According to Mark Champion of the Trust, the post industrial landscape it left behind is now valuable green space.

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Shuffleboard players are no different, according to former national champion Mary Eldridge.

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Nancy Lanza's relatives say they share the nation's grief and struggle "to comprehend the tremendous loss that we all share, " according to a statement from James Champion, who is a police officer and brother to Nancy Lanza.

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Instead, everything from the sport to the persona to the backstory factor into an Olympic champion's marketability, according to marketers and sports agents.

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According to the mythology, Chewie is a champion Dejarik player who put the Holochess table into the Millennium Falcon in order to keep his game up during the years of space piracy.

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That 6.2% jump marked the biggest ball-sharing increase for a defending champion in 61 years, according to Stats LLC.

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But according to the legal papers submitted by both sides, Warren wanted to promote the 11-year champion's likely swansong.

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The Nottingham star went on to meet six-times world champion Steve Davis in the next round, but things did not go according to plan.

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All helped, and Kirk in particular has been a "great champion" of this independent journalist's rights, according to Benkin.

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And he subsequently built his political life on themes of redemption, reform, and became the scourge of lobbyists, the champion of campaign finance reform and so on, yet according to some of the people who know him best, he can be surprisingly careless about his reputation.

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