1.   Athletics should rank alongside soccer and cricket as a major sport.

2.   He promises to continue speaking his mind to try to raise the profile of athletics a sport he believes should rank alongside soccer and cricket.

3.   As a result, Arianespace ranks alongside Airbus, the French-led commercial aircraft consortium, as the greatest success of European industrial policy.

4.   But those who played with and against Kurland understood that he ranked alongside Mikan, and that together they formed the Bill Russell-Wilt Chamberlain of their era.

5.   Forty percent of the annual global consumption of materials and energy goes into buildings, which rank alongside the private car as a source of environmental damage.

6.   He is often ranked alongside the most successful hedge funds managers like George Soros, Julian Robertson, Michael Steinhardt and Stanley Druckenmiller.

7.   How does it rank alongside praying in the end zone?

8.   It ranks alongside a Mont Blanc pen and Robert Clergerie shoes.

9.   It is also a cornucopia of scientific possibilities that ranks alongside the revolutions wrought by Euclid, Copernicus, Newton, Darwin and Einstein.

10.   Loughery ranked him alongside Erving, Bird, Magic Johnson and David Stern as the five people who had the greatest impact on the modern game.