When the opening contest of the Olympic Games begins on Wednesday, and the Great Britain women's football team kicks off against New Zealand, it will seem apt that the player once banned from sport for being a girl might get the very first touch of London 2012.
While geographically apt for a player who has spent his entire career to that point in San Antonio, that nickname didn't quite do justice to Duncan's ability to still impact a game starring much younger men.
The choice of West Ham is apt because a former player, Dylan Tombides, died aged 20 earlier this year after being diagnosed with testicular cancer.
The Beckenham tournament drove home another truth which some of our players are apt to forget.
The result is players are apt to fall victims to hornswoggling and pettifoggery on a huge scale.
The Express Tribune, a Karachi-based English daily, called the cricket player's actions "apt reflection of the society that we are part of" in an editorial Thursday.
Free throws are great dramatic contrivances — even more so in the college game, where players are more apt to miss them.
But while on the surface the analogy may seem apt – two bankrupt, systemically important players in search of bailouts – dig a little deeper and it becomes clear that the comparison is misguided and even misleading.
LONDON — Sport at its finest has elements of the Colosseum, and it is apt that most theatrical of players, Cristiano Ronaldo, has booked Manchester United's place in Rome for the Champions League final later this month.
Does this mean that players are more apt to rage once they're reunited with their teammates and are doing two-a-days, or does it just mean cops are always lurking around them?
