I think this was deplorable journalism, grossly unfair to one of America's premier sports heroes, and smacks of prejudice.

It is also the premier sports and entertainment venue in the Upper Peninsula, accommodating up to 5,800 for concerts.

Lowood twice hosted the nation's premier sports car race, the Australian Tourist Trophy.

On the other hand, a lot of people are benefiting from marketing initiatives that have made the N.B.A. one of the world's premier sports leagues.

In the great Nascar makeover of recent years, the effort to turn this tobacco-sponsored, Southern-based racing circuit into a premier national sport has been unprecedented.

But given its responsibility for one of the world's premier sports events, it must do even better.

From its opening until the completion of the Delta Center in 1991, it was Salt Lake City's premier sports and entertainment venue.

It is the Hattiesburg area's premier sports and entertainment venue.

If the Mayor disliked Governor Whitman's telephoning the owner of his city's premier sports team, he did not show it today.

In 2004 he has also assumed the role of Trustee of this premier sports education facility.