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Example sentences for: athletics

How can you use “athletics” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

But the contemporary meaning of athletics was reiterated on every Bob Hope TV special, when he trotted out a herd of college football stars to boost the war in Vietnam.
Philadelphia's Shibe Park, home to the Athletics and later the Phillies, was one of 13 urban ballparks built in the seven-year period now regarded as the golden age of ballpark architecture.
This is a "stinging blow" to the sport, says the paper, because Northwestern has the reputation of placing academics above athletics.
Meanwhile, Kathy Jager, 56, from Phoenix, Ariz., who won two gold medals this week at the World Veterans Athletics championships in England, was publicly vindicated after rival competitors accused her of being a man.
He complains that a few powerful schools are aligning themselves to take a larger slice of the revenues generated by big-time college athletics and bemoans the small colleges whose athletic programs will be destroyed by this.