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Sports day
Sports day: a school event, typically a day or afternoon of athletics contests such as races and the high jump (British usage); also Japan's Taiiku no Hi holiday, the UN's 6 April International Day of Sport for Development and Peace, and European School Sport Day.
Sports Direct
Sports Direct, also known as SportsDirect.com, is a British discount sportswear retail brand founded by Mike Ashley in Maidenhead in 1982, now a fascia within Frasers Group plc.
Sports drink
Sports drink: also called carbohydrate-electrolyte or isotonic drinks. Beverages replacing fluid, electrolytes, and carbohydrate during exercise; invented as Gatorade at the University of Florida in 1965, most useful beyond about an hour of continuous exertion.
Sports economics
Sports economics is the branch of economics that studies sporting contests as economic objects, covering tournament and league design, athlete labor markets, club and media organization, and the public finance of stadiums and mega-events.
Sports equipment
Sports equipment covers devices, implements, apparel and protective gear used in laboratory, training and competitive sport. Key aspects: biomechanical injury-prevention design, advanced materials, governing-body equipment rules, and adaptive Para sport equipment access.
Sports fields
Sports fields: prepared grass or artificial-turf grounds for organized sport, from park pitches to stadiums. Covers their history in public parks, natural versus synthetic turf trade-offs, and access equity.
Sports governing body
Sports governing body: an organization (international federation, national governing body) holding recognized authority over a sport's rules, competitions, and discipline; examples include FIFA, the IOC-recognized IFs, and national NGBs, organized in pyramids from grassroots to elite level.
Sports Illustrated
Sports Illustrated (SI), American sports magazine launched August 16, 1954 by Time Inc. under Henry Luce; first Time Inc. title with bylines, home of the 1964-debut Swimsuit Issue; sold to Authentic Brands Group in 2019 for $110 million and now published under license by Minute Media as a monthly.
Sports Illustrated Stadium
Sports Illustrated Stadium, formerly Red Bull Arena, is a 25,000-seat soccer-specific stadium in Harrison, New Jersey, home of MLS's New York Red Bulls and NWSL's Gotham FC, renamed in December 2024 under a 13-year Sports Illustrated Tickets naming rights deal.
Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue
Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue (SI Swimsuit): annual swimwear edition of Sports Illustrated since January 1964, first cover Babette March; best-seller was 1989 Kathy Ireland 25th-anniversary issue; known for cover-model prestige, objectification criticism, and Pay With Change ad policy.
Sports in Canada
Sports in Canada: hockey (national winter sport, invented in Canada in the 1800s) and lacrosse (national summer sport) alongside soccer, the most popular children's sport; 55% of Canadians aged 15+ participate, under a federally funded sport system.
Sports in Los Angeles
Sports in Los Angeles: major pro teams (Dodgers, Lakers, Rams, Sparks, LAFC), a record $12.1B sports economy, and upcoming 2026 World Cup, 2027 Super Bowl, and 2028 Olympics.
Sports in the United States
Sports in the United States: the Big Four leagues (NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL), college sport under Title IX and the NCAA, the privately funded USOPC, record participation (8.06 million high school, 242 million total), and soccer's rise toward the 2026 World Cup.
Sports league
A sports league is an organization that arranges competition among sports teams or athletes, whether amateur or professional; professional leagues use closed franchise or open promotion-relegation models.
Sports medicine
Sports medicine, also called sport and exercise medicine (SEM), is the medical specialty for preventing, diagnosing, treating, and rehabilitating sports and exercise injuries, in athletes and nonathletes alike.
Sports Night
Sports Night is Aaron Sorkin's American half-hour comedy-drama about producers of a nightly cable sports newscast modeled on ESPN's SportsCenter; it ran two seasons on ABC (1998-2000), 45 episodes, won 3 Emmys, and was canceled for low ratings.
Sports nutrition
Sports nutrition: the evidence-based study and practice of diet, hydration, and supplements for athletic performance. Covers carbohydrate, protein, and fat guidance, energy availability (REDs), and supplement evidence from ACSM, ISSN, and IOC positions.
Sports teams in Florida
Sports teams in Florida: 10 major franchises (12 with Inter Miami CF and Orlando Pride) across NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, MLS, plus Grapefruit League spring training for 15 MLB teams, minor and women's pro leagues, and championship history.
Sports-related curses
Sports-related curses: folk hexes blamed for team failures, chiefly baseball's Curse of the Bambino (Babe Ruth sale, ended 2004) and Curse of the Billy Goat (1945, ended 2016), plus Mayo, Colavito, and Ramsey curses.
SportsCenter
SportsCenter (SC) is ESPN's flagship daily sports news and highlights show, first aired September 7, 1979, hosted by George Grande and Lee Leonard; it pioneered the studio sports-highlight format and reached 50,000 episodes by 2012.
Sportsman's Park
Sportsman's Park, later Busch Stadium, was the St. Louis ballpark at Grand and Dodier, home of the AL Browns 1902-1953 and NL Cardinals 1920-1966, site of the 1944 all-St. Louis World Series, demolished in 1966.
Sportsmanship
Sportsmanship: ethical conduct in sport, meaning fair play, respect for rules, officials, and opponents, and winning or losing graciously; a Victorian gentleman-amateur ideal, distinct from fair play, now measured multidimensionally in sport psychology.
Sportsnet
Sportsnet is Rogers' Canadian sports media brand, launched in 1998 as CTV Sportsnet. It holds Canadian NHL national rights ($11 billion deal through 2037-38), Blue Jays broadcasts, and the Sportsnet+ streaming service.
Sportswashing
Sportswashing: states or firms using sports investments, club purchases, and event hosting to repair reputations. Term coined 2015 (Baku European Games); Saudi PIF cases, Newcastle United, LIV Golf, 2034 World Cup.
Sportswear
Sportswear: clothing engineered for sports and exercise using specialized fibres, knit structures, and finishes for moisture and heat management; also covers athleisure. Key facts: polyester dominance, USD 500 billion market by 2030, DIN SPEC 4868 compression standard.
SporTV
SporTV (sportv) is Grupo Globo's Brazilian pay-TV sports channel, launched as Top Sport in November 1991 and renamed SporTV in the mid-1990s. It leads Brazilian pay-TV sports audiences, runs channels SporTV through SporTV 5 plus 4K, and carries Brasileirão, Copa do Brasil and national team football.
Sporus
Sporus (Σπόρος) was a young man whom Nero castrated, dressed as an empress, and publicly married in Greece around 67; he killed himself in 69 rather than obey Vitellius.
Spot (robot)
Spot is a four-legged quadruped robot made by Boston Dynamics, unveiled as SpotMini in 2016 and put on sale in 2019 for industrial inspection and hazardous-environment work.
SPOT (satellites)
SPOT (Satellites Pour l'Observation de la Terre) is a family of French civil Earth-observation satellites developed by CNES and operated from 1986 for mapping and environmental monitoring.
Spot 14 family
Spot 14 family: vertebrate nuclear proteins Spot 14 (S14, THRSP) and paralog MIG12 (Spot14-R) that regulate de novo fatty acid synthesis; thyroid hormone- and carbohydrate-inducible, dimeric, amplified at 11q13.5 in breast cancer.