The clean sheet – and this was hardly an arduous game for either defence – ensured a point that made the gap between bottom [Wolves] and fourth-bottom [Wigan] eight points with four games left.
That hardly would be noteworthy had Dempsey not only days earlier made an journey to and from Central American (for an even-more arduous game) to play for the United States in Wednesday's World Cup qualifying match against Honduras in steamy San Pedro Sula.
When the buzzer sounded while the Nets and the Bucks scrambled for a ball that was slipping off hands and through legs, Stephon Marbury pumped his fist, making perhaps the first move in a long and arduous game that did not seem tinged with rust.
Lewis anchors the defense that suffocated the Giants in the Ravens' 34-7 victory Sunday night in Super Bowl XXXV, finishing off an arduous four-game postseason in which the Ravens allowed just 5.8 points a game.
For the Nets, it represents the beginning of an arduous five-game road trip.
Players already complain about the arduous 82-game regular season, and teams tend to perform poorly when they play on back-to-back nights.
When the last buzzer finally sounded Friday night, ending an arduous triple-overtime game, the Nets appeared barely able to raise their arms in celebration.
The tour may be short but the three-Test series on consecutive Saturdays will be as arduous as anything the game has ever seen.
It has taken them one arduous season, that decisive game against Manchester City in May and two legs of an anxious play-off this month to earn their place.
He was asked several questions after the game about his arduous comeback from his injury, which included a setback that lasted 37 games.
PARK CITY, Utah — The six-week, five-event path to the Vancouver Games is an arduous one for snowboarding halfpipe riders trying to make the United States Olympic team.
