Sentence examples for transform a sport from inspiring English sources

"I've always said it takes 10 years to transform a sport," Draper said at the National Tennis Centre at Roehampton.

But the number of skeptics dwindled after Mr. France, 46, transformed a sport once fueled by moonshine and bravado into a technologically sophisticated entertainment juggernaut.

In their new book "Soccernomics," the author Simon Kuper and the economist Stefan Szymanski do for soccer what "Moneyball" did for baseball -- put the game under an analytical microscope using statistics, economics, psychology and intuition to try to transform a dogmatic sport.

The couple have been recognised for their work with charity Sport in Desford, helping to transform a derelict sports ground into a popular community facility in Leicestershire.

Sports enthusiasts Sue and Jim Houghton have won the East Midlands Unsung Hero Award for helping to transform a derelict sports ground into a popular community facility.

The husband and wife team spent 25 years helping to transform a derelict Leicestershire sports ground into a popular community facility.

This was the fellow who was going to transform racing, a sport particularly open to new blood because all it takes is one good year at the various gaming tables of life to buy a horse or even a racetrack.

The series is the latest example of technology transforming a traditional sport.

The lark of art-chasing is thus transformed into a sport for the youngest and fittest, able to race through all the stands and spot the desirable targets before the private view is over -- beating the competition to the post is essential.

In the last five years -- aided by Tiger Woods, advances in golf equipment, the once-booming economy and a quirky postmodern pop-cultural obsession with the game -- golf has been transformed from a sport for the Sansabelt set to a sexy pastime that has acquired a rock 'n' roll appeal for younger men and -- as Mr. Caruso might put it -- chicks.

Some time after demolition, the site where the former cathedral used to be located was transformed into a sport complex, including tennis and volleyball courts.