A desperate true-life tale of a once-mighty entertainment medium, beset on all sides by ruthless new competitors, struggling to retain its viability!

He was known for his quiet, unassuming nature off the bike who became a ruthless competitor once the races began.

Fernando Alonso is a ruthless competitor and it will be interesting to see if he can get on a run.

He went straight from high school into the contracting business, where he proved an alert and ruthless competitor.

"Amazon is a particularly farsighted, powerful, and ruthless competitor," he says.

In the television business, he is known as a ruthless competitor whose recklessness is a strength and a weakness.

A ruthless competitor, he can be unflinchingly aggressive.

Once again, Monica Seles proved herself the most ruthless competitor in tennis, and defended her No. 1 ranking from start to finish.

Defensive and shy, he made himself into a fierce, sometimes ruthless competitor and Boston's second gold-medal Connolly.

A ruthless competitor, perhaps, but a "classy" fellow, "exceptionally well mannered, modest, restrained, generous and considerate of others."