To sport with it and lick its fur, no doubt.
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I approached every sport with the soul of a sportswriter.
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Doha pearl or not, she rules this sport with a smile.
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You basically have normal and sport, with some options for customization.
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She is a paradigm buster in a sport with few rules.
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Newcomers should ease into the sport with shorter or less competitive races.
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There is no sport with a more thoroughly American ethos than Pasola.
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The GT Sport with a manual is only available in one configuration.
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We have to show that, because sometimes they mix sport with politics.
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Withings' Steel HR Sport with its sort of Nike/Apple Watch-style wristband.
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Djokovic, too, shares his love for the sport with his two young children.
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Soccer is the only sport with games taking place outside the host city.
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Ironically, the seduction came from another sport with a white-collar reputation: tennis.
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Hockey knows no climate Hockey is a cold weather sport with northern origins.
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"It's a pretty selfish sport, with the training and racing," Desmet said later.
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Like any other sport, with a changing media environment, we need evolution, not revolution.
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Skating, especially on the Olympic level, is a sport with a mystifying judging system.
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Athletes would also have the opportunity to interact directly, via sport, with the local community.
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You don't get to the top of the sport with big holes in your game.
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And it's more about the Japanese cultural approach to sport with extreme training and dedication.
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Top performers: South Korea has dominated the sport, with 39 Olympic medals and 23 golds.
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Top performers: South Korea has dominated the sport, with 39 Olympic medals and 23 golds.
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Curling is a team sport, with four players on each of the two teams facing off.
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Medieval combat, however, is a real full contact sport, with a growing number of practitioners globally.
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Taekwondo may be the only Olympic sport with an upgrade cycle as fast as the iPhone's.
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Additionally, AT&T customers can get a free LG Watch Sport with a 249-year agreement.
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That 2012 show was a hit, and so was Coe's sport, with full houses the rule.
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Infiniti did not say what the price of the QX Sport with VC-Turbo would be.
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Baseball, once a sport with so many black stars, has fallen into an uncomfortable racial ditch.
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Boxing is a sport with a rich history of noble combat and heroic performances — and hype.
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You hope to leave the sport with memories and that is something I definitely do have.
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Logano now proudly represents the new school of driving, in a sport with a lot of history.
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The President of the Immortals, in an Aeschylean phrase, had at last ended his sport with him.
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And don't even start with curling, the only sport with uniforms more interesting than the actual sport.
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Also, it's unlikely Woods could have returned to the top of his sport with physical therapy alone.
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Couple's ice dancing has a reputation for being a very beautiful sport, with fierce artistry and dazzling lifts.
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His movements are almost poetic, a perfect blend of mixing an extreme sport with the grace of nature.
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He told Strahan that he's managed to last so long in the sport with hard work and determination.
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Now, Pagenaud believes he is with the best team in the sport, with the best equipment and personnel.
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We can never compare sport with war, but we can perhaps discover here the wellspring of those beliefs.
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Still, six references to fighters is an impressive count for a sport with much less superstar name recognition.
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A goal is a cause for celebration in football (the soccer kind), or any sport with goals really.
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His channel, Jelle's Marble Runs, reigns over the sport, with over 70,000 subscribers and almost 30 million views.
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MHP leader Devlet Bahceli appeared to criticize Imamoglu for mixing sport with politics by attending the weekend matches.
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We're worried about the sustainability of our businesses, of our sport, with the amount of money we're spending.
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At first glance, wood grilling is a rich person's sport, with top models retailing for upward of $10,000.
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For decades it has been a man's sport, with few women in important roles or behind the wheel.
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The suspension is calibrated toward sport with those adaptive dampers keeping things more comfortable than one might expect.
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Or any other sport with a clock, so you can make sure not to miss your dental appointment.
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For instance, the Mets have been historically very bad at their chosen sport, with glimpses of championship-caliber play.
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When he left boxing after his last fight in 1981, he took the majesty of the sport with him.
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But he could be an international superstar in sport, with his multi-ethnic background, his style, the ear rings.
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But today, spinning has morphed into a sport with rules, traditions, and even paychecks, just like any other sport.
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The scandal has left many in the sport with little or no trust in the integrity of the competition.
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Football, like any sport with frequent skin-to-skin contact, continues to be a breeding ground for the disease.
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Technique: Judo is squarely a combat sport, with a mixture of quick thinking and power essential for top competitors.
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Technique: Judo is squarely a combat sport, with a mixture of quick thinking and power essential for top competitors.
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Venture-capital investing often resembles a competitive blood sport, with hundreds of firms battling to get into the best deals.
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He drove three hours to the unveiling in his dad's 2017 Grand Sport - with his mom in the passenger seat.
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Even so, they struggled to endure the rigours of combat sport, with repairs being made between, and sometimes during, fights.
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The construct of the sport, with weight classes and varying bout lengths ostensibly serves to keep matchups symmetrical and fair.
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He had a heart attack and collapsed while playing his beloved sport with son Carter at the Pickwick Gardens rink.
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The uproar is the latest demonstration of the deep divisions in tennis, a sport with multiple governing bodies and agendas.
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In 240, race walking made its Summer Olympics debut in London as a standalone sport, with a men's 10-miler.
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Soccer is the only sport with three teams in the top six: Real Madrid (3), Barcelona (4) and Manchester United (6).
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It's a reminder that football, with its more chilling crisis of concussions, isn't the only sport with a major health problem.
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Target ranges were produced for each sport, with cycling tipped to produce the most medals — eight to 10 — despite recent upheaval.
