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Bowe Becker
Bowe Becker (Bowen Becker), American swimmer born 1997 in Chicago; 2020 Tokyo Olympic gold medalist in the men's 4x100 m freestyle relay for Team USA; former Minnesota Gopher, Cali Condors ISL swimmer.
Bowen Byram
Bowen Byram, Canadian NHL defenseman; drafted fourth overall by Colorado in 2019, won the 2022 Stanley Cup, traded to Buffalo in 2024, then to Chicago, signing a six-year $75 million deal in 2026.
Bower
Bower names several unrelated venues: Bower Center for the Arts (Bedford, VA, opened 2006), Fairgrounds Bower Place pickleball club, Right Bower café, The Bower (Edmonton), and Bloom & Bower wedding venue (Ohio).
Bowl Championship Series
Bowl Championship Series (BCS), 1998-2013 college football postseason system matching the top two BCS-ranked teams in a title game via polls, computer rankings, and schedule strength; replaced by the College Football Playoff.
Bowl game
A bowl game is a post-season college football game, named after the Rose Bowl stadium; the first was the 1902 Tournament East-West game, Michigan beating Stanford 49-0.
Bowling
Bowling is an indoor sport, chiefly ten-pin bowling, in which a ball is rolled down an 18.3 m oiled lane at ten pins; ten frames, 300 maximum score, codified in 19th-century America.
Bowling (cricket)
Bowling is the action in cricket where a player delivers the ball toward the batter using an overarm action. It aims to take wickets or restrict runs.
Bowling at the Asian Games
Bowling at the Asian Games is a ten-pin bowling competition held as an official medal sport at selected editions, debuting in 1978 and missing 1982, 1990, and Hangzhou 2022.
Bowling at the multi-sport games
Bowling at the multi-sport games covers ten-pin bowling at the Pan American Games, where the United States leads with 25 gold medals, and at The World Games through 2022.
Bowling at the Summer Olympics
Bowling at the Summer Olympics: ten-pin bowling appeared only as a non-medal demonstration sport at Seoul 1988, with men's and women's individual events won by Arianne Cerdeña; later bids for Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024 failed.
Bowling at the World Games
Bowling at the World Games is the ten-pin bowling competition held at every edition from Santa Clara 1981 through Birmingham 2022, governed by the International Bowling Federation.
Bowling average
Bowling average, in cricket, is runs conceded divided by wickets taken, the runs-per-wicket cost of a bowler. Related to economy and strike rate by average = economy × strike rate ÷ 6; most valued in Test cricket.
Bowling ball
Bowling ball: the sphere rolled at pins in ten-pin bowling. Modern balls pair an inner core with a plastic, urethane, or reactive resin coverstock; USBC limits diameter to 8.500–8.595 inches and weight to 16 pounds.
Bowling green
Bowling green: the level, close-mown turf surface for lawn bowls, also a historic sunken garden lawn; 31-40 m long with 4.3-5.8 m rinks; namesake of New York's first park (1733).
Bowling Green Falcons football
Bowling Green Falcons football: BGSU's NCAA FBS team in the Mid-American Conference, playing at Doyt L. Perry Stadium since 1919, with 12 MAC titles and the 1959 national championship.
Bowls
Bowls (lawn bowls) is a target sport with biased bowls rolled toward a jack on grass or carpet, governed by World Bowls (57 member nations), a Commonwealth Games sport since 1930 under the Crystal Mark Fourth Edition laws.
Bowman Gray Stadium
Bowman Gray Stadium, the "Madhouse," is a quarter-mile flat asphalt oval in Winston-Salem, North Carolina; NASCAR's longest-running weekly track since 1949, host of 29 Cup races 1958-1971 and the 2025-2026 Cook Out Clash.
Bowser
Bowser (クッパ, Kuppa), King of the Koopas, is the main antagonist of Nintendo's Super Mario franchise; debuted in Super Mario Bros. (NES), kidnaps Princess Peach, breathes fire, and is voiced by Jack Black in the films.
Bowsette
Bowsette (クッパ姫, Koopa-hime) is a fan-made gender-swapped Bowser created via the Super Crown by artist ayyk92 in a September 19, 2018 comic; unofficial, viral in Japan and the West, never adopted by Nintendo.
Boxing
Boxing: combat sport of two gloved fighters scoring punches in a ring; Olympic since 688 BC (ancient) and 1904 (modern). Two codes, amateur and professional, differ in headgear, rounds, and 10-point must scoring.
Boxing at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Boxing at the 2016 Summer Olympics (Rio 2016): 13 events, 286 boxers at Riocentro Pavilion 6, 5–21 August 2016; first Games allowing professionals, no men's headguards, 10-point must scoring; later confirmed bout manipulation by referees and judges.
Boxing at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Boxing at the 2020 Summer Olympics, held 24 July to 8 August 2021 at Ryogoku Kokugikan, Tokyo, ran under IOC Boxing Task Force oversight after AIBA's suspension, with 13 events, 289 boxers, and Cuba topping the medal table.
Boxing at the 2024 Summer Olympics
Boxing at the 2024 Summer Olympics: Paris boxing tournament, 27 July to 10 August 2024, 13 events (7 men, 6 women), IOC-run after IBA ban; Uzbekistan won five golds; Khelif and Lin golds amid eligibility row.
Boxing at the 2026 Commonwealth Games
Boxing at the 2026 Commonwealth Games, Glasgow boxing tournament, SEC Centre, 23 July to 2 August 2026. Seven weight classes each for men and women under World Boxing rules; India led with 10 medals including 7 gold, England 10, Australia and Northern Ireland 6 each.
Boxing at the 2028 Summer Olympics
Boxing at the 2028 Summer Olympics (LA28): 14 events, seven weight classes each for men and women, first gender parity, run by World Boxing after the IBA's removal; 248 quota places, Peacock Theater and DTLA Arena, 15–30 July 2028.
Boxing at the Summer Olympics
Boxing at the Summer Olympics is a weight-class tournament at every Games since St. Louis 1904 except Stockholm 1912; women's events began in 2012 and pros have been eligible since 2016.
Boxing career of Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali's boxing career: Olympic light-heavyweight gold 1960, three-time lineal heavyweight champion (1964, 1974, 1978), 56-5 in 61 fights, exile 1967-1970, Frazier and Foreman rivalries.
Boxing Day Test
Boxing Day Test: annual Test cricket match at the Melbourne Cricket Ground starting December 26, held every summer since 1980 (except 1989). First MCG Boxing Day-era Test 1950; first to start on Boxing Day 1968/69; record 2024 India Test attendance.
Boxing styles and technique
Boxing styles and technique: swarmer, out-boxer, slugger, boxer-puncher archetypes; orthodox vs southpaw mechanics; jab, cross, hook, uppercut biomechanics; punch force data, CompuBox analytics, 10-point must scoring, and 2013 headgear rule effects.
BoxOff
BoxOff is Steven Meyers' 2013 solitaire puzzle: remove same-colored pairs at opposite corners of empty rectangles to clear a grid. NP-complete with four colors; standard 6x8, three colors.