Minnesota hosts Nashville on Friday and finishes the regular season Saturday at Columbus, but is currently trailing in tiebreakers with both the Blues and the Predators and will need plenty of help to qualify for the playoffs for the third straight year. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Three losses have come in tiebreakers and another one was by half a point. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The Titans (9-6) knew the Bengals defeated the Cleveland Browns 19-14, giving them the edge in tiebreakers if tied at 10-6 for the AFC's final wild-card berth once the regular season ends. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Roddick improved to 16-5 lifetime in tiebreakers at Wimbledon. ❋ Unknown (2005)
Federer improved to 7-1 in tiebreakers against Roddick, who has won one of 10 sets in their three Wimbledon showdowns. ❋ Unknown (2005)
Rusedski had been 5-0 in tiebreakers this year, but Roddick won the pivotal points against the big-swinging left-hander. ❋ Unknown (2003)
After losing the first two sets in tiebreakers, Rusedski had come to life and was on a roll in the third set when he suddenly became his own momentum-buster. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Competition is getting so tough we may just have to let our kids call tiebreakers! ❋ Unknown (2010)
Parents Involved in Community Schools, won the lawsuit it filed in 2000, which challenged the use of a student's race as one of several "tiebreakers" when assigning students to high-demand schools. ❋ Unknown (2009)
If too many students listed the same school as their first choice, the district used a series of “tiebreakers” to determine who would gain admission to the oversubscribed school. ❋ Erwin Chemerinsky (2010)
If ties still exist after applying the strength of schedule tiebreaker, the divisional or conference tiebreakers are applied, if applicable. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Five players will advance from the tiebreakers on Thursday. ❋ Lubomir Kavalek (2011)
If the divisional or conference tiebreakers are not applicable, ties will be broken by a coin flip. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Although their defense ranks near the bottom of the league, and their offense has not functioned smoothly, the Redskins already have matched their 2009 victory total while winning games that could prove helpful in determining playoff tiebreakers. ❋ Jason Reid (2010)
More weirdness: John Isner won by taking three tiebreakers in four sets; Janko Tipsarevic became the 17th player to retire from or default a match, quitting in the fourth set against Novak Djokovic; Serena Williams continued to make coming back after missing nearly a full year due to injuries look like a walk in the park with a straight-set win over Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova; and a group of umpires sued the USTA over overtime. ❋ Matthew Futterman (2011)
Other options: Make the big four spot their opponents an initial break of serve, give opponents three serves instead of two and forfeit all tiebreakers. ❋ Tom Perrotta (2012)
The tiebreakers that determined the seeding favored the Big Red, thanks mainly to their win last week at Princeton. ❋ Unknown (2010)
And the Eagles, not us, get the sixth wild card spot on tiebreakers. ❋ Greg Hanlon (2010)
He doesn't like to place too much emphasis on any individual game, but he believes divisional games are worth more than others because of tiebreakers. ❋ Chris Herring (2011)
The U.S. Open remains the only Grand Slam tournament that uses tiebreakers in the fifth set, and so it was that John Isner and Nicolas Mahut played an 11-hour match at Wimbledon this year. ❋ Unknown (2010)
