Democrats reacted with glee at the prospect of an intramural fight in the Republican Party.

Democrats, usually split by their own intramural fights, say they are delighted by the spectacle of Republicans squabbling among themselves.

The intramural fight in New Jersey could not have come at a worse time for Democratic legislators here.

General Clark dismissed attacks on him as "the old style of politics," saying he would not engage in intramural fights with other Democrats.

But there was an even more powerful political undercurrent in today's debate: an intramural fight between conservatives and moderates within the Republican majority over policy and legislative direction.

"But the whole Red Thursday ruckus was an intramural fight amongst the top boys; everybody knows that."

Not 24 hours after the intramural fight in Bergen County spilled into news reports, Mr. Corzine was on his way there to campaign.

Three and a half years after an intramural fight shattered their unity, Major League Baseball umpires are reuniting with the union that emerged from their 1999 dispute.

Or it might have triggered one of those intramural fights.

Umpires are split basically along league lines as a result of the intramural fight for control of the union.