Playoff teams become also-rans, also-rans become playoff teams, unheralded nobodies become superstars, and superstars find their powers have abandoned them.
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In a flash, the Thunder went from contenders to also-rans.
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We've never been quite sure what to do with our also-rans.
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Also-rans alternate between stubbornness and retreat without bothering to pause for reflection.
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Like the Central and East divisions, the West includes two clear also-rans.
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First, the obvious also-rans drop out; that probably will be early fall.
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The crucial quality that separated my favorites from the also-rans was energy.
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Iowa's results generally do more to knock out the also-rans than declare winners.
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One turnover a week can be the difference between world-beaters and also-rans.
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Also-rans included the Hyundai Sonata, the Mercedes-Benz GLB and the VW Golf.
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It was more remarkable to see how strongly several of the also-rans performed.
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For the also-rans, there wasn't much good news buried inside the entrance polls.
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That innovation is creating real value and is separating the winners from the also-rans.
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The company has either bought up its direct competitors or relegated them to also-rans.
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Inevitably with the explosion of startups came an aggressive winnowing down of the also-rans.
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Meanwhile, Dalian Shide rapidly declined from champions to also-rans, narrowly avoiding relegation in 2008.
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It just wasn't especially hospitable to women, who were treated as also-rans and groupies.
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While the National League is mostly juggernauts and also-rans, the A.L. is a jumble.
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If it doesn't, that's okay – not everyone is familiar with '90s also-rans the Street Sharks.
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The firms that come to dominate such markets make spectacular returns compared with the also-rans.
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Check out our rankings for the worst teams at Euro 2016, and the also-rans too.
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Such failures, though painful, separate strong companies from also-rans, a process other countries know well.
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Colorado will finish at home against the Phillies and the Nationals, both N.L. East also-rans.
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Loyalists are prodding reluctant candidates and also-rans to enter the fray or return to it.
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Are you paying attention, Tulsi Gabbard, Seth Moulton, Tim Ryan, John Delaney and other also-rans?
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Now, you might be thinking, what about all the other also-rans in the Democratic field?
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As for the other also-rans, there seems to be less incentive to end their candidacies.
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But the best way to lead isn't by announcing to everybody else that they're also-rans.
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By breaking out of the pack of also-rans, Rubio forced Jeb Bush out of the race.
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While these improvements sound tiny, in elite athletes they are enough to turn also-rans into medalists.
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CNBC highlights the new sports we'll see in Rio and Tokyo, alongside some of the also-rans.
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Now he has to settle for being among the also-rans, but there's little he can do.
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But the also-rans who could have helped Mr. Rubio the most conspicuously withheld their support. Gov.
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An 8-2 start is not out of the question for the perennial AFC East also-rans.
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He could very well turn the Tar Heels into something more than ACC also-rans in 2020.
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But after Super Tuesday, some and maybe most of the also-rans will have to accept their fate.
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The model has been unashamedly ruthless, concentrating on disciplines with the best medal prospects while ditching also-rans.
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With few exceptions, GMs don't know which prospects will become good professionals and which will be also-rans.
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ROBERT STONE, New York This is pretty thorough, and I'm glad you included Mee in the also-rans.
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As a result, we get all manner of new main and side hustles by also-rans and legacy acts.
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The electrification of transport could give Chinese carmakers and suppliers a chance to change from also-rans into champions.
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This year, and for the next three years, the two biggest also-rans are Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds.
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On Sunday, the cemetery will pay tribute with a two-hour bus tour of the nine also-rans' graves.
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An Op-Ed essay on Wednesday about presidential also-rans misidentified who defeated Martin Van Buren in presidential races.
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And confessional pieces like Thomas's, written by N.H.L. also-rans and Brazilian soccer stars alike, have regularly gone viral.
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In fact, those also-rans' spouses, kids, and cousins might even be enjoying this moment in the metaphorical sun.
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House and Senate and gubernatorial races are seeing huge numbers of candidates — and not just also-rans, but credible contenders.
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More than the lost opportunity for one-liners, missing debates make it harder for also-rans to sustain financial oxygen.
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Samsung always introduces a smattering of interesting software features designed to distinguish itself from the pack of Android also-rans.
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At 39-39, the Yankees occupy the gray area between contenders and also-rans a month before the trading deadline.
