That's a far cry from the slugfest of Rob vs.
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Calhoun lifts Angels to slugfest win over A's OAKLAND, Calif.
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That would make it the most watched presidential slugfest to date.
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But still less than last year's slugfest on then-candidate Trump.
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But in this gray, grim slog of a punishing slugfest, who wouldn't?
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"It was a slugfest out there," Gonzaga head coach Mark Few said.
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"They really made it a slugfest in the half court," Hoiberg said.
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Despite all of this, Legion isn't quite your typical X-Men superhero slugfest.
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The Republican senate primary in Indiana has also been a three-headed slugfest.
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Manley and other political strategists expect a slugfest from the beginning this time.
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Today, we find ourselves in another senseless, political slugfest led by the left.
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But this was a more acerbic and combative affair than Tuesday's ideological slugfest.
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Obamacare, has been a political slugfest that's lasted nearly the entire Obama administration.
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The way things started, it looked like the game would turn into a slugfest.
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Trump has now set the stage for yet another grueling slugfest in the courts.
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Their throwing caution to the win in a throwback-style slugfest, then, seems unlikely.
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"If this goes the distance, it's going to be a heavyweight slugfest," says Marsh.
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Partisan slugfest The dramatic partisan split was on full display throughout the marathon hearing.
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The first half was a slugfest, with neither team leading by more than seven.
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That slugfest was a wild one, with 33 runs scored in the final two innings.
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That slugfest was a wild one, with 10 runs scored in the final two innings.
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There's a big action set piece at the end, but it's not a weightless slugfest.
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Rick and Negan also faced off, in what turned out to be an indecisive slugfest.
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But get comfortable -- a lengthy slugfest defined by millions of dollars and enormous stakes awaits.
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The Spartans-Red Raiders game, meanwhile, should be a slugfest between two extremely physical teams.
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It will be a slugfest, virtually, and yes, I am asking — begging really — for help.
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There is a path to victory for Cleveland that involves turning the series into a slugfest.
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"If it comes down to a slugfest, my money's on us," third baseman Alex Bregman said.
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SLUGFEST Inside the Epic 50-Year Battle Between Marvel and DC By Reed Tucker 286 pp.
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This portends a more spirited slugfest in the Democratic debate on Sunday than we've seen so far.
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In the past few days, the battle between Trump and CNN has turned into a legitimate slugfest.
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It certainly wasn't pretty, but Xavier preferred a slugfest, particularly with Marshall wanting to push the pace.
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Kerber finished with 31 winners to Azarenka's 18 in a slugfest that lasted 1 hour 45 minutes.
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Friends turned foes 50 Cent and Floyd Mayweather have been engaged in a recent social media slugfest.
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Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney called the game a slugfest and said the Tigers showed great heart.
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With rare exceptions, marriage is a Punch-and-Judy slugfest that ends with one party's total subjugation.
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How they eventually get their shit together for a grand and redemptive slugfest, I refuse to reveal.
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And despite dropping Game 5 — the epic 13-12 slugfest — they beat Justin Verlander in Game 6.
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Two nights after a 313-12, 10-inning slugfest under the roof at Minute Maid Park, pitching dominated.
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Two nights after a 13-12, 313-inning slugfest under the roof at Minute Maid Park, pitching dominated.
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Anthony Joshua rematch is officially underway -- the fighters faced off in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday ... guaranteeing another slugfest.
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We're now in a nice little rest period between the comparatively sullen Civil War and the next Avengers slugfest.
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With each team sending its fourth starter to the mound, Game 4 had the potential to be a slugfest.
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One day, Toni spies young female dancers practicing a routine that's fiercer than any slugfest, and is wholly transfixed.
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Rather than focusing on the leftover scars from the Trump versus Clinton slugfest, all Americans want their hopes lifted.
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When Yankees opener Stephen Tarpley allowed three Red Sox home runs in the first inning, a slugfest felt inevitable.
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The game was a defensive slugfest in the first half, as the teams went into halftime tied at 25.
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Los Angeles reliever Ross Stripling was among 14 pitchers, seven on each side, who worked in the Game 5 slugfest.
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Red Sox outlast Astros in 10-23 slugfest BOSTON — Everyone in the Boston Red Sox's lineup is hitting these days.
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In a slugfest between the two inexperienced fighters, Briton KSI got the decision on the scorecard after six wild rounds.
