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* Mostly averted in ''Manga/SlamDunk'', as most of the teams Shohoku faces play fair and are good sports, and at most may have just one or two players with bad attitudes (in fact, the rival team's stars are usually ''nicer'' than the protagonists themselves). The closest thing to this trope is Team Toyotama, Shohoku's first opponents in the national tournament, who are known for provoking their opponents with TrashTalk and committing fouls when out of the referee's sight.
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** For added humor, at one point Rayne reacts to the standard {{Glurge}} moment from the other team by [[SmiteMeOMightySmiter looking up at the sky and saying "I don't care, we're playing to win."]] A near-miss from a BoltOfDivineRetribution convinces him to throw the game.
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** For added humor, at one point Rayne reacts to the standard {{Glurge}} moment from the other team by [[SmiteMeOMightySmiter looking up at the sky and saying "I don't care, we're playing to win."]] A near-miss [[NearMisses near-miss]] from a BoltOfDivineRetribution convinces him to throw the game.
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* Subverted in ''Anime/{{Overtake}}''. Belsorriso are initially set up as this: they're the dominant force in Japanese Formula 4, and their second driver Toshiki is first seen insulting Komaki Motors for being a "mobile chicane". However, the rest of the team is perfectly polite, their on-track conduct is impeccable, and their boss is not only a NiceGuy but an old friend of Komaki's boss. Even Toshiki's harsh attitude turns out to have been him projecting his own frustrations and insecurities onto Komaki, and by the final episode, he's undergone enough CharaterDevelopment to soften up.
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* Not a sports team, but in ''Anime/WakeUpGirls'', I-1 club is essentially this, being Japan's top IdolSinger group (and an Music/AKB48) {{Expy}}) enduring a soulless training regimen where members can be fired for a single screwup (and in the backstory, Mayu was essentially [[spoiler:fired for standing up for her friend]]).
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* Not a sports team, but in ''Anime/WakeUpGirls'', I-1 club is essentially this, being Japan's top IdolSinger group (and an Music/AKB48) Music/AKB48 {{Expy}}) enduring a soulless training regimen where members can be fired for a single screwup (and in the backstory, Mayu was essentially [[spoiler:fired for standing up for her friend]]).
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* Team Hostile Takeover Bank (Chick Hicks' sponsor) from ''WesternAnimation/Cars1''. Francesco in ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars 2}}'' as well, if only for his arrogance.
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** ''WesternAnimation/Cars1'' has Chick Hicks, who's even more arrogant than Lightning prior to his character development, much more abrasive, and notorious for causing deliberate crashes in order to gain an advantage. He inverts the trope's usual success level, though, having been AlwaysSecondBest to Strip "The King" Weathers throughout his career. [[spoiler:In the climax, his frustration at this boils over and he tips Weathers into a career-ending crash. Lightning abandons the race to help him, [[TheBadGuyWins and Hicks wins the Piston Cup]], [[MeaninglessVillainVictory though he also loses his shot at the Dinoco sponsorship as well as any respect he may have had left]]]]. His pit crew aren't much better, arrogantly insulting Lightning's pit crew.
** ''WesternAnimation/Cars2'' has Francescoin ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars 2}}'' Bernoulli, who's seen as well, if only Lightning's main rival for the Piston Cup and just as arrogant as Chick Hicks was. Ultimately subverted as, unlike Hicks, he actually has the skill ([[CripplingOverspecialisation at least on flat roads]]) to back up his arrogance.boasting, races perfectly cleanly and fairly, and manages to befriend Lightning by the end of the film.
** ''WesternAnimation/Cars3'' has Jackson Storm, who is ([[RuleOfThree once again]]) extremely arrogant and disrespectful towards Lightning, who by this stage is a beloved veteran. He wears a sinister black-and-midnight-blue livery, and races with a cold, data-driven surgical precision that deeply contrasts with Lightning's sheer passion. That surgical precision makes him almost unbeatable but also means that, like Francesco, his driving is perfectly clean... [[spoiler:until the finale when, like Hicks, his frustration boils over and he tries to ram Cruz into the wall. It goes significantly worse for him than it did for Hicks, as Cruz flips over him and proceeds to win the race.]]
