His rival had won; that was the bleak fact.

"The better way to do it is to just let your rival go ahead and win and then strip them of everything," said one.

They also beat their rival, Marshall Academy, to win the district tournament in the 2010 - 2011 basketball season.

It is at a time when his Soviet rival is winning points almost everywhere.

Because Allied is a public company, a determined rival could win it whether a bid made strategic sense or not, he said.

And in that instant it knew that its rival had won a subtle but important point.

The kid from Brooklyn is trying to help the old Dodgers' bitter rivals win it all.

Its major local rival, Bury, won the award in 2008.

His willingness to allow rivals to win individual stages as long as he won the Tour came under criticism, too.

The 2006 season culminated in a final that their great rivals Munster won.