sideshows

So in the end, the sideshows were as lousy as the players, coaches and refs, as lousy as the officiating has been throughout the playoffs.

USATODAY.com - Super Bowl referees foul, but then so was everything else 2006

KING: We had some issues this past week that some would call sideshows but others would call quite significant.

CNN Transcript Sep 24, 2006 2006

Oftentimes the score verges perilously on circus-music, recalls the sideshows at county fairs.

Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers Paul Rosenfeld 1918

Among the sideshows was a short shooting range where customers could try their luck with an air rifle at hitting a plate 20 yards away.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010

KURTZ: So you think that the whole business about the public option and Medicare and even the abortion debate have been kind of sideshows and we've taken our eye off the ball that this is really ...

CNN Transcript Dec 20, 2009 2009

KURTZ: So you think that the whole business about the public option and Medicare and even the abortion debate have been kind of sideshows and we've taken our eye off the ball that this is really ...

CNN Transcript Dec 20, 2009 2009

I love your style of writing and your 'sideshows'!

blog: Dramatics 2008

On Monday, Tsvangirai's lawyer George Bizos argued that high court judge Paddington Garwe should keep control of the proceedings and not allow "sideshows" at the magistrate's court.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2003

Woods said the "sideshows" would have important public and constitutional implications, which were not of the committee's making.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2001

He was referring to what he described as three "sideshows" of the committee: the interpretation of the report, the committee's response to a hard-hitting attack on Woods by Deputy President

ANC Daily News Briefing 2001