** ''WesternAnimation/Cars1'' has Chick Hicks, who's even more arrogant than Lightning prior to his character development, much more abrasive, and notorious for causing deliberate crashes in order to gain an advantage. He inverts the trope's usual success level, though, having been AlwaysSecondBest to Strip "The King" Weathers throughout his career. [[spoiler:In the climax, his frustration at this boils over and he tips Weathers into a career-ending crash. Lightning abandons the race to help him, [[TheBadGuyWins and Hicks wins the Piston Cup]], [[MeaninglessVillainVictory though he also loses his shot at the Dinoco sponsorship as well as any respect he may have had left]]]]. His pit crew aren't much better, arrogantly insulting Lightning's pit crew.
** ''WesternAnimation/Cars2'' has Francesco
** ''WesternAnimation/Cars3'' has Jackson Storm, who is ([[RuleOfThree once again]]) extremely arrogant and disrespectful towards Lightning, who by this stage is a beloved veteran. He wears a sinister black-and-midnight-blue livery, and races with a cold, data-driven surgical precision that deeply contrasts with Lightning's sheer passion. That surgical precision makes him almost unbeatable but also means that, like Francesco, his driving is perfectly clean... [[spoiler:until the finale when, like Hicks, his frustration boils over and he tries to ram Cruz into the wall. It goes significantly worse for him than it did for Hicks, as Cruz flips over him and proceeds to win the race.]]
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* The "Bad Boy" Detroit Pistons of the Late 80's and Early 90's were a tough team that embraced their "villain" image. Headlined by stars Bill Laimbeer and Isaiah Thomas, The Pistons' gritty and physical defensive style of play pushed the limits of legality and made a ton of enemies with the Celtics, Bulls, Lakers, and many others. It was [[IntendedAudienceReaction practically intended]] [[HateSink on their part]], because they wanted to bully and crush teams physically and mentally on their way to winning.
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* The "Bad Boy" Detroit Pistons of the Late 80's and Early 90's were a tough team that fully embraced their "villain" image. Headlined by stars Bill Laimbeer and Isaiah Thomas, The Pistons' gritty and physical defensive style of play pushed the limits of legality agiated their opponents and made a ton of enemies with the Celtics, Bulls, Lakers, and many others. It was [[IntendedAudienceReaction practically intended]] [[HateSink on their part]], because they wanted to bully and crush teams physically and mentally on their way to winning. Infamously, When they were finally defeated by the Bulls in the 1991 playoffs, ending a two-year reign as champions, [[SoreLoser all but three players on the Pistons]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4K9jm1pFjSE&t=96s&ab_channel=RyanVanDusen walked off the court without congratulating the victorious Bulls]].
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** Another episode features Ace of Diamonds and His Jewels, an exhibition softball team [[{{Expy}} in the style of]] the Harlem Globetrotters. Hank coaches the Arlen team to put up a token resistance against the celebrity team, who - [[MinorInjuryUnderreaction unused to their opponents bunting]] - immediately become the OpposingSportsTeam themselves, trouncing the amateur team and [[KickTheDog walking away with the giant novelty check]], which was supposed to go to charity.
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** Another episode features Ace of Diamonds and His Jewels, an exhibition softball team [[{{Expy}} in the style of]] the Harlem Globetrotters. Hank coaches the Arlen team to put up a token resistance against the celebrity team, who - [[MinorInjuryUnderreaction [[MinorInjuryOverreaction unused to their opponents bunting]] - immediately become the OpposingSportsTeam themselves, stop clowning around, trouncing the amateur team and [[KickTheDog walking away with the giant novelty check]], which was supposed to go to charity.
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** Another episode features Ace of Diamonds and His Jewels, an exhibition softball team [[{{Expy}} in the style of]] the Harlem Globetrotters. Hank coaches the Arlen team to put up a token resistance against the celebrity team, who - [[MinorInjuryUnderreaction unused to their opponents bunting]] - immediately become the OpposingSportsTeam themselves, trouncing the amateur team and [[KickTheDog walking away with the giant novelty check]], which was supposed to go to charity.
