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NASCAR
NASCAR stands for The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing. The sanctioning body for many racing series' including, but not limited to, Winston Cup, Busch Grand National, and Craftsman Supertruck. NASCAR creates and enforces rules to ensure that cars racing against each other are evenly matched and as safe as possible. NASCAR also establishes the racing schedule and location of races that determine the racing season.
Golf
Golf is a game played on a large open course with 9 or 18 holes; the object is use as few strokes as possible in playing all the holes.
Baseball
Baseball is a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of 9 players; teams take turns at bat trying to score run.
A baseball is the sphere that baseball players throw, hit, catch and field. A baseball's surface is two pieces of cowhide stitched together with red thread, which creates seams to grip when throwing. A baseball's inside is comprised of layers of yarn and rubber wrapped around a cork core. An official baseball must have a circumference between 22.9 and 23.5 centimeters and weigh between 5 and 5½ ounces.
Soccer
Soccer is a ball game in which two teams of 11 players try to kick or head a ball into the opponents' goal.
Basketball
Basketball is a game played on a court by two opposing teams of 5 players; points are scored by throwing the basketball through an elevated horizontal hoop.
Hockey
Hockey is a game played on an ice rink by two opposing teams of 6 skaters each who try to knock a flat round puck into the opponents' goal with hockey sticksEvents
Super Bowl
The Super Bowl is the championship football game of the NFL,
played between the champions of the AFC and NFC at a neutral site
each January; it is the culmination of the NFL playoffs.
The Masters
Looking to provide a service to golf by hosting a tournament, Bobby Jones and Clifford Roberts decided to hold an annual event beginning in 1934. The final decision was made at a meeting in New York at the office of member W. Alton Jones. Roberts proposed the event be called the Masters Tournament, but Bobby Jones objected thinking it too presumptuous. The name Augusta National Invitation Tournament was adopted and the title was used for five years until 1939 when Jones relented and the name was officially changed.
World Series
The series that constitutes the playoff for the baseball championship.
World Series Overview
Before the birth of the World Series in 1903, there were other
postseason championships that took place as early as 1884. Although
they are not officially recognized as part of World Series history,
they provide a basis for the establishment of what has become
recognized as "The Fall Classic."
The World Series is Don Larsen's perfect game. The Babe's called
shot. Willie Mays robbing Vic Wertz.
It's Bob Gibson fanning 17. Kirk Gibson making us believe what we just saw. Willie McCovey's last-out line drive.
It's also Enos Slaughter's mad dash. Bill Wambsganss' unassisted triple play. Christy Mathewson's three shutouts in six days.
And who can forget Reggie Jackson going back-to-back-to-back? Carlton Fisk waving it fair? Or Joe Carter connecting off the Wild Thing?
The Fall Classic has provided us with many magical moments. The first World Series, in 1903, was a best-of-nine affair arranged between the champions of the older National League (founded in 1876) and the American League. The AL's Boston Pilgrims upset the Pittsburgh Pirates, 5 games to 3.
Carlton Fisk slams a 12th-inning home run to give Boston the sixth game of the 1975 World Series.
The 1904 NL champion New York Giants refused to play Boston the following year, so there was no Series. But the league presidents smoothed out their differences, and the Series resumed in 1905, when the Giants agreed to play Philadelphia in a best-of-7 game series.
Since then the World Series has followed the best-of-seven format -- except from 1919-21, when it returned briefly to best-of-nine.
The rest, as they say, is history. Catch all of it here -- every miraculous moment -- from Bill Mazeroski's homer to Larsen's perfect game to Bill Buckner's bungle. For more see:
NBA Championship
The basketball championship series of the NBA. The NBA is a professional basketball league created in 1949 in the US and Canada.
Olympics
The Olympics are the modern revival of the ancient games held
once every 4 years in a selected country.