BALTIMORE — The stunning victory by the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, over the University of Virginia on Friday night — the biggest upset ever in the N.C.A.A. men's basketball tournament — catapulted a school whose competitive claim to fame had long been chess into sports history.
Some do it for the thrills, the competitive spirit, the fame, etc.
The tale he tells of being a "daggy kid" from Brisbane who found fame in competitive diving is not always staged with great clarity, either.
Many adolescents find it difficult to put the phone away at a reasonable hour when there is a plethora of apps at their fingertips, many of them extremely "sticky". In today's competitive online social world, "fame" is largely about who has the most likes and/or the most followers.
Mr. Weisel, a Rochester, Minn., native who was once a competitive speed skater, rose to fame during the technology boom.
We are the only animal that cannot contain our need to establish ever more competitive festivals and halls of fame.
Having difficulty dealing with the pressure his sudden fame, Fischer abruptly left competitive chess until 1992 when he met Spassky for a rematch in Yugoslavia as genocide was taking place.
Could it be that Katie Price's Pony Club is, in fact, a wry poke at fame-hounding disguised by competitive mums and pink pony vans?
But the London R&B group was cleverly marketed as the "bad boy" counterparts to the Beatles's be-suited teen idols as a competitive rivalry accompanied both bands ascent to global fame.
Perhaps driven by the competitive spirit that led him to All-American basketball fame, he is constantly out-giving himself, and his new gift to Stanford is no exception.
