Their rivalry began to truly develop after Rafter shocked the tennis world by winning the 1997 US Open, a tournament that many expected Sampras to win, having won in 1995 and 1996.

Most other competitive teams do not truly have a real-life rivalry ( e. g., Season 1, Episode 2 " Donors vs Addicts "), while others such as Democrats vs Republicans vs Third Party do.

At this time a rivalry began with the pro-papal Orsini family, leaders of the Guelph faction.

The rivalry with Atlanta began in the first season of the franchise when both teams were members of the NFC West.

Although Emperor Kōgon ruled as cloistered Emperor, the rivalry between Ashikaga Takauji and Ashikaga Tadayoshi began, and in 1351, Takauji returned to the allegiance of the Southern Court, forcing Emperor Sukō to abdicate.

The rivalry between Prussia and Austria for the leadership of Germany began

This was soon forgotten by the late 1970s when the Royals came to prominence and the rivalry with New York began.

During the late 20th century the U. S. dollar began to oscillate due to rivalry with foreign countries and their currencies.

The rivalry began to escalate and receive increased media attention in 1997 when a disgruntled Bill Parcells vacated his head coaching position with New England to accept the same position with New York.

One of the NFL's oldest, this rivalry began on October 15, 1933

The Harvard – Yale football rivalry began in 1875.

A minor rivalry began to develop between Marie Louise and the Empress of Austria, who was jealous at being upstaged in appearance by her stepdaughter.

The rivalry began when Menahem slew Shallum, putting an end to Shallum's one month reign ().

After 2002 the rivalry between the two teams began to cool ; it would be another six years before the Avalanche and the Red Wings would meet again in postseason play.

There was already fracturing of communist states at the time, the most serious of which was the rivalry between the Soviet Union and China, known as the Sino-Soviet split, which began in the 1950s.

They knew each other as amateurs and it is said the rivalry began when Vargas was angered by De La Hoya laughing at him after he fell into a snowbank.

Because of how he was conceived, Budha hated his father and as Chandra also knew that Budha is his illegitimate son, he began to hate his son, and their rivalry continues to this day.

The rivalry between the Indians and the Lions began in 1927, and their annual Thanksgiving games have taken place since 1938.

This began a period of rivalry which caused a schism between the residents of Butler and Bloomingdale resulting in separate schools, churches and even town bands.

In fact, in its modern form, the rivalry appears to date from the late 1890s, when the chant or song known as a " Gordouli " began to be sung from the Balliol side.

In fact, in its modern form, the rivalry appears to date from the late 1890s, when the chant or song known as a " Gordouli " began to be sung from the Balliol side.

Thus began a rivalry that lasts up to the present day.

A rivalry developed between the two settlements, and those on the eastern shore began referring to the settlement on the western shore as the " Jersey Shore ," because the Manning family had relocated from New Jersey.

When the Web began to see large growth that Xanadu did not, Nelson's team grew defensive in the supposed rivalry that was emerging, but that they were losing.

A rivalry between the two towns ensued as the area began to grow around the Santa Fe Railroad depot.

The terms " North Siders " and " South Siders " are synonymous with the respective teams and their fans, setting up an enduring rivalry.

The Wings had built up a fierce rivalry with the Avalanche.

The rivalry heated up several-fold in 2007.

According to Consumer Reports, in the 1970s, the rivalry continued to heat up the market.

" He therefore set himself up in rivalry with John Lackland, youngest son of Henry II, and supported by Philip Augustus of France, and aided by William des Roches, seneschal of Anjou, he managed to enter Angers ( 18 April 1199 ) and there have himself recognized as count of the three countships of Anjou, Maine and Touraine, for which he did homage to the king of France.

He also supported Henry's rebellious sons, and encouraged Plantagenet disunity by making Henry's sons, rather than Henry himself, the feudal overlords of the Angevin territories in France ; but the rivalry amongst Henry's sons and Louis's own indecisiveness broke up the coalition ( 1173 – 1174 ) between them.

The Supreme Executive Committee, set up by Nasser to oversee the conduct of the war, attributed the repeated Egyptian defeats to the Nasser-Amer rivalry and to Amer's overall incompetence.

" He relates the tale of how Peter Pan cut off his hand and fed it to the crocodile, setting up the rivalry between them.

Miyamoto came up with many characters and plot concepts, but he eventually settled on a gorilla / carpenter / girlfriend love triangle that mirrored the rivalry between Bluto and Popeye for Olive Oyl.

Both sisters have refused to comment publicly about their feud and dysfunctional family relationships, though in an interview with John Kobal, Fontaine stated categorically that the so-called rivalry was a pure hoax, cooked up by the studio publicity hounds.

The rivalry has heated up the past few years, with both schools seeing great success on the gridiron.

Both Robert and his little sister Janet had piano lessons ; Smith said that Janet " was a piano prodigy, so sibling rivalry made me take up guitar because she couldn't get her fingers around the neck.

The issue of whether the Katipunan should be replaced by a revolutionary government was brought up by the Magdalo, and this eclipsed the rivalry issue.

A rivalry begins to develop between Murphy and her ex-husband, until one day another woman shows up with Bobby Jack's twin baby boys.

William was caught up in the rivalry for the throne after the death of Edward IV.

With Buckingham a sharp rivalry sprang up, and they only combined forces when endeavouring to bring about some evil measure, such as the ruin of the great Ormonde, who was an opponent of their policy and their schemes.

Another notable prolonged conflict was a rivalry with the young Paavo Lipponen on his way up.

Her Diana Fox persona climbs up the rank of Albion's Shadow Captains as Britannia and develops a rivalry with Lionheart.

Late in the 1971 rivalry game against Michigan in Ann Arbor, furious over what he thought was a missed defensive pass interference foul committed by Thom Darden of Michigan, Hayes stormed onto the field, launched a profanity-laced tirade at the referee, Jerry Markbreit, and tore up the sideline markers, receiving a 15-yard unsportsmanlike conduct penalty.

The original article had summed up the situation in terms of the long-term rivalry between Whitehaven and nearby Workington: “ Legend has it that one town ’ s miners had jam on their sandwiches and the other did not, but no one agrees on which town it was or whether they did it because they were snobs or peasants .” A reader from Maryport, a few miles further up the Cumbria coast ( which, as occasionally mentioned in discussions on the topic, used to have a jam factory ) reported that he had understood the term originally referred to people from Whitehaven, and this was echoed in the comments on the Whitehaven News article, suggesting that a former distinction between the Whitehaven " jam eaters " and Workington " high siders " had gradually been lost in the trading of insults across the Rugby pitch.

" The rivalry of Eudocia and Pulcheria came to a head when Eudocia left for the Holy Land, and openly supported Nestorism, " But she had been brought up in Athens in pagan ways ; she had ever been devoted to the literature of her native Greece.

Their rivalry heats up when a mutual friend, Myung Fang Lone, shows up.