Sentence examples for sporting obsession from inspiring English sources

Finally, cricket has also fallen victim to the ubiquity of football, which now dominates the sports media and is the primary sporting obsession for most youngsters.This has led to a vicious circle.

In my school days, autograph-hunting was a sporting obsession.

But at Splinter's Sports Club, a lively bar in an otherwise sleepy strip mall here, 30 miles northwest of downtown Chicago, excitement is brewing over another sporting obsession: Golden Tee video golf.

Prescott's crash course in Hull's sporting obsession, one that seems to have been reinforced rather than diluted by the two seasons that the amber and black of Hull City spent in football's Premier League, began before he became the MP for Hull East in 1970.

A sporting obsession was born and Ivo Bligh, England captain at the time, pledged to win back "the Ashes" on the return tour to Australia a few weeks later.

Fat chance of that, the team being Italy's motor sporting obsession.

In its more benign, sporting form, the obsession with Hiddink centers on societal lessons of merit and expectation.

As 2011 fades into a distant memory, so, hopefully, will the sporting world's obsession with the watered-down and oversimplified debate over Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow.

Barracuda is particularly good at talking about sport, from Tsiolkas's brilliant descriptions of Danny's swimming to more generally looking at the nation's obsession with sporting heroes, and how it reacts when those heroes don't live up to expectation.

Eventually, though, like many former athletes, he channelled the passion and commitment that had fuelled his sporting career into a new obsession, this time as a tech champion.

As it unfolded, the film grew from a chronicle of a sporting life into a study in ambition, bravery and – again – obsession.