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Example sentences for: athletics

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The elongated oval piazza was laid out around a.d. 79 by Emperor Domitian as an athletics stadium, Circus Agonalis — a sporting tradition continued in the Middle Ages with jousting tournaments and other events in the centuries that followed.
The religious schools, shifting their emphasis from athletics to learning (even if a large part of it is of the Biblical variety), have consistently delivered better results both in terms of educational and, I would guess, communal development, than the public schools.
The Kansas City Athletics, for example, were essentially a farm team for the Yankees during the 1950s and early 1960s, and not coincidentally the Yankees won pennant after pennant.
The Club raised more than $70,000 to assist IUPUI intercollegiate athletics in 1990.
Columbine evidently overflowed with this sort of school spirit, most of which revolves around student athletics.