Sentence examples for sport status from inspiring English sources

The abundance of burnt sienna sand-dunes gives many an opportunity for downhill dune-sprinting: an activity crying out for extreme sport status.

COLLEGE MONTCLAIR STATE -- Announced it will reclassify men's and women's cross country, men's lacrosse, women's tennis and wrestling to club sport status effective with the 2005-06 academic year.

"It is however reassuring that our ingredients supplier is one of the few, if not only supplier in the country that has achieved 'Informed Sport' status.

The expectation was clear - as the Beckham glitter entranced the US, Major League Soccer (MLS) would be elevated from minority sport status to become a national game on a par with American football, baseball and basketball.

Today it has been relegated to minor sport status.

During the past two decades boxing has been fading towards niche-sport status.

Young was an All-Ivy basketball player for Princeton, and his two-sport status convinced some teams that he wouldn't sign.

The ITF and the national associations that constitute it govern tennis worldwide; they oversee international competitions such as the Davis Cup and Federation Cup and tennis in the Olympic Games, which was restored to medal-sport status for the 1988 Games the first time since 1924.

The Commonwealth Games and Ryder Cup afforded global sporting status rarely sampled north of the border, with the nation's referendum on independence thrusting Scotland to the forefront of world news.

If it were not for the Florida State Seminoles, the state's current sporting status would be emptier than the storage space in Old Mother Hubbard's.

Indeed, it can't be long before the latter pastime seeks sporting status – in which case, let's meet back here to debate it over another chocolate biscuit.