1.   Now surely the Olympics is a festival a celebration of amateur sport, but if we want medals, we have to accept that professionalism wins.

2.   As a professional sport, football has to meet different financial criteria from an amateur sport.

3.   Amateur sports was a major attraction in the Catskills.

4.   But Americans are litigious, particularly when it comes to its children and its amateur sports leagues.

5.   But that day, an Athens prosecutor ordered an investigation into financial mismanagement at Segas, the Greek amateur sports association.

6.   Devotees of public broadcasting say that the CBC should be a refuge for the high quality, nationalist programming that private networks deem financially risky, like amateur sports.

7.   Despite the cash prize added this year, rowing is still an amateur sport in the United States.

8.   Earlier this week he was in Denver attending the Olympic Festival and laying plans to energize amateur sports, to involve more potential athletes in the Olympic movement.

9.   Every one of the amateur sports federations across the country know the Dallas-Fort Worth area now.

10.   For rugby union, which still proclaims itself an amateur sport, the accord signals another step down the road to professionalism.