Trophy

What you see over here, this is the beautiful Louis Vuitton Cup trophy.

Jim Furyk's side need eight points from Sunday's 12 singles matches to retain the trophy.

And they also decided that I had to to give me a very ugly Plexiglas trophy for it.

The trophy fish were so big that you couldn't put any of those small fish up on it.

We have a goal, and that is to try to win this trophy, and that's where the focus stays.

Oh, yes, James has just brought the first professional sports championship trophy in Cleveland in the past 52 years.

Thomas Bjorn's European side, bidding to retain the trophy they lost at Hazeltine two years ago, dominated a misfiring American side in the morning fourballs, taking the series 3 1.

And right off the garage he has his own trophy room where he can sort of bask in his accomplishments, which is another sort of important part about a manspace.

Only twice in Ryder Cup history has a team come back from a four point deficit going into the singles, although as holders Furyk's side need only draw to retain the trophy.

So it seems only right that he died with summary violence. After being hunted down in a dirty drainpipe, he was displayed like a bloody trophy before being battered and shot by a lynch mob.

This picture here shows the trophy fish, the biggest fish caught by people who pay a lot of money to get on a boat, go to a place off of Key West in Florida, drink a lot of beer, throw a lot of hooks and lines into the water, come back with the biggest and the best fish, and the champion trophy fish are put on this board, where people take a picture, and this guy is obviously really excited about that fish.

And another point why I'm here is that the day I went to pick up the Plexiglas trophy, I rented a tuxedo for the first time in my life, picked the thing didn't have any friends.

And the average size trophy fish weighed 250 to 300 pounds, goliath grouper, and if you wanted to go out and kill something, you could pretty much count on being able to catch one of those fish.

Last month, Ding Ning was crowned the winner of the Bulgaria Open and ended her 14 month trophy drought. Although she expressed before the game that she hadn't set any goals for this game in Chengdu, she revealed after the semi finals in the morning that she had fulfilled her duties.

Japanese financiers bought up pricey trophy properties like Rockefeller Center in New York and the Pebble Beach Golf Club in California, and then had to sell later at rock bottom prices. These investment failures have been great for Americans, who owe a lot less to foreigners than they would otherwise.

But if, for whatever reason, the global economy fails to take off, we will have to reconcile ourselves to a long period of mediocre growth in which cheap capital depresses yields, drives up asset prices, inflates bubbles, and seeks out trophy assets. These are not the sort of imbalances to which the world s policymakers should aspire.

For years, foreign governments complained about American hedge funds, arguing that their non transparent behavior posed unacceptable risks to stability. Now, many US politicians are complaining about the transparency of sovereign wealth funds (big government investors mainly from Asia and the Middle East), which are taking shares in trophy American assets such as Citibank and Merrill Lynch.