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OPINION An Op-Ed essay on Wednesday about presidential also-rans misidentified who defeated Martin Van Buren in presidential races.
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Our presidential also-rans are like a democracy's version of a crazy ex-boyfriend, or -husband (or -girlfriend or -wife).
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Ferrari went from top of the heap to also-rans, and both drivers' and constructors' championships became Mercedes' to lose.
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So while Google was dithering alongside a large group of also-rans, Amazon Web Services was running away with cloud computing.
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Other entries that I liked included LOCAVORE, ALSO RANS, GODDESS, HEAT WAVE, IN A DAZE, PETE ROSE, PILSENER and GO CRAZY.
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As for the also-rans, context matters: You'll want to be economically aligned with whichever country experiences the first true breakthrough.
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With Kershaw on the mound, the Dodgers have the record of World Series contenders; without him, they play like also-rans.
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Apple's Safari and soon-to-be-China-owned Opera are among the also-rans make up the rest of the field.
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It has slotted one-loss teams above an undefeated one (2170) and conference also-rans over conference champions (228 and 215).
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They haven't been to the playoffs since 2011, and teams don't go from also-rans for a half-decade to champions overnight.
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Yet a rally in China's property market, which began in its big cities in 2015, is filtering down to these also-rans.
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Chinese AI company Mobvoi has consistently been one of the best also-rans in the smartwatch game, which remains dominated by Apple.
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Rounding out the field of also-rans was: Beto O'Rourke, who always looks like he's bobbing and weaving in a boxing ring.
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The Twins led the A.L. in runs scored after the All-Star break, helped by a few September blowouts over also-rans.
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When Miller took over as head coach for John Ralston in 28, the Broncos had been perennial National Football League also-rans.
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The former candidate joins a stable of presidential also-rans at CNN, including 2016 GOP presidential candidates Rick Santorum and John Kasich.
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And she may not be entirely wrong about that: Traditionally in pop culture, try-hards are villains or sad also-rans, not heroines.
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Even as a front-running pair, Spotlight and The Revenant don't have nearly the protection from the also-rans as in previous years.
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Of all the also-rans in the Pacific last season, the Flames are set up the best to grab that third playoff spot.
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In Iowa, three out of the top four vote-getters in both caucuses were anti-establishment; while the establishment candidates were also-rans.
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Past winners of the Diane read like a who's who to the horse racing set, but so do some of the also-rans.
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Also-rans like Tulsi Gabbard and Tom Steyer took more punches than the guy leading in the polls in Iowa and New Hampshire.
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The candidate who beats Trump (or a collection of the also-rans in tandem) has to unwind Trump's self-made, fire-breathing populist narrative.
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And then there were the also-rans like Sham 19703, Generation X, and X-Ray Spex, who arguably haven't stood the test of time.
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In the women's 20143 metres backstroke, the best of the S2 swimmers would have been also-rans in the S4 final—two classes above.
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"The chip I had on my shoulder was that I thought other people thought we were the also-rans of the time," he says.
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The also-rans will be fine — both "Mockingbird" and "Constitution" are planning tours, and "Mockingbird" is settling in for an extended run on Broadway.
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If there are top states, there must be bottom states, and this year's also-rans will be familiar to any longtime followers of this study.
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A knockout contest between the champions of the minor leagues and the also-rans in the bigger divisions would put such claims to the test.
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This is the backdrop against which Trump rejected also-rans in favor of then–Indiana Governor Mike Pence, the best credentialed of his bad options.
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Meanwhile, LGBTQ plans from 2020 also-rans Pete Buttigieg, Kirsten Gillibrand, Kamala Harris, and Beto O'Rourke mostly offered similar, if less sweeping proposals, to Biden's.
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Some of these companies became the biggest brands in their categories, while others were also-rans that came up short against the day's tech giants.
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Time will tell whether Dot Boards becomes a category-leader like Boosted or whether it ends up the latest in a series of also-rans.
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But a few primary also-rans' unwillingness to get behind the party is already making people nervous in a couple of key GOP Senate targets.
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The VIkings need him to be around that 90 percent mark if they're going to beat the NFC's best, let alone also-rans like the Titans.
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Competition from Chinese imports has caused research spending to be reallocated within certain industries, away from also-rans and towards the most productive and profitable firms.
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Even a famous artist's life, for all its grand successes, is made up too of the also-rans, the hatchlings that never flourish in the world.