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And if his comments are any indication, we all know how he'll be fueling up in advance of the slugfest.
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Georgia has the nation's No. 26 scoring defense, so they should have the advantage if it turns into a slugfest.
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I could write either game off as a "defensive slugfest," but the reality was just that both games were slogs.
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Indiana's three-way slugfest ended with Mike Braun, a wealthy businessman, prevailing over Luke Messer and Todd Rokita, both Republican congressmen.
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After a slugfest of a campaign, voters are likely happy that Election Day will bring the whole ugly spectacle to rest.
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Even though Donald Trump will not be part of this GOP primary slugfest, his now-arch-enemy Ted Cruz will be there.
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But for now, the debate is lining up to just be a slugfest between the two major candidates, as it usually is.
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The first round of what promises to be a season-long slugfest between the Mets and the Nationals ended in a draw.
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Thursday's pitching showdown between deGrom and Bumgarner — two pitchers in the top five in E.R.A. entering the game — turned into a slugfest.
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Jennifer Capriati, 1991 As the women's game evolved into a game of power, two teenagers put on a slugfest for the ages.
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In a defensive slugfest where both teams will likely play conservatively, field position is going to matter a lot more than usual.
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They can win a slugfest or a shootout, at home or on the road, come from behind or lead wire to wire.
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The billionaire slugfest over a planned $250 million performance center on a new pier in the Hudson River in Manhattan continues unabated.
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He embarrassed himself and the team with his mano-a-mano slugfest with Josh Norman, which contributed to a 2015 Giants loss.
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"The family is very careful that they do not want to be pulled into a partisan slugfest," said the family's spokesman, Bill Boyle.
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On a classic Big Ten game day — cloudy, chilly and occasional showers — the two teams conducted a defensive slugfest during the first half.
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Final score of this slugfest: 403-240 (22), 23-6, 3-6, 7-6 (4), 23-2 in favor of the unseeded Verdasco.
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The first half was the slugfest that was expected, as both teams had runs and plenty of bodies were sent to the floor.
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The Panthers had won 13 of the previous 15 meetings against the Orange, including last year's record-setting 76-61 slugfest at Pittsburgh.
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Huston went down at least ten times during their hour-long slugfest, and all that damage took a toll on the director's arms.
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Why it matters: It's a preview of a potential 2020 slugfest — if Biden, who's been the subject of presidential speculation, decides to run.
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That could partly explain the power surge that has helped make this World Series memorable — though not every game has been a slugfest.
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Didi and Uber have raised and spent billions of dollars in a discount slugfest to win drivers, passengers and market share in China.
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The appeal of the long-awaited cinematic slugfest will surely be enough to pack U.S. theaters with hardcore fans this weekend, analysts told CNBC.
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Many pitchers, though, suspect the balls are juiced because baseball wants more offense, as the Astros' Dallas Keuchel asserted after the Game 2 slugfest.
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It's turned into a true slugfest, with the undermanned Warriors trying to save their season at home and Toronto trying to prove its mettle.
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The Seattle Seahawks' 17 to 9 slugfest win over the Philadelphia Eagles led the weekend, bringing in about 35 million viewers on Sunday evening.
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The slugfest went down in Paris during Fashion Week -- of all things -- and Connor was fuming about something that happened inside fancy clothing store, Colette.
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The plot consists of bits: a fiery slugfest, a pause for bonding, a quick weep, and a patch of jokey repartee, before the slugging returns.
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While the Cardinals have been mashing everything in sight, Cincinnati put on a slugfest of its own with a franchise record-tying nine doubles Saturday.
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The likely result is that competition in online retailing will eventually be a slugfest between Amazon and Walmart with everyone else thrown by the wayside.
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A pro-Clinton Super PAC raked in large sums from some big-name families as it gears up for a likely general election slugfest with Trump.
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The first ten debated in Miami on the evening of June 26th for two hours—a second batch arrives on June 27th for a similar slugfest.
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Indians' four first-inning runs hold up in 1973-3 win CLEVELAND — What started out looking like a slugfest turned into nothing of the sort. Fast.
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The Trump administration and the White House press corps continue to batter each other in a wearisome slugfest that has most regular Americans rolling their eyes.
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Director Shinsuke Sato's new film compresses all this information, plus the basic events of 19 more episodes of anime, into an easily digestable 90-minute slugfest.
