His inspiration afforded the Ryder Cup every facet that good sport requires – competitiveness, tension, friction, camaraderie, colour.
At the time, Timbers was a student at Buckley, a buttoned-up Manhattan private school for boys, but the school's focus on sports and competitiveness didn't suit him.
"Since then the sport became very competitive, and that competitiveness took the sport higher".
We are doing this for sports reasons, for competitiveness".
Rushed into use shortly after the 2012 Olympics, by a party whose key figures went to expensive schools that fetishise sport and general competitiveness, "the global race" is hardly the most subtle or socially sensitive of rhetorical devices.
The Arsenal coach Vic Akers calls the FA Cup final "the biggest event in women's football" and, in a sport where true competitiveness can be hard to find, the prospect of penalty-specialists Leeds piercing the largely unpenetrable armour of a free-scoring Arsenal team is one to relish.
Comparing that to other youth activities and sports, where fierce competitiveness and "winning at all costs" seems to be the order of the day, it's not surprising that many children grapple with issues of self-esteem and misplaced aggression.
We need more competition, more competitiveness, getting rid of the idea of 'all must have prizes' and 'you cannot have competitive sports days'".
By connecting their discipline with the competitiveness of sports and the accessibility of pop culture, dance groups have an opportunity to create a new, broader audience of enthusiasts.
Huston said he rarely spent time with Roethlisberger because he did not like his swagger, trash talk and competitiveness beyond sports.
