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Shingo Kunieda (國枝慎吾)
Shingo Kunieda (國枝慎吾), Japanese wheelchair tennis player, born 1984; most decorated men's player with 50 Grand Slam titles, 582 weeks at No. 1, four Paralympic golds across five Games; retired January 2023.
Shinnecock Hills Golf Club
Shinnecock Hills Golf Club, Southampton, New York: private club founded 1891, USGA founding member, William Flynn's 1931 course, six-time U.S. Open host (1896-2026), consensus No. 3 course in America.
Shintaro Mochizuki (望月 慎太郎)
Shintaro Mochizuki (望月 慎太郎), Japanese tennis player from Kawasaki; 2019 Wimbledon boys' champion and former junior world No. 1; career-high ATP 92; 2026 Wimbledon fourth round as qualifier, losing to Sinner.
Shinty
Shinty (camanachd, iomain), Scotland's Highland stick-and-ball team sport, played 12-a-side with a two-sided caman, goal-only scoring, no offside; governed by the Camanachd Association, strictly amateur, related to Irish hurling.
Shiray Kaka
Shiray Kaka (née Tane), born 1995 in Hamilton, is a New Zealand Black Ferns Sevens rugby player of Ngāti Maniapoto and Samoan descent: Tokyo 2020 Olympic gold, Birmingham 2022 bronze, Cape Town 2022 World Cup silver; wife of Gillies Kaka.
Shiyazh Pete
Shiyazh Pete (born 2003, Ronan, Montana) is a Navajo offensive tackle from Shiprock, New Mexico; first Navajo Nation member to sign and play in the NFL, with the 2026 Dallas Cowboys preseason before being waived.
Shoeless Joe (novel)
Shoeless Joe, W. P. Kinsella's 1982 first novel (working title Dream Field), has Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella build a ballpark that summons the ghostly 1919 Black Sox; adapted as Field of Dreams (1989).
Shoeless Joe Jackson
Shoeless Joe Jackson (Joseph Jefferson Jackson, 1887–1951), American MLB outfielder with a .356 career average; banned for life over the 1919 Black Sox fix, acquitted, reinstated by MLB in May 2025.
Shohei Ohtani (大谷 翔平)
Shohei Ohtani (大谷 翔平), born 1994, is a Japanese two-way MLB pitcher and designated hitter for the Dodgers, formerly the Angels and Nippon-Ham Fighters; two-time unanimous AL MVP, 2024 NL MVP, first 50-homer/50-steal season, $700 million contract.
Shoko Takayanagi
Shoko Takayanagi (高柳昌子, later Yoshida 吉田昌子), born 1954 in Oita, is a Japanese volleyball player, 1976 Montreal Olympic gold medalist with Japan, Hitachi right-side player, 1978 world silver medalist.
Sholto Marcon
Sholto Marcon (Charles Sholto Wyndham Marcon, 1890–1959), English field hockey inside-forward who won gold for Great Britain at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics, earned 23 England caps, and later became an Anglican clergyman and RAF chaplain.
Shona Mccallin
Shona McCallin MBE (Shona Clare McCallin, born 1992) is a retired English field hockey midfielder, Olympic gold medalist with Great Britain at Rio 2016, Tokyo 2020 bronze medalist, and 2022 Commonwealth champion who earned 122 caps.
Shooting guard
Shooting guard (two guard, off guard): basketball's #2 perimeter position, a long-range scorer and perimeter defender. NBA SGs average 11.0 PPG, 36.1% on threes, 6'3"-6'6"; lowest-paid position; Jordan the archetype.
Shortstop
Shortstop: baseball defensive infielder between second and third base, scoring position 6. Most demanding infield position; formalized by Doc Adams around 1845-46, Dickey Pearce made it a fourth infielder.
Shot clock
Shot clock: 24-second possession timer in basketball, invented by Danny Biasone and Leo Ferris of the NBA's Syracuse Nationals, adopted April 22, 1954; raised scoring from 79.5 to 93.1 ppg and saved the league.
