Sentence examples for thrown game from inspiring English sources

When the fix is in, consider emulating the Macedonian chairman who sold on the details of a thrown game to mafiosi.

But a thrown game lacks drama, and this season Lost's philosophical bitch slaps are rigged against the faithless.

Balls were thrown, games played.

That's right, some people think the Jets made it to the playoffs with the help of not one, but two thrown games.

But throwing games and giving less than full effort to control scores is treason.

Manning, always a better big-game player than his reputation suggested, stopped throwing games away with interceptions.

He was later cleared of throwing games or taking money from gamblers, but he was never reinstated.

"There's a disconnect between effort and results," said Süddeutsche Zeitung summing up Leverkusen's propensity for throwing games away.

It appears that large sums of money have been offered to players to throw games, and that many have accepted.

"It's not OK … to throw games away," said Eintracht Frankfurt's Armin Veh after Bayern's heavy-rotation defeat at Augsburg, their first of the season.

Even the slightest indication that the athletes are "on the take" or "throwing" games or matches for pecuniary gain can irreparably harm a sport.