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He acknowledged that he was competing in a sport with a relatively small fan base, even when under the Olympic spotlight.
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Do this enough times and you can escape the sport with your faculties intact, having earned a decent sum of money.
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Uncle Sam rates the Sport with a manual gearbox at 30 miles per gallon in the city, 39 on the highway.
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How could anyone endure watching a sport with such a lack of obvious athleticism, such inscrutable gameplay, and such a lethargic pace?
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This isn't just a game—this is a sport, with all the passion and fire and broken hopes of any "traditional" precedents.
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Designers finished off the Grand Sport with 10 different paint colors, six different center-stripe hues and six additional fender hash colors.
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The sport with perhaps the most complex rules still did not have enough of them to adjudicate a situation in real time.
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Broadcasting the best archery events for the next four years allows us to do that in a sport with great Olympic heritage.
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This time they have a single to back that claim up—"Motor Sport," with Nicki Minaj and Cardi B came out overnight.
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The Western world had no problems here, constantly linking rampant drug use in sport with communists, particularly the Soviets and East Germans.
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"I was told, 'You'll never come back to the sport with the medications you have to take that are lifelong,'" Merritt said.
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Bugatti also fitted the Chiron Sport with a new suspension that's on average 10% stiffer than the system found on the existing.
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DeJesus's innovation may not lead to perfect 10s, but "it is a subjective sport with human judges, so it doesn't hurt," Peszek said.
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NBA China is trying to ensure basketball stars continue to cross over, fueling the crazed interest in the sport with its saturation coverage.
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The result is impressive: a work of fiction that blends sport with everyday issues and does so in a way that feels authentic.
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Like a number of other drone racers, he has replaced a high-adrenaline physical sport with one in which you crash only vicariously.
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And so I was introduced to this singular sport with its alluring contrast between athleticism and artistry, outsized personalities, scandal and puzzling costumes.
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Women's sports are rising, and tennis is already a sport with a relatively even mix of fans of both genders in many markets.
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Hockey is the team sport with the second-most known cases of C.T.E., lagging far behind football, where the numbers have surpassed 235.
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For over 24.4 years, Formula One has been a premier global sport, with opulent, multi-day races held in countries across the world.
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Formula 1 remains an expensive sport with "hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars" spent annually in a bid for race track dominance.
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British NFL broadcasting veterans like Neil Reynolds and Nat Coombs gleefully recall getting into the sport with nights spent listening to AM radios.
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"I really don't think an athlete walks into sport with the desire one day to dope," says Rob Koehler, former deputy head of WADA.
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It's easy to conflate the sport with its less progressive figures, be that domestic abusers like Floyd Mayweather or convicted rapists like Mike Tyson.
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I always heard from those ignorant people who thought, why would you want to compete in a sport with all those hairy, sweaty guys.
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And Gwendolyn Oxenham, a former professional soccer player, anticipates a surge of interest and equality in the sport with the 2019 Women's World Cup.
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On Tennis Even in a divided sport with a surplus of governing bodies, there is finally genuine consensus that Davis Cup needs to change.
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" Nascar said in a statement that Pearson's competition with Petty "helped set the stage for Nascar's transformation into a mainstream sport with national appeal.
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A statement from Tokyo 2020 organizers confirmed the postponement of the test event for boccia, a ball sport with similarities to bowls and petanque.
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A statement from Tokyo 2020 organizers confirmed the postponement of the test event for boccia, a ball sport with similarities to bowls and petanque.
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To the equestrian establishment he is a devilish interloper determined to shake up the sport with the objective of making it more interesting and accessible.
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The only sport with a higher concussion rate in practice than competition The study found that across all sports, most concussions -- 63.7% -- occurred during competitions.
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The Santa Barbara native learned the sport with her father as a teenager, and at 17, moved to the Dominican Republic to train full-time.
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Long dominated by Canada and northern European countries, it is the world's fastest-growing winter sport, with countries such as China ranking as emerging powers.
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Since the Great Recession, snapping up prime real estate in coastal American cities, sometimes sight unseen, has become an increasingly popular sport with China's wealthy.
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Track and field led the number of doping violations by sport with 248, followed by bodybuilding (225), cycling (168), weight lifting (143) and powerlifting (116).
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Some wrestling histories claim that Cora Livingston retired from the sport with an undefeated record, but the actual source material seems to reject that idea.
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Yet football is by far the country's most popular sport, with more than a million high school students playing the tackle version of the game.
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The huge LG Watch Sport, with standalone 4G LTE support, and the slimmer, cheaper LG Watch Style released just a few months later in 2017.
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Two seasons ago, Barack Obama, while watching an N.F.L. game on Air Force One, responded to a question about the sport with an Augustinian dodge.
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That's evident in the flurry of YouTube channels and record-breaking worldwide stacks (that combine excitement for the sport with the excitement of a publicity stunt).
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That's because there is, of course, some debate about this, because baseball is a sport with so many nooks and crannies that you could debate anything.
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In the 18th century, as bullfighting became a standardized sport with rules and regulations, the Inquisition was very much in effect across Spain and its empire.
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Golf—an expensive sport with a high-cost barrier to entry, even if you can play on a course for cheap—is not popular in Brazil.
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His career helped popularize the sport with mainstream audiences and helped him launch a variety of successful business ventures that have made him a wealthy man.
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Still, the former Everest gymnasts said his treatment of them went beyond the hard-charging style typical of many coaches in the sport, with devastating consequences.
