Others theorize that it all started with a particularly potent high school rivalry.
The New York Jets previously maintained a high tension rivalry against their in-town counterparts, the New York Giants, that has since diminished due to the infrequency with which the teams meet in the regular season.
In 2008, we talked about his famous "Big Three" high-school rivalry with Ritzenhein and Alan Webb.
But high school rivalries are not a bad thing in themselves, Mr. Gulino said.
And they have certainly made one another richer – their high-profile rivalry helping both player's commercial endorsements to soar.
It's often called the oldest high-school rivalry in the city; the schools first played in 1883.
He loved everything about it – the freedom of track and road, the sweet agony of training to peak fitness, the natural high, the rivalries, and the battle of man versus machine.
That high-level rivalry now pits the so-called "Shanghai Gang" of Jiang Zemin, against the "Youth League Faction," named for the nation-wide Communist Youth League of China and headed by Hu Jintao, Mr. Jiang's successor as president of China and Communist Party boss.
The Western media was alight with word late Thursday that Zhao had secretly taped an account of the high-stakes rivalry between hard-line conservatives and reform-minded liberals during China's economic transition of the 1980s.
Their most high-profile rivalry is with Internazionale, another big Serie A club located in Milan, the capital of the neighbouring region of Lombardy.
