21.   Beyond the ethnic conclaves, soccer has little enduring interest for Americans as a spectator sport.

22.   A good number of people think spectator sports overall are a ludicrous waste of time and public capital.

23.   After that demonstration, aviation became a spectator sport.

24.   But a focus on the sexual nexus evokes the prurience of Phil Donahue and Oprah Winfrey, of sex as spectator sport and confession as performance art.

25.   But compared to football, watching people memorize would appear to be an acquired taste as a spectator sport.

26.   But CNBC turned the Street into a spectator sport, and now TNT turns it into a melodrama, with worthy, if not quite bullish, results.

27.   But golf and tennis have always been inextricably linked as rivals for our attention, both as participatory and spectator sports.

28.   But in the past few years, genealogy has gone from spectator sport to major-league passion.

29.   But politics for Russians is like football for Americans, a spectator sport.

30.   But party-snubbing has become a spectator sport this season.