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Big Sky (American TV series)
Big Sky, ABC crime drama (2020–2023) created by David E. Kelley from C.J. Box's The Highway and The Bitterroots; 47 episodes, three seasons, starring Kylie Bunbury and Katheryn Winnick, canceled after season 3, streaming on Hulu and Disney+.
Big Sky Conference
Big Sky Conference, founded 1963 and named from A.B. Guthrie's novel The Big Sky, is an NCAA Division I FCS conference of 11 full members in seven western states, 16 sports, and 13 NCAA team championships, headquartered in Farmington, Utah.
Big Sky Resort
Big Sky Resort, Montana ski resort opened 1973 by broadcaster Chet Huntley, owned by Boyne Resorts since 1976. 5,850 skiable acres, 11,166-foot Lone Peak, 40 lifts, third largest in North America.
Big Snow American Dream
Big Snow American Dream, indoor real-snow ski resort at American Dream mall, East Rutherford NJ; opened December 2019; 160-foot vertical drop, 4 skiable acres, 28°F year-round.
Big South Conference
Big South Conference: NCAA Division I athletic conference founded August 21, 1983 in the southeastern US; nine members in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia; 18 championship sports; football via the OVC-Big South Football Association.
Big Special
Big Special are an English rock duo from the Black Country, West Midlands, of Joe Hicklin and Callum Moloney, blending post-punk, blues, and spoken word on the albums Postindustrial Hometown Blues (2024) and National Average (2025).
Big Spring, TX Micro Area
Big Spring, TX Micro Area (CBSA 13700) is an OMB-designated micropolitan statistical area in West Texas covering Howard County, centered on the city of Big Spring; population 32,290 across 900.8 square miles per ACS 2024 5-year data.
Big Stan
Big Stan is a 2007 American prison comedy, Rob Schneider's directorial debut, starring Schneider as a con man who trains with a martial arts master (David Carradine) before prison.
Big Star
Big Star, an American power pop band formed in Memphis in 1971 by Alex Chilton, Chris Bell, Jody Stephens, and Andy Hummel, made #1 Record, Radio City, and Third, cult albums that shaped alternative rock.
Big Sur
Big Sur is a 90-mile rugged California coastal region between Carmel and San Simeon along Highway 1, named from Spanish El Sur Grande, defined by the 1937 scenic highway, chronic landslides, and recurring wildfires.
Big Switch Networks
Big Switch Networks was a Santa Clara, California data-center networking startup founded in 2010 by Guido Appenzeller and Kyle Forster, acquired by Arista Networks in 2020.
Big Syke
Big Syke (Tyruss Himes, 1968-2016), Inglewood-born West Coast gangsta rapper; member of 2Pac's Thug Life and the Outlawz (as Moozaliny), featured on All Eyez on Me, and solo artist on Be Yo' Self and Big Syke Daddy.
Big Tech
Big Tech, also called Tech Giants, is the group of dominant US technology companies, chiefly Amazon, Apple, Meta, Google, and Microsoft, controlling search, social media, and e-commerce.
Big Ten Conference
Big Ten Conference, an NCAA Division I collegiate athletic conference founded in 1896 in Chicago; 18 member universities since 2024, 28 sponsored sports, $1.47 billion FY2025 revenue, and the Big Ten Academic Alliance research consortium.
Big Ten Football Championship Game
Big Ten Football Championship Game: annual Big Ten title game since 2011 at Lucas Oil Stadium, Indianapolis; winner gets the Stagg Trophy and CFP berth; Indiana beat Ohio State 13-10 in 2025.
Big Ten Network
Big Ten Network (BTN) is the first national conference-owned college sports TV network, launched August 30, 2007 as a 20-year Big Ten-Fox joint venture, now majority-owned by Fox at about 61 percent, with 24/7 coverage, B1G+ streaming, and the StudentU production program.
Big tent
Big tent describes a political party built as a broad coalition of ideological factions and voter groups rather than one ideology. Also called the catch-all (Volkspartei) party; classic cases include the U.S. major parties, Canada's Liberals, and India's Congress.
Big Tex
Big Tex is the 55-foot cowboy statue and official greeter of the State Fair of Texas at Fair Park, Dallas, famous for "Howdy, Folks!" Originally a 49-foot Kerens, Texas Santa Claus bought for $750, he debuted in 1952, burned in 2012, returned in 2013, and wears size 96 Lucchese boots.
Big Thicket Biosphere Reserve
Big Thicket Biosphere Reserve: UNESCO Man and the Biosphere designation (December 15, 1981) centered on Big Thicket National Preserve, southeast Texas; one of 46 U.S. biosphere reserves protecting a biodiverse biological crossroads.
Big Thief
Big Thief: Brooklyn indie folk-rock band formed 2015, led by Adrianne Lenker with Buck Meek and James Krivchenia; six albums on Saddle Creek and 4AD, Grammy-nominated, Oleartchik departed 2024.
Big things (Australia)
Big Things are Australia's oversized roadside sculptures of everyday objects, over 1,000 nationwide, beginning with Ploddy the Dinosaur (1963) and the Big Banana (1964), celebrating regional products and identity.
Big Three (automobile manufacturers)
The Big Three, now often called the Detroit Three, are General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler, which made 95 percent of American cars by the mid-1950s.
Big Three (credit rating agencies)
The Big Three are Moody's, S&P Global Ratings, and Fitch Ratings, the three credit rating agencies that together issue roughly 97% of the world's credit ratings.
Big Three (Italy)
The Big Three of Italian football are Juventus, Inter Milan, and AC Milan, the top three in all-time Serie A titles and winners of all 12 of Italy's European Cups.
Big Three (management consultancies)
The Big Three, often abbreviated MBB, are the strategy consulting firms McKinsey & Company, Boston Consulting Group, and Bain & Company, widely regarded as management consulting's most prestigious firms.
Big Three (Miami Heat)
The Big Three (Miami Heat): LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, and Chris Bosh, 2010-2014; four straight NBA Finals, championships in 2012 and 2013, formed after 'The Decision' with discounted contracts.
Big Three (Spain)
Big Three (Spain), los tres grandes: Real Madrid, FC Barcelona, and Atlético de Madrid, the dominant clubs of La Liga. They hold 76 of 93 league titles and 70.5% of measured club economic variables (2008–2019).
Big Three (tennis)
Big Three (tennis) refers to Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, and Novak Djokovic, who won 66 Grand Slam titles between 2003 and 2023; Djokovic holds the record 24 majors and Nadal a record 14 French Opens.
Big Three (World War II)
Big Three (World War II): Great Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union, led by Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin, the Grand Alliance against the Axis, formalized by the January 1, 1942 Declaration by United Nations and dissolved into the Cold War after Tehran, Yalta, and Potsdam.
Big Three television networks
The Big Three television networks were NBC, CBS, and ABC, which together drew over 90 percent of American TV audiences from the 1950s through the 1970s.