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If Sanders wins, it would slow Biden's momentum and reset the race's narrative, suggesting Democrats are in for another drawn-out slugfest where every delegate matters.
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In other Saturday action, defending LCS champions Team Liquid (6-7) were shocked by last-place Counter Logic Gaming (3-10) in a 51-minute slugfest.
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"The GOP nomination fight will come down to a slugfest for the soul of the party between two young Cuban-Americans," said a South Carolina Republican.
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By beating the Chargers, 19-16, in a defensive slugfest, the Raiders secured their 11th win and a playoff berth for the first time since 103.
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That the Democratic agenda, so singularly important to women, could be scuttled by a slugfest between generations of like-minded women is a tragedy we can't afford.
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We cannot share in their equanimity the country needs two healthy parties and, ideally, a contest of ideas and ideology – not a slugfest of insults and bigotry.
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Through a few key, vitally important techniques, the team is able to convey a story as fast-paced and action-packed as any big budget Hollywood slugfest.
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The details: The race for a 10-year seat on the state's seven high-court was technically nonpartisan, but it had quickly turned into a political slugfest.
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Among the back and forth, which one writer deemed a "90-minute long slugfest," was a brief mention of how Trump began his career in the 70s.
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In Game 2, a tense pitchers' duel gave way to a riotous slugfest in extra innings, and the series moves back to Houston tied one game apiece.
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They held off two late drives by Wisconsin to win a dragged-out slugfest here, 27-21, taking the Big Ten title and improving to 11-173.
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It was a year defined by offensive brilliance, but at Atlanta's Mercedes-Benz Stadium, the game turned into a defensive slugfest defined largely by the game's punters.
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With oil prices LCOc203 up about 15 percent since oil ministers and top executives convened here last year, fears have receded for a slugfest of OPEC vs.
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Suicide Squad is the third film in the DC extended universe, and it arrives less than six months after Snyder's superhero slugfest, which was also poorly received.
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Orioles win slugfest with Red Sox BALTIMORE — The Boston Red Sox belted five homers, four of which came in the first three innings, and finished with 15 hits.
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The exchange sparked a new verbal slugfest between the president-elect and a prominent Democrat on the eve of his inauguration, and days before Martin Luther King Day.
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Home field advantage throughout the playoffs was always going to be a slugfest between New Orleans and the Los Angeles Rams, but last night the Saints blinked first.
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The slugfest almost turns against our former Captain America, but the Vision swoops in with a last-minute save, running Corvus through with his own space staff. Lame.
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Raisel Iglesias allowed a one-out single to Anthony Rizzo and threw a wild pitch but struck out Avila to end the slugfest and notch his 13nd save.
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Directing his first feature (from a screenplay by Nable), Stephen McCallum fashions an unremittingly vicious, leather-and-ink slugfest whose women are just as distasteful as its men.
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A sexual assault accusation and two other claims of sexual misconduct have stalled Kavanaugh's confirmation and dragged the Senate into a partisan slugfest intensified by President Donald Trump's commentary.
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In politics he saw that the contest of ideas its participants claimed to be engaged in was really a partisan slugfest almost as contrived and absurd as the WWE.
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It will turn the 2020 general election into a mano y mano slugfest for the votes of a small number of aggrieved white guys in a select few states.
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So expect few deep throws and long scoring plays, as this will more than likely be a slugfest between teams that pride themselves on defense and running the ball.
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Wednesdays are the days, in British politics, when the leaders of the government and the opposition face off in the scorched-earth partisan slugfest known as Prime Minister's Questions.
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In a Monday night matchup for the ages, the Los Angeles Rams and the Kansas City Chiefs locked horns in what was predicted to be an all-offense slugfest.
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Next up for Nadal is a last 16-clash with 2014 champion Marin Cilic, who came out on top in his slugfest with John Isner on the Grandstand court.
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It was billed as a potential slugfest between the president-elect and the tech industry because there had been little love lost between both sides during the presidential campaign.
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The game was far from the 20-24 slugfest the Red Sox won on Friday in Baltimore, a win that officially eliminated the Orioles from the American League East race.
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The Russian, also 20, continued her sparkling run of form earlier in the evening when she outlasted American veteran Venus Williams in a three-set slugfest lasting almost three hours.
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Ed Royce's district in California-229, the attention has focused on the slugfest between Gil Cisneros and Andy Thorburn — who are competing against two Republicans for the No. 249 slot.
