In the Twenty20 Cup final at the Rose Bowl, the margin between success and failure was even thinner.
The history-making potential has racing experts predicting the largest TV audience in years for the premier NASCAR Sprint Cup event, the Super Bowl of stock car racing.
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The contents of the cup were poured into the tea bowl and offered up for me to smell.
While the social media backlash had no visible impact on television ratings, the issue raises a concern on whether the IOC is setting a precedent for how social media will be monitored at upcoming sporting events, such as the Super Bowl and the World Cup.
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In nations where merely qualifying for the World Cup is tantamount to winning the Super Bowl, the game is often played on cruddy fields under tropical heat in front of crowds nasty enough to get inside the U.S. team's collective head.
The GoDaddy.com Super Bowl mainstay has now made Sprint Cup history, becoming the first female driver to win the pole position for the storied Daytona 500.
Some ends up in whimsical graffiti marking World Cup soccer matches, New York Giants Super Bowl victories and other less-weighty matters that have gone on since construction began six years ago.
Neiman "has the journalistic talent, as well as the artistic ability, to convey the essence of a game or contestant with great impact, from the Kentucky Derby to Wilt Chamberlain, from the America's Cup to Muhammad Ali, from the Super Bowl to Bobby Hull, " sports writer Nick Seitz said.
We scored each city on the number of times one of its teams has lost in the postseason, adjusting the misery points to give the most weight to losing in the final round (World Series, Super Bowl, NBA Final, Stanley Cup Final) and doling out progressively fewer points for losing earlier playoff rounds.
Then you're given clothes, a bit of bedding, a plastic cup, plastic knife, fork, spoon, bowl and plate.
You know, we have our Super Bowl, but there's the Africa Cup of Nations: many, many, many more times the drama in many senses.
With investors feverishly searching for yield in any form, ETF issuers are filling the proverbial punch bowl with all manner of equity income strategies, and it seems the cup will soon runneth over.
Essex now travel to the Rose Bowl to take on Kent in the first semi-final of Saturday's Twenty20 Cup finals day.
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