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Pick: Bills +6.5 In these matchups between contenders and also-rans, the drama centers mostly on how the result will affect the stronger team's playoff seeding.
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Rivals have an uphill climb in stopping Sanders after decisive Nevada victory There is not much positive news coming out of Nevada for the also-rans.
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It is an impressive performance for a team that was 226-225 last season and was expected to be among the N.F.L.'s also-rans this year.
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Several other donors with ties to Republican also-rans gave large contributions as well, including Richard Gaby, who gave $50,000 to a super PAC backing former Gov.
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Perhaps the Leicester Effect will materialise after all, and a new era of competitiveness will be ushered in by the also-rans' refusal to comply with convention.
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As the winners in the hall of losers make clear, there are plenty of good roles for also-rans to play in the life of a democracy.
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Jacksonville and Minnesota, the also-rans, aren't the little guys; they get the same revenues and abide by the same salary cap as New England and Philadelphia.
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Nashville and the other Amazon also-rans, like Columbus, Ohio, and Indianapolis, are thriving because of a combination of luck, astute political choices and well-timed investments.
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This playbook was one that young founders at burgeoning giants like Google and Facebook—as well as those at also-rans like MySpace and Friendster—took to heart.
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The three leading candidates, plus a smattering of also-rans, will make their case to the CDU rank-and-file at eight regional gatherings over the next month.
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The schedule is the team's friend, however, as the Cowboys' final two games of the season come against a pair of also-rans in the Buccaneers and Giants.
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But each of those consumers has, at most, two wrists, meaning the competition for wrist-worn devices is likely to see a lot fewer winners than also-rans.
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Unlike the many Republican also-rans and barely-rans, you have a significant number of delegates, even if you are running third behind Mr. Trump and Senator Ted Cruz.
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It may be that Tim Armstrong, who will run the combined AOL-Yahoo business, has a great plan to turn these two internet also-rans into a formidable force.
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We have already ranked the worst teams to grace the competition – as well as the also-rans – and been hideously critical of Russia, Austria and England in the process.
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They were, you might say, super-deep catalog: masters for thousands of also-rans, records that neither clicked commercially nor achieved cult status and slipped through the historiographical cracks.
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Mindless Sinner (lyrical themes "Occult, Women, Love, Metal"), Swedish also-rans from the early 80s, proved from their electrifying first US performance that they sincerely merited a second look.
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So to get the most out of innovations and avoid betting on the also-rans, my inaugural advice to readers was to follow these steps: Buy hardware from Apple.
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A decade ago, the Rays catapulted from perennial also-rans to World Series participants, beating the Red Sox — then the reigning champions — in the 2008 American League Championship Series.
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Such talk typically fuels speculation of more merger and acquisition activity, boosting shares of both state giants and also-rans in various sectors who may be shot-gun marriage targets.
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The candidates of the crowded fields in the last few presidential elections — even the also-rans — almost always came out ahead or, at worst, ended up in the same place.
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In addition, Mr. Bloom and his team also found a sharp divergence between pay at the most successful companies and also-rans in the same field — think Apple versus BlackBerry.
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Most people who mount political campaigns are likely to lose, and the fact that this is especially true of campaigns for president fails to deter all kinds of also-rans.
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Over all, Sanofi's portfolio of marketed cancer drugs is "weak and populated by undifferentiated also-rans," Timothy Anderson, an analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein, wrote in a note on Thursday.
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But it is not clear that the Iowa and New Hampshire results will come so neatly, or that the also-rans will be so willing to drop out after two states.
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Absent a total Trump meltdown, Rubio will most likely need the field of also-rans to fade quickly and voters consolidate cleanly behind him if he's to surpass Cruz before Tuesday.
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KTM made their MotoGP debut in 2017 and are also-rans in a top category where Italian brand Ducati provides the main challenge to major Japanese manufacturers Honda, Yamaha and Suzuki.
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Wearables had a varied year in 2015, with a lot of hype and a few big winners streaking ahead of the field, leaving plenty of also-rans struggling to stand out.
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The Brewers averted a sweep with a 7-5 victory over Cincinnati to improve to 5-8 in August despite a soft schedule featuring four straight series against NL also-rans.
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Cernovich's post about the banner was reportedly removed by Twitter, but alt-right also-rans like Jack Posobiec circulated Offenhartz's photo as if it proved NAMBLA was allied with the left.
