We were standing in line at the Colosseum, that famous landmark of gladiatorial carnage.

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But despite the gladiatorial combat at the programme's core, trying too hard to win was frowned upon.

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Only Kolkata's Eden Gardens competes with it for the title of the game's largest and most intimidating gladiatorial cauldron.

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In the game of golf, fans get much closer to the players on the course, but there is rarely that gladiatorial feel.

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He saw cricket developing into the gladiatorial game it is now, with fast bowlers challenging the restrictions brought in to end bodyline.

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Yet the contest may not turn out to be so gladiatorial.

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Yet, as a gladiatorial sport, tennis is dependent upon charisma.

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When Antonin Scalia joined the Court, in 1986, he brought a new gladiatorial spirit to oral arguments, and in subsequent years the Justices have often used their questions as much for campaign speeches as for requests for information.

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Gladiatorial contests make great copy.

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