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One key to remember: Unlike many bowl selectors, the Holiday Bowl is contractually obligated to take the Pac 10 runnerup, meaning a solo second-place finisher automatically goes to San Diego.
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YouTube had 5.5 billion streams and a 58.1% market share in April, far ahead of runnerup Hulu which had 373 million streams and a 3.9% share.
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Nor the fact that the softball team pushed eventual national runnerup Arizona to extra innings in the NCAA regional final.
Hofstra Finds Life After Football Joe Gergen 2011
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Woolley, an unknown when he drove a one-time $9,500 purchase from Sunland Park in New Mexico to Churchill Downs to start their Triple Crown odyssey, could hardly be disappointed with his improbable Derby champion and Preakness runnerup.
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But, for a while last week, it appeared that a spat between the New York rocker and Scottish talent show runnerup had reduced the latter to tears.
Lou Reed, SuBo and Simon Cowell: pop's unlikeliest threesome 2010
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He set the stage for his Classic brilliance by a one-length score — with Henrythenavigator as the runnerup — in the Queen Elizabeth II at Ascot on Sept. 27.
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Trophies for 64 tour tournament victories, runnerup trophies from 24 others.
Pete Sampras robbed of tennis trophies, memorabilia Cindy Boren 2010
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If the Heisman Trophy Trust strips Reggie Bush of the 2005 award, the mother of the runnerup has no interest in seeing the Heisman go to her son.
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Trophies for 64 tour tournament victories, runnerup trophies from 24 others.
Pete Sampras robbed of tennis trophies, memorabilia Cindy Boren 2010
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Macho Again, good enough to be the Preakness runnerup, had not earned a top-three finish in graded stakes company before this.
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