There was a soccer tournament about a year ago, a single-elimination state cup game, but my team was losing.
Charles Barkley is headed back to the tables in Las Vegas to play in a poker tournament about a month after pledging not to gamble.
Normally you write a tournament column about the coach or player who survives to see the next game.
Wimbledon, a tournament all about tradition, has a custom of embracing the gallant loser: the player who wears his desire to win the tournament on his short sleeves and keeps slamming into a higher power.
With two years to kick-off the World Cup in Russia comes with all the usual worries before a major tournament about unfinished infrastructure, overspending and potential stumbling blocks but with a few specific extra concerns thrown in.
Imagine a golfer who is stressed about losing a tournament or stressed about his wife's cancer.
— It was a Saturday like few others in the history of the Masters, a tournament that has just about had it all.
Frank Brady, 73, the chairman of the mass communications department at St . Johns University and the president of the Marshall Chess Club in Manhattan, where Mr. Fischer would sometimes play, said he first met Mr. Fischer at a tournament when Bobby was about 10 and Brady was in his late teens.
The event was a Madden tournament with about 250 people in attendance.
