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Constantin Henriquez

Constantin Henriquez, Franco-Haitian rugby player (born Port-de-Paix, Haiti, c. 1876-1880; died 1942), won gold with France in rugby union at the 1900 Paris Olympics, the first Black Olympic champion; later a doctor and Haitian sports pioneer.

Constantin Ursu

Constantin Ursu, Moldovan welterweight boxer based in Plymouth, England, born 2000 in Chisinau. Undefeated 16-0 (7 KOs); holds Commonwealth, WBO European, and British titles; trained by Marlee Dann; signed to Queensberry Promotions.

Constantina Dita Tomescu

Constantina Dita Tomescu (Diță-Tomescu), Romanian marathon runner born 1970 in Turburea; won 2008 Beijing Olympic marathon gold in 2:26:44 at 38, the oldest Olympic marathon champion, with a 2:21:30 Romanian record.

Constantine Louloudis

Constantine Michael Louloudis, British rower born 1991 in London; Olympic gold in the coxless four at Rio 2016, bronze in the eight at London 2012, two world titles in the eight, and four Oxford Boat Race wins.

Constellacio esportiva

Constellació Esportiva was an Andorran amateur football club that competed in the Primera Divisió from 1998 to 2000, winning its 1999/2000 title with 12 wins in 12 games.

Consulting detective

Consulting detective: Sherlock Holmes's honorific, and the title of Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective, a 1981 Sleuth Publications cooperative deduction board game by Edwards, Goldberg, and Grady; Spiel des Jahres 1985 winner in German.

Consume Me

Consume Me: 2025 indie life-sim RPG by Hexecutable (Jenny Jiao Hsia, AP Thomson). Semi-autobiographical high-school story about dieting and disordered eating; won IGF 2025 Seumas McNally Grand Prize and a 2026 Apple Design Award.

Contact sport

A contact sport is a sport in which athletes routinely make physical contact with each other, with objects, or with the ground as part of play.

Content Warning

Content Warning is a 2024 Landfall co-op horror game on Steam where 2-4 players film monsters in the Old World to go viral on SpöökTube. Free for 24 hours on April 1, 2024, it hit 204,439 peak concurrent players, 6.2 million claims, and 1 million paid sales at $7.99.

Continental Basketball Association

Continental Basketball Association (CBA), also Eastern Pennsylvania/Eastern Professional/Eastern Basketball Association: US men's minor pro basketball league, 1946-2009, unofficial NBA farm program until the D-League formed, bankrupt 2001, relaunched, folded 2009.

Continental club football competitions

Continental club football competitions are championships for football clubs organized by FIFA's six confederations. These tournaments include flagship events like the UEFA Champions League and the AFC Champions League Elite.

Continental Cup (curling)

Continental Cup (curling): Ryder Cup-style team event launched 2002 in Regina, six North American teams vs six from Europe and Asia, total-points scoring; launching pad for Olympic mixed doubles; paused after 2022-23 season.

Continental Divide Trail

Continental Divide Trail (CDT), US National Scenic Trail designated 1978, administered by the USDA Forest Service; 3,100 authorized miles along the Continental Divide from Canada to Mexico through five states, the longest and most rugged of the Triple Crown trails.

Continental Football League

Continental Football League (CoFL): American pro football league, 1965–1969, formed from UFL and ACFL teams under Happy Chandler; Charleston, Philadelphia, and Orlando won its titles; revived for a 2026 summer launch by Manny Matsakis.

Continental Football League (2026)

Continental Football League (CoFL), revived 2026 American minor pro gridiron league, third-tier summer football under hybrid NFL/Canadian rules; San Antonio Toros were 5–0 2026 champions; HQ moved to Indianapolis.

Contra (video game)

Contra (魂斗羅 コントラ; Gryzor in Europe) is Konami's 1987 run-and-gun arcade game, ported to NES in 1988 as an expanded eight-stage version; known for one-hit deaths, the Spread Gun, co-op play, and the 30-lives Konami Code.

Contra (コントラ) (series)

Contra (コントラ) is Konami's run-and-gun shooter series begun in arcades in February 1987, starring superhuman commandos Bill Rizer and Lance Bean against the Red Falcon alien army; 17 titles, latest Contra: Operation Galuga (2024).

Contra: Rogue Corps

Contra: Rogue Corps is Konami's 2019 twin-stick third-person Contra spin-off for PS4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC, set in the Damned City, directed by Nobuya Nakazato, with four eccentric characters, loot-driven weapon crafting, and Metacritic 52.

Contraband Police

Contraband Police is a 2023 first-person border-inspection simulation game by Polish studio Crazy Rocks, published by PlayWay S.A., set in 1981 Acaristan; released on PC March 8, 2023 and PS5/Xbox Series X|S November 7, 2025, with Metacritic 77.

Contract bridge

Contract bridge: four-player trick-taking card game invented by Harold Vanderbilt in 1925, played as rubber or duplicate bridge, governed by the WBF's 2017 Laws, with auction, contract, play, and bonus-based scoring.

Control (video game)

Control (Remedy Entertainment, 505 Games, 2019) is a supernatural third-person action-adventure in which Jesse Faden, the FBC's new Director, fights the Hiss in the Oldest House; Metroidvania structure, Northlight engine, five day-one ray-traced effects, over 6 million copies sold, sequel Control Resonant.

Control Resonant

Control Resonant (formerly Control 2) is Remedy Entertainment's 2026 action-adventure RPG sequel to Control, released September 24, 2026 on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC, starring Dylan Faden with the shapeshifting melee weapon Aberrant in a warped Manhattan.

Cookie Clicker

Cookie Clicker is a browser incremental game by Julien "Orteil" Thiennot, released 8 August 2013, where players click a cookie and buy buildings to raise cookies per second; it defined the idle genre, later gaining sugar lumps, minigames, ascension, and Steam and console versions.

Cooking Mama

Cooking Mama (クッキングママ) is Office Create's cooking minigame franchise, starting on Nintendo DS in 2006 with 76 recipes and stylus controls, later on Wii, 3DS, and mobile, with a 2020 Cookstar licensing dispute.

Cool Runnings

Cool Runnings, known in French as Rasta Rockett, is a 1993 American comedy film about the Jamaican bobsled team at the 1988 Winter Olympics, starring John Candy.

Coolmore Stud

Coolmore Stud, the world's largest thoroughbred breeding operation, headquartered at Fethard, County Tipperary, Ireland, owned by the Magnier family; home of champion sires Sadler's Wells and Galileo, with farms in Kentucky and Australia.

Cooper Barkate

Cooper Barkate, wide receiver from Newport Beach, California: Harvard 2022-24, Duke 2025 (72 catches, 1,106 yards, All-ACC), Miami 2026; 185 career catches, 2,848 yards, 21 TDs through 2025.

Cooper Clarke

Cooper Clarke (born 2006) is an Australian rugby league forward for the Melbourne Storm; NRL debut Round 1 2026 vs Parramatta, 24 games that season, 2026 RLPA Rookie of the Year, contract to 2029.

Cooper Cronk

Cooper Cronk (Cooper Patrick Cronk) is an Australian former rugby league halfback who won four NRL premierships with the Melbourne Storm and Sydney Roosters from 2004 to 2019.

Cooper DeJean

Cooper DeJean, Philadelphia Eagles defensive back (#33) from Odebolt, Iowa and the University of Iowa; 2024 second-round pick, unanimous All-American, Super Bowl LIX pick-six on his 22nd birthday, first-team All-Pro.