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** The most commonly seen Opposing Sports Team are the Gorira Alliance, a gang of GonkyFemme delinquents who often appear whenever Rentarou's family needs a team to compete against. After their first appearance, they're much friendlier to the family and have no issue helping the family out. When Ahko's former friends run afoul of them, the leader is willing to let them off with a warning when they claim to know Karane.
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* In the Australian miniseries [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Challenge_(miniseries) ''The Challenge'']], about the first Australian sailing team to win the America’s Cup, the defending American champions definitely come off as this. American captain Dennis Conner is rude to everyone, keeps attempting to get the Australian team disqualified, and gets mad at his own bosses in the New York Yacht Club for not rigging things far ''enough'' in his favor—- “Don’t you think they’re going a bit too far with this ‘fair play’ thing?” The British Victory Challenge are a lighter version, with team owner Peter de Savary being an UpperClassTwit and {{Troll}} who gets on the Australians’ nerves and almost crashes a motorboat into their yacht while drunk but ends up being more of a FriendlyEnemy in the end.
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* ''Theater/TheCollegeWidow1904'': Atwater and Bingham are rival universities in every aspect but it all crystallizes during the football seasons. Each year, both institutions subject their teams to grueling training and make sure to hand-pick all the best high school graduates.[[note]]Fun fact: Atwater and Bingham have a TruthInTelevision rivalry known as the Monon Bell[[/note]]
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* ''Theater/TheCollegeWidow1904'': ''Theatre/TheCollegeWidow1904'': Atwater and Bingham are rival universities in every aspect but it all crystallizes during the football seasons. Each year, both institutions subject their teams to grueling training and make sure to hand-pick all the best high school graduates.[[note]]Fun fact: Atwater and Bingham have a TruthInTelevision rivalry known as the Monon Bell[[/note]]
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* All three of the ''Film/MajorLeague'' movies have this, complete with playing a BigGame against the rival team at the end. In the first two films the good guys are playing for the Cleveland Indians[[note]]now the Cleveland Guardians[[/note]] Major League Baseball team and in the first film they have to face the much better New York Yankees team who routinely dominate the Indians. The Yankees seem destined to cruise to first place until [[MiracleRally a late season rally]] by the Indians forces the two teams to face each other in the playoffs. In the second film the Chicago White Sox become their opponents, and both the rivalry and unsportsmanlike tactics heat up after {{Jerkass}} star player Jack Parkman (who had been acquired by the Indians between seasons), is traded to the White Sox in the middle of the season and he makes it his mission to beat the Indians. The third film, which is only tangentially related to the first two, involves a scrappy minor league team trying to prove itself against their arrogant big league counterpart.
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* UsefulNotes/ColdWar musical ''Theatre/{{Chess}}'' subverts the trope by introducing a InternationalShowdownByProxy chess championship between an American and a Russian, but then revealing the American to be a bit of a {{Jerkass}} and ending the first act with the Russian winning the title and [[DefectorFromCommieLand defecting]].
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* In ''Series/{{Degrassi}}'', Lakehurst starts out as this. It gets worse.
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In ProfessionalWrestling, usually with {{Tag Team}}s, an Opposing Sports Team is usually a team full of {{Heel}}s, while the hero team usually consists of the {{Face}}s.
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* All three of the ''Film/MajorLeague'' movies have this, complete with playing a BigGame against the rival team at the end. In the first two films the good guys are playing for the Cleveland Indians[[note]]now the Cleveland Guardians[[/note]] Major League Baseball team and in the first film they have to face the much better New York Yankees team who routinely dominate the Indians. The Yankees seem destined to cruise to first place until [[MiracleRally a late season rally]] by the Indians forces the two teams to face each other in the playoffs. In the second film the Chicago White Sox become their opponents, and both the rivalry and unsportsmanlike tactics heat up after {{Jerkass}} star player Jack Parkman (who had been acquired by the Indians between seasons), is traded to the White Sox in the middle of the season and he makes it his mission to beat the Indians. The third film, which is only tangentially related to the first two, involves a scrappy minor league team trying to prove itself against their arrogant big league counterpart.
