Sentence examples for sport down from inspiring English sources

They came for an exhibition polo match put on with the intention, according to the organizers, of bringing the elite sport down from on high.

"It's awful difficult when you are a minority sport and you have the presenter taking the mickey on the telly and putting the sport down," says Bob Walker, chairman of the British Curling Association.

Back in the 1927 the then Fifa-unaffiliated Australian Soccer Association struck on the bright idea of raising the profile of the sport down under by having a European side tour the country.

What few people in the hockey establishment seem to want to consider is the possibility that the wrestling-match theatrics may be what is dragging the sport down, and making it so hard, for example, for hockey to gain popularity and respectability in areas like New York, where it seems doomed to languish far behind baseball, football and basketball.

It's some of the others that have let the sport down, quite frankly".

"We are in a brilliant technical revolution and we talk the sport down".

Tables sport down-to-the-floor cloths and are graced with thin long-stem goblets and pink glass lanterns.

Meanwhile all this new research may yet push fans of other contact sports down uncomfortable paths.

Not to do traditional blueblood sports down, but surely becoming a world-class Battlefield 3 multiplayer competitor involves as much skill and dedication as teaching a horse to mince like a 1970s sitcom homosexual in the anachronistic "dressage".

Cameron says last year the number of pupils of a certain age playing school sport went down.

When players began complaining about their heads in the 1990s, the National Football League NFLL), which runs the sport, played down the problem.