Sentences with phrase «as the sport of»

«When I reflect on the fact that I have made my appearance by accident upon a globe itself whirled through space as the sport of the catastrophes of the heavens,» says Madame Ackermann; «when I see myself surrounded by beings as ephemeral and incomprehensible as I am myself, and all excitedly pursuing pure chimeras, I experience a strange feeling of being in a dream.

Baseball works beautifully as a sport of contrast, a ponderous sequence of inaction punctuated by bursts of excitement.

Rugby or soccer was reported as the sport of choice for 48 % of the injured athletes participating in the study.

No wonder polo is known as the sport of kings!

«Mental exercise» — interesting activities that keep the mind stimulated, such as the sport of lure coursing

As the sport of K9 Nose Work has grown, so has the demand for products.

Falconry, known as a sport of kings, can include hawk walks and training.

While home gaming often allowed for split - screen play, the next step in game evolution as a sport of their own came with the increasing popularity of online multiplayer.

Not exact matches

ESPN and other sports offerings make up one of seven different add - on packages, while various channels owned by Comcast and Fox are included in other packaged groups arranged under common themes such as «Lifestyle» and «News & Info.»

As long - standing chairman of Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment, Lawrence Tanenbaum has been a highly visible booster of two MLSE - owned franchises: Toronto's Maple Leafs and Raptors.

As for Nike, it and many of its peers took a hit from last year's bankruptcies Sports Authority and City Sports.

«Baseball games are uniquely engaging community experiences, as the chatter and rituals in the stands are often as meaningful to fans as the action on the diamond,» Dan Reed, Facebook's head of global sports partnerships, said in a statement.

Twitter has also added to its slate of sports programming by announcing new deals on Monday that will allow the social network to broadcast MLB and NHL games as well.

If the results from ESPN (which is traditionally seen as almost immune to market forces, because of its hold on sports programming) got the market nervous about cord - cutting and the loss of traditional TV subscribers, Thursday's comments from Sanford Bernstein analyst Todd Juenger poured gasoline on those fears.

Dorsey and his team have been looking at the streaming of live sports, business, and political events as a way to draw in new users and give them valuable content they can immediately tweet about and use to connect with others.

«The entire enterprise depends on Messi,» says Santiago Giménez Blanco, the Barcelona editor of Spain's sports paper AS.

Based in tiny Burlington, Vt. — population 45,000 — Burton was a private company whose fortunes were tied to a fringe sport some still thought of as a passing fad.

But just as Twitter has probably eaten into the edges of ESPN's market, by appealing to those who don't want to have to pay for cable just to watch sports, Facebook is going to chip away at that dominant market position as well, bit by bit.

My background in the marketing - heavy sport of NASCAR for over a decade was somehow overlooked during my pitch, but as someone who has seen the gam - met of the best and the worst of marketing, I wanted to share several principles to help steer my fellow entrepreneurs, Shark Tank or not, along a successful path in marketing their brands.

Locations that typically produce a high number of impressions include: along highways, sporting arenas, sides of buildings, and metropolitan areas such as a «downtown» area.

We're looking to build the best ecosystem for our fans that we can and we hope that by doing that it will thrive and grow, and over time we'll have a chance to be as big as some of the major sports that exist today.

It's long been the case that advertisers paid up to two to three times more for a top - rated sports event compared to a top - rated drama or sitcom, and sports value as real - time programming and its finite availability have only caused its status to grow, says Michael Neale, a managing partner for investment at Mediacom, a global media agency that co-ordinates and purchases advertising space on behalf of marketers.

If you think about your organization as a sports team or a symphony, you realize that synchronization of activities is key.

Hutchins was a competitive swimmer and excelled at «Surf Life Saving» — lifeguarding as a sport, essentially — but he was now out of shape compared with a shirtless photo he'd recently seen from those days, which he described as «biceps for days.»

The US$ 80 million the club will now rake in every year as a result instantly put it on equal ground with deep - pocketed powerhouses like the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees, both of which have their own sports networks.

Shares of the company, which owns a number of landmark titles including People, Sports Illustrated, and Fortune, climbed as much as 9 % Thursday on the news that it has hired Morgan Stanley and Bank of America as financial advisers.

