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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.
Bayonetta
Bayonetta (ベヨネッタ): 2009 PlatinumGames action game directed by Hideki Kamiya, published by Sega; witch heroine, Bullet Arts, Witch Time, Wicked Weaves; spawned Bayonetta 2, 3, and Origins.
Bayonetta (character)
Bayonetta (ベヨネッタ) is the Umbra Witch protagonist of PlatinumGames' action series, debuting 2009-2010; designed by Mari Shimazaki under Hideki Kamiya, known for hair-summoned Wicked Weaves, Witch Time, and a divisive feminist-critique legacy.
Bayonetta (ベヨネッタ) (video game)
Bayonetta (ベヨネッタ) is a 2009 PlatinumGames action game published by Sega, directed by Hideki Kamiya, starring a witch hunting angels with Bullet Arts, Witch Time, and hair magic; ports span Wii U, Steam, Switch, and PS4.
Bayonetta 2
Bayonetta 2 is a 2014 hack-and-slash action game by PlatinumGames, published by Nintendo as a Wii U exclusive after Sega dropped it; Metacritic 91, Switch port 2018, Tag Climax co-op.
Bayonetta 3
Bayonetta 3 (ベヨネッタ3) is a 2022 PlatinumGames action game published by Nintendo as a Switch exclusive, directed by Yusuke Miyata. It adds Demon Slave and Demon Masquerade mechanics, scored 86 on Metacritic, and runs at a dynamic resolution with frequent frame-rate dips.
Bayram Sit
Bayram Şit (1930-2019), Turkish freestyle wrestler; Olympic featherweight gold at Helsinki 1952, silver at 1954 Tokyo Worlds, fourth at Melbourne 1956; later coached France and Turkey.
Baysurf Lietzow
Baysurf Lietzow is a surf school in Lietzow on Rügen, Germany, on the Großer Jasmunder Bodden, founded by Joschi. It offers SUP, wingsurfing, wingfoiling, e-foiling, rentals, and team events.
Bazball
Bazball is the informal name for England men's Test cricket's aggressive style under coach Brendon McCullum and captain Ben Stokes from 2022. Coined by ESPN Cricinfo's Andrew Miller, added to Collins dictionary in 2023; era ended with McCullum's dismissal as Test coach.
Bazoumana Touré
Bazoumana Touré, Ivorian left winger born 2006 in Bouaké; ASEC Mimosas, Hammarby IF, TSG Hoffenheim, then Newcastle United from July 2026; Côte d'Ivoire international, 2026 World Cup squad member.
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 Place
BC Place, also known as B.C. Place Stadium, is a multi-purpose stadium in downtown Vancouver, home to the BC Lions and Vancouver Whitecaps FC since 1983.
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.
BC1
BC1 is a boccia sport class for athletes with severe neurological impairment of all four limbs (spastic quadriplegia, athetosis, or ataxia); BC1 athletes throw with a Sport Assistant and join BC2 athletes in the team event.
BC2 (classification)
BC2 is a boccia sport class for athletes with cerebral palsy or acquired brain damage, less severe than BC1, who throw with the hand and receive no assistant; also used in the BC1/BC2 team event.
BC3
BC3 is the most severely impaired boccia sport class (BC1-BC4): athletes cannot throw or kick the ball and use a ramp, pointer, and Ramp Operator; individual and pairs events under World Boccia rules.
BCS National Championship Game
BCS National Championship Game: college football's title game for the Bowl Championship Series, played 1999-2014 (16 games), first Tennessee-FSU 1999, last FSU-Auburn 2014, replaced by the CFP.
BDE (wrestler)
BDE (Brandon Collymore, "BrandonDoesEverything"), born 1999, American YouTuber turned pro wrestler signed to TNA in January 2026; debuted for Wrestling Revolver in 2025; high-flyer trained by Ace Austin and Sami Callihan.
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.
Bea Ortiz
Bea Ortiz (Beatriz Ortiz Muñoz, born 1995, Rubí, Barcelona) is a Spanish water polo player, Paris 2024 Olympic champion, Tokyo 2020 silver medalist, and World Aquatics Female Water Polo Player of the Year 2024, now with Ferencváros and captain of Spain.
Beach ball
Beach ball: a large, light, brightly colored inflatable ball for beach and pool play, usually PVC, made from two fused hemispheres turned inside out; patented construction (US 3,070,479, 1962), inflated by mouth through a valved inlet.
Beach Break Surf Club
Beach Break Surf Club names several unrelated surf businesses: a 2008 surf school and kiosk in Chiavari, Italy; the Beach Break Surf Club & Hotel opened November 2024 at Playa Guiones, Nosara, Costa Rica; and BeachBreak surf and kite center in Noordwijk, Netherlands.
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 handball at the World Games
Beach handball at the World Games: men's and women's beach handball at the IWGA's World Games. Invitational from Akita 2001, official sport since Cali 2013; Germany men and Argentina women won gold at Chengdu 2025; Karlsruhe 2029 next.
Beach polo
Beach polo, a sand-based variant of arena polo, is played three-a-side on horseback with an inflatable ball and boards; born in Dubai in 2004 after Mark Selway's 2002 Irish tournaments, with events in Dubai, Sandbanks, and Miami.
Beach soccer
Beach soccer: five-a-side football on sand, three 12-minute periods, no draws, codified by BSWW in 1992, FIFA World Cup since 2005; Brazil holds a record seven titles.