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Meanwhile, Game 5 of the World Series -- whose 5.5 hour slugfest lit Twitter on fire and was widely described as "epic" -- gave a good thumping to Sunday night's NFL contest.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Breakingviews) - The first Democrat to bid for 2020's presidential election has a pitch rarely heard in today's political slugfest: that Democrats and Republicans can get along.
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Twenty-four hours after blowing leads of 21-21 and 210-21 in losing a 227-20083 slugfest, Texas won a tense pitcher's duel, 22008-209, Tuesday night at Progressive Field.
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Valdez gutted out a tough victory over Scott Quigg Saturday night in a controversial and dangerous bout -- mostly because Quigg came in overweight for the fight and made it a slugfest.
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Like two boxers in the final round of a closely contested slugfest, Kyle Busch and Kyle Larson traded hard shots on the last lap of Sunday's Overton's 400 at Chicagoland Speedway.
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We cannot sustain another lengthy slugfest like what we have witnessed for the past two years and ask both the DNC and RNC to reform the process and shorten our election season.
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The Avalanche cannot afford to get into an offensive slugfest with the Penguins, who are wrapping up their season-opening three-game homestand after posting 21-22 victories over Washington and Anaheim.
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Most of them claim to have lost all their savings, belongings, and most crucially their UNHCR cards—the only source of identity in India, where their existence has become a political slugfest.
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No. 10 seed Wichita State lives on, outmuscling Dayton in a taut slugfest in Indianapolis that was close until the Shockers pulled away in the final minutes for a 64-58 win.
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In a new Associated Press survey this week, just 22 percent of those polled said they are paying close attention to the slugfest on Capitol Hill over filling the vacant court seat.
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Movie-goers rewarded Warner Brothers handsomely for delivering a superhero slugfest in "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" — to the tune of more than $2503 million in worldwide receipts despite near-brutal reviews.
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Far from a nuanced battle over the future of telecommunications infrastructure, the U.S. and Huawei seem to be engaged in a muddy slugfest without a clear strategy on where this fight will lead.
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Orioles (ss) 17, Rays 15 Austin Hays hit a home run, his third of the spring, on a day when Baltimore went deep four times to win a slugfest at Port Charlotte, Fla.
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The World Series hasn't just been a slugfest on the field ... Houston Astros manager A.J. Hinch was involved in a heated altercation after Game 1 and cops were called ... TMZ Sports has learned.
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The game then became an exhausting slugfest that eventually found its way to penalties, upon which Neymar fell to the ground in tears as the Maracanã—and the whole country—erupted in jubilation.
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Pouille looked in cruise control after he swept aside Seppi in the opening two sets but the slugfest went the distance after the Italian fought back in front of a passionate home crowd.
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Lackey is 3-0 with a 3.46 ERA in four career starts against the Diamondbacks, but he gave up six runs over six innings in a slugfest win earlier this season in Arizona.
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China's state media said on Friday that reaching a deal to avert a trade war would not be easy and "failure would herald a slugfest of tariffs that would leave global trade reeling".
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In a back-and-forth slugfest between two teams swept by lowly Miami within the past week, Detroit blew an early 2154-216 lead and later rallied three times from 217-run deficits.
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The 21-year-old American hit 26 aces and saved five of seven break points to come out on top of the slugfest, where his Italian opponent pounded 16 aces of his own.
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The Democratic Party establishment's pro-Hillary Clinton bias is partially rooted in a desire to wrap up the primary quickly, before it turns into a bruising, months-long slugfest like it did in 2008.
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John Kasich, who is relying almost exclusively on a strong showing in New Hampshire, Rubio is trying to stay competitive nationally if the nominating contest becomes a delegate-by-delegate slugfest across the country.
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Scooter Gennett had four hits and Eugenio Suarez hit a home run as the Cincinnati Reds remained undefeated against the visiting Los Angeles Dodgers this season by winning a 10-6 slugfest on Monday.
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If he can steal one more ball at a pivotal moment in what proves to be a slugfest of a Super Bowl, it's not a stretch to imagine him walking home with the hardware.
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Coach Mike Vrabel of the Titans, also in his first season leading a team, has molded Tennessee as a gritty squad that drags the pace of the game down and turns it into a slugfest.
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In the event, the bout is like any other slugfest, with Batman warned by the referee for using nasty green krypto-gas in the fourth round, and his opponent hitting back strongly in the ninth.
