The phrase "alone sporting" is not a standard or commonly used expression in written English.
It could potentially be used in a context where one is describing an individual engaging in sports or activities by themselves, but it may sound awkward or unclear.
Example: "He preferred alone sporting to team activities, finding peace in his solitary runs."
Alternatives: "solo sports" or "individual sports".
Russia endured a financial crisis in 1998 that left the government struggling to pay for wages and pensions, let alone sports programs.
"I got burned by you guys too many times," the Atlanta reliever John Rocker told reporters while he sat alone by his locker ("In a Crowd of Braves, Rocker Stands Alone," Sports pages, June 28).
There are too many former players, coaches and staff — let alone sports writers and fans — to risk drawing a line in the sand and then having to walk backwards from it.
Mr. Obama has been the target of e-mail campaigns reporting that he is Muslim (though he is Christian) and questioning his stand on flag pins, but he is not alone in sporting a bare lapel.
It will create a stand-alone sports edition called USA Today Sports.
The best in this style were actually stand-alone sport coats, including a blue one with white hashes ($349).
By 1895, William Randolph Hearst, then facing a circulation battle with Joseph Pulitzer's New York World, had established the first stand-alone sports section in The New York Journal.
And Dr. Tandy Freeman, the medical director of Professional Bull Riders - an organization that in 1992 turned bull riding, a popular rodeo event, into a stand-alone sport - chimes in with the news that "virtually all these guys have a friend who's either died or been crippled".
All Australasian Coturnix sp. are almost indistinguishable by plumage alone, with all sporting brown feathers with vertical buff streaking.
To highlight his point, Rao pointed to a chart of the 26 major sports associations in the northeastern state of Assam, all of which are headed by current or former politicians, almost none of whom have any background playing any sport — let alone the sports that their governing bodies administer — at a national or international level.
