"sports machine" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when referring to a machine that is used for sports activities, such as a batting cage or a pitching machine. For example: "The sports machine at the batting cage was set to throw slow pitches."
The East German sports machine disappeared.
The Soviet Union's once mighty sports machine fell into decay after the country's collapse in 1991.
Countless millions of rubles were poured into creating a veritable state-sponsored sports machine.
A child who is not part of the organized team sports machine may be barred from entering the field.
The Focus SVT is an economy car transformed, Cinderella-style, into a quick, nimble Euro-style sports machine.
This model is, in many ways, the "not" bike: not a 175-horsepower sports machine, not a radically stretched cruiser, not some full-boat cross-continent touring rig.
Six-figure luxury and sports machines were brutalized — er, customized — almost beyond recognition.
And both the credit-givers, like Western Oklahoma, and the sports machines at the other end of the transaction, like Florida State University, were doing nothing illegal.
The United States has been top dog for the last three Summer Games, or since the dissolution of the Soviet and East German sports machines.
Membership is about 650 worldwide, with the cars' owners now the stewards of a line of classic German sports machines, prized for their advanced features and heralded for their racing triumphs.
It's one of the classic partnerships in automotive history: Two Italian nameplates, Ferrari and Pininfarina, automaker and design house, have long been associated with cars that many enthusiasts consider to be the greatest sports machines ever made.
