Sports

The 2016 Summer Olympics, officially branded Rio 2016, made history as the first Games held in South America and a Portuguese-speaking nation, taking place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from August 5 to 21, 2016. Announced as host city on October 2, 2009, Rio welcomed 11,...

North America hosts numerous professional and semi-professional women's sports leagues, predominantly in the United States, featuring top-tier competitions in team sports like basketball, soccer, and ice hockey, as well as individual sports. While some leagues, such as the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA)...

Swimming in India, while popular for leisure, is striving for professional recognition under the Swimming Federation of India (SFI), formed by a merger of the National Swimming Association and the Indian Swimming Federation. Indian swimmers have recently achieved historic milestones, with Sajan Prakash...

The 1992 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXV Olympiad and branded as Barcelona '92, took place from July 25 to August 9, 1992, in Barcelona, Spain. These games were historically significant, being the first since the end of the Cold War and the first unaffected by boycotts since 1972, nota...

The use of "Redskins" as a sports team name is a central part of a broader controversy concerning offensive Native American names and symbols, as the term itself is now widely regarded as disparaging. The most prominent team, the NFL's Washington Redskins, faced decades of campaigns to change its name, ultimately yielding to investor a...

In NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) college football, there is no official NCAA-hosted national championship, leading it to be known as a "mythical national championship." Historically, various independent organizations and individuals, called "selectors," have declared champions, often leading to controversy; for exampl...

The 2024 LIV Golf League, its third season, comprises thirteen 54-hole tournaments without a cut, featuring 48 players, and culminates in a team championship. Entry for new players was highly competitive, with Andy Ogletree securing a spot via the Asian Tour, while Kalle Samooja, Jinichiro Kozuma, and Kieran Vincent triumphed at the in...

U Sports football represents the highest level of amateur Canadian university football, featuring 27 teams across four athletic conferences whose champions compete in national semifinal bowl games leading to the prestigious Vanier Cup championship. The sport boasts a rich history, tracing its origins to the first documented North Ameri...

Wine competitions are organized events where trained judges or consumers blindly taste and rate various wines to ensure unbiased comparisons. While some critics question their reliability, many believe these competitions have significantly contributed to improving wine quality globally.

Most competitions award medals—br...

The 2025 Women's Rugby World Cup is set to be a landmark event, held in England from 22 August to 27 September 2025. This will be England's second time hosting the tournament, which has been officially rebranded as the "Women's Rugby World Cup" since October 2023, and marks its return to a traditional ...

Sports science is a multidisciplinary field dedicated to understanding how the healthy human body performs during exercise and how physical activity promotes health and peak performance, integrating areas such as physiology, psychology, and biomechanics. Its origins date back to Ancient Greece, notably with physician Galen (131–201 AD)...

A sports league is a structured collective of individual athletes, teams, or clubs, formally organized for competitive play within a specific sport to accrue points and ultimately determine an overall champion. These entities span a spectrum from localized amateur groups to complex, multi-million dollar international professional organ...