No matter what happens the rest of the way, this is already a better contest than Williams's last match.
Let's tee off again and go back to the future This week there's been many a wit suggesting that for the Ryder Cup to be a better contest, America should co-opt the help of Mexico and Canada or they bite the warhead and become a Rest of the World team.
Kim Kardashian is no stranger to going head-to-head with fellow celebrities like Gwyneth Paltrow and Kate Winslet in the who wore it better contest, but we're surprised to see Rachael Ray in this week's contest.
It is best to start small, and eventually build to a bigger, better contest.
The 1986-7 season has seen one of the better contests, the only disappointment being that some of those who set the pace in the First Division did not have the depth of strength to sustain it.
"I discovered," says David Walliams, one of a handful of comedians who are supporting the nationwide contest, "there's no better feeling in the world than making people laugh".
Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of DEMOCRATIC vs. REPUBLICAN ECONOMICS: NO CONTEST - Democrats Always Better, and of CHRIST'S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity.
Perhaps no contest better illustrates the uncertainty engulfing this year's campaigns than Missouri's, in which voters may elect Mel Carnahan as its next senator even though the Democratic governor died in a plane crash on Oct. 16.
But only the most talented cooks, celebrities of the circuit like Ms. Saulsbury, reach the rarefied heights of the hypercompetitive Big 5, a sort of culinary grand slam of contests that includes the $1 million Pillsbury Bake-Off, as well as the Build a Better Burger contest.
THE VOICE was the better singing contest, certainly more engaging than "The X Factor".
WHEN the oven mitts came off and the knives came out at the 16th annual Build a Better Burger contest in St. Helena, Calif., this fall, a 35-year-old sociology professor named Camilla Saulsbury was the first to draw blood.
