The word 'sporting' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe someone who is enthusiastic, friendly, and generous, or a situation that is generous or fair. For example: "He was very sporting when he offered to give up his seat to an elderly woman who was standing in the bus."
Great sporting moments - It's hard to imagine the average FA boss storming onto the pitch during a World Cup game to get a goal overturned but that is what Kuwait FA president Prince Fahid did in 1982 against France, claiming that his players had heard a whistle and stopped playing.
Ricky van Wolfswinkel, signed from Sporting Lisbon for £8.5m, has one in 22 Premier League appearances and Johan Elmander one in 25.
On Friday morning, a few hundred fans and journalists braved the freezing cold to attend a draw party at Sporting Park, Kansas City, site of Saturday's MLS Cup final, for a watch party also attended by several US national team members, including Clint Dempsey and Omar Gonzalez, as well as internationals from the competing MLS Cup finalists Sporting Kansas City and Real Salt Lake.
Sporting bodies who entangle their national teams in a surfeit of red tape tend to receive little sympathy.
Behind the image, however, lies a very modern template for British sporting success – a combination of talent, brutal work ethic and the appliance of scientific method to performance that underpinned every triumph of the Olympic summer.
United signed Rojo from Sporting Lisbon on 19 August but he had to miss the games against Sunderland, MK Dons and Burnley as he was unable to obtain a work permit.
Had Sporting gone 4-at-the-back at kickoff, could they have prevented their 2-1 loss?
In one episode from the show's later years, viewers learned that La Cuatro is expecting an inheritance from an uncle in Africa, which is eventually delivered by an "African" character sporting a cheetah-print cloth and disheveled hair held together by a large bone.
The second highest Portuguese scorer was the Sporting Lisbon midfielder Adrien Silva and seven of his modest tally of eight goals came from penalties.
Not only is the GAA a classic Victorian organisation, it has been much more faithful to its origins in late-19th-century sporting culture than the English sports that influenced it.
"The determination said the use of the slur was 'repugnant', and it is upsetting and entirely unacceptable for this to be used in a sporting event such as the ATP World Tour where equality amongst sportsmen is a predicate to fair competition and, indeed, paramount to the success of the Tour and of the sport," the statement continued.