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In this case, basketball has long been China's most popular sport, with a huge base of fans and lucrative corporate deals that are growing each year.
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NFL returned in 2007 with the first regular season game at Wembley, providing the sport with the final tool it needed to eclipse its former glory.
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He pointed out that when he entered the sport with McLaren in 2007, before the current V6 turbo hybrid era, the cars had weighed around 600 kg.
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Studied in detail, Egypt's squash hegemony offers lessons in how any country can compete in any individual sport, with the right combination of history, culture and geography.
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For this latest episode of What's Tech, we'll introduce the basics behind Dota 2, and how it came to be an e-sport with multimillion-dollars purses.
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Questions have also been asked, in a sport with a notorious doping past, as to why Wiggins did not need the injections before 2011 or after 2013.
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First off, designers blessed the Grand Sport with the body of the Z22017, with its extreme, track-honed aerodynamic accoutrements that were developed for the Corvette racecars.
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Nearly 225 swimmers traveled there in February for the privilege and thrill of competing in this unique sport with as many health benefits as risks, it seems.
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But just as basketball has become a global sport, with improved competition from countries like Spain and Serbia, curling has benefited from increased popularity around the world.
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What some fans see as the excitement of a sport with a wide breadth of fighters ever vying for the belt, CBS apparently sees as a disappointment.
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" Elsewhere, an airport salad functions as a hiding place for marijuana and a custom vehicle ("Super Sport with frog eyes") winds up "double-parked at Five Guys.
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Top competitors: European nations have a history of success in the sport, with South Korea the only nation outside the continent to podium in the men's competition.
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"When you get to college, it's almost like this echo chamber where you see other women excelling in the sport with very low body weight," she said.
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Of course, an Elantra Sport with a DCT will set you back an extra $1,100, but since the Focus doesn't offer an automatic the point is moot.
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Even in modern Japan, crowds still flock to see the biggest and best in the sport, with sumo wrestlers like Hakuho and Kakuryu established as household names.
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Renault have left and returned to the sport with their own team since then, with a current line-up of Germany's Nico Hulkenberg and Britain's Jolyon Palmer.
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Bam Margera is learning to skateboard again after years of alcohol abuse — and he credits the sport with getting his life back on track after hitting rock bottom.
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During this period of froth, companies were able to raise capital at increasingly ludicrous valuations, and entrepreneurs turned fundraising into a sport — with all the associated bragging rights.
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Kim spent the 4th out on a lake in northern Idaho with fam and tried her hand at the water sport with the help of a watchful instructor.
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After spending a week using an LG Watch Style (the little one, not the giant LG Watch Sport) with an iPhone, I came away from the experience unimpressed.
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The measures are part of a package of sweeping changes aimed at livening up the sport with faster, louder and more challenging cars, which will also be wider.
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St-Pierre announced his retirement at a news conference in Montreal and leaves the sport with a 26-20133-0 mark and on a 13-fight winning streak.
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Karate Combat fuses the venerable combat sport with video game-like elements, such as allowing spectators to view a fighter's vital signs in real time during a contest.
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"The most liberating activity of all turned out to be downhill skiing, a sport with which I had little experience but that quickly became a passion," Obama writes.
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After proving Laver Cup could be done, Godsick and Federer now must prove it can be sustained, both economically and competitively, in a sport with a full calendar.
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Since back-to-back losses to Eddie Alvarez and Dustin Poirier, Gaethje rebuilt his name and standing in the sport with a hat-trick of first round finishes.
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In the United States, it is not unusual for different broadcasters to share coverage of a sport, with ESPN and NBC Sports (say) each airing half a season.
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The program, which began in 2004, was created to introduce more diversity to a traditionally white male-dominated sport with the hopes of also attracting a more diverse audience.
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After White dominated the sport with two back-to-back gold medals in the 212 and 2010 Winter Olympics, he faltered in 2014, coming in a disappointing fourth place.
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The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has threatened the sport with removal from the Paris 2024 Games if it fails to improve its doping record and it remains on probation.
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In the largely Catholic village of Drumquin, just west of Omagh, a Gaelic football team, a sport with elements similar to soccer or rugby, celebrated a win this summer.
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Formula One's post-2020 vision set out in April envisaged cheaper and simpler engines to encourage new manufacturers into the sport, with Porsche and Aston Martin attending some meetings.
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But Canadian duo Scott Moir and Tessa Virtue are known for injecting the ethereal sport with some serious sensuality — and one move in particular inspired a lot of eyeball emojis.
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A black Range Rover Sport with some fancy graphics on the side and a few small sensors on a roof-rack, is cruising the streets and slotting into parking spaces.
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What started as a relatively novel idea (other attempts had been made at electric racing, though almost none succeeded) has flourished into a sport with a legitimate, if modest, following.
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Donald Trump was in mixed martial arts promoter Ultimate Fighting Championship's corner in the early 2000s, when lawmakers equated the sport with "human cockfighting" and banned it in most states.
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Just a few short years ago, MMA was widely seen as a fringe sport with limited appeal and questionable morality: John McCain, a Republican senator, once called it "human cockfighting".
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Above all, with her pulse and thoughts surely racing, Kerber was able to finish off her masterwork — the toughest task in a sport with no clock and no time limit.
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"To be perfectly honest, I'm pretty sure if I had made the team, I would have not left the sport with the desire necessary to start a business," he said.
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Such a decline has been the subject of much scrutiny within the sport, with one of the most recent contributions coming from the women's 1998 Olympic gold medalist, Tara Lipinski.
