The word tarnish has appeared in 60 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on Aug. 25 in “Spanish Women’s Squad Refuses to Play Until Soccer Chief Resigns” by Rachel Chaundler:
Only hours after the head of the Spanish soccer federation insisted he would not step down for grabbing and kissing a member of Spain’s championship team at the Women’s World Cup medals ceremony last weekend in Australia, players on the squad announced on Friday that they would refuse to play until he was gone.
… The players concluded their statement calling for “real changes, both sporting and structural, that help the National Team to continue growing,” and added, “It fills us with sadness that such an unacceptable event is managing to tarnish the greatest sporting success of Spanish women’s football.”
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