Sentence examples for sporting death from inspiring English sources

Gladiolas, or sporting death, indeed.

It was instead simply a batsman who had been given out, the protocol of respectful hush during what is one of sport's more poignant moments – a miniature sporting death – wholly abandoned.

"I really think that in choosing to go over there to Russia he has to some extent signed his sporting death warrant," said a former goal keeper of the Cameroon national team, Joseph-Antoine Bell.

Inevitably, given the long history of failure against Germany in situations of sporting sudden death, England came up just short when it mattered most in the final of the European Championship, their quest for a first major hockey title in 22 years sadly unfulfilled.

SPORT DEATH: Michael Kennedy (cousin).

Middle Earth offers its own version of "sport death".

At M.I.T. computer hackers even had a name for it: "sport death".

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I lost friends on account of you; I risked death by sporting your bumper sticker well into the reign of Bush.

"I said to the players: 'Let us use this as a learning curve.' We have diced with death in sporting terms".

The Swiss's lop-sided win in the round-robin stage of the ATP World Tour Finals not only allowed the 17,500 fans in the O2 Arena ample time to drain away from Greenwich in good time on London's unpredictable underground system but left tennis with an awkward question: is one of the great rivalries in the history of sport dying a quiet death?