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A multi-sport watch that actually only tracks one sport, with the promise of more to come and a vague timeline, was likely rushed out for the holiday shopping season.
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Lexington confesses to loathing the sport, with its ranks of flush-faced spectators baying as two large men inflict severe enough brain damage on one another to induce temporary unconsciousness.
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The president-elect congratulated the golfing legend on his return to the sport with a tweet earlier this month when Woods returned from a 15-month hiatus due to injuries.
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The world number 36 divides opinion like no other in the sport, with his dazzling shot-making ability more often than not overshadowed by his behaviour and disdain for authority.
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Available in front- and rear-wheel drive, the F Sport with its 8-speed transmission uses data from G-force sensors to know when to hold gear ratios while cornering.
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It's the only sport with a long list of names (Priest Holmes, Mack Strong, Joe Theismann) who've been erased from rosters in a single weird, one-in-a-million moment.
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"Esports has so much to offer regular sport, with its intense tribalism, hyper-connected fanbase and the overlap between the two, so this makes a lot of sense," she said.
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Brazilian Lucas Di Grassi, who started on pole position, finished second for ABT Schaeffler Audi Sport with Germany's Nick Heidfeld taking third to make it a double podium for Mahindra.
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Some overrides were so small-bore that lawmakers seemed to be having sport with the governor, such as upholding a law he vetoed to exempt yoga classes from sales tax.
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There is a point where a young prince from Nilfgaard presents himself to her assembly and she decides to sport with him in front of all her assembled vassals and allies.
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The birthplace of K-1 has been slowly returning to the sport with a new wave of spectacular Japanese kickboxers to replace the heavyweight heroes of K-1's best days.
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Hunt said he was looking at a model which would see two-thirds of the lottery's proceeds go to sport, with the remainder set aside for the arts and heritage protection.
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It is now China's most popular team sport with an estimated 300 million people playing the game — from recreational leagues and universities to the Chinese Basketball Association, Asia's top professional league.
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At least on paper, the Olympics emphasize the coming together of the world around sport, with the vast majority of athletes assembling to participate, rather than win, something that fans appreciate.
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Nobody in the history of swimming has spent more time in the spotlight's glare than Phelps, who infused the sport with sponsorship money and global attention, sometimes at his own expense.
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"Every single sport [with the exception of golf] has only put proper match-fixing regulations and procedures in place after they've been hit by a major match-fixing scandal," Smith said.
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But the difference between Ping-Pong (a game largely associated with basements, fraternity houses and rec centers) and table tennis (a sport with more than 200 national associations worldwide) is substantial.
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Every time I engage in a sport with kids, I'm in effect re-enacting that catch with my father on our front lawn and those games I played with my kids.
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The Premier League became the latest high-profile competition to announce a suspension as the pandemic continued its shutdown of world sport, with the English top-flight suspended until April 4.
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"Basketball is a sport with a major global influence, and the Chinese public love it," Mr. Xi said in August during this year's basketball World Cup, which was held in China.
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Red Bull, who dominated the sport with Vettel taking four successive titles for them between 2010 and 2013, were the only team apart from champions Mercedes to win races last year.
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A continuation of the work which we saw from the artist early last year, Literally Balling manages to blend the fierce focus of the sport with modern iterations of archaic artisanal approaches.
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Once you go through another painless pairing process to associate the Steel HR Sport with your phone's Health Mate, the app automatically starts ignoring the phone in favor of the wearable device.
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It first became an Olympic discipline in 0004 in Berlin, and has been a traditionally European-dominated sport, with the continent winning 20003 percent of medals in the Olympic and World Championships.
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Though a World Cup title eluded him, he was the pivotal figure on the Netherlands' 21990 national team that electrified the sport with its "Total Football" tactics, with players constantly interchanging roles.
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Home Like NoPlace Is There was thrilling spectator sport with life and death stakes, like watching Holden attempt to pull someone from a burning house nine different times in a half hour.
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Sky/Ineos rivals also welcomed a new sponsor in the sport with oil and gas giant Total rumored to take over French team Direct Energie in 2020, according to local media reports.
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Hamilton's fast-paced and globetrotting lifestyle has been questioned by some, inside and outside the sport, with the 31-year-old thinking nothing of flying visits to the United States between races.
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In a sport with so little competitive balance, it's hard to keep any traditional powers out of the sport's upper tier, but 2016 included the rise of some of the little guys.
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Also, since ski racing is an unforgiving sport, with just one winner in each race, winning cannot be the only source of happiness, or else losing passion for the sport is inevitable.
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David Zaslav, Discovery's president and chief executive, said the acquisition of Golf Digest would enhance the company's international and "multiplatform" offerings related to golf, a sport with a largely affluent fan base.
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Sure, there are risks (Keith), but the alternative is where M.L.B. is now: a sport with no true superstars, while rival sports, like soccer and basketball, seem to grow them on trees.
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Like anyone who has made his or her way to the top table of the sport with UFC, Askham was a big fan of the MMA movement before he began to compete.
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The Raptors—after toiling in mediocrity for the better half of a decade—have established themselves as a top-tier NBA franchise, and renewed interest in the sport with four consecutive playoff appearances.
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The big fear is, as game as Henderson is, should he beat Bisping he could find it very difficult to walk away from the sport with a gold belt wrapped around his waist.
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The pair observed Gaelic games including hurling (an Irish field sport with ancient origins), camogie (a bat-and-ball game played by women that resembles hurling) and (also a bat-and-ball game).