He hired two motor racing veterans as managing directors: Former Ferrari technical director and ex-Mercedes team boss Ross Brawn to be in charge of motor sports and former ESPN executive Sean Bratches for commercial operations.

This week Fortune caught up with Jarred Kennedy, the co-head of esports at Riot Games, to discuss the world championship (the finals will take place Nov. 4 at the Bird's Nest National Stadium in Beijing) as well as the overall growth of the esports industry and Riot's plans, much like rival Activision Blizzard, to remodel its own esports league after major professional sports leagues like the NFL and NBA.

Take some cues from Natalie Jill, licensed sports nutritionist, functional trainer and the creator of Natalie Jill Fitness, who has more than 1 million followers between Facebook and Instagram and whose at - home fitness videos often receive as many as 2 million views on Facebook.

The London offices of Rupert Murdoch's Fox Networks were raided by European Union antitrust regulators as part of a probe of the distribution of sports media rights.

You can do that in the minors, but as you «grow up» in sports or in any other line of work, the mental game is every bit as important as the physical skills and talents.

It also has become a favorite in the locker rooms of professional sports teams such as the New York Yankees and the Washington Wizards.

The privately - held company is currently working on developing its application (which will run on Android) for use in a variety of other sports and is in talks with potential U.S. military partners as well.

Life highlights include covering pro sports for the Associated Press, serving as president of San Diego's third largest PR firm and losing $ 13,000 on the last question of the TV game show «Jeopardy!»

«The increased direct viewership is a way we believe sports games will broaden the eSports audience, as it attracts a different group of gamers,» Warman says.

That experience was invaluable, since snowboarders consider their sport to be not so much a variation on skiing as a seasonal extension of surfing and skateboarding.

In sports such as skiing, skateboarding, and cycling, the wind noise rushing into a camera's mike tends to overpower the sounds of the action.

Stick to an exercise routine that replenishes you, whether it's individual activities (like walking, biking or working out at the gym) or group sports that build your confidence as part of a team that works together towards a common goal.

But this isn't a sport, it's business — the Great Game of Business, as practiced by Springfield Remanufacturing Corp. (SRC), the midsize Missouri company that may be having more effect on American management than any 10 of the nation's business schools have.

Hourly and half - hourly news bulletins, combined with programs on a host of topics, from sports to culture and cookery to comedy, mean that the radio is arguably still as relevant today as it was in the years before podcasts, the web and streaming.

As traffic at Nike's key wholesale partners continues to slow (hundreds of department stores and specialty sports retailers are closing their doors, resulting in less square footage for Nike products), it is working to boost its direct - to - consumer channels.

Earlier this summer, Nike reached a deal worth $ 169 million over 11 years to replace Adidas as the official sponsor for the University of Michigan's sports teams.

As a teenager, Olajide «KSI» Olatunji played EA Sports» line of FIFA video games for hours on end in his parents» home.

... I see it more as a blue stamp of who we are as a company and that we're not just a gadget for different sports applications.

That will open up an even broader access point for NextVR as it livestreams entertainment and sports events this year to owners of Carboard, Samsung (ssnlf) Gear VR, Facebook's (fb) Oculus Rift, HTC (htc) Vive, Sony (sne) PlayStation VR, and other devices.

Those investments by the athletic gear manufacturers to control more of their own retail distribution comes as sports retailers like Sports Authority land in bankrsports retailers like Sports Authority land in bankrSports Authority land in bankruptcy.

Reacting to the announcement, the Spanish ministry of education, culture and sport said the company was making a business decision to pull out of certain services but that the government remained open to negotiation about how it implemented what its statement referred to as a «Google tax».

For those who are not as sports - inclined as the rest, the Super Bowl is the perfect day to indulge in a food coma — pizza is plentiful, as are wings, a variety of dips and several other snacks that you can enjoy while waiting for Justin Timberlake to take the stage for the halftime show.

For the San Francisco company, these games are part of a major initiative to use the video streaming of live events, particularly sports, as a way to drive user growth and engagement, and, in this way, ad sales.

The Rhodes Scholar program at Oxford's University takes the sports accomplishments of their candidates as seriously as they take the academic ones.