"The backhanded compliment is that someone like Álvarez has taken Liam as a serious world champion".
If Madison Avenue has embraced Mia, Venus, Serena, Chamique and Brandi as serious, sweaty champions, some blocks on Main Street still expect them to smile pretty and hoist pompoms.
By 2008 I had gotten more serious about championing companies through our investment process.
Having all but given up on Williams as a champion, serious tennis fans were stunned by her spectacular comeback at the Australian Open this past January, when a shocking loss in a tournament warm-up seemed to anger her into action.
With appropriate public pressure these companies could champion serious efforts to tackle some of the most difficult challenges facing the food system.
"A movie like this, a serious movie, needs champions," he said, squeezed into a hallway between the Grill Room and the Pool Room at the Four Seasons.
His self-deprecating style has taken attention away from the serious journalism he championed at the Observer and is likely to back again at the Independent alongside the scantily-clad women and special pullouts on Love and Sex.
Ben Hogan won major championships despite suffering severe leg injuries in a life-threatening car accident, and José Maria Olazabal, the two-time Masters champion, had serious foot pain in the mid-90's that threatened his career.
The first Wilder child was named Amos, after his father, and he was the ideal son — handsome, serious, a California tennis champion who became a theologian and minister.
Van Gerwen was expected to provide the multiple world champion with serious opposition and even though he had a 99 average, the 19-year-old was powerless to stop Taylor, who produced a scintillating display and managed a 102 average.
