As far as racing rivalries go, it does not get much better than that. .
Employing his own version of the rotoscoping technology used in films like "Waking Life" and "A Scanner Darkly," Mr. Marslett (who teaches animation at the University of Texas at Austin) keeps the politics to a minimum and aims his best jokes at space-race rivalries.
With a wink to the schools' long-running rivalries in racing to academic breakthroughs and wooing professors and students, MIT President Susan Hockfield said they also work together.
On Racing's Rivalries To the Sports Editor: Although the rivalry between Rachel Alexandra and Zenyatta has doubtless drawn many to the splendor of horse racing, I share concern for the antagonism that has developed between those devoted to them.
"As I got to the end of the book, I began to write a screenplay," he said, Mattel's 1970 sponsorship of Prudhomme and McEwen, and the subsequent marketing of their rivalry, changed drag racing.
The director of Senna, Asif Kapadia and Sid Watkins, former Formula 1 safety and medical delegate, told BBC Breakfast about the racing car driver's fierce rivalry.
Skylab, moreover, accomplished an unstated goal of NASA, spreading the perception that despite its victory in the Moon race, technological rivalry with the Soviets still existed and other fields of space exploration were just as important.
Should all three teams finish among the top four P.S.A.L. schools in Saturday's race, the rivalry will intensify because each would qualify for the Federation State Championships on Nov. 19, setting up a rematch of sorts, on a grander stage, at Bowdoin Park in Wappingers Falls, N.Y.
Art Sherman and Shared Belief's trainer, Jerry Hollendorfer, are longtime friends and rivals from the Northern California racing circuit and both men anticipated the rivalry between their two horses.
His great rivalry with fellow Briton Steve Ovett dominated middle-distance racing for much of the 1980s.
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