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:
“There be some sports are painful, and their labor
Delight in them sets off. Some kinds of baseness
Are nobly undergone, and most poor matters
Point to rich ends.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“The whole idea of image is so confused. On the one hand, Madison Avenue is worried about the image of the players in a tennis tour. On the other hand, sports events are often sponsored by the makers of junk food, beer, and cigarettes. What’s the message when an athlete who works at keeping her body fit is sponsored by a sugar-filled snack that does more harm than good?”
—Martina Navratilova (b. 1956)
“...I didn’t come to this with any particular cachet. I was just a person who grew up in the United States. And when I looked around at the people who were sportscasters, I thought they were just people who grew up in the United States, too. So I thought, Why can’t a woman do it? I just assumed everyone else would think it was a swell idea.”
—Gayle Gardner, U.S. sports reporter. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 85 (June 17, 1991)