But I know they want to look at it as a rivalry because they want L.A. to be their town.
"The excitement of going to Van Cortlandt -- I don't know if there is anything else to equal that," said Mr. Liquori, 61, who went from setting course records while at Essex Catholic High School in Newark to a storied career at Villanova University and a rivalry with Jim Ryun.
Amadeus depicts Antonio Salieri as murderous in his jealousy of Mozart, when there's little evidence at all indicating a rivalry between the two composers.
"At first, it was a rivalry," said Iris Engstrand, a professor of history at the University of San Diego and curator of "San Diego Invites the World: The 1915 Expo" at the San Diego History Center.
But Azarenka said establishing a rivalry at the top of the women's game was not a priority for her.
"If there is a rivalry at all, it would be the Eagles-Giants, since the Giants still use the New York name," he said.
[C11.] On Campus, Upstart Paper Spurs Competition A new paper called U Weekly at Ohio State University has sparked a rivalry with the 124-year-old student daily, The Lantern.
Though the killings were written off at the time to a rivalry between the East Coast and West Coast schools of rap, Mr. Broomfield, not surprisingly, believes that more is there than meets the eye.
The ranking Conservative as shadow chancellor of the exchequer, Mr. Portillo is considered heir to the party leadership if Mr. Hague falters, and his bravura performance kindled comment of a rivalry at the top of the Tory party like that between Mr. Blair and his chancellor, Gordon Brown, in Labor.
Welsh football might not be as flagrant as Scottish, Turkish or even London football, but there's still a rivalry at the heart of it that makes grown men tear seats from their concrete moorings and hurl them at each other.
