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Strikeout
Strikeout (SO, K): baseball out recorded on three strikes; called strike added 1858, four-strike year 1887, uncaught third strike lets batter run; MLB K rate 11.4% (1955) to 22.2% (2025).
Stroke play
Stroke play, also called medal play, is golf's total-stroke scoring format: every shot over one or more rounds counts, the lowest total wins, and holing out on every hole is required in the individual form.
Stuart Hogg
Stuart Hogg, Scottish rugby union full-back from Hawick; 100 Scotland caps, record 27 tries, captain 2020-2022, Lions 2013/2017/2021; retired 2023, later Montpellier; MBE revoked 2026 after domestic abuse conviction.
Stuart Laidlaw
Stuart Ralston Laidlaw (1877-1960), Canadian lacrosse player and Winnipeg lawyer; won gold with the Winnipeg Shamrocks in men's lacrosse at the 1904 St. Louis Olympics, beating St. Louis AAA 8-2; not to be confused with Hilliard Laidlaw.
Stuffy Mueller
Stuffy Mueller (Norbert Edward Mueller, 1906-1956), Canadian ice hockey goaltender from Waterloo, Ontario; won 1928 St. Moritz Olympic gold with the Toronto Graduates, playing one game, a 14-0 shutout of Great Britain, and a second Allan Cup in 1932.
Su'a Cravens
Su'a Cravens, USC safety/linebacker hybrid (6-1, 224 lb), drafted 53rd overall in 2016 by Washington; 199 tackles, 10.5 sacks, 9 interceptions at USC; brief NFL career with Redskins and Broncos.
Subiaco Oval
Subiaco Oval, at Roberts Road, Subiaco, Perth, was Western Australia's premier Australian rules football ground from 1908 until 2018, home of the Eagles, Dockers and Subiaco FC, now a community oval in the Subi East redevelopment.
Sudirman Cup
Sudirman Cup, the BWF World Mixed Team Championships, biennial badminton national-team event since 1989 named after Dick Sudirman; five-discipline ties, 16-team finals, China leads with 13 titles.
Sue Barker
Sue Barker (Susan Barker, born 1956, Paignton, Devon) is an English TV presenter and former tennis player, 1976 French Open champion and former world No. 3, who presented BBC Wimbledon coverage from 1993 to 2022 and hosted A Question of Sport.
Sue Bird
Sue Bird (Suzanne Brigit Bird), born 1980, American point guard who played 19 WNBA seasons for the Seattle Storm, won four WNBA titles and five Olympic golds, and retired as the league's all-time assists leader.
Sue Huggett
Sue Huggett (Susan Huggett), born 1954 in Bulawayo, is a Zimbabwean field hockey midfielder who won gold with the Zimbabwe women's team at the 1980 Moscow Olympics, the country's first Olympic medal.
Sue Merz
Sue Merz (born 1972), American ice hockey defenseman from Greenwich, Connecticut; 13-year U.S. Women's National Team member, Olympic gold at Nagano 1998 and silver at Salt Lake City 2002, six world championship silvers, later Connecticut Whale assistant coach.
Sugar Bowl
Sugar Bowl, annual New Orleans college football bowl game since Jan. 1, 1935 (Tulane 20, Temple 14), run by the non-profit Mid-Winter Sports Association, home of the SEC champion tie-in since 1975, now a CFP quarterfinal/semifinal host.
Suguru Iwazaki
Suguru Iwazaki (岩崎 優), born 1991, is a left-handed pitcher for NPB's Hanshin Tigers and a Tokyo 2020 Olympic gold medalist with Japan's national baseball team, with 131 career NPB saves.
Suhas Lalinakere Yathiraj
Suhas Lalinakere Yathiraj (Suhas LY), Indian IAS officer (2007 batch, UP cadre) and SL4 para-badminton player; Paralympic silver at Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024, first IAS officer to win a Paralympic medal, Arjuna Award 2021.
