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Four-seam fastball
Four-seam fastball (FF): baseball's fastest, straightest, most-used pitch, gripped across the seams with backspin. MLB average about 94 mph, roughly 2,260 rpm spin, 31.8% of 2024 pitches.
Fourth generation of video game consoles
Fourth generation of video game consoles (16-bit era), from NEC PC Engine 1987 through SNES vs Sega Genesis console wars; SNES sold 49.1M units, Genesis 30.75M, Game Boy 118M.
Fox Engine
Fox Engine: Kojima Productions' cross-platform game engine for Konami, announced June 2011 by Hideo Kojima. Powered Metal Gear Solid V, Metal Gear Survive, and PES 2014-2020 (derivative Fluidity), then replaced by Unreal Engine after Kojima's 2015 departure.
Fox games
Fox games: asymmetric hunt board games, chiefly Fox and Geese, where one fox hunts 13-17 geese on a cross-shaped 33-point board; geese corner the fox, the fox jumps geese; recorded from 1471 England.
Fox hunting
Fox hunting: mounted sport hunting of red foxes with hound packs. Banned in Scotland (2002) and England and Wales (Hunting Act 2004); trail hunting, drag hunting, and exemptions remain, with a UK trail hunting ban proposed in 2026.
Fox NFL Sunday
Fox NFL Sunday is Fox's one-hour NFL pregame studio show, debuting 1994 after Fox's $1.58 billion NFC rights win. Hosts Curt Menefee and Terry Bradshaw with Howie Long, Michael Strahan, Rob Gronkowski, and Jay Glazer; 16 Emmys.
Foxboro Stadium
Foxboro Stadium (Schaefer/Sullivan Stadium), Foxborough, Massachusetts: Patriots' NFL home 1971–2001, ~60,000 seats, built privately in 327 days for ~$7.1 million, replaced by Gillette Stadium.
Foxhall Keene
Foxhall Parker Keene (1867-1941), American polo player and Gilded Age sportsman; won 1900 Olympic polo gold for Foxhunters Hurlingham, first US 10-goal player, champion steeplechase jockey, died poor in Québec.
Foxos
Foxos: name of two Atlantic beaches in northwest Spain, Praia de Foxos in Sanxenxo (Pontevedra, Galicia, 350 m, Blue Flag surf beach near A Lanzada) and Playa de Foxos in Coaña (Asturias, 150 m cliff-bound beach), plus Galician hamlets and a Vigo neighborhood.
Foxy
Foxy is a 2022 memory and estimation card game by David Spada (GateOnGames; Game Factory German edition 2025) for 1-5 players, age 7+, about 15 minutes, on the 2025 Spiel des Jahres recommended list.
Foy Draper
Foy Draper (1913–1943), American sprinter, USC Trojans; won 1936 Berlin Olympic gold in the 4x100m relay running third leg in world record 39.8; died as a bomber pilot at Kasserine Pass.
Foz Coa
Foz Côa, formally the Eurocircuito de Vila Nova de Foz Côa, is a 1 km autocross circuit in Vila Nova de Foz Côa, Guarda district, Portugal.
FR Germany
FR Germany (FRG) was the athletics designation for West Germany, 1949-1990, now merged under GER. Known for the 14:38.8 men's 4x1500m world record of 1977, the 42.81 women's 4x100m Olympic record of 1972, and Carl Kaufmann's 44.9 400m.
FragPunk
FragPunk is a free-to-play 5v5 hero shooter by NetEase's Bad Guitar Studio, launched March 6, 2025 on PC and April 29 on consoles, known for 169 rule-bending Shard Cards and 13 Lancers.
Fraizer Campbell
Fraizer Campbell, English forward born 1987 in Huddersfield; Manchester United academy product who starred on loan at Hull City (2007-08 promotion), played for Sunderland, Cardiff, Crystal Palace, and Hull, and won one England cap in 2012.
Fram
Knattspyrnufélagið Fram (Fram Reykjavík) is an Icelandic multi-sport club founded 1 May 1908 in Reykjavík, one of the country's ten oldest. It holds 18 football league titles, 8 cups, and 78 total titles including dominant women's handball.
Fran Bow
Fran Bow: 2015 point-and-click psychological horror adventure by Swedish studio Killmonday Games (Natalia and Isak Martinsson). Ten-year-old Fran escapes Oswald Asylum using Duotine pills to enter the Ultrareality; five chapters, Indiegogo-funded, Unity rebuild 2023.
Fran García (footballer, born 1999)
Fran García (Francisco José García Torres, born 1999, Bolaños de Calatrava) is a Spanish left back. Real Madrid academy product, Rayo Vallecano 2020-23, 110 Real Madrid matches and 5 titles, joined Real Betis in July 2026; 2 Spain caps.
Fran Halsall
Fran Halsall is a retired British sprint swimmer who competed at three Olympic Games and won gold in the mixed medley relay at the 2015 World Championships.
Fran Kirby
Fran Kirby (born 1993) is an English footballer, Chelsea's record women's scorer with 110 goals, an England midfielder-forward with 77 caps and 19 goals, Euro 2022 winner, now at Brighton & Hove Albion after a 2024 transfer.
Fran McCaffery
Fran McCaffery (born 1959) is an American college basketball coach, Penn's head coach since 2025, with a 566-396 record at Lehigh, UNC Greensboro, Siena, Iowa, and Penn; he took five schools to the NCAA Tournament and is Iowa's all-time winningest coach.
Fran Tarkenton
Fran Tarkenton (Francis Asbury Tarkenton, born 1940), NFL quarterback 1961-1978 for the Vikings and Giants, nicknamed The Scrambler; retired holding passing records (47,003 yards, 342 TDs), 1975 MVP, 0-3 in Super Bowls, Hall of Fame 1986.
France at the 2028 Summer Olympics
France at the 2028 Summer Olympics (LA28, 14–30 July 2028): planned French participation in Los Angeles, covering qualification systems, the 351-event program, new sports, and the Paris 2024 baseline of 64 medals.
France at the FIFA World Cup
France at the FIFA World Cup: Les Bleus' record in the men's tournament, two-time champions (1998, 2018), four-time finalists, 17th campaign at 2026, Deschamps' final tournament.
France at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships
France is the most successful nation in the history of the UCI Track Cycling World Championships, with 408 medals, including 145 gold, since the championships began in 1893.
France men's national basketball team
France men's national basketball team (Les Bleus), FFBB-governed FIBA team. Four Olympic silvers (1948, 2000, 2020, 2024), EuroBasket 2013 champions, 40 EuroBasket appearances, World Cup bronze 2014 and 2019, coached by Frédéric Fauthoux with captain Victor Wembanyama.
France national football team
France national football team (Les Bleus), FFF-governed men's team; two-time World Cup winner (1998, 2018), Euro 1984/2000 champion; Deschamps era ended 2026 with fourth place, succeeded by Zidane.
France national rugby union team
France national rugby union team (Les Bleus, XV de France), men's team run by the FFR; first test 1906 vs New Zealand, Five Nations member since 1910, Grand Slams 2002, 2004, 2010, 2022, 2025 Six Nations champions.
France national under-21 football team
France national under-21 football team (Équipe de France Espoirs, Les Bleuets), FFF-run U21 side; won the 1988 UEFA U21 EURO, runners-up 2002, semi-finalists 2025 under Gérald Baticle.
France v Gibraltar (UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying)
France v Gibraltar, 18 November 2023, Allianz Riviera, Nice: Euro 2024 qualifying Group B match won 