In some ways, Ms. Hartford is an unlikely champion for her father's work.

No matter which team wins, it will be an unlikely champion.

Contemporary music has a new, if unlikely, champion.

The team wasn't lucky, nor did it receive any big breaks along the way, but the squad remains an unlikely champion.

But at the eleventh hour, the Sidhe had found an unlikely champion.

And in a business world that continues to shun older workers, she has found an unlikely champion: her employer.

At the Bar: A fallen crusader and his unlikely champion.

The movement to take aim at celebrities has some unlikely champions.

The quarterback who won the game when some expected him to lose it was now the unlikely champion.

Violent and non-violent video games may become the unlikely champion of education.