Sports
Specific North American examples include (first regular season, then playoffs):
- Major League Baseball Most Valuable Player Award, World Series Most Valuable Player Award, and League Championship Series Most Valuable Player Award
- National Football League Most Valuable Player Award and Super Bowl MVP Award
- National Hockey League Hart Memorial Trophy (regular season) and Conn Smythe Trophy (playoffs)
- National Basketball Association Most Valuable Player Award and Bill Russell NBA Finals MVP Award
- Major League Soccer MVP and MLS Cup MVP
One award commonly referred to as an "MVP" award, despite the fact that its official name does not match the "MVP" initialism:
- NCAA Basketball Tournament Most Outstanding Player Award
In Cricket
- Most valuable player rating by world.com
- Indian Premier League,
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“The whole idea of image is so confused. On the one hand, Madison Avenue is worried about the image of the players in a tennis tour. On the other hand, sports events are often sponsored by the makers of junk food, beer, and cigarettes. What’s the message when an athlete who works at keeping her body fit is sponsored by a sugar-filled snack that does more harm than good?”
—Martina Navratilova (b. 1956)
“Short of a wholesale reform of college athletics—a complete breakdown of the whole system that is now focused on money and power—the women’s programs are just as doomed as the men’s are to move further and further away from the academic mission of their colleges.... We have to decide if that’s the kind of success for women’s sports that we want.”
—Christine H. B. Grant, U.S. university athletic director. As quoted in the Chronicle of Higher Education, p. A42 (May 12, 1993)
“It is usual for a Man who loves Country Sports to preserve the Game in his own Grounds, and divert himself upon those that belong to his Neighbour.”
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)