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Technology stocks are getting beaten up and banks have surged as part of a broader trend that has hit the market this year, where yesterday's hot hands are today's also-rans.
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In addition to contrasting their collective ethos with that of the start-up world, "Chaos Monkeys" touches on the also-rans like Twitter who failed to break into this rarefied plane.
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Seven Republicans have declared against him, including two also-rans from previous races and Christina Hagen, a former state legislator who lost a primary last year in the adjoining 299th District.
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Melenchon, founder of the "France Unbowed" party, has split the left-wing vote and turned the Socialists into also-rans after five years of unpopular rule by Socialist President Francois Hollande.
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McLaren are the sport's second most successful team after Ferrari in terms of race wins (182) but the former champions have been also-rans since their last grand prix victory in 2012.
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The nominees Lest we forget that this is a horse race, please keep your tallies of who's up and who's down on the Awards Season Big Board of Winnahs and Also-Rans.
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With this focus on the also-rans of Hollywood lore, it only makes sense to surround them with artifacts of everything else that falls by the wayside as time surges pitilessly onward.
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What he does do, however, is create a little bit of separation between the Celtics and fellow also-rans in the East, the Toronto Raptors, the Washington Wizards, and the Milwaukee Bucks.
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The result: Distant also-rans have a history of instantaneously catapulting from second or even third place into first, raking in scores of House of Commons seats that determine Canadian election winners.
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Despite its huge, complex economy and random maps, it far outlived games like Command and Conquer: Red Alert, and the also-rans of the RTS boom (ask me about Dark Colony sometime).
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Having already ranked the worst teams at the competition, it's now time to take a glance at the also-rans – the sides who almost did something special, but didn't quite see things through.
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Vinny is one of those also-rans who was around long enough for viewers to almost learn his name, but not long enough to see a major bump in his social media followers.
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At least two preening Democratic presidential contenders, along with a handful of GOP presidential also-rans, a crusty veteran committee chairman and tales of wild, violent sexual escapades all made for riveting television.
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His support is weak, and his current success is a result of the structure of the early primary process and the gaggle of also-rans shearing off parts of the moderate Democratic vote.
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The Los Angeles Dodgers have the opportunity to increase their National League West lead over the San Francisco Giants as they begin a stretch of six straight home games against division also-rans.
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The 2020 Democratic also-rans Ten Democratic candidates will be on the debate stage this week in Houston -- which means 10 other candidates who remain in the race will be watching from home.
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Except at the same time, they implicitly concede that Marco Rubio may not have what it takes to weather attacks from low-polling also-rans, let alone Ted Cruz, Donald Trump, or Hillary Clinton.
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When Netflix and Amazon first started releasing original shows that didn't feel like also-rans or gimmicks, it seemed the companies had the ability to completely upend what had become a staid television ecosystem.
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Altuve clinched it on the final day of the season — the very last day before the Astros made their move from 92-loss also-rans to a wild-card winner and a perennial contender.
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The House Democratic Caucus has long been dominated by a gaggle of also-rans: men and women who, while good enough for Congress, proved to be underwhelming on the larger stage of national politics.
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Two men who were thought to be also-rans — Jean Luc Mélenchon of the far left and François Fillon of the center right — have been catching up and are within three points of her.
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The centenary of the Argentinean modernist Alberto Ginastera, which falls on April 11, is prompting reconsideration of a composer who, in recent years, seemed ready to fade into the ranks of history's also-rans.
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When the Tigers lost to Florida by 23 points in the conference tournament, they sealed their postseason fate: the N.I.T., the tournament of N.C.A.A. also-rans, from which they were ousted in the second round.
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Anthony was upbeat after the Knicks again looked like a team with a path forward, not one in plummeting descent, albeit against an opponent, the Orlando Magic, from their Eastern Conference neighborhood of also-rans.
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Warriors fall to Bulls for first losing streak in two years CHICAGO — All season long, the Chicago Bulls have thrived against the NBA's elite while struggling to hold their own against the league's also-rans.
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The major effect it has had is to increase the numbers of candidates on the ballot in the primary, with many also-rans believing they had a shot at being one of the top two.
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This is his time to acquire the players who are capable of playing his brand of football, and to usher out some of the dysfunctional also-rans he's had to work with up until now.
