Sentence examples for defining sport from inspiring English sources

With ABC lacking the financial and scheduling will to compete for a broadcast package, NBC will very likely retain the N.B.A. as the network's defining sport.

By clearly defining sport resumption, we aim at providing evidence of any relevant differences between active and passive PEMF-treatment.

Jackie's 1947 integration of a major institution in American life, Major League Baseball--America's most popular and most defining sport at that time--is widely believed to have hastened the integration of another major institution in American life--the U.S. military.

One of the defining sporting rivalries of all time, the beginning of the decade witnessed a couple of classic battles between the cool Swede and the hot-headed American, including their classic fourth set tie-break in 1980, won 18-16 by John McEnroe after 22 minutes of nerve-shredding drama.

Therefore, ignoring sociocultural constraints when defining sports fails to capture the depth and nuances through which participation of individuals or groups in sports can be described.

An advantage of adopting an emergent perspective (ED) in defining sports is that it easily captures the constant evolution of new techniques, variations in participation styles and philosophies and the continuous striving for dynamic creativity and innovation.

"We always defined sport as apartheid in tracksuits".

And then, in one of those small but consequential calculations, the kind of decision under pressure that defines sport as the theater for dramas without script, Bergoust took a step back from his usual starting point.

In the course of doing his vocal warm-ups, this genial Oxford-educated Geordie talks to me knowledgeably about the original Pitmen Painters (recently dramatised by Lee Hall in his play about the Ashington miners, now at the Cottesloe) and quotes Wittgenstein's remark that trying to define sport is like trying to define language.

In fact, the way Phelan talks about it, it sounds less like a highly pressurised three weeks of elite sport, and more like a massive lads holiday that somehow managed to define sport for a generation.

Versus will probably be renamed something like NBC Sports Cable to reflect a more defined sports brand.