If you have a sporting chance of doing something, it is quite likely that you will do that thing. There was a sporting chance they would meet, but not necessarily at the party
involving risk or willingness to take a risk; "a sporting chance"; "sporting blood" relating to or used in sports; "sporting events"; "sporting equipment
preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially games of chance; "led a dissipated life"; "a betting man"; "a card-playing son of a bitch"; "a gambling fool"; "sporting gents and their ladies"