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Basketball at the 2028 Summer Olympics – Women's qualification
Women's qualification for basketball at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics: USA hosts, World Cup 2026 winner qualifies directly, Canada won the 2026 Pre-Qualifying Tournament, and four FIBA Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournaments in February 2028 fill the 12-team field.
Basketball at the Summer Olympics
Basketball at the Summer Olympics, also called Olympic basketball or FIBA Olympic tournament: five-on-five men's and women's events since Berlin 1936 plus 3x3 since Tokyo 2020, played under FIBA rules with 12-team fields and US dominance.
Basketball Bundesliga
Basketball Bundesliga (BBL, easyCredit Basketball Bundesliga), Germany's top men's professional basketball league: 18 teams, founded 1966, BBL GmbH since 1996, 34-game season with play-in and best-of-five playoffs, record 4,676 average attendance in 2024/25.
Basketball Champions League
The Basketball Champions League (BCL), also called FIBA Champions League, is an annual European club basketball competition organized by FIBA with European domestic leagues since 2016.
Basketball court
Basketball court: the marked playing surface for basketball. FIBA courts are 28 x 15 m with 5 cm lines; NBA courts 94 x 50 ft; three-point lines differ by rulebook (6.75 m FIBA/NCAA, 7.24 m NBA, 6.02 m high school).
Basketball Development Center
Basketball Development Center (Basketbol Gelişim Merkezi, BGM), a public basketball complex in Zeytinburnu, Istanbul, opened 29 September 2024; 10,000-seat arena plus four halls, basketball high school, hotel, museum; hosts Anadolu Efes, Beşiktaş, and TBF development programs.
Basketball moves
Basketball moves are standard footwork and ball-handling actions such as the pivot, jump stop, crossover, jab step, and Euro step, bounded by NBA and FIBA traveling rules; signature examples include Tim Hardaway's Killer Crossover and Ginobili's Eurostep.
Basketball positions
Basketball positions: the five standard roles, point guard, shooting guard, small forward, power forward, and center, their traditional duties, origins, and how positionless basketball and versatility have blurred them.
Basketball statistics
Basketball statistics: box-score counting stats (points, rebounds, assists, steals, blocks), efficiency metrics like eFG%, TS%, PER, Four Factors, plus-minus, and camera tracking data from SportVU to Hawk-Eye.
Basque pelota
Basque pelota (pelota vasca, euskal pilota) is a family of Basque wall-ball games played bare-handed, with bats, rackets, or the wicker chistera basket; the basket form is jai alai. Olympic demonstration sport 1924, 1968, 1992; UNESCO heritage 2021.
Bat-and-ball games
Bat-and-ball games: family of team sports, also called striking-and-running games, including baseball, cricket, softball, rounders, pesäpallo, and British baseball, defined by a delivered ball, a batter, base running, and fielding outs.
Batey
Batey (also batu): the Taíno ball game of the Greater Antilles and the stone-bordered plaza where it was played, with rubber ball, no hands, teams of 10-30, and a modern revival; distinct from the Dominican sugar-settlement meaning of batey.
Bath Rugby
Bath Rugby, founded 1865, is a professional English rugby union club playing at the Recreation Ground (The Rec) since 1894. Six league titles, six national cups, 1998 Heineken Cup as first English winner, 2025 Premiership and Challenge Cup champion.
Batting average (baseball)
Batting average (AVG), baseball's hits divided by at-bats stat; excludes walks, HBP, sacrifices; batting title needs 502 PA; Cobb .366/.367 career, Duffy .438/.440 in 1894, last .400 was Williams .406 in 1941.
Batting order (baseball)
Batting order (baseball): the fixed nine-hitter sequence on the lineup card, its rulebook mechanics, traditional slot roles, sabermetric optimization worth 5-15 runs, protection theory, and MLB/NPB/youth differences.
Battle of the Sexes (tennis)
Battle of the Sexes (tennis): 1973 exhibition at the Houston Astrodome where 29-year-old Billie Jean King beat 55-year-old Bobby Riggs 6-4, 6-3, 6-3 for $100,000, watched by about 90 million viewers worldwide.
Bauer Sharp
Bauer Sharp, Tampa Bay Buccaneers tight end (No. 84), 2026 NFL Draft sixth-round pick (185th overall) from LSU; former quarterback converted at Southeastern Louisiana, also played at Oklahoma.
Baylor Bears football
Baylor Bears football: Baylor University's Waco, Texas FBS program in the Big 12, playing since 1899 at 45,140-seat McLane Stadium (opened 2014); Big 12 champions 2013, 2014, 2021; coached by Dave Aranda.
BC Khimki
BC Khimki (БК «Химки»), basketball club founded 5 January 1997 in Khimki, Russia. Won Russian Cup 2008, VTB League 2011, EuroCup 2012 and 2015; EuroLeague playoff team; now a Superliga club.
BC Lions
The BC Lions are a professional Canadian football team based in Vancouver that plays in the CFL's West Division, with home games at BC Place.
BC Prienai
BC Prienai was a Lithuanian professional basketball club founded in 1994, three times an LKL bronze medalist and 2017 Baltic league champion, famous for signing the Ball brothers.
BC Roma
BC Roma (Basketball Club Roma SPQR), a Rome basketball club founded 2026, plays Serie A and BKT EuroCup after taking over Vanoli Cremona's rights; owned by Donnie Nelson with Luka Dončić an investor, coached by Alessandro Magro.
BC Žalgiris
BC Žalgiris (Kauno „Žalgiris“), founded 1944 in Kaunas, is Lithuania's most decorated basketball club: 1999 EuroLeague champion, 24 LKL titles, home at club-managed Žalgirio Arena, record €28.8M budget for 2026-27.
BDO World Darts Championship
BDO World Darts Championship: the British Darts Organisation's world title, first held 1978, staged at the Lakeside Country Club from 1986, broadcast by the BBC until 2016, and ended by the BDO's September 2020 collapse, succeeded by the WDF World Championship.
Beach handball
Beach handball, also called HandballBeach, is a sand-court variant of handball played 4-a-side in two 10-minute periods, created on Ponza, Italy in 1992, IHF-recognized in 1994, with two-point trick shots and a 2018 Youth Olympic debut.
Beach handball at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics
Beach handball at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics, Buenos Aires: Olympic debut 8–13 October 2018, 24 teams from 17 nations. Spain won boys' gold, Argentina girls' gold and boys' bronze.
Beach tennis
Beach tennis, also called matkot-adjacent beach racket sport, is a sand-court doubles game with stringless paddles, a Stage 2 orange ball, a 1.7 m net, and no bounce, governed by the ITF (World Tennis) and the IFBT since its 1978 Ravenna origins.
Beach volleyball
Beach volleyball: two-a-side volleyball on sand, FIVB-governed, Olympic since Atlanta 1996; sets to 21 points, 16 x 8 m court, block counts as a hit, no substitutions.
Beals Wright
Beals Coleman Wright (1879-1961), American left-handed tennis player; first American Olympic tennis champion with 1904 singles and doubles golds, 1905 U.S. champion, Wimbledon All-Comers finalist 1910, Hall of Fame 1956.
Beanie Bishop
Beanie Bishop Jr. (born 1999) is an American NFL cornerback from Louisville, Kentucky; a 2023 West Virginia consensus All-American who as a 2024 Steelers undrafted rookie had 4 interceptions and was NFL Defensive Rookie of the Month for October.