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[cissmiace]

Ok, so according to wiki

[GoodChild]

sporting could be read two ways:

the regular, pertaining to sports: the sporting event was quite nice today.

Secondary verbular (is that a word?) reading, meaning to wear or display: Here comes Ms. Clinton, sporting a lovely new pantsuit.

[cissmiace]

God that wiki lists how many different possibilites as to what form of cryptic this could be.

Reversals, anagrams, pure cryptic, double definition, hidden words

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptic_crossword

Oh and it also mentions that sometimes slang words are used, which if thats the case, could be difficult for people to crack if its an English game. We tend to have slang for every word in the dictionary Obscure ones like 'bobbins' which means rubbish could be here for a while if thats the case!

[cissmiace]

wow, double posting like a fiend today.

While I was just looking at some Bristel Goodman stuff, I was recearching other words meaning 'kill' It came back with smother.

[degravedi]

[cissmiace]

Ive just had a thought. Its been bugging me that weve not got anything that would help us with the answer.
For instance most clues would have how many letters are needed.
What if we have read it wrong? What if its:

Three-part, sporting acheivement smothered in it.

Three part refering to how many words, the length etc of the answer. 'Its a 3 parter'

[degravedi]

[cissmiace]

[degravedi]

[daemon666]

Just a bit of spec but could we be looking for a web address? All I'm thinking is if this clue, when solved, just gives us a word, there's not much to go on.

When viewing sports results the win, loss and draw are usually represented by W, L and D. "Three-part sporting achievement" could refer to www as in the beginning of an address. Only problem is that leaves us with "covered in it" for the rest of the address.

Unless the format is www.(word for covered in).it

I don't know, just throwing this out there for someone to expand on but I'm definitely interested and all work today is on hold til I've figured this out.

[cissmiace]

[degravedi]

[degravedi]

[cissmiace]

[ALISDAIRPARK]

definitions of smother FWIW:
To suffocate.
To deprive (a fire) of the oxygen necessary for combustion.
To conceal, suppress, or hide
To cover thickly
To lavish a surfeit of a given emotion on (someone):

There's also a lot of synonyms, so I think without another clue we're struggling.

The other possibility is that while www is tempting it could be wrong. If this is a cryptic clue it usually leads to one word or phrase that once you've got it makes sense (sometimes).