Mississippians, on the other hand, are unlikely to toast their ninth consecutive last-place finish.
Ankiel, recently cut loose by the last-place Houston Astros, received a smattering of cheers each at-bat.
The 40-year-old Pettitte was roughed up by last-place Houston in a 9-1 loss Monday.
Bucknell is the top seed for the third straight year and opens against last-place and eighth-seeded Navy.
He inherits a club coming off a franchise-worst 64-98 season and a last-place finish in the NL West.
When he returned Sunday with the last-place Toronto Blue Jays, he left dejected.
No New York sportswriters were either, with the last-place Knicks' season in ashes.
Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers scored 81 against the last-place Toronto Raptors in 2006, the NBA's second-highest single-game total.
Through Tuesday, Los Angeles was 13th in the Western Conference with eight points, only two more than the last-place Calgary Flames.
First, the notion that the Mets will be anything more than a last-place team this year hinges almost entirely on the health of Santana.
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An embarrassing loss to the last-place Washington Redskins on Dec. 18 left them 7-7 and facing the prospect that they might miss the playoffs.
The AL East-leading Yankees defeated last-place Toronto for the fifth straight time this season in New York and for the seventh time in eight games overall.
Rather than feature just four new shows, as the last-place peacock network did, ABC rolled out 11, complete with mashed-up clips (OK, that part could have been a little much).
The New York Yankees beat the last-place Blue Jays 5-4 Saturday, winning when Travis Hafner hit a three-run homer and later lumbered around the bases for a go-ahead triple in the seventh inning.
It has been a history filled with disappointment, including a last-place finish at the 1998 World Cup, a drubbing made all the more humiliating when the women's team won the World Cup in 1999.
Another last-place finish could be devastating to fundraising.
Mr. Grossman and Mr. Beck combined to throw 24 interceptions last year, putting the Redskins just one behind league leaders Philadelphia and Buffalo on the way to a fourth consecutive last-place finish in the division.
Going into Sunday's games, 11 games separated the first-place Knicks (33-20) from the last-place Raptors (23-33) the smallest margin from first to last in the NBA. Toronto and Philadelphia (22-32) are still relative long shots to make the postseason, but they currently sit in ninth and 10th place in the Eastern Conference, just one and two spots, respectively, out of the playoffs.
It is the last resting-place of two close relations of the British Royal family a martyred grand duchess and a Greek nun and Buckingham Palace would not want anything unpleasant to happen there.
Querrey will usurp world No. 15 John Isner as the top American male tennis player after a 7-6 (7-5) 6-7 (7-9) 7-5 defeat of Australian 23rd seed Marinko Matosevic earned him a last-16 place.
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Whether United lack ambition or not, they are now in control of Group C and will travel to Bursaspor for the return fixture in less than a fortnight knowing that victory will leave them on the brink of a last-16 place.
Whereas Mitchell's last visit - which took place in the last days of the electoral campaign - was touted as a "listening tour, " Mitchell made clear that during his current stay, he intends to begin calling shots.
Mexico coach Manuel de la Torre is sure to come under fire after a third straight draw, which dropped El Tri (0-0-3) to second-to-last place in the standings.
Joe Calzaghe - who has won this award the last two years - cemented his place as one of boxing's all-time greats by stepping up from the super-middleweight division he ruled for more than a decade to beat American greats Bernard Hopkins and Roy Jones Jr at light-heavyweight.
That and the goaltending of Evgeni Nabokov were enough for the Islanders, the seventh-place team in the Eastern Conference, to improve to 8-1-1 in their last 10 and keep pace with sixth-place Ottawa, which won at Philadelphia.
But he remained and - with a ninth-place finish last season and Sunday's showpiece to look forward to - has continued a rough repeat of the turnaround he once oversaw with Hibernian.
Playing with a makeshift defence in Germany, United - who had already clinched a place in the last 16 - needed at least a draw to finish top of their group and were on the back foot for much of the match.
Before this season, Saracens had never reached the knock-out stages of the Heineken Cup but they clinched a place in the last-four for the first time with a 19-10 victory over highly-fancied Welsh outfit Ospreys.
The first concrete talks on that took place last week - last Thursday, here in Berlin.
Right now, he's attempting to better last year's 25th-place finish at Australian Master of the Amateurs in Melbourne, which concludes Friday.
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