1.   George Will, a political commentator of rarefied taste, is another who thinks that sport should be taken seriously.

2.   These clubs did not necessarily take their sport in the spirit of fair play.

3.   She was thankful that from an early age she had taken up sports and, latterly, exercise classes, which meant that her body was in good condition.

4.   This would hardly matter if we still lived in those dim and distant days when nobody took sport too seriously.

5.   They plan to create a UK Sports Commission to encourage more people to take up sport.

6.   A solution that could take the sport to the next level of national popularity appears near.

7.   Bradshaw says he continues to laugh at those who criticize him and the Fox show for not taking sports seriously enough.

8.   Burton said the network helped take the sport beyond off-season training and into a competition that would give statewide bragging rights to players who won the annual championship.

9.   Can the MTV generation learn to take sports seriously as a moral guide?

10.   Cubans took the sport to their Caribbean neighbors, and Cuba sent the most players to the major and Negro leagues.