No sport requires as much of its teams to prove their worthiness for a title shot.
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The reason for this: with the possible exception of baseball, no sport has been written about more.
No sport has the capacity to bond teammates together in camaraderie and build friendships in a unique way.
"Nobody has been named, no club has been named and no sport has been named, " complained Phil Gould, a leading figure in rugby league.
In the NFL, there may be no other sport within the sport like Cowboys watching.
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No other sport has gotten so many House members into so much trouble.
In no endurance sport anywhere in the world can the number one athlete give away 5% to number two and still win.
It's something that golf delivers to the public like no other sport.
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It was unique to tennis, as no other sport indicated the same high number of nandrolone metabolites, still less with a common analytical fingerprint.
His argument went that in no other sport do you see so much money invested and the players forbidden from practising and training outside of competition weekends.
"There's no other sport that you have college programs competing at the highest level of college baseball that are not necessarily in a major conference, " O'Connor said Thursday.
Indonesia's national team a decade ago ranked as high as 81st in the world this month slipped to 166th, a humiliation for a country of 240 million people for whom there is no greater sport.
It's pretty clear that scandals can only afflict so much damage, no matter the sport.
Whether it is Macca or not, there is no question the sport is on fire.
Despite its proud, 1, 500-year history, the sport no longer attracts the audiences and the athletes it once did.
Is it one set amount for every athlete no matter the sport or the school in order to keep things fair?
The focus of regulation must be assault weapons, and their accessories which have no function in sport or self-defense in the hands of the public.
Former teammate Frankie Andreu, one of several riders Armstrong cast aside on his ride to the top of the sport, said no one could provide a better blueprint for cleaning up the sport.
Unless you win in a sport like tennis, no one will know or care about you or your sport 6 months after the Olympics.
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As the world tried to pressure South Africa's leadership, sanctions were applied, and sport was no exception.
In the 30-second commercial, Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke Jr. says personal safety is no longer a spectator sport.
However, rugby is no longer a college sport played only by casual athletes looking for a little sports competition and a lot of beer.
No sensible observer of sport today denies the prevalence of drugs in practically every major sport, yet none would argue they can ever be eliminated completely.
That leaves a group of more than 500 journalists some of whom no longer cover the sport regularly to decide what to do with known or suspected PED users.
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No collegiate or professional sport has ever been so popular.
Of the 21 Latin American presidents whose hands President Jacques Chirac of France will clasp in Rio, no fewer than seven sport a degree from a university in the United States.
According to the National Federation of State High School Associations, more than 1.1 million high-school boys played contact football in the 2011-2012 school year, which makes the game nearly twice as popular as the No. 2 prep sport, outdoor track and field.
The one-time No. 1 in her sport also has been playing poorly of late.
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