Sports
Specific North American examples include (first regular season, then playoffs):
- Major League Baseball Most Valuable Player Award, World Series Most Valuable Player Award, and League Championship Series Most Valuable Player Award
- National Football League Most Valuable Player Award and Super Bowl MVP Award
- National Hockey League Hart Memorial Trophy (regular season) and Conn Smythe Trophy (playoffs)
- National Basketball Association Most Valuable Player Award and Bill Russell NBA Finals MVP Award
- Major League Soccer MVP and MLS Cup MVP
One award commonly referred to as an "MVP" award, despite the fact that its official name does not match the "MVP" initialism:
- NCAA Basketball Tournament Most Outstanding Player Award
In Cricket
- Most valuable player rating by world.com
- Indian Premier League,
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“It was so hard to pry this door open, and if I mess up I know the people behind me are going to have it that much harder. Because then there’s living proof. They can sit around and say, “See? It doesn’t work.” I don’t want to be their living proof.”
—Gayle Gardner, U.S. sports reporter. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 87 (June 17, 1991)
“Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn,
Thy sports are fled and all thy charms withdrawn;
Amidst thy bowers the tyrant’s hand is seen,
And desolation saddens all thy green;
One only master grasps the whole domain,
And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain;”
—Oliver Goldsmith (1730?–1774)
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—Karen Logan (b. 1949)