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* ''Manga/The100GirlfriendsWhoReallyReallyReallyReallyReallyLoveYou'' has three examples:
** The mayor of Kiraisugi-chou hires professional athletes to compete against Sukisugi-chou during the annual athletics festival.
** Iku's introduction arc has the Jurassic High Baseball Team, who resort to underhanded tactics and have bad attitudes, though the Volume 5 bonus pages show them going out to eat with Rentarou's family after the game, and they later show up for the family's idol performance.
** The most commonly seen Opposing Sports Team are the Gorira Alliance, a gang of GonkyFemme delinquents who often appear whenever Rentarou's family needs a team to compete against. After their first appearance, they're much friendlier to the family and have no issue helping the family out. When Ahko's former friends run afoul of them, the leader is willing to let them off with a warning when they claim to know Karane.
** The mayor of Kiraisugi-chou hires professional athletes to compete against Sukisugi-chou during the annual athletics festival.
** Iku's introduction arc has the Jurassic High Baseball Team, who resort to underhanded tactics and have bad attitudes, though the Volume 5 bonus pages show them going out to eat with Rentarou's family after the game, and they later show up for the family's idol performance.
** The most commonly seen Opposing Sports Team are the Gorira Alliance, a gang of GonkyFemme delinquents who often appear whenever Rentarou's family needs a team to compete against. After their first appearance, they're much friendlier to the family and have no issue helping the family out. When Ahko's former friends run afoul of them, the leader is willing to let them off with a warning when they claim to know Karane.
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* ''VideoGame/{{WarioWare}} Smooth Moves'' has Team Dinosaur as the opposing sports team to the one Mona is cheerleading for. The team is made up of the antagonists from the local PredatoryBusiness.
* In ''VideoGame/SuperMarioStrikers'' (aka ''Mario Smash Football''), the final battle of the last Super Cup is a match against [[spoiler:Team Omega, robots based on Next-Level Games's mascot.]] They're the strongest team in the game, both due to their perfect stats and because [[spoiler:they all act as captains, which means they can all use super shots.]]
** This trend continues with Petey Pirahna's team in the final of ''VideoGame/MarioStrikersCharged'', the sequel.
* In ''VideoGame/SuperMarioStrikers'' (aka ''Mario Smash Football''), the final battle of the last Super Cup is a match against [[spoiler:Team Omega, robots based on Next-Level Games's mascot.]] They're the strongest team in the game, both due to their perfect stats and because [[spoiler:they all act as captains, which means they can all use super shots.]]
** This trend continues with Petey Pirahna's team in the final of ''VideoGame/MarioStrikersCharged'', the sequel.
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* In ''VideoGame/SuperMarioStrikers'' (aka ''Mario Smash Football''), the final battle of the last Super Cup is a match against [[spoiler:Team Omega, robots based on Next-Level Games's mascot.]] They're the strongest team in the game, both due to their perfect stats and because [[spoiler:they all act as captains, which means they can all use super shots.]]
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* Subverted in ''VideoGame/InazumaEleven'' with Teikoku Academy's soccer team. They start out giving this impression, but halfway through it turns out that all the actual villainy is committed by their "commander"/coach and some of his henchmen, all behind the backs of the actual players. The players themselves actually turn out to be perfectly nice people (if a bit intimidating due to their skill and military-grade discipline) and revolt when they find out about their coach. Their team captain Kidou even voluntarily offers to forfeit the match because of it, but Endou's not the type to take an easy victory on a technicality.
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** Subvertedin ''VideoGame/InazumaEleven'' with Teikoku Academy's soccer team. They start out giving this impression, but halfway through it turns out that all the actual villainy is committed by their "commander"/coach and some of his henchmen, all behind the backs of the actual players. The players themselves actually turn out to be perfectly nice people (if a bit intimidating due to their skill and military-grade discipline) and revolt when they find out about their coach. Their team captain Kidou even voluntarily offers to forfeit the match because of it, but Endou's not the type to take an easy victory on a technicality.