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It is a sport with cosmopolitan appeal: Formula One cars routinely twist around the streets of world capitals at more than 200 miles per hour, and its drivers often have luxury endorsement deals.
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"If you're going to work in a sport with these kind of regulatory and logistical challenges, you'd better be comfortable with it—I definitely learned it in that [government contracting] job," he said.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Liberty Media's takeover of Formula One promises a long-term strategy for the cash-rich sport with a sharper focus on new media markets and another attempt to expand in North America.
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"As a special agent, you are trying to discern between someone who is buying one for protection or sport with someone who is trying to make money by re-selling guns illegally," he said.
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Maini also faces an uphill battle to progress to a full race seat, regardless of results, in a sport with only 20 drivers on the grid and some depending on sponsorship to be there.
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Live betting is more prevalent on the DraftKings sportsbook for the NBA than any other sport, with more than 70% of basketball bettors wagering live bets, the organizations said in a joint press release.
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In a sport with a long history of doping scandals, many fans concluded that Froome had escaped punishment because of his status within the sport and the costly legal defense provided by his team.
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Olympique Lyonnais' women's team is among the most dominant in the sport, with 13 domestic league titles and some of soccer's biggest names on its roster, including England's Lucy Bronze and France's Wendie Renard.
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The coronavirus, which has infected 156,00 people globally and killed more than 5,800, has rocked world sport, with elite competitions and major events cancelled or suspended across the globe as part of containment efforts.
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Ever since she burst onto the scene in 2009, winning gold in the 800-meter world championships at the age of 18, Mokgadi Caster Semenya has infused the sport with a burst of new energy.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - The future of stand-up paddle (SUP) will be decided by the Court of Arbitration for Sport as the canoeing and surfing federations battle for control of a sport with rapidly rising popularity.
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The players are all scrappy and though victory is pup for grabs, it's still a sport with fight, though its bark is probably worse, at least the winning threats could make for a Super Bowl.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The Manor Formula One team has folded after going into administration and failing to find a buyer, leaving the sport with 10 teams two months before the start of the season in Australia.
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The series as a whole, and Skate 20163 in particular, was renowned for its more natural take on the sport, with a control scheme that really made it feel like you were on a board.
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For a stubbornly individualistic sport with such reverence for doing things the hard way, a promoter-sanctioned, brick-and-mortar monument to using data, technology, and analysis to save fighters from unnecessary punishment is encouraging.
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Attempting to win the Giro and the Tour in the same season is one of the most difficult challenges in the sport, with Italian Marco Pantani the last rider to achieve the double in 1998.
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Or, in a sport with a schedule already bursting at the seams and its players overextended, is it best served as an exhibition at the back end of a grueling calendar to celebrate the game?
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The beer war has even spilled over into sport, with two baseball teams run by people close to the government - the Aragua Tigers and the La Guaira Sharks - replacing Polar with Regional as their sponsors.
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Kettler, Six-Player Croquet Set With Trolley, available at Maisonette, $127.46 (originally $149.95) with code "INSIDER15" at checkoutKids can learn how to master a classic sport with this German-made wooden croquet set by Kettler.
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Although a niche sport with just 291 participating countries, versus 79 in the FIFA soccer championship, cricket's popularity in the Indian subcontinent means companies allot about half of their marketing budget to the World Cup.
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The men who were able to walk away from the sport with their finances in tact were often guys like Big Bill Tate or George Nicholson, chief sparring partners for Jack Dempsey and Joe Louis respectively.
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His team is currently working with British beer brand Carling on a soccer show called In Off The Bar, a Friday night program set in a pub, where fans often watch the sport with their buddies.
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The latest H1N1 outbreak began more than a week ago, said Thinzar Aung, deputy director of the infectious diseases department at the Ministry of Health and Sport, with Yangon, Myanmar's biggest city, the worst affected area.
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Hungary, the most successful nation in the sport with nine Olympic titles, saw their run of three straight golds come to an end with defeat to Italy in the quarter-finals in London, where Croatia prevailed.
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In an attempt to attract a younger audience to a sport with flagging appeal – and to satisfy young skaters — the International Skating Union adopted rules allowing sung music after the 218 Winter Games in Sochi, Russia.
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As for Walker, the guy ended up playing a sport with a different kinda stick and was damn good at it -- he won the National League MVP in 1997, 7 Gold Gloves and 3 Silver Sluggers.
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The virus had already had a big impact on North American sport with a positive test for a Utah Jazz player prompting the National Basketball Association (NBA) to suspended the season until further notice on Wednesday.
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Despite everyone telling Paul this would fail (sneakers were about "performance"), he listened to me and I created a platform for Reebok called the Sound and Rhythm of Sport with Jay-Z as our first artist.
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Today's version, the pinnacle of a rapidly growing sport with 450 Swimrun races worldwide, follows most of the original route, through forests, villages and farmland, not to mention one particularly tumultuous stretch of the Baltic Sea.
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But the disparity between regular players and professionals has become even more pointed as Fortnite steadily shifts into a more viable e-sport, with major events like the World Cup and the current Fortnite Champion Series.
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It is the variant that has now come to dominate and even define the sport, with nine of the past 19603 national champions hailing from the region, and Alabama now laying claim to 21960 national titles.
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Interest in playing the game has been strong for the past couple decades, but interest in supporting the sport with dollars and eyeballs—at least among predominantly English-speaking Americans with a significant disposable income—lagged.
