Mr. Cox spent months trying to recruit a high-profile contender to take on Ms. Gillibrand, who was appointed to her job by Gov. David A. Paterson and remains relatively unknown to voters.
If she chose to run — party officials say she is intrigued but far from decided — she would emerge as the most high-profile contender among those currently in the mix.
At 37, Bernard Hopkins, the International Boxing Federation middleweight champion, is finally where he always thought he should be: fighting a high-profile contender -- Keith Holmes, the World Boxing Council middleweight champion -- for big prize money, at least $1 million.
The demise of Pop.com could ripple through an Internet entertainment industry already reeling from layoffs, stock market jitters over dot-com companies and the failure earlier this year of another high-profile contender, the Digital Entertainment Network.
The session begins at 7pm so warm up by watching Robbie Grabarz, GB's in-form high jump contender (7.05pm), the Observer's Yamilé Aldama go for gold in the triple jump (7.35pm) and the women's 400m final (9.10pm) – the race won by Christine Ohuruogu four years ago.
Despite squashing high-definition contender HDDVD last February, sales of Blu-ray players have not dramatically improved.
Rumor has it Google Glass 2 could be released this year, so we know we won't have to wait long to see at least one high-profile contender in this space.
But the Republican primary field just got a new high-profile contender: Del. Bob Marshall of Prince William County.
Guild voters will also receive screeners for "Joy" and "The Revenant," their studio reps say, leaving "The Hateful Eight," Tarantino's claustrophobic post-Civil War western, as the only high-profile contender on the bubble.
While there had been rumblings in Kansas political circles that Roberts could face the same type of tea party-inspired challenge that felled former Sens. Robert Bennett (R-Utah) and Dick Lugar (R-Ind). in recent years, a high-profile contender has failed to materialize.