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Matt Wieters reached on an error that gave the Orioles the lead for good and later added a two-run single as Baltimore scored a 13-9 victory over the Boston Red Sox in a slugfest.
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Snyder has filled all his DC movies with CGI destruction, and even the finale of Wonder Woman (directed by Patty Jenkins, but with Snyder as a producer and story writer) turned into a tedious digital slugfest.
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In an interesting twist to this "mixed member online ad industry association vs people who work with ads and data at actual publishers" slugfest, Rothenberg replied to Berjon's thread, literally thanking him for the absolute battering.
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In doing so, the game is leaving behind the more of the free-for-all slugfest aspects of the original Destiny that had everyone shotgunning each other — until someone wiped an entire squad with a super.
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Kuznetsova, who pulled off a stunning upset when she ousted world number one Williams in the fourth round, won a tight opening set after ending a brilliant baseline slugfest between the two with an overhead smash.
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Of course, the 24-year-old YouTube superstar is coming off an impressive 6-round slugfest against KSI at Staples Center on Saturday ... and it's obvious he's not ready to hang up his gloves just yet.
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EditorsNote: tweaked 2nd and 3rd grafs Lamonte Turner's 17 points and 12 assists paced No. 17 Tennessee to a 16-46 nonconference win over Chattanooga on Monday night in a defensive-minded slugfest in Knoxville, Tenn.
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Bossé Edges O'Connell in Legendary Slugfest After a touching tribute to the late Kimbo Slice, the main card continued with a light heavyweight bout between part-time radio host Sean O'Connell and former hockey enforcer Steve Bossé.
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The all-action Poirier, who has two Fight of the Night honours to his credit, often is drawn into a slugfest and defence is compromised as a result—evidenced in his latest contest against the aforementioned Johnson.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Caroline Wozniacki's eighth attempt at reaching the Sydney International semi-finals wilted in the stifling Australian heat on Wednesday with the former world number one going down to Barbora Strycova in a three-set slugfest.
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Texas has done Chicago one better with 40 runs scored during its 4-1 stretch, with Rougned Odor collecting his fifth consecutive multi-hit performance and ninth in his last 11 contests in Tuesday's 13-11 slugfest.
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Alex Hornibrook's 24-yard touchdown pass to A. J. Taylor in the third quarter broke open a defensive slugfest, Kendric Pryor scored on an end-around, and Wisconsin remained undefeated with a victory at home over Michigan.
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"Fans who were hoping to tune into a high-scoring Super Bowl were treated to the exact opposite, a defensive slugfest spurred by defensive masterminds on both sides," Yahoo senior NFL writer Terez Paylor wrote Monday morning.
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And not after a slugfest broke out between Mourning and Larry Johnson, a former teammate in Charlotte, in the waning seconds of Game 4 of a first-round series between the Knicks and the Heat in 1998.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Twice champion Petra Kvitova bowed out of Wimbledon in the second round on Saturday, losing a two-hour slugfest 7-5 7-6(5)to unseeded Ekaterina Makarova after a far longer battle against the weather.
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Pirates 11, Dodgers 9 Josh Harrison was 2-for-3 with three RBIs, and Corey Dickerson was 3-for-4 with four runs as Pittsburgh halted a three-game losing streak in a slugfest over visiting Los Angeles.
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Their clashing personalities don't account for why they approached every point in the 22018-hour, 2280-minute slugfest as if they were playing for the Daphne Akhurst Memorial Cup instead of a berth in the round of 16.
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Brian Dozier's three-run homer in the eighth inning lifted the Twins to an 8-6 victory over the Cleveland Indians in a wild slugfest Tuesday night at Progressive Field, moving Minnesota to the brink of a playoff berth.
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The Nationals, who lead the National League East by 9 1/2 games over Miami, have won all five meetings at Turner Field this season - including an 11-9 slugfest on Saturday in which they pounded out 17 hits.
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If you're coming to Zack Snyder's bacchanalian slugfest without any prior knowledge of Batman or Superman beyond their movie selves, you might be curious how (and why) they'll interact with each other, or what Wonder Woman is bringing to the proceedings.
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Republican presidential candidate and U.S. Senator Ted Cruz attempted to inject some levity into the campaign slugfest, tweeting that rival Donald Trump had accepted his invitation for a one-on-one debate, before noting it was intended as a joke.