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* ''Literature/TheOtherGirl'': Most of the baseball players in Shane's school belong to one of two teams: the Cardinals and the Mustangs. Shane is a Cardinal, and TheBully Nico is a Mustang. The Mustangs have gone to regionals for the last five years, unlike the Cardinals. Shane is one of the Cardinals' best players, and it's implied that part of the reason Nico [[ForcedOutOfTheCloset outs him as trans]] is to make the Cardinals turn on each other. During the regionals, Nico tries to distract Shane by wiggling his hips and yelling "You throw like a girl!"
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* ''Literature/TheOtherGirl'': ''Literature/TheOtherBoy'': Most of the baseball players in Shane's school belong to one of two teams: the Cardinals and the Mustangs. Shane is a Cardinal, and TheBully Nico is a Mustang. The Mustangs have gone to regionals for the last five years, unlike the Cardinals. Shane is one of the Cardinals' best players, and it's implied that part of the reason Nico [[ForcedOutOfTheCloset outs him as trans]] is to make the Cardinals turn on each other. During the regionals, Nico tries to distract Shane by wiggling his hips and yelling "You throw like a girl!"
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The villains of any sports series or movie, the Opposing Sports Team is the number one team before the main hero's eventual victory. They seem to be made up of {{Designated Villain}}s and [[VillainyFreeVillain Villainy Free Villains]], but they are not: they got to this point not because of TeamSpirit, but because of either [[LoopholeAbuse cheating]] and/or bullying and abusive behaviour or at the best of times a [[TrainingFromHell grueling, soulless regimen]] that goes against whatever [[AnAesop the Aesop]] of the show is. They almost always wear a uniform that is mostly black. These may be ThePsychoRangers to sports what the StopHavingFunGuys are to video games; the [[CombatPragmatist types who play the game solely to win, and will resort to any means to do so]].
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The villains of any sports series or movie, the Opposing Sports Team is the number one team before the main hero's eventual victory. They seem to be made up of {{Designated Villain}}s and [[VillainyFreeVillain Villainy Free Villains]], but they are not: they got to this point not because of TeamSpirit, but because of either [[LoopholeAbuse cheating]] and/or bullying and abusive behaviour or at the best of times a [[TrainingFromHell grueling, soulless regimen]] that goes against whatever [[AnAesop the Aesop]] of the show is. [[EvilWearsBlack They almost always wear a uniform that is mostly black.black]]. These may be ThePsychoRangers to sports what the StopHavingFunGuys are to video games; the [[CombatPragmatist types who play the game solely to win, and will resort to any means to do so]].
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* ''Fanfic/RunAtTheCup'': Downplayed. The Piltover Lone Stars are unquestionably the main rivals of the Zaun Sumprats [[spoiler:and face them in the finals]], but their victories are fairly earned. They do have a toxic [[spoiler:and abusive]] locker room culture. They also get a partial redemption after [[spoiler:the Landsman Scandal. Their former head coach is fired and Landsman is demoted, with the new head coach making it clear that he would prefer to cut Landsman entirely]].
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* The Babylon Rogues from ''VideoGame/SonicRiders'' could count as this, being more jerkish counterparts to Team Sonic, not to mention being their main rivals in the Extreme Gear tournament.
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See also TechnicianVersusPerformer. JerkJock is about individual athletes who are jerks, but there is some overlap, in that they have similar attitudes of cruelty, aggression, the acceptability of [[KickTheDog kicking dogs]] and abuse of all the privileges of being a winning athlete.
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See also TechnicianVersusPerformer.TechnicianVersusPerformer, OutclassedAtTheGym. JerkJock is about individual athletes who are jerks, but there is some overlap, in that they have similar attitudes of cruelty, aggression, the acceptability of [[KickTheDog kicking dogs]] and abuse of all the privileges of being a winning athlete.