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Candy Land

Candy Land, also Candyland, is Hasbro's classic luck-only children's board game, created by Eleanor Abbott in a 1940s polio ward and published by Milton Bradley in 1949; players draw cards along a colored path to King Kandy's Castle.

Candyman

Candyman (aka Drug Dealer) is a hidden-role card game with a Candyman, Cop, and Buyers; also a mirror-summoning ritual and the 1992 Tony Todd horror film and its games.

Canelo Álvarez

Saúl "Canelo" Álvarez, Mexican professional boxer from Guadalajara, four-division world champion and two-time undisputed super middleweight champion, record 63-3-2 (39 KOs), losses to Mayweather, Bivol, and Crawford.

Canelo Álvarez vs. Gennady Golovkin

Canelo Álvarez vs. Gennady Golovkin: boxing trilogy in Las Vegas, 2017–2022; split draw, then majority decision for Álvarez, then unanimous decision, 36 total rounds.

Canelo Álvarez vs. Gennady Golovkin II

Canelo Álvarez vs. Gennady Golovkin II, the 2018 Las Vegas rematch (GGG, Canelo vs GGG 2): Álvarez won a disputed majority decision for Golovkin's WBC and WBA middleweight titles, despite most media cards favoring Golovkin.

Canelo Álvarez vs. Terence Crawford

Canelo Álvarez vs. Terence Crawford: super-middleweight title fight, September 13, 2025, Allegiant Stadium, Las Vegas. Crawford won a unanimous decision (116-112, 115-113, 115-113) to become undisputed champion; no rematch followed.

Cangkul

Cangkul is an Indonesian card game, also known as Minuman, in which players who cannot follow suit draw from the stock until they can play.

Canoe marathon world championship

ICF Canoe Marathon World Championships, the annual world title event for long-distance kayak and canoe racing with portages. First held Nottingham 1988, annual since 1999; Hungary leads with 73 titles; 2026 edition in Gualeguaychu, Argentina.

Canoe orienteering

Canoe orienteering (canoe-O) is a timed orienteering variant combining canoeing or kayaking with map reading, visiting controls in any chosen order on rivers, lakes, or tidal waters, solo or in teams, with portages and C/K boat classes.

Canoe polo

Canoe polo, also called kayak polo, is a team sport in which five-player kayak teams throw a water polo ball into goals suspended above the water.

Canoe slalom

Canoe slalom is an ICF-governed whitewater race through 18–25 suspended gates, scored as run time plus 2-second touches and 50-second misses; Olympic since Munich 1972, with kayak cross added at Paris 2024.

Canoe slalom world championships

ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships, the world title event for whitewater canoe slalom, first held Geneva 1949; held every non-Olympic year since 2002; latest edition Oklahoma City 2026.

Canoe sprint

Canoe sprint, also called flatwater canoeing, is the Olympic racing discipline in canoes (C) and kayaks (K) over 200m to 5,000m in single, double, and quadruple boats. Governed by the ICF, a medal sport since Berlin 1936, dominated by Hungary and Germany.

Canoe sprint world championships

ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, the flatwater canoe and kayak world titles first held at Vaxholm, Sweden in 1938; run every non-Olympic year since 1970, include Paracanoe since 2010, and are led in medals by Hungary.

Canoeing

Canoeing: paddling a canoe, a sharp-ended boat with the paddler facing forward; the kayak counts too. Covers ancient origins, the Canadian fur trade, Olympic sprint and slalom since 1936, technique, and safety.

Cantera

Cantera ("quarry") is the Spanish football term for a club's youth academy and its homegrown players, canteranos. Formalized in the 1950s, the model underpins Spanish clubs' identity, transfer income, and national-team success.

Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs

Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs, Sydney NRL rugby league club founded 1934, also the Berries; eight premierships (1938-2004), Belmore Sports Ground and Accor Stadium, coach Cameron Ciraldo, captain Stephen Crichton, NRLW team since 2025.

Cantos Mougas

Cantos Mougas (Cantos, Mougas) is a surf break and coastal locality at Mougás, Oia, Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain, near the río Mougás mouth on the Camino Portugués de la Costa; databases rate it beginner beach break, advanced reef, or expert, with year-round surf.

Caoimhín Kelleher

Caoimhín Kelleher (born 1998) is an Irish goalkeeper at Brentford and the Republic of Ireland; ex-Liverpool deputy to Alisson, seven trophies, club-record four penalty shootouts, £18m June 2025 transfer.

Cap (sport)

Cap (sport): an appearance for a national or select team in football, rugby, or cricket. Originated with Rugby School headwear and the English FA's 1886 award; Ronaldo holds the men's record.

Cap Anson

Cap Anson (Adrian Constantine Anson, 1852–1922), Chicago White Stockings first baseman and player-manager 1876–1897; first player credited with 3,000 hits, five NL pennants, 1939 Hall of Fame inductee, and a central figure in baseball's segregation.

Cap it

Cap it (Cap-It) is a 4-6 player individual Rummy variant of Push, dealt 10 cards over 5 rounds with contract melds, wild 2s and jokers, push-draw mechanism, and lowest cumulative score winning.

Capablanca chess

Capablanca chess, a chess variant by world champion Jose Raul Capablanca from the 1920s, is played on a 10x8 board with two extra pieces, the archbishop (bishop+knight) and chancellor (rook+knight), three-square castling, and expanded pawn promotion.

Caparica Evolution Surf School

Caparica Evolution Surf School (kevolutionsurf.com) is a surf and bodyboard school in Costa da Caparica, Portugal, founded by local surfer Fernando "Salta" Salta; RNAAT 140/2016 registered, lessons from €30, rated 4.7 on Tripadvisor.

Capbreton Surf School

The surf schools of Capbreton, Landes, are state-qualified businesses teaching on the town's seven beaches, where the mayor's 2022 authorization system granted 24 authorizations before courts suspended it in 2023.

Capcom

Capcom (株式会社カプコン, CAPCOM CO., LTD.), Osaka-based Japanese video game developer and publisher founded 1983 (roots 1979), maker of Street Fighter, Resident Evil, Monster Hunter, Devil May Cry; TSE 9697, FY2026 net sales 195,365 million yen, RE Engine developer.

Capcom Fighting Collection 2

Capcom Fighting Collection 2 is Capcom's 2025 compilation of eight arcade fighting games (Capcom vs. SNK 1 and 2, Street Fighter Alpha 3 Upper, Power Stone 1 and 2, Project Justice, Plasma Sword, Capcom Fighting Evolution) on Switch, PS4, Xbox One, and Steam, with rollback netcode online play and no crossplay.

Capcom vs. SNK 2

Capcom vs. SNK 2: Mark of the Millennium 2001 (Millionaire Fighting 2001) is Capcom's 2001 crossover fighting game sequel with six Grooves, the Ratio team system, and ports on Dreamcast, PS2, GameCube, and Xbox EO; re-released in Capcom Fighting Collection 2 in 2025.

Cape Cod Baseball League

Cape Cod Baseball League (CCBL), founded 1923 with roots to 1885, is the premier ten-team collegiate summer wooden-bat league on Cape Cod, Massachusetts; 40-game season, NCAA-sanctioned since 1963, over 1,600 MLB alumni including Aaron Judge.

Cape town city

Cape Town City FC (The Citizens), South African football club founded 1962, reformed 2016 by John Comitis from the Mpumalanga Black Aces franchise; Telkom Knockout 2016 and MTN 8 2018 winner, relegated 2025, now in the Motsepe Foundation Championship.