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So a big question in this debate and in the ones before Iowa arrives and the also-rans begin to be formally run out is whether Democratic voters can be persuaded to reconsider this consolidation.
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Mr. Modi and his hawkish Twitter account emerged into national politics just as growth faltered and many frustrated aspirers and also-rans started to think of the promise of widespread enrichment as an elaborate hoax.
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And aside from the debates later this month -- much more on that below -- these three candidates may not get a better (or second) chance to prove that they are more than also-rans in the race.
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Even then—even if Rubio had vanquished all of the also-rans tonight and taken the frontrunners down a peg—he'd be entering a three-way race five percentage points behind Cruz and fourteen behind Trump.
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Kokoskov took on a dual role as he transformed also-rans Georgia into a respectable side during his 2008-2015 spell at the former Soviet republic before he took over as Slovenia's head coach last year.
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The commercial strategy for the tournament fits neatly with recent developments in China, which has been on a major push to promote soccer, and switch from one of the sport's also-rans into a major player.
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Encompassing vast interviews with band members, scene-makers, producers, label executives, journalists, hangers-on, also-rans, and many more in between (remember The Moldy Peaches?), the book tells the gossipy tales of a brief, scuzzy moment.
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The show ran through an alphabet of former winners and also-rans — Clay Aiken, Bo Bice, David Cook, Melinda Doolittle — singing a program heavy on the show's trademark jukebox oldies, a layer of nostalgia on nostalgia.
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The rest were effectively distant also-rans, none able to break 20 seconds, with Britain's Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake taking silver in 20.04 and Jamaican-born Alex Wilson setting a new Swiss record in the same time.
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By the game's final four minutes, the famed Hamptons 163 were on the bench as the Rockets finished things off against Golden State's also-rans and evened the Western Conference final series at one game apiece.
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But the city ended up on the company's long list of also-rans, 230 locales that turned over reams of valuable work force and work site data to Amazon in elaborate applications — and got nothing in return.
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But outside Nevada, there's no way to formally register your across-the-board disillusionment with the political system that produced them: You've got to pick Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, or one of the third-party also-rans.
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After sweeping a homestand against three also-rans — San Diego, Oakland and Philadelphia — the Rangers extended the majors' longest winning streak of the season to 19723 games before a 9-3 loss to the Tigers on Saturday night.
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The contrast served as a perfect example of the show's inept handling of the Jackson-Olympios disaster: Let's get through this cheesy wedding of two Bachelor Nation also-rans in order to get to more pablum from Chris Harrison!
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By extending Alexa's tendrils into into yet another part of our lives with one of the biggest hotel chains in the world, Amazon is still making Apple's Siri and Google's Assistant look like also-rans, eye-popping tech conference demos notwithstanding.
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And that will mean convincing Republicans, who control almost two-thirds of state legislatures and a smaller majority of governorships, to give up the institutional advantage that has given them multiple recent presidents who got fewer votes than the also-rans.
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In the latter, BNP's traders delivered a 225 million pre-tax loss in the volatile fourth quarter, dragged down by a whopping 70 percent year-on-year fall in equities revenue, underperforming even those perennial also-rans at Deutsche Bank.
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BARCELONA (Reuters) - - Memories and images of Johan Cruyff will provide an emotional backdrop to Saturday's Nou Camp 'Clasico' against Real Madrid when Barcelona pay tribute to the man who transformed the club from also-rans into one of the game's superpowers.
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" There might be a kind of consolation prize for the also-rans: Laura Stevens, Scott Calvert and Tawnell D. Hobbs of the WSJ write that "some also believe Amazon may announce plans to place smaller operations in runner-up locations.
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On the scrubby soccer pitches of Cameroon, in the batting cages of the Dominican Republic or in the ice rinks of provincial Russia, sporting success seems like the last, best chance for the world's also-rans to join the global elite.
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SILVERSTONE, England — In a Formula One season dominated by Ferrari and Mercedes, Renault Sport Racing is trying to make the leap from the ranks of the also-rans with unorthodox partnerships, new thinking in hiring and gambles on new technology.
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The restaurant critic for Elite Traveler magazine, Andy Hayler, recently predicted that Ms. Crenn would be the world's single most influential chef of the next 10 years, outranking a corps of also-rans, all men, like David Chang and Grant Achatz.
