second straight all-wild card World Series. A year ago, Anaheim and ...

Article: Wild Card proving a plus for baseball
AP Worldstream;  October 21, 2003 ;     687 words ... ... frontal attack on tradition was adding wild-card teams to the playoffs but the surprise ... Florida is back in the World Series as a wild-card team. The Marlins used that route to ... creating baseball's second straight all-wild card World Series. A year ago, Anaheim and ...

Article: WILD CARD HAS FOUND ITS NICHE.(Sports)
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);  October 5, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... demean" its postseason by adding a wild-card team from each league to the format ... round of postseason play. Today, the wild card has become a part of Selig's legacy ... revised in a very favorable way. When the wild card debuted in 1995, the Colorado Rockies ...

Article: CALL OF THE WILD CARD THE RAVENS TRUMPED THE ...
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);  January 12, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... Adams News Sports Columnist Call it a wild-card hunch, but Baltimore tight end Shannon ... history to win championships with two wild-card teams. They were teammates on the Denver ... 1980 Oakland Raiders are the only other wild-card team to win a Super Bowl. Sharpe has ...

Article: Beware the wild card Energy, winning often continue ...
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);  October 6, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... At other parks, they hang banners for the wild card; around here, they don't hang anything ... at teams that slip into the playoffs as the wild card. Times have changed. Wild-card teams no longer carry the stigma of not good ...

Article: Baseball's wild-card mania; Thanks to this year's ...
The Christian Science Monitor;  September 13, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... Keeping up with baseball's dizzying wild-card playoff races this season requires constant ... Red Sox have a commanding lead in the wild-card race, two teams, Anaheim and Texas ... represent an emphatic validation of the wild-card concept, which was derided by many in ...