Noun
active interest in gambling on sports events
Source: WordNetHe appeared in a supporting role in the film version of This Sporting Life (1963), giving a sensitive performance as an ageing rugby league talent scout known as 'Dad'. Source: Internet
He recorded and toured with singer Diamanda Galás on her 1994 album, The Sporting Life (co-credited to John Paul Jones). Source: Internet
This Sporting Life main This Sporting Life (TSL), which ran from 1986 to 2008, was a parody of sporting panel programs, created and hosted by actor-writer-comedians John Doyle and Greig Pickhaver (under the pseudonyms Roy Slaven & HG Nelson ). Source: Internet
For Anderson's feelings about Richard Harris at the time This Sporting Life was in production during 1962, see Paul Sutton (ed) The Diaries: Lindsay Anderson, 2004, London: Methuen, Chapter 3, especially p77-80. Source: Internet
In November 2006 Malcolm McDowell told The Independent : I know that he was in love with Richard Harris the star of Anderson's first feature, This Sporting Life. Source: Internet