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U.S. Ski & Snowboard President and Chief Executive Tiger Shaw thanked Vonn in a statement for consistently raising the bar, providing the sport with some of its greatest memories and creating a legacy he said will live forever.
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Formula One teams and sponsors have long chafed at the lack of a marketing and digital strategy for the sport, with Ecclestone focusing on generating piles of cash for shareholders through television rights and race hosting fees.
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"We are just trying hard to get new fans for the sport with fast cars and getting closer to the spectators, and now this is destroyed by an overreaction." the 69-year-old Austrian said last year.
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Sports Briefing | Doping Russia was responsible for more doping violations than any other nation in 2014 while track and field was the sport with the worst doping record over the year, the World Anti-Doping Agency said.
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Belgian under-23 cyclist Femke Van den Driessche was found to be in possession of a motorized bike during the Cyclocross World Championships in Belgium, a first for a sport with it's share of crazy cheating scandals.
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Gauff is the teenage sensation who has taken the tennis world by storm this year, transcending her sport with a remarkable victory over Venus Williams at the 2019 Wimbledon Championships together with the numerous wins that followed.
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But Division I men's basketball, symbolically the N.C.A.A.'s most open sport — with a postseason tournament renowned for binding together 32 otherwise disparate conferences and for featuring unpredictable upsets and lovable underdogs — is far from a democracy.
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In one version, he was inspired by a cycling magazine given to him by a teacher and took up the sport with two of his brothers when he was 16, without at first telling his impoverished parents.
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Now he's preparing to rededicated himself to the sport with the initiation of a sort of unofficial Young Money skate team, which he announced with the release of a smartphone game, eponymously titled SQVAD Up, earlier this summer.
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A disclosure by the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) at the end of 225 revealed that 234 potential suspects have been identified in connection with allegations of historic sexual abuse in the sport, with 503 football clubs impacted.
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While Sweden confirmed their status as the dominant force in women's curling, Korea's silver marked a major Asian breakthrough in the sport with two teams on the podium after Japan defeated Britain on Saturday to take the bronze.
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Rivals also will see a dream vacancy that every driver on the starting grid would jump at if given the chance, Mercedes being the most dominant team in the sport with 19 wins in 21 races this season.
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She's a bright, affable American who dominates her corner of the sport with the kind of predictability and grace that draws in casual viewers, awes the experts, and inspires a lot of super-slo-mo check-that-out.
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The introduction of these two revamped promotions signals a shift in the MMA landscape and perhaps proves the true extent of power the UFC holds over the sport, with Bellator and WSOF up there to a lesser degree.
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Seek out education and mentoring and do everything in your power to make sure that my child, and every child, has fun playing the sport with you because they feel valued and accomplished while learning to be competitive.
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It's just that all he could think about was becoming a professional squash player, devoting his life to a sport with no real prize money and few big sponsors, where you travel the world, crashing on people's couches.
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Formula One's commercial agreement with the 10 teams expires at the end of 2020 and talks are ongoing about a potential transformation of the sport, with plans for budget caps and a more equal distribution of the revenues.
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The wrestlers, or 'rikishi', at the prestigious Tomozuna stable spend more than three hours each morning practicing holds in Japan's 15-century-old national sport, with defeat facing the first to fall or be forced out of the ring.
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It took the authorities in New York State nearly 20 years to allow professional mixed martial arts within its borders, but it only took them a single event to show they'll be governing the sport with an iron fist.
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Despite the fact boxing has made him insanely rich and world famous, Manny says he doesn't want his kids to be boxers ... instead telling us he's trying to push them into a different sport with much less head contact.
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He dominated the sport with an intensity and competitive drive that few in sports possess and now he's out here talking about his kids and sounding like a guy who wants to manage the golf world's expectations of him.
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In any but a dozen or so well-established baseball countries, Olympic status could make the difference between having well-funded local organizations able to attract children to the sport with grassroots programs, and ramshackle outfits on life support.
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Certainly, if he manages to get a broadcasting job with another promotion in the meantime, it seems very unlikely that he would choose to return to the sport with another means to support his family already on the table.
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"The Fed Cup captain and the Davis Cup captain, they are iconic inspirations and leaders of our sport, with fantastic talent and knowledge to be able to contribute more than three or four weeks of the year," she said.
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" The late McLaren principal Teddy Mayer once said "drivers are just interchangeable light bulbs, you plug them in and they do the job" but even in a sport with so little sentiment Kvyat's demotion came as a shock. "Really?
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The 53-year-old Italian, who joined the Repsol Honda team from Ducati in 2010 and assumed the principal role in 2013, said he needed a change and was leaving the sport with a year to run on his contract.
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Russia is at the heart of the biggest doping scandal in sport, with its track and field athletes suspended as a result of a probe into accusations of widespread doping and their participation at this year's Rio Olympics in doubt.
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Dog fighting somehow snuck in as a "sport" with an audience of 7.2 million, and arson as an "event" with 1.9 million (though both of these are likely to disappear soon, as Facebook allows you to report interests as inappropriate).
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And it's all happening against the backdrop of a sport with so much built-in violence that parents and school districts are increasingly forbidding their children from playing it, a trend line that in theory could kill off the sport entirely.
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The biggest problem facing quantum engineers is how to spot and correct these, because most of the useful applications of quantum computing will require many, many more qubits than current devices sport—with a concomitant increase in the risk of errors.
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Eventually, standing beside my dad in a used-car dealership in Dallas, I found "the one": a 2001 Jeep Cherokee Sport with 100,000 miles already on it and a caramel-colored interior that smelled like old cigarettes and stale coffee.
