sideshow
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But when the Tigers walloped Clemson 51-10 in the most anticipated matchup of college football’s opening weekend, Kiffin reminded the world that he isn’t content with being the craziest sideshow in America’s wildest sport.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
But much of it is sideshow, or filler.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
The petrodollar was always a sideshow to this deeper story.
From Barron's ● May 27, 2026
Most clubs do not leave it this late to tie down their starters to new deals, but contracts have become a complex sideshow over the past few years at Anfield.
From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2026
On one side, a group of black men struggles to put up the sideshow banners.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
The restaurant business is a rough racket, and with all the sideshows the siblings got pulled into, Eric Banh didn’t think Monsoon would last 25 years.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 22, 2024
Authorities reported five other sideshows that same night in Compton and South Los Angeles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 17, 2024
“At the end of the day, sideshows are best thought of as youthful nonsense,” Texas Monthly’s Jack Herrera writes.
From Slate ● Apr. 25, 2023
But these often felt like sideshows, guidebooks: boosterish accessories to a main event that is now struggling to regain and maintain its centrality in international culture.
From New York Times ● Mar. 7, 2023
Remembering Emma’s stories of performing in traveling sideshows with Miss Peregrine and the others, I turned to her and asked, “Are they peculiar?”
From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs
