Sentence examples for sporting principles from inspiring English sources

However, his years as "the number nine" at Forest have inevitably seen Nigel absorb some of Old Big 'Ead's sporting principles.

In the tricky balancing act for any expensive convertible, the new BMW definitely leans toward luxury — but not so far that it loses touch with its sporting principles.

Zidane may have contributed to Madrid's decline but he is also a casualty of it, a disillusioned victim of a club bloated on self-importance and riddled with divisions, where the sporting principles he holds dear have been subverted.

It is this sense of managed corporate tedium – the pulling up of the rope ladder by those clubs at the very top of the revenue rankings – that presents the biggest threat not so much to the ongoing triumph of European football, but to its tonal depth, its level of interest, its basic sporting principles.

"It's a betrayal of sporting principles and it flies in the face of all the evidence we saw at the World Cup, which was that an associate nation could compete with the best teams in the world.

Manipulation of matches also plagues amateur sport, to the point where doping and violence are seriously undermining two basic sporting principles -- fair-play and the "glorious uncertainty" of the result.

This is a genuine good news story, champions whose achievement cuts across entrenched barriers, vaults an impassible gulf of finance and privilege, a reprise of the most inspiring basic sporting principle of open competition.

Anointing the Lakers as champions suggested little knowledge of N.B.A. history, and too much thought that fantasy sports principles applied to the real life games.

At the professional and Division I college levels today, athletic departments, which are supposedly non-profits, are conducted based on entertainment and business principles rather than sport principles.

"The Sport Sedan Concept previews a new energetic design direction that amplifies Nissan's legendary approach of applying sports car principles to a sedan," Nissan said in a statement announcing the concept's debut.

Nonetheless, sport without principles is barely worthwhile.