These numbers bring to mind the syrupy ballads found in current movies about scorned misfits beating the odds to become sports champions.

The questionnaire was prepared by a committee that included a journalist, a popular broadcaster, a judge, a sports champion and a young businesswoman.

The American romance with sports champions may have started in the 1920's.

Jim Wilkes also serves as a personal mentor and legal advisor to two nationally-recognized sports champions.

Madhu (Raja) hails from a poor family, but is a sports champion of the college.

Gauquelin suggested that a statistically significant number of sports champions were born just after the planet Mars rises or culminates.

The ancient practice of slobbering over sports champions ("godding them up," as Red Smith described it) is long past.

Julien thinks that Ophélie is a sports champion.

Others have paid tribute to the exploits of sports champions or other small but distinguished groups like the American hostages returned from Iran.

But I wanted to be a sports champion.