Sentence examples for of sporting encounters from inspiring English sources
Spot betting, though, sees gamblers staking their money on the minutiae of sporting encounters.
The innocuous nature of a no-ball made it ideal for spot-betting, which sees gamblers stake their money on the minutiae of sporting encounters such as the exact timing of the first throw-in during a football match or, as in this case, when a no-ball will be bowled.
This is the sort of problem a sport encounters when it wraps a large part of its marketing strategy up in a kid who doesn't turn 15 until June.
It was 21 seasons ago that a Glasgow referee, a Mr Tarbet, poked his head into the changing-hut to warn Glencraig United of his hopes for a sporting encounter in their crunch match against Goldenhill Boys Clubb, only to receive such collective verbal abuse that he red-carded the whole team and both subs on the spot.
"This is a match that goes way, way beyond a simple sporting encounter," Mourad Bouchemla, head of the Algerian Football Federation, said.
The match began half an hour before the start of a rather more notorious England sporting encounter.
It's a bizarre sporting encounter when one of the sides acknowledges beforehand that they are going to get a thrashing.
BBC1's coverage of another nail-biting Sunday afternoon sporting encounter, Wales's 23-21 win over Ireland in the Six Nations rugby union international, had 4.65 million viewers, a 26.2% share, between 2.30pm and 5pm.
Embodied cycling excursions combined with collective, participatory roadside practices constituted performative acts of authentication, whilst mediation of encounters with places of sporting significance highlighted authentication as a cyclical process.
Of course, East Germany's pursuit of sporting excellence was fuelled by more than desire, but Rösler is adamant that he never encountered doping of any kind.
While, as Steven Connor argues, the canon of modern Western philosophy has had its share of sporting thinkers - Jacques Derrida was a goalkeeper, AJ Ayer a decent middle-order batsman – the intellectual encounter has been lacklustre.