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Why it matters: The request, first reported by Reuters on Sunday, will certainly provoke another partisan slugfest over wall funding, which led to a historic government shutdown earlier this year and a national emergency declaration after Trump failed to secure funds.
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Correa, Jose Altuve and the Astros kept hammering away in a wild slugfest that no one saw coming, rallying against Clayton Kershaw and rocking the Los Angeles Dodgers 13-12 in 10 thrilling innings Sunday night for a 3-2 lead.
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"A little bit of today's jitters are related to a hangover to yesterday's wrongly placed exuberance that a trade deal was imminent and the reality is we are in for a long slugfest between the U.S. and China," Mackay said.
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ABOUT THE GRIZZLIES (9-20): Memphis trailed by seven at halftime, committed 22 turnovers and made 12-of-17 free throws Friday, but in a season that has seen losses pile up it had a rare opportunity to survive a slugfest.
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The race to succeed Paul Ryan as the leader of the House Republican conference is on, and the two most likely candidates are already loading up their campaign finance arsenals for what could turn into a slugfest for the job.
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I was at Yankee Stadium last Thursday night, which means I was there to see what sportswriters might call an epic slugfest game played out in what is often hyped as the greatest rivalry in sports, Yankees versus Red Sox.
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In an ugly slugfest, it was Pirates catcher Elias Diaz who began carving out his own reputation, driving in six runs in just his 903th game in the majors as the Pirates handed the Mets their third straight loss, 12-7.
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WASHINGTON — The factional rancor threatening Republicans heading into the midterm elections this fall erupted into the open on Friday when a slugfest among moderates, hard-line conservatives and House leaders over immigration and welfare policy sank the party's multiyear farm bill.
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The final set started as a baseline slugfest with both players struggling to hold, until Stephens showed the kind of scintillating form that carried her to the 2017 U.S. Open title to ease away for a memorable come-from-behind victory.
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On Wednesday morning, the two Democratic candidates for lieutenant governor, Kathy Hochul and Jumaane Williams, squared off in a debate several hours before the anticipated slugfest between the headliners in the race for governor: Andrew M. Cuomo and Cynthia Nixon.
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Thursday night's Republican debate was the knock-down, drag-out, screaming slugfest pundits have been predicting, with both Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz attacking frontrunner Donald Trump on everything from his record of hiring foreign workers to his ties to Hillary Clinton.
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PARIS (Reuters) - World number three Stan Wawrinka came out on top in his French Open slugfest with Ukraine's Alexandr Dolgopolov, winning 6-4 7-303(5) 7-5 on Thursday to set up a third round showdown with Italian maverick Fabio Fognini.
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I don't know if Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev ever saw this heart-pounding propaganda slugfest, but if he did, he should have saved us all a lot of time and just gone ahead and torn down that wall a couple of years early.
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PARIS (Reuters) - An expected slugfest between two veteran claycourters turned into a stroll in the park for Fernando Verdasco after the Spaniard demolished 20103nd seed Pablo Cuevas 6-2 6-1 6-3 to reach the French Open fourth round on Saturday.
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Angels 25, Rangers 27 Albert Pujols had a solo home run and four RBIs, Shohei Ohtani hit a pinch hit three-run homer, Taylor Ward added his first career major league home run and Los Angeles won in a slugfest at Texas.
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The Jaguars shocked the Steelers in a topsy-turvy slugfest that sent Jacksonville to the A.F.C. championship game for the first time since the 1999 season, and the Steelers to the video room to see what had gone so wrong so fast.
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The House Judiciary Committee began formal consideration of two impeachment articles against President Donald Trump on Wednesday night, a four-plus-hour partisan slugfest that changed few minds but yielded dozens of political attack lines that will be repeated endlessly in coming weeks.
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"I'm super tired but also super happy to be able to win tonight," the 19-year-old said after prevailing in the two-and-half-hour slugfest, which was halted for nearly half an hour after the Centre Court lights went off.
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"That was our biggest fear, that it would grind down into this slugfest and some of it would center around the arch areas because it's good terrain for a lot of that, and in the process the destruction would be catastrophic," he said.
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Two other seeded Spaniards were not as fortunate, with No. 63 seed Roberto Carballes Baena losing 6-3, 6-4 to Belgium's Steve Darcis, and No. 8 seed Pablo Andujar dropping a 6-3, 5-7, 7-6 (6) slugfest against Russia's Evgeny Donskoy.