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This year, many have already dropped out because of unusually stringent debate requirements as well as struggles to raise enough cash, and many of the also-rans who are still sticking around are doing so in spite of missing the last Democratic debate.
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Per a New York Times count, these two also-rans both spoke for more time than Amy Klobuchar, a better-polling moderate candidate, and Beto O'Rourke, who has nearly three times as many supporters in the poll averages as Bullock and Delaney combined.
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If you look at the Iowa polls, these three candidates are registering some support — 3 percent on average for Klobuchar, 3.5 percent for Booker, 4.5 percent for O'Rourke — so they have established themselves as a small cut above the other also-rans.
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"Real" Hollywood figures, from Tuesday Weld to the documentarian Laura Poitras, gambol in and out as the main characters' journeys take them into the familiar Wagnerian landscape of dubious gurus, ambitious also-rans, canny agents and craven shrinks — hustlers and climbers all.
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So they lured him the only way they could – with unfathomable sums of money – and Toure duly took it upon himself to elevate the club from ambitious also-rans to two-time English champions, with an FA Cup thrown in for good measure.
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So let's see the early, small-state primaries and caucuses as a winnowing process, getting the also-rans out of the race early and at little cost to them, before getting to the serious (and expensive) business of actually choosing the candidate.
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While the conventional wisdom is that the party should rally around a nominee quickly, a protracted contest is arguably better for the Democrats: It engages more voters and keeps them on board come November, assuming the also-rans are enthusiastic about the eventual nominee.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Rappers Cardi B and Drake led nominations on Wednesday for the American Music Awards with eight apiece in a line-up that included Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran but snubbed Kanye West and made Beyonce, Ariana Grande and Rihanna also-rans.
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In recent years, it has found itself among the also-rans in France's Ligue 1, as first Lyon and now Paris St.-Germain — a club whose rise has been financed by seemingly endless infusions of cash from its Qatari owners — have dominated French soccer.
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Here's a quick breakdown of new shows that have been previewed, with reactions on which are worth sampling; those that didn't work for me, but might for somebody else; and the also-rans that don't merit the power it would take to program the DVR.
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Those four also-rans are, at the risk of belaboring the point, extremely good basketball players, and that they are eating Curry's dust well after it settled and he's dipped below the horizon says more about Steph's greatness than it does about any of their theoretical shortcomings.
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On the other hand, one only need look at the last major fantasy adaption — the Harry Potter films — and the legions of failed also-rans that tried to cash in on that success to see that Netflix will still have an uphill battle on its hands here.
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That doesn't mean the Pistons will win a championship anytime soon, but if the 21-year-old is able to exceed expectations as a versatile defender while adding new proportions to Van Gundy's flat attack, they'll be more feisty and stylish than the monotonous, predictable also-rans they've become.
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The top two teams in each group, as well as the four best third-place teams, will advance to the round of 20143, making every match vital in the complicated math that will determine the four lucky also-rans who will get thrown a lifeline for the knockout round.
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The combination of the also-rans' expected absence from the debates, which only admit candidates averaging at least 15% in the polls, and the growing plausibility of a Trump presidency could drive Stein supporters worried about her playing Ralph Nader to Mrs Clinton's Al Gore into the Democratic camp.
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There's a lot of this jockeying: Other also-rans include former or future also-firsts John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, William Henry Harrison, Martin Van Buren, Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, William Howard Taft, Theodore Roosevelt, Herbert Hoover, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter and George H. W. Bush.
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While Van Wagenen vowed that his first roster was ready to win now and invited the rest of the National League East "to come get us," the team fell out of the divisional race early, and ultimately ended the regular season on Sunday as also-rans once more.
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Soon after, power metal's high water mark met with an undignified demise thanks to a glut of also-rans—unoriginal copycats who tasked themselves with producing the same tired derivative releases for most of the last decade, thereby diluting the market and running the style into the ground.
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All the life that remains in the Democratic mainstream—the proposals and new principles hastily adopted and adapted to fill out the candidacies of the also-rans that crowded the presidential field—has come from people and movements, including the Sanders campaign, the establishment is determined to keep on the sidelines.
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If Mr. Rubio and Mr. Bush are also-rans in the South Carolina Republican primary on Saturday behind Mr. Trump and Mr. Cruz, it's difficult to see how they reignite their campaigns in time for the winner-take-all primary in their home state of Florida a little more than three weeks later.
