The United States of America, that noble bastion of individualism, is bombing in individual sports.
Coaching is a vital element, in sports, and today even world-class athletes in individual sports have coaches.
Mr. RATTO: Well, I'd think - I don't know that you can break it down by individual sports.
Woods and Vonn have some things in common: They are arguably the best in the world at their individual sports.
Deciding how individual sports compare in popularity depends heavily on when someone goes from being a dabbler to a real player.
What the sports group still lacked was depth of coverage of individual sports to match its geographic reach, Mr. Beusse said.
In individual sports, be it auto racing, golf, or tennis, the financial spoils from product endorsements truly go to the largest winners.
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As far as other individual sports go, it pays to be a great poker player or the owner of a very fast horse.
The biggest endorsement earners tend to be icons in popular individual sports like golf and tennis, which carry broad appeal to legions of casual players.
Not surprisingly, eight of the ten most influential athletes hail from individual sports (cycling, speed skating, snowboarding) or from the NBA, which markets individual stars over team brands.
The importance of dominance in individual sports came into focus a few days ago, when the observation surfaced on Twitter apparently from the account of a user named Joshua Kay, and re-Tweeted with a "Wow!!"
We also see heavy involvement by individual professional sports franchises, taking 10 of the top 20 spots.
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Yet, sports were not altogether neglected: trainers, facilities and travel funds were amply provided by the Chinese government for sports like table tennis and gymnastics (both top individual and not team sports, interestingly) where the Chinese excelled.
Enroll your daughter in both individual and teams sports.
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He said he wasn't much of a team sports fan, preferring individual athletics, such as tennis.
The proliferation of electronic devices and programs that provide up-to-the-minute sports information to the individual fan are relatives of in-facility technology, from the manual scoreboard at Fenway Park to the massive JumboTron at Cowboys Stadium.
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Douglas was among the 23 individual athletes and three teams representing 18 sports who received the award.
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Most of them are individual ones, and the few successful team sports, like curling, are not major.
The pure stats vs. salary model doesn't work as well as it does in sports like baseball, with its individual tilt and myriad numbers (a top defensive back, for example, may not have many interceptions because opposing teams avoid throwing to his side of the field).
Lu Ang, a commentator at CCTV's tennis and golf channel, credits the record of Chinese players to the revamp of China's sports system, which now encourages more individual initiative and more international competition.
Sports, because of the scarcity of games, each individual game means more than it would in a season of regular length, potentially making the experience more exciting for the hockey fan.
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Verducci paints a masterful portrait of an individual who is the utter antithesis of so many limelight-seeking giants in sports and other publicity-prone endeavors.
Besides corporate partnerships, Laureus also funds after-school initiatives via individual donors and proceeds from for-profit endeavors, particularly its annual Laureus World Sports Awards.
Even 10 years ago, many of the Greeks I met (in the sports world and beyond) believed that their system was so broken that individual effort didn't matter.
And it's only matter of time before sports marketers see her in a whole new light, as both an individual endorser and for what she can bring to the sport of auto racing.
The truth is that, out of all the major sports, football is the most team-oriented and so it causes individual player evaluations more of an art than a science which leaves greater margins of error.
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