Shot Heard 'Round the World (baseball)
The Shot Heard 'Round the World, or Miracle of Coogan's Bluff, is Bobby Thomson's 1951 home run that won the New York Giants the National League pennant.
Showtime (basketball)
Showtime Lakers: nickname for the 1979-1990 Los Angeles Lakers of Magic Johnson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and James Worthy, a fast-break dynasty that won five NBA titles (1980, 1982, 1985, 1987, 1988) under coaches Paul Westhead and Pat Riley.
Shreveport Steamer
The Shreveport Steamer was a professional American football team in the World Football League, which began the 1974 season in Houston before moving to Shreveport, Louisiana.
Shuttlecock
Shuttlecock: the feathered or synthetic projectile of badminton, descended from battledore and shuttlecock; 16 feathers, 4.74–5.50 g, high drag, steep descent.
Sid Johnson
Sid Johnson (Sidney B. Johnson), American tug-of-war competitor; won gold at the 1904 St. Louis Olympics for the Milwaukee Athletic Club though actually from Chicago; nothing else known of his life.
Sid Waddell
Sid Waddell (1940–2012), British darts commentator known as "the Voice of Darts" and "the Geordie Lip"; BBC then Sky Sports, Indoor League producer, Sid Waddell Trophy namesake.
Sidd Finch
Sidd Finch, or Hayden Siddhartha Finch, is a fictional Mets pitching prospect invented by George Plimpton for Sports Illustrated's April 1, 1985 hoax 'The Curious Case of Sidd Finch,' claiming a 168 mph fastball learned in Tibet; SI admitted the joke April 15, 1985.
Sidney Crosby
Sidney Crosby (born 1987, Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia) is a Canadian ice hockey center, Pittsburgh Penguins captain since 2007, drafted first overall in 2005. Three Stanley Cups (2009, 2016, 2017), two Olympic golds (2010, 2014), Penguins' all-time points leader.
Sidney Moncrief
Sidney Moncrief (born 1957, Little Rock) is an American retired NBA shooting guard, Arkansas Razorbacks 'Triplets' star, fifth pick of the 1979 draft, 10 seasons with Milwaukee Bucks, first two Defensive Player of the Year winners (1983, 1984), five-time All-Star, 2019 Hall of Fame inductee.
Sidney Morin
Sidney Morin, born 1995, is an American ice hockey defenseman for the Minnesota Frost of the PWHL who won Olympic gold with the United States at the 2018 Winter Olympics.
Sidney Rice
Sidney Rice (born 1986, Gaffney, SC) is a former NFL wide receiver, South Carolina product, drafted 44th overall by Minnesota in 2007; 2009 Pro Bowl with 1,312 yards, later a Seattle Seahawks Super Bowl champion; retired 2013 after a torn ACL.
Siegfried Voigt
Siegfried Voigt, born 1950 in Schneeberg im Erzgebirge, East German handball goalkeeper; 1972 Munich Olympics fourth place, 1980 Moscow Olympic gold (23-22 over USSR), World Championship silver 1974 and bronze 1978, 177 caps.
Sienna Betts
Sienna Betts, UCLA Bruins women's basketball forward, 6-4, from Centennial, Colorado; sister of Lauren Betts; No. 2 recruit in 2025 class, Big Ten All-Freshman Team, 2026 NCAA champion.
Sig Slater
Sig Slater (Cyril Seely Slater, 1897–1969), Canadian ice hockey forward with the Toronto Granites; won gold for Canada in men's ice hockey at the 1924 Chamonix Winter Olympics, scoring 4 goals in 5 games.
Sigita Strecen Mazeikaite
Sigita Mažeikaitė-Strečen (Sigita Strecen Mazeikaite), born 1958 in Panevėžys, Lithuanian handball player; 1980 Moscow Olympic gold and 1982 world champion with the USSR team, Eglė Vilnius club player, later coach in Germany.