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Grand Rapids Griffins
Grand Rapids Griffins, AHL ice hockey team founded 1996 in the IHL, joined AHL 2001; primary Detroit Red Wings affiliate since 2002; Calder Cup champions in 2013 and 2017; play at Van Andel Arena.
Grand slam (baseball)
Grand slam (baseball): a home run hit with the bases loaded, scoring four runs with four RBIs. First recorded by Roger Connor in 1881; career record 25 (Alex Rodriguez), single-season record six (Mattingly, Hafner).
Grand Slam (golf)
Grand Slam (golf): winning all major championships in one year or a career. Bobby Jones's 1930 original four events; modern Masters, PGA, U.S. Open, Open Championship; six men's career winners including McIlroy 2025; Tiger Slam; LPGA seven.
Grand Slam (rugby union)
Grand Slam (rugby union): winning all five matches in one Six Nations Championship; distinct from the Triple Crown. Wales won the first in 1908; England lead with 13; Ireland were the latest, in 2023.
Grand Slam (tennis)
Grand Slam (tennis): the four majors, Australian Open, Roland Garros, Wimbledon, and US Open, plus the calendar-year sweep first achieved by Don Budge in 1938; 2000 ranking points, equal prize money since 2007.
Grand Slam draw structure and seeding
Grand Slam draw structure and seeding explains how the four majors fill their 128-player singles draws with direct entries, qualifiers, and wild cards, and place 32 seeds.
Grand Slam of Curling
Grand Slam of Curling (GSOC): annual elite series of men's and women's curling events, majors on the tour circuit; $2.1 million season prize money, equal purses since 2015, owned by The Curling Group since 2024.
Grand Slam of Darts
Grand Slam of Darts: PDC major darts tournament held each November in Wolverhampton since 2007, also called the Eric Bristow Trophy event. Unique group-stage format, 32 players rising to 48 in 2026; Phil Taylor won six titles, Luke Littler the 2024 and 2025 editions.
Grand Slam qualifying competition
Grand Slam qualifying is a single-elimination tennis tournament held in the days before each of the four Grand Slams, where 128 players outside direct entry range play three rounds for 16 places in the main draw.
Grant Fuhr
Grant Fuhr, born 1962 in Spruce Grove, Alberta, is a Canadian Hall of Fame goaltender who won five Stanley Cups with the Edmonton Oilers, took the 1988 Vezina, and in 2003 became the first Black player inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame.
Grant Hill
Grant Hill (born 1972) is a Hall of Fame small forward, two-time NCAA champion at Duke, 1994 third overall pick, seven-time NBA All-Star, and USA Basketball men's managing director.
Grant Holman
Grant Holman (Grant James Holman, born 2000) is an MLB right-handed relief pitcher from Chula Vista, California; a 2021 sixth-round Athletics pick out of Cal who debuted in 2024 and later pitched in the Diamondbacks, Tigers, and Phillies organizations.
Grant Holmes
Grant Holmes (Harrison Grant Holmes, born 1996) is an MLB right-handed pitcher for the Atlanta Braves; Dodgers 2014 first-rounder, 10 minor league seasons, 15-strikeout game in 2025, rehabbed a torn UCL.
Grant Horvat
Grant Horvat, American golf YouTuber (Grant Horvat Golf, 1.5M+ subs), ex-Good Good member who left in 2022; former Palm Beach Atlantic college golfer, Takomo Golf part-owner, Primo apparel owner, TaylorMade ambassador.
Grant Schubert
Grant Schubert (Grant Luke Schubert, born 1980, Loxton, South Australia) is an Australian field hockey striker, Olympic gold medallist at Athens 2004 and bronze medallist at Beijing 2008, with 180 Kookaburras caps.
Grant Udinski
Grant Udinski (born 1996, Doylestown, PA) is the Jacksonville Jaguars offensive coordinator since February 2025, formerly Minnesota Vikings assistant OC/QBs coach; led record-setting 2025 offense.
Grant Williams (basketball)
Grant Williams (born 1998) is an NBA forward for the Charlotte Hornets, drafted 22nd overall in 2019 by Boston after two SEC Player of the Year seasons at Tennessee; career averages of 7.0 points and 37.7% three-point shooting.
Grass court
Grass court, also called lawn tennis court, a natural-turf tennis surface; the fastest, lowest-bouncing of the three court types, original surface of tennis (Wimbledon since 1877), now rare on tour and typically 100% perennial ryegrass.
Grayson Allen
Grayson Allen (born 1995) is an American NBA shooting guard, Duke alumnus and 2018 first-round pick who led the NBA in three-point percentage (46.1%) with Phoenix in 2023-24 and now plays for the Charlotte Hornets.
Grayson Boucher
Grayson Boucher, known as "The Professor," is an American streetball player who rose to fame on the AND1 Mixtape Tour in 2003 and later played for Ball Up.
Grayson James
Grayson James, American college football quarterback; Duncanville HS, Texas; FIU 2021-2023 then Boston College 2024-2025; 4,740 career passing yards; 2026 NFL Draft UDFA projection.
Grayson Murray
Grayson Murray (1993-2024), American PGA Tour golfer from Raleigh, North Carolina; won the 2017 Barbasol Championship and 2024 Sony Open; died by suicide at 30 after withdrawing from the Charles Schwab Challenge.
Great American Ball Park
Great American Ball Park, Cincinnati Reds' Hamilton County-owned riverfront stadium since 2003, replacing Riverfront/Cinergy Field; 45,814 seats, hitter-friendly park factors, smokestack home-run feature, 2015 All-Star Game, lease through 2037.
Great Britain national rugby league team
The Great Britain national rugby league team, also known as the Great Britain Lions, played Test rugby league from 1908 until being replaced by England in 2008.
Greater Western Sydney Giants
Greater Western Sydney Giants (GWS GIANTS), AFL club, 18th licence, debuted 2012, based Western Sydney with Canberra games; orange and charcoal, 2019 Grand Final loss, no premiership, Kevin Sheedy first coach.
Greece men's national basketball team
The Greece men's national basketball team, also known as the Greek national basketball team, represents Greece in international basketball, winning EuroBasket in 1987 and 2005 and World Cup silver in 2006.
Green Bay Packers
Green Bay Packers, NFL franchise founded 1919 by Curly Lambeau and George Whitney Calhoun; only publicly owned NFL team (Green Bay Packers, Inc., 1935), record 13 championships, home Lambeau Field since 1957.
Green Bay Packers, Inc.
Green Bay Packers, Inc. (Green Bay Football Corp.) is the NFL's only publicly owned, nonprofit franchise, community-owned since 1923, with about 539,000 dividend-free shareholders, six stock sales, and a grandfathered exemption from NFL ownership rules.
Green Monster
The Green Monster is the 37-foot-2-inch left field wall at Fenway Park, Boston, built in 1912 to block free views from Lansdowne Street, rebuilt in concrete in 1934, and painted green in 1947.
Greensboro Swarm
Greensboro Swarm, NBA G League team owned and operated by the Charlotte Hornets since 2016-17, based in Greensboro, North Carolina; won its first G League championship in 2025-26, sweeping the Stockton Kings.