1.   The top crews practice all year round for the premier event in the raft racing calendar.

2.   Before the premier alpine event of the Winter Games began, most superstar competitors were resting in trailers, or their Snowbasin cabins, visualizing the run or stretching.

3.   But the chicken roping is clearly the premier event.

4.   But they have traveled the same meandering road from near oblivion to center stage at a premier event.

5.   But there is something intangible about this competition between the best Europeans golfers and the top Americans that makes it a premier event.

6.   David Scaglione says he has four gold medal boxing tickets for trade for other premier events.

7.   Despite its self-proclaimed popularity, the National Basketball Association continues to lag behind baseball when it comes to premier events.

8.   It caused the outlook to seem less than shipshape for the San Francisco company that has a stake in the digital presentation of many premier sporting events.

9.   Many have never advertised anywhere before, much less on a Super Bowl, the premier event on the Madison Avenue calendar.

10.   Q. For the Opening Ceremonies and other premier events, how many tickets were actually available to the public?