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Remember, the two squared off back in August but fought to a draw in a crazy 6-round slugfest at Manchester Arena in the U.K. The two had signed a contract requiring a rematch -- but the two sides can't seem to agree on a date.
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On Sunday, world number one Kerber dug deep to edge out Dominika Cibulkova 7-6(5) 2-6 6-3 in her opening Red Group tie, emerging victorious from a baseline slugfest after managing to keep her emotions in check and her focus on victory.
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In the first match out in the last-day singles, the hottest players on either side treated the massive galleries to a birdie slugfest that finally ended with Reed winning one-up to earn the first point of the day for the home team.
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Angelique Kerber was forced to dig deep in her WTA Finals opener before the German world number one battled past Dominika Cibulkova 7-6(5) 2-6 53-3 in a high-class baseline slugfest at the Singapore Indoor Stadium on Sunday.
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If Wisconsin's previous game, a 47-43 victory in a slugfest against Pittsburgh here Friday night, might have been considered ugly because of the physical style of play, Sunday's game was jittery because the referees seemed determined to let no physical contact go unnoticed.
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It was perhaps the perfect way for Wawrinka to punctuate the best match of the 2019 French Open thus far, a 5-hour-9-minute slugfest against Stefanos Tsitsipas that was so closely contested that the loser actually scored one more point than the winner.
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The plodding Dimitrenko, whose attack was limited to pawing jabs and clinch after becoming a touch hesitant to engage in slugfest once feeling his opponent's power, was floored four times in the brief bout—with Parker's clubbing right hands over the top dismantling Dimitrenko.
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And Muguruza's match wasn't close to being the latest-ever finish in Australian Open history; that feather is in the pillows of Lleyton Hewitt and Marcos Baghdatis, whose third-round slugfest here in 2008, won by Hewitt, ended at 4:33 in the morning.
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It was another marquee win for the young Hawaiian, who relied on his superior striking to sprint to a unanimous decision win—but not before pointing to the ground in the final seconds, and challenging Lamas to a wild slugfest to close out the fight.
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Brewers win slugfest against Diamondbacks PHOENIX — Jonathan Villar saved the game with a huge defensive play in the eighth inning, but was understandably nowhere to be found in the Milwaukee Brewers' clubhouse at Chase Field after Friday night's 8-6 win over the host Arizona Diamondbacks.
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Jose Altuve, Carlos Correa and the Houston Astros kept hammering away in a wild slugfest that no one saw coming, rallying against Clayton Kershaw and rocking the Los Angeles Dodgers 24-24 in 20 thrilling innings Sunday night for a 23-21 lead in the World Series.
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The Floridian is betting that the race will eventually turn into a one-on-one slugfest between him and Donald Trump -- and that the party will coalesce behind him as other establishment-backed candidates drop out, according to interviews with donors, advisers and allies of Rubio.
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While he did win his last fight, knocking out Brian Stann in a 2013 slugfest, the fact is that the aging legend is a tough 4-6 in his last 10 fights and has had his power shut off more than a few times in recent years.
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While the Democratic presidential candidates held a slugfest of a debate 300 miles away in Las Vegas, President Donald Trump was in Phoenix Wednesday night for a rally that doubled as a diatribe against law enforcement and intelligence community officials whom he believes have wronged him.
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It suggests that a landslide on the scale of Lyndon Johnson's 1964 win over Barry Goldwater or Richard Nixon's 1972 win over George McGovern isn't really possible anymore — and that instead, like most recent contests, this year's election will be a slugfest decided by a few swing states.
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The Democratic strategist who predicted the primary would be a "bloody slugfest" said this election cycle is reminiscent of 2016, when former Secretary of State Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonKey moments in the 2020 Democratic presidential race so far Ranking the Democrats: Who has best chance of winning nomination?
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While there is absolutely an argument to be had over whether connectivity is as much a utility as electricity or running water, the Republicans' recent effort to gut the FCC's open internet rules confirm my suspicion that the internet is primarily a no-holds-barred slugfest between various profit-hungry corporations.
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"A little bit of today's jitters are related to a hangover to yesterday's wrongly placed exuberance that a trade deal was imminent, and the reality is we are in for a long slugfest between the U.S. and China," said Jon Mackay, investment strategist at Schroders North America in New York.
