Kam Air sponsors teams in volleyball, football, cricket and buzkashi (literally, goat grabbing), a national sport akin to polo.
It is as though ducking and diving to avoid the taxman is a national sport, a cultural trait that is as old as the Gods on Mount Olympus.
Moaning about the Great British weather is a national sport.
Working in a multi-billion, multi-national giant is not a spectator sport.
The moves signal the Big Ten's intention to contend for national championships in a sport long dominated by Eastern schools.
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The use of physical punishment in the Japanese sporting arena is not new - in 2007 the head of a sumo stable was fired by the sport's national body over the treatment of a 17-year-old wrestler who died after being beaten during practise.
The group says it represents wrestlers from 180 countries, including many where wrestling is the national sport and the only sport that gives athletes a route to participation in the Games.
The facility, on the former fruit and vegetable market site on Hylton Road, Worcester, will be a national centre of excellence for disabled sport.
With the debut of taekwondo as an official Olympic event, South Korea might be expected to march into Syd-ney with a single mission: dominate the national sport.
Although most high schools and colleges have cheerleaders, only 29 state high school athletic associations recognize cheerleading as a sport, and the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) does not include competitive cheerleading in its list of sponsored sports.
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It is our national sport, we have a strong football heritage which runs through every town and city.
Uday, even when he declined in favour, for a time controlled the state media and national sport, stupidly punishing athletes who did not win prizes.
But the tragedy also forced the sport to change on a national basis, and in a way still felt today, with stadiums modernized and made more family friendly, leading in turn to greater investment from sponsors and TV broadcasters.
The group says it represents wrestlers from 180 countries, including many where wrestling is the national sport, and the only sport that gives athletes from those countries a route to participation in the Games.
Sociologist Dr Anthony King said the flag's influence would create "a new national community with social bonds springing from sport".
Shin and the other kids return to the tables for two more hours of practice, following their dreams in China's national sport, one shot at a time.
But I think the commissioner and I, with all due respect, has to understand if you believe that there isn't some type of betting or attempts at fixing a game in any sport, including the National Basketball Association, then he has been blinded for the decades that he spent as commissioner.
Usually your dough gets disbursed among 45 national governing bodies, each of which oversees a separate sport.
"Usain Bolt is a national treasure, " Jamaican Prime Minister Bruce Golding told BBC Sport.
This led to Adel Ali, Secretary General of Iraq's National Olympic Committee, announcing a commitment to better funding for sport in Iraq.
But there was a little bit of respite in what has become almost the national sport of bashing Bob Diamond, the chief executive of Barclays.
"You can't understand the impact of Twitter in Venezuela until you understand that the national sport is gossiping, " said Antonio Cova, a sociology professor at the Central University of Venezuela in Caracas.
Now, with Saudi soccer fans focused as ever on the European game, the Saudi government body responsible for sport is looking to revitalize the national game with a radical plan to fully privatize the country's top soccer league.
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"Under their new professional structure and leadership team Cricket Ireland has embarked on an exciting strategic development phase and set high performance standards for all national teams and for the development of the sport as a whole, " he said.
Since losing my dad, I have become not only a two-time IronKids triathlon national champion but also an ambassador to the sport of triathlon.
While football is our biggest national sport and possibly our most exciting one, it is experiencing a crisis that has to be strategically managed if it is not to lose the momentum it has built up over recent decades.
His first post was in sport policy where he was a founding member of the then Department of National Heritage in 1992.
At present, the United Kingdom has a National Coasteering Charter that works toward creating safe practices, training guides and promoting the sport, but there is no national governing body yet.
Top-division football is the only official NCAA sport for which college sports' national governing body doesn't hold a championship.
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So we can at least theoretically suppose that those who would have been at the top of national economic competitions (which could be sport, writing, movie making, running a business, being a lawyer, whatever) could, as a result of globalisation, start taking part in global, not merely national, competition.
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