He made it, but it was a gut-wrenching experience.

The last month of their season was an injury-plagued, gut-wrenching experience, a growing pain, but one that every ambitious team needs as it builds from the ground up.

He had not only read about it, he had gut-wrenching personal experience.

Fassel already endured a gut-wrenching experience in 2003, when the Giants lost their final eight games and finished 4-12.

Following that gut-wrenching experience, I came to my own truce with God over the Holocaust.

"Working with Martha was really a gut-wrenching experience," Ms. Capucilli said.

The audience peers over the building's edge with him, then shares the gut-wrenching experience of plummeting to the ground.

I've talked to coaches who have participated in Super Bowls and lost, and they tell me it's the most gut-wrenching experience they've ever had.

But there is one thing Azinger will probably never again forget, and that is that winning tournaments is a gut-wrenching experience.

And while this Olympic mess has undoubtedly been a gut-wrenching experience in Salt Lake City, I have not detected much local outpouring of anxiety.