Sentence examples for skills contests from inspiring English sources

Metrostar players will be on hand to sign autographs, instruct players, and participate in soccer skills contests.

On tap are a film festival, exhibitions of the visual and performing arts, lacrosse skills contests, a fashion show, an arts and crafts marketplace and educational programs.

Ryan, a former executive with the National Hockey League, is credited with creating that league's All-Star Weekend, replete with skills contests and other fan-friendly attractions.

Ron Magliocco, Coke's promotions manager for New York, said that Batea La Sed featured baseball skills contests for 13- to 16-year-olds in parks citywide.

But recent N.B.A. All-Star weekends — with ever-decreasing fan interest on the skills contests and the game itself — have focused on speculation about which star player will be traded next, especially with the league's March 15 trade deadline looming.

Some (most?) people would say that all-star extravaganzas, regardless of the sport, are mere go-through-the-motions displays ginned up with exhibitions like skills contests (N.H.L ., dunk contests (N.B.A).

They ranged from the pointless (the Celebrity Game), the thrilling (Three-Point Shoothet) andownrightnright silly (the Skills Contest).

Jesse Scardina, The Maine Campus: Why can't they have a skills contest with the shiftiest of running backs and wide receivers?

But others said that the Lightning had been merely sore losers and that the shootout -- a skills contest tacked onto what was otherwise a tie game -- was meant to entertain fans.

The derby is similar to the slam-dunk contest on TNT the night before the N.B.A. All-Star Game, and the skills contest shown on ESPN before the N.H.L. All-Star Game -- each provides a stark forum to display individual talents.

My reality check came after I won just about every foot race I ran as a teenager in Teaneck, N.J., and even one at age 25 in Puerto Rico against a couple of their national runners and the notably fast Bernie Williams (he did say I jumped the gun) during an all-star skills contest.