Sumit Nagal
Sumit Nagal, Indian professional tennis player (born 1997, Jhajjar district, Haryana). 2015 Wimbledon boys' doubles champion with Ly Hoang Nam; career-high ATP No. 68 in July 2024; beat seeded Bublik at 2024 Australian Open; Davis Cup since 2018.
Summer Catch
Summer Catch is a 2001 Warner Bros. romantic baseball comedy directed by Michael Tollin, starring Freddie Prinze Jr. and Jessica Biel, set around the Chatham A's of the Cape Cod Baseball League; it earned $19.7 million and poor reviews (Metascore 21, 8% on Rotten Tomatoes).
Summit Series
The 1972 Summit Series, an eight-game Canada–USSR ice hockey series (Суперсерия), was won 4–3–1 by Canada on Paul Henderson's goal with 34 seconds left in Game 8 in Moscow, the first meeting of NHL professionals and the Soviet national team.
Sun Mingming (孙明明)
Sun Mingming (孙明明, born 1983) is a Chinese former basketball player and actor who, at 7 ft 8.98 in, is recognized by Guinness as the tallest active basketball player.
Sun Xinran
Sun Xinran (孙心然), born 2010 in Shenzhen, is a Chinese tennis player, 2026 US Open girls' singles champion, junior world No. 1, and WTA-ranked 418 after her 2026 China Open debut.
Sun Yingsha
Sun Yingsha (孙颖莎), born 2000 in Shijiazhuang, is a Chinese table tennis player, world no. 1, with 3 Olympic golds and 2 silvers (Tokyo 2020, Paris 2024) and three consecutive Women's World Cup titles.
Sung-mun Song
Sung-mun Song (송성문), born 1996 in Seoul, is a South Korean infielder who played 2015-2025 for the Kiwoom Heroes in the KBO, won the 2025 KBO Player of the Year, then signed a four-year, $16 million deal with the San Diego Padres and debuted in MLB on April 26, 2026.
Super Bowl
Super Bowl: annual NFL championship game, first played 1967 as the AFL-NFL World Championship Game; name coined by Lamar Hunt from the Super Ball toy. Super Bowl LX (2026) averaged 125.6 million viewers, second most-watched U.S. show ever.
Super Bowl 50
Super Bowl 50: NFL championship game, February 7, 2016, Levi's Stadium, Santa Clara; Denver Broncos beat Carolina Panthers 24-10; Von Miller MVP with 2.5 sacks and two forced fumbles; Peyton Manning's second title.
Super Bowl 50 halftime show
Super Bowl 50 halftime show, Pepsi-sponsored NFL halftime show, February 7, 2016, Levi's Stadium: Coldplay headlined with guests Beyoncé and Bruno Mars; Beyoncé's "Formation" performance dominated coverage.
Super Bowl commercials
Ads aired during the NFL championship game; the most expensive US television advertising, over $8 million per 30 seconds by 2025, record audiences near 128 million, viewer-judged rankings since 1989.
Super Bowl curse
Super Bowl curse: NFL folklore bundling the losing-team hangover, the host-city absence claim, and MVP injury jinxes. Losers drop from .778 to .633 but regress to the mean; no home team has played an NFL-stadium Super Bowl in 37 tries.
Super Bowl I
Super Bowl I, officially the AFL-NFL World Championship Game, was played January 15, 1967 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum; Vince Lombardi's Green Bay Packers beat Lamar Hunt's Kansas City Chiefs 35-10 in the first interleague pro football title game.
Super Bowl II
Super Bowl II, the Second AFL-NFL World Championship Game (January 14, 1968, Miami Orange Bowl): Green Bay Packers beat Oakland Raiders 33-14; Bart Starr MVP; first $3 million gate; Lombardi's final Packers game.
Super Bowl III
Super Bowl III, the third AFL-NFL Championship Game (January 12, 1969, Orange Bowl, Miami): the 18-point underdog New York Jets, behind Joe Namath's famous guarantee, beat the Baltimore Colts 16-7, the first AFL Super Bowl win.