How to Use athletics in a Sentence

athletics

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  • There are six medal events in the final night of athletics.
    — Brett McKeehan, CNN, 7 Aug. 2021
  • It’s not like a high school player that has no idea what college athletics and college football is like.
    — Tom Green | Tgreen@al.com, al, 9 Aug. 2021
  • Read more about the university's furloughs here and athletics cuts here.
    — Sarah Ladd, The Courier-Journal, 7 Aug. 2021
  • Players making enormous amounts of money in college could be the best thing that happened to collegiate athletics.
    — Mary Helene Hall | Mhall@al.com, al, 6 Aug. 2021
  • Red All Over is a weekly newsletter covering Utah athletics.
    — Josh Newman, The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 Aug. 2021
  • The Nigerian athletics federation had somehow failed to arrange for the athletes to be tested before the games.
    — Alexander Onukwue, Quartz, 5 Aug. 2021
  • Those conferences and their member institutions have some decisions to make that will alter the college athletics landscape.
    — José M. Romero, The Arizona Republic, 5 Aug. 2021
  • Bo Nix became the biggest story nationally on one of the biggest mornings in the history of college athletics.
    — Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 11 Aug. 2021
  • This is very damaging to one’s mental health and shows up in their lives outside of athletics by affecting one’s self-esteem and setting someone up for unrealistic expectations.
    — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Aug. 2021
  • As an indoor mask mandate returns to Monroe County, IU athletics remains firm in its plan for full attendance at sporting events this fall.
    — Indianapolis Star, 4 Aug. 2021
  • The athletics program will enter the Big 12 in just about a year.
    — Alex Vejar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 May 2022
  • Dive into the best of Broward County high school athletics for the Fall of 2022.
    — Steve Svekis, Sun Sentinel, 23 Dec. 2022
  • The award is named for Schram, who covered high school athletics for the Free Press for over 40 years.
    — Mick McCabe, Detroit Free Press, 21 Mar. 2022
  • High school athletics is still the last pure level of sports.
    — Ben Thomas | Bthomas@al.com, al, 17 Aug. 2022
  • Brian Estridge has spent more than two decades as the voice of TCU athletics.
    — Matt Murschel, Orlando Sentinel, 31 Aug. 2022
  • Over the past two years, the world of college athletics has turned into a whole new ball game.
    — Ariana Freeman, CBS News, 26 Aug. 2022
  • At that time, the restaurant will present a check to Mayfield High School athletics.
    — cleveland, 9 June 2022
  • The vacancy atop the Eagles’ athletics program will be the third in the last five years.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 29 Apr. 2022
  • All of this is the latest black eye for Dallas-area high school athletics.
    — Dallas News, 31 Oct. 2022
  • College athletics is at a tipping point in a lot of ways.
    — oregonlive, 2 May 2022
  • And as Jean writes, the current push to restrict trans rights goes far beyond athletics.
    — Rick Klein, ABC News, 12 May 2022
  • Escala asked the alumni to bet on a vision of St. John Bosco as a college prep school — in the arts, academics and athletics.
    — New York Times, 14 Nov. 2021
  • This is the first time for a Red Out, according to a tweet from Arkansas athletics.
    — Michael Casagrande | McAsagrande@al.com, al, 25 Sep. 2022
  • And there is no betting allowed on high-school athletics at all.
    — Ryan Randazzo, The Arizona Republic, 9 Sep. 2021
  • Inskeep added that while athletics could use the building, there are no plans for basketball hoops or goal posts.
    — Mj Slaby, The Indianapolis Star, 28 June 2022
  • The relaxing of name, image and likeness rules in college athletics has led to a free-for-all of sorts across the country.
    — Alex Vejar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 Aug. 2022
  • Here’s a look at what happened in McDaniel athletics this week.
    — Emily Hollwedel, Baltimore Sun, 3 Feb. 2023
  • Basketball has been a strong point for Stonehill athletics, on both the men's and women's sides.
    — Michael Silverman, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Sep. 2022
  • Before the law was enacted in 1972, elite athletics were more or less out of reach for women.
    — Alicia Ault, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 June 2022
  • These powerhouse pools lead to some of the most heated district races in UIL athletics, as the area’s top teams have to go head-to-head just to make the playoffs and pick each other off in the tournament’s early rounds.
    — Dallas News, 2 Feb. 2023

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