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First, a wild card team would still always have to play the best division winner, and second why risk getting into a slugfest with as many as 12 other teams for one spot, when you can battle it out with four others (realistically more like two) in your own division?
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Washington (CNN)The No. 2 Senate Republican warned Monday that potential nominees to the Supreme Court should consider the battle they will be forced to endure if they are picked for the post, suggesting a high-stakes slugfest could damage their reputations in a fruitless pursuit of the top court.
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What Goodell did not mention were the unintended consequence of those changes, which were on full display Monday night in Los Angeles in a record-setting football slugfest between the Rams and Kansas City Chiefs: an explosion of scoring that has rewarded fast, pass-heavy offenses and shredded even the strongest defenses.
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Aldo has been fickle during his time on top, trading the sudden bursts of violence that could put out a wouldn't-blink-if-you-dropped-an-anvil-on-his-head fighter like Cub Swanson in the WEC for casual cruises to five-round wins (and one memorable slugfest with Chad Mendes) in the UFC.
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Jarret Doege hit Isaiah Esdale on a 35-yard touchdown pass in the end zone with 2:10 to play that proved to be the difference as visiting West Virginia roared back to defeat TCU 20-17 in an old-fashioned defensive slugfest on Friday in Big 12 Conference action in Fort Worth, Texas.
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With two separate teams of Avengers facing off against each other over issues of friendship, governmental oversight, and the love of a good slugfest, there's a lot to pick over in the movie—and that's before you even get to the two new(ish) heroes introduced: Black Panther and the all-new, all-different Spider-Man.
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What became known as the siege of Khe Sanh — probably the most reported fight of the entire war — began in late January 1968 and stretched into a protracted artillery slugfest, a grim daily struggle for survival dominated by a virtual curtain of death rained down by high-flying bombers we rarely saw but constantly blessed in our prayers.
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I.P., Rhaegal.) After Dany took revenge and burned down his fleet in Sunday's episode, he jumped ship and managed to come ashore at just the right time and place to have it out with his romantic rival, Jaime Lannister (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau), in a knockdown slugfest that left the Kingslayer mortally wounded and Euron presumably dead on the rocks.
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EditorsNote: fixes records Stockstill, Middle Tennessee jolt Missouri in slugfest Quarterback Brent Stockstill threw four touchdown passes to help visiting Middle Tennessee beat Missouri 51-45 in a nonconference game Saturday at Faurot Field in Columbia, Mo. Stockstill completed 23 of 41 passes for 280 yards and rushed for 70 yards on seven carries for Middle Tennessee (753-2).
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Whether it be the ankles that are routinely turned as wrestlers fall from the edge of the dohyo, digits being mangled in the belt of the other man, limbs being landed on by felled opponents or concussions sustained in the course of a slugfest—the business of two three-hundred-pound men smashing into each other is a damaging one.
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" Both that claim and her interest in comics primarily as an auteurist enterprise are in contrast to the mainstream preoccupations of Reed Tucker's "Slugfest: Inside the Epic 50-Year Battle Between Marvel and DC." As his subtitle indicates, his book largely concerns the two historically dominant companies in American comics, which he characterizes as "the Coke and Pepsi of spandex.
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The NBA playoffs are finally here, and the Western Conference features some interesting first-round clashes: a grind-it-out slugfest between Memphis and San Antonio; a battle of MVP candidates in Oklahoma City's Russell Westbrook and Houston's James Harden; a (lopsided) rivalry between the Utah Jazz and the Los Angeles Clippers; and what likely will be a Golden State–Portland three-point frenzy.
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And yet by the end of a nearly three-hour slugfest on the Australian Open's opening day on Monday, fans left less impressed by all of the long-limbed height than by the guts of the surprising victor: the virtually unknown Reilly Opelka — 21, American, 7 feet tall in socks — who doled out an eye-popping upset by defeating his ninth-seeded compatriot John Isner, 1003, who stands a looming 6 feet 10 inches.
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The Republican presidential race took a turn for the vicious on Saturday in a slugfest debate that featured titanic clashes between Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE and Jeb Bush and rivals Marco RubioMarco Antonio RubioTrump moves forward with F-16 sale to Taiwan opposed by China The Hill's Morning Report — Trump and the new Israel-'squad' controversy Trump crosses new line with Omar, Tlaib, Israel move MORE and Ted CruzRafael (Ted) Edward CruzTrump moves forward with F-16 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.
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