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"We have state-of-the-art technology but we're first and foremost a great sport, with great heroes doing incredible things that are awe-inspiring and with fans around the world that are passionately loving the sport," said the American.
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Super Bowl Sunday is rapidly approaching, and while it might seem like the same old sport — with the same New England team, the same bizarre TV ads, and the same Super Bowl food — this year's game marks an iconic moment for cheerleading.
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Fowler may as yet lack the elite titles of his contemporaries, but four victories in eight months in a sport with a much wider spread of winners than tennis suggests the American will not have to wait long for that elusive major.
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It's also become a popular e-sport, with its Rocket League Championship Series initially funded by in-game purchases of cosmetic items and, eventually, through deals with NBC Sports Group and Turner Sports to broadcast games live on television and streaming platforms.
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The event, spearheaded by the New York Road Runners and supported by other running groups, is one of many new programs aimed at getting children involved in the sport with the hope of making physical activity a part of their daily lives — safely.
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The brand that a professional track athlete wears is their backbone, their financial support, and many of these athletes are extremely grateful toward these companies for providing them with financial support as they compete in a sport with little prize money out there.
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In their sly sport with commercial product design, these works recall the more involved collages of Al Hansen, who in the 1960s and '70s cut up and reassembled Hershey bar wrappers into figures and other images filled with brilliantly comic word play.
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" After President Juan Manuel Santos congratulated Colombian cyclists who rode in last year's Tour de France, Winner Anacona, a member of Quintana's Madrid-based Movistar Team, tweeted, "We did it ON OUR OWN in this difficult and beautiful sport with very little help.
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On a rare Monday of live horse racing at Aqueduct, in South Ozone Park, Queens, the sight in the winner's circle was rarer still, in a sport with few black participants and on a holiday card that coincided with Martin Luther King's Birthday.
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It is also a spectator sport, with serious money at stake; the Overwatch League is a professional e-sports organization akin to the N.B.A. and the N.F.L. that hands out millions of dollars in prize money and brings in millions of viewers.
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The suit also names as defendants USA Gymnastics, the national governing body for the sport, with whom Nassar was affiliated from 19983 to 2015; Michigan State University, where Nassar worked from 1996 to 2016; and Twistars USA, a Michigan gymnastics facility where Nassar also worked.
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Like Bolt at the same age, Prescod is yet to clock a sub 10-second 100m — his personal best of 10.04 being one hundredth of a second slower than Bolt's was before he sent shockwaves through the sport with 9.76 in Kingston, Jamaica in 2008.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - China's men's gymnastics team had to settle for the bronze medal at the final despite a promising showing at the event's qualifiers, breaking their eight-year streak at the top of the sport with Japan running away with the champion title.
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The league is the brainchild of CEO and owner Doug Schoninger—a New York financier with a background in sports stadium deals—and showcases the traditional 15-player-a-side version of the sport, with clubs in Denver, Sacramento, San Diego, San Francisco and Ohio.
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With the results State Of Mind have had in a relatively small sport – with a considerable lack of funding, resources and audience compared to football, say – this is an example that needs highlighting, and which ought to be used as a template for further improvement.
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Keep Following PEOPLE's Complete Coverage of the 2018 Winter Olympics Essentially an unknown to the broader public a year ago, Bradie, a native of the Chicago area, made her first big splash in the sport with a third-place finish at Skate America in November.
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Bodybuilding has for years tried to muscle its way onto the Olympic roster without success and even at the Pan Am Games it may be one and done for the sport with no spot on the official program for the 2023 Games in Santiago.
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"Sumo, recognizing its responsibility as the sport with the longest history in Japan, must stamp out violence so that the expectations of the people, including youth, are not again betrayed," Education Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi, whose ministry oversees sports, said in a parliamentary committee meeting.
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That may seem obvious, but with previous versions, Apple limited the band based on what model you bought (you couldn't buy the base-level Apple Watch Sport with a leather band, for instance), so it's nice to see Apple finally giving buyers some flexibility.
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BERLIN, March 18 (Reuters) - Germany's Football Association (DFB) on Wednesday was left shaking its head and offered more questions than answers on the future of the country's national sport, with a quarter of a million of jobs on the line due to the coronavirus.
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So while cricket has always considered itself a sport with a unique code of conduct — the preamble to the laws of the game refers to the "spirit of cricket" — this has often been a myth when it comes to player behavior and other areas.
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Also listed as defendants in the suit were USA Gymnastics, the national governing body for the sport, with whom Nassar was affiliated from 1996 to 2015; Michigan State University, where Nassar worked from 1996 to 2016; and Twistars USA, a Michigan gymnastics facility where Nassar also worked.
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Specifically, the Miami, Florida startup makes a mobile app called Bvddy (like "Buddy" only spelled with a "v") that matches athletes in a given sport with others who have similar skill levels and are looking to play at the same time in a mutually convenient venue.
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Chief Executive Bjorn Gulden said it was a coincidence the anniversary comes soon after the Kaepernick ad, and also shortly after Puma launched its garish orange and black "Clyde Court Disrupt" basketball shoes - marking its return to a sport with close links to the social justice movement.
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Last September, Margera — who welcomed his first child, son Phoenix Wolf Margera, with wife Nicole Boyd in December — opened up to PEOPLE about learning to skateboard again after years of alcohol abuse, crediting the sport with helping him get his life back on track after hitting rock bottom.
