Williams considers figure skating one of the seven most popular sports in the U.S., based on TV following and event attendance.
The main event rematch is the pinnacle for the sports entertainment powerhouse and one of the most popular spectator sports in America.
It is the work of Mark Turmell, the genius game creator who first received notoriety for NBA Jam, arguably the most popular sports game in arcade and home video console history.
In the past, exhibition events were used as a sort of trial for sports popular in the host country or those having received wider acceptance.
Woods is a polarizing figure, but he remains a much more popular player among sports fans in the U.S. than McIlroy.
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In a culture that encourages the constant search for the limits of human achievement, we, the fans, the consumers of popular sports entertainment, revel in record-breaking, gravity-defying, barely believable feats on the field of play.
Sports' popular products will also be included in the NBC Sports Group's digital assets.
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The company has unique content and talented writers in popular categories like finance, health and sports, resulting in more traffic than even Google, but they need to find a way to turn this into profits.
The biggest endorsement earners tend to be icons in popular individual sports like golf and tennis, which carry broad appeal to legions of casual players.
However, there are exceptions to this rule, since every country receives a certain allocation of tickets and some sports are more popular in different places.
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Dr Krauss singled out a piece in a popular sports news magazine that praised a team trainer who violently restrained a baseball player during a seizure, calling the trainer a hero.
Although not widely played in the United States, badminton -- viewed as one of the fastest racket sports -- is popular in many European and Asian nations.
Some of the most popular programming on TV is sports, and conversely sports teams need media to help make them popular in the first place.
And call this sport one of the fastest growing sports in America which only looks to build upon the financial and popular successes it has achieved in just one short year.
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The team has a lucrative local cable deal (they own a sizable stake in Comcast Sports Net Bay Area), have been out front in the popular reality television format for MLB following their 2010 title, and are pushing hard in social media.
"The Bidwills have somehow made the number one sport in America about as popular in the Arizona desert as down ski parkas, " a writer for Sports Illustrated observed in 2005.
Major headlines in two of the country's most popular sports this week, and they were not happy ones.
Brett was a true icon with the Packers before his difficult parting, perhaps the most popular athlete not only in Wisconsin but also in all of sports.
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Many spectators sitting at their home, a sports bar or popular Super Bowl party are not as interested in the game itself as they are in the oftentimes provocative and comical commercials.
Part of that deal was a 25% stake in a regional sports network that also televises the popular Chicago Bulls.
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Do franchisors use advertising and their investments in sports, television programs, magazine rankings to make their brand popular or is their franchise opportunity popular because of the numerous success stories of franchisees and happy franchisee customers buying a product or getting a service?
Popular in this corner of southeastern Massachusetts, yo-yoing is reviled by many sports anglers as unsportsmanlike and a potential source of toxic lead contamination to the fish -- and the people who eat them.
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College football is wildly popular with 159 million fans in the U.S., according to a recent ESPN Sports Poll.
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William Shakespeare mentioned several dozen sports and games in his plays, including archery, football, tennis and the ever-popular bearbaiting.
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He extolled all the things he loved about America - its show business, its popular music, and its sports, as well as its politics and its higher culture - and he did so in talks carefully pre-written to sound as natural, discursive and conversational as possible, and delivered in comforting, mellifluous tones.
During the past two years, the major sports organizations, popular teams and even college football conferences have been able to garner 60% to 100% increases in the guaranteed revenues they receive from media companies.
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