also-rans

The Knicks roster will be filled with also-rans like Bill Walker, Andy Rautins and Renaldo Balkman and carry the same stench that last year's team did: superstars illogically paired with fringe NBA players.

Knicks Targeting Another Big Name Kevin Clark 2011

What appeared to be as routine a fixture as there can be in Europe, with the Premiership leaders facing perennial Celtic league also-rans, turned out to be the home side's closest flirtation with defeat so far.

Harlequins 25-17 Connacht | Heineken Cup match report 2011

So why are these 11 also-rans the cream of the crop?

Amazing Race: Phil Keoghan Explains Why These 11 Teams Have Unfinished Business 2011

Lin's play, particularly on the pick-and-roll, has put these former also-rans in the spots D'Antoni mentioned.

The Lin Effect: An Analysis Kevin Clark 2012

Lovers of modern-era offenses dismay at Monday's display: two scoring Neanderthals sparring in the center ring high above college football's yard-devouring also-rans.

Alabama Smothers LSU to Win BCS Title Rachel Bachman 2012

Among the also-rans, Barry Larkin came closest to election with 62.1 percent of the votes.

Bert Blyleven, Roberto Alomar elected to Hall of Fame Cindy Boren 2011

Survivor also-rans Benjamin "Coach" Wade and Ozzy Lusth are the alums who will compete with the 16 newbies on Survivor: South Pacific, Entertainment Weekly reports.

Coach and Ozzy Returning to Survivor: South Pacific 2011

For extra value they add some late twentieth-century also-rans (Curtis LeMay, Thomas Eagleton, Geraldine Ferraro and Admiral James Stockdale, of whom only Ferraro was actually on a major party ticket come the election.)

July Books 26) Veeps, by Bill Kelter and Wayne Shellabarger slovobooks 2009

What did have no parallel was the obvious mismatch between the winner and the also-rans.

Stromata Blog: 2009

One problem with the lack of attention scholars pay to losing presidential candidates is that those who write about the also-rans tend to be partisans.

Five Best: Scott Farris 2012