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It also plunked it right in the middle of what might go down as one of the busiest weeks in Canadian sport, with the Raptors taking on the Golden State Warriors in the NBA Finals and the best drivers in the world in Montreal for the Canadian Grand Prix.
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In addition to adding the junior e-moto class, Supercross looks to further digitize toward more fan interactivity, cord cutters and viewers outside the U.S. "We're a young sport with a young demo, so we always want to be pushing the edge on the digital side," Prater said.
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Mountain, ultra, and trail running (or MUT) is an admittedly niche sport, with roots in such traditions as the Apache coming-of-age rituals that sent teens on 48-hour trail runs, or the ultra (50-plus-mile) races of Tarahumara men and women, recorded in the late 1800s.
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Nolan, who used to watch his father's old videotapes in a V.C.R. — "I'm glad I'm not playing against him; he used to kill people back there," he said — discussed the dangers of the sport with his father, but said his father never tried to dissuade him from playing.
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For those of us whose MMA fandom was always a conflicted state, who troubled themselves trying to reconcile their love of the sport with their moral abhorrence of human violence, Anderson Silva was proof of something higher in the sport's soul, the perpetual counter-argument to the brutishness of MMA.
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A 2014 study from the Institute for Canadian Citizenship found new citizens to be eager to participate in sport, with 53 percent identifying that sport was a means of integrating into Canadian society and 69 percent saying sports helped them learn about Canadian culture, yet the barriers to participation remain limiting.
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I also learned a new thing in researching this anniversary – the name 'Tetris' was conceived by the game's creator Alexey Pajitnov based on the combination of the Greek tetra (a prefix for 'four') and the word tennis (the sport with rackets and the net and the fuzzy neon yellow balls).
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After an astonishing recovery, however, he will go into his final group game against Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas, another rising force in the sport, with everything to play for as he bids to not only win the title for the first time but also seal the year-end world number one ranking.
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Sports Briefing Coastal Carolina capitalized on two errors on the same play to score four unearned runs in the sixth inning Thursday in Omaha, and the Chanticleers won their first national championship in any sport with a 4-3 victory over Arizona in Game 3 of the College World Series finals.
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In 1801, Joseph Strutt published his history of British sport with the expansive title, typical of the time period, of The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England, Including the Rural and Domestic Recreations, May-Games, Mummeries, Pageants, Processions, and Pompous Spectacles, From the Earliest Period to the Present Time.
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"At Barry's, I think group fitness feels particularly special because we're all sweating in that Red Room [what Barry's calls its studio, because of its signature red lighting] together — everyone is in the zone and it feels like a team sport, with everyone working toward the same goal," Hudson said.
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All of which makes Anderson Silva's return this week after a one-year suspension a bittersweet occasion for MMA fans, especially those of us who grew up in this sport with Silva as our North Star: the beacon showing the brutal and too-often artless world of professional fighting the way toward beauty.
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Last September, Margera — who welcomed his first child, son Phoenix Wolf Margera, with wife Nicole Boyd a little over two weeks ago — opened up to PEOPLE about learning to skateboard again after years of alcohol abuse, crediting the sport with helping him get his life back on track after hitting rock bottom.
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Disney has offered to fund Sky News for 15 years and not sell the property without regulators' permission, according to a statement from the U.K. Secretary for digital, culture, media and sport with revised merger conditions offered by 21st Century Fox, which is trying to acquire the British broadcaster for $15 million.
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But Jackson, who was Kerr's immediate predecessor as the coach in Golden State, made a case for the legacy-building on both sides to be a reason to watch no matter how many people have declared the tetralogy to be ruining the sport with its exclusion of the league's 28 other teams.
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Dominic Dyer, CEO of the Badger Trust, says his organization has received increasing reports of abuse in recent years and that badger persecution is driven by a misplaced belief the activity is a sport, with people keen to prove to others how capable their dog is of taking on such an animal.
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And, of course, the looming specter of performance-enhancing drugs, both on a practical level (What is the best way to regulate, test, and punish their use?) and a philosophical one (Is a fighter always tainted by their use in a sport with such a rigid code of honor, or can they redeem themselves?
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Yet in a professional sport with so many distinguished talents, so many celebrity match ups, such a high volume and turnover of thrashing blows, week in and week out at the big name stadiums of Bangkok, undefeated pugs, with gleaming Floyd Mayweather style records, and porcelain egos wary of defeat, are next to non-existent.
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A clip from Saturday Night Live's infamous "Jane, you ignorant slut" sketch and another of Jon Stewart losing it on Crossfire with Tucker Carlson help underline the point: "Debate" shifted from a highly mannered way of sorting out ideas in public for the benefit of the listeners to a blood sport, with the participants' legitimacy as human beings up for grabs.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Amazon's sports broadcasting ambitions will be tested this week in a multi-billion pound auction of English Premier League soccer rights, potentially pitting it against Sky and BT. England's auction for the rights to screen matches including Manchester United and City, Liverpool and Chelsea is one of the biggest money spinners in world sport, with the last three-year domestic package raising 5.14 billion pounds ($7.25 billion).
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But for an MMA fan who grew up in this sport with Jose Aldo always there as the greatest of the great, as the most terrifying of the terrifying, spiritual heir to Pride-era "Shogun" Rua and next in line to the artistic throne of Anderson Silva; and who himself isn't entirely comfortable with the trash-talking, bottle-throwing, designer-suit-wearing new world order McGregor embodies, it would be deflating to see him go—just further confirmation that the Era of Self-Regard in MMA is ascendant.
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