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When Donald Trump came in a slightly disappointing second place in the Iowa caucuses, behind a niche candidate like Ted Cruz, it made a certain amount of sense for Republican officials to rally behind Marco Rubio, a more balanced candidate, who managed to climb out of a thinning pack of also-rans into real contention.
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Mike Huckabee stumbled back out from the mists of presidential also-rans to inflict another tone-deaf treatise on the body politic, returning once again to one of his favorite targets, Jay Z. After Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonLewandowski on potential NH Senate run: If I run, 'I'm going to win' Fighter pilot vs.
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It was treating Chelsea — a team that had, until just a few weeks ago, been unbeaten in the Premier League; a team packed full of Premier League champions; a team that boasts Eden Hazard, arguably the most gifted player in England — like all of those midtable also-rans it swats aside with such contemptuous ease.
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The just-happy-to-be-here, can't-we-all-get-along vibe was set by the opening song, a celebration of the ceremony's also-rans — "This one's for the loser inside of you" — sung by the hosts, Sara Bareilles and Josh Groban, and a chorus made up of ensemble members from every Broadway musical.
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While most of his fellow also-rans have come to at least an uncomfortable truce with their belligerent nominee (presumably in the hopes of staying in the GOP's good graces until the next election cycle), Cruz alienated his entire party, to say nothing of the Trump fans in attendance, for what would appear to be a very limited upside.
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There are already a wide range of also-rans and wannabes on the market at both lower and higher price points; Kuo expects Apple to work on holding its market lead by adding new functionalities, which may include Siri support, water-resistance and health sensors; he expects shipments of AirPods to break 100 million by 2021.
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It's hard to imagine how everybody at CNN decided that this exact question was the best way to — and I'm being generous in my guess at what their aim was here — find out how this rabble of potential presidents and persistent also-rans plan to handle the most divided electorate in the history of the nation.
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With LeBron James now 32 years old and ostensibly on the verge of declining at some point in the foreseeable future, the top of the East will eventually be up for grabs; in a sea of pseudo-contenders, satisfactory also-rans and some of the league's very worst teams, Milwaukee is primed to step up as the most dangerous and promising replacement.
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From Henry Clay, who ran for president three times in the 1800s, to Hubert Humphrey, who narrowly lost to Richard Nixon in 1968, to Edward M. Kennedy, one of the greatest bipartisan lawmakers of all time, to John McCain, who was defeated by Barack Obama in 2008 and is now an effective chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, also-rans can find their Senate home a great refuge.
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" (Side note: I am getting a lot of mileage out of this Thrasher piece because I find the image of interviewer Brian Bannon of SoCal hardcore also-rans Jodie Foster's Army sitting there taking all this in.) He likened the song to "an old Flannery O'Connor story" to Hoskyns, and while there's circumstantial evidence linking "Murder in the Red Barn" to an old English murder ballad called "The Murder of Maria Marten," I can't find any record of Waits commenting on that directly, though the murder ballad tradition is certainly something he's familiar with — see his version of the popular warhorse "Two Sisters.
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His $2628 million is in the same league as also-rans like Carly Fiorina and Rand PaulRandal (Rand) Howard PaulGraham promises ObamaCare repeal if Trump, Republicans win in 28503 Conservatives buck Trump over worries of 'socialist' drug pricing Rand Paul to 'limit' August activities due to health MORE — a fraction of what Jeb Bush and Ted CruzRafael (Ted) Edward CruzTrump moves forward with F-22019 sale to Taiwan opposed by China The Hill's Campaign Report: Battle for Senate begins to take shape O'Rourke says he will not 'in any scenario' run for Senate MORE have spent.
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This time also-rans like Andrew YangAndrew YangYang fourth-most-tweeted-about Democrat during debate despite not qualifying All the frontrunners could survive initial Iowa test DNC, Democratic candidates combine to raise 28503M in 22020 MORE and Tom SteyerTom Fahr SteyerWarren to Sanders: 'I think you called me a liar on national TV' Overnight Energy: Cost analysis backing BLM move comes under scrutiny | Republicans eye legislation to rival Dems' climate plan | Report claims top global risks all climate-related CNN draws 7.3 million viewers for Iowa Democratic debate MORE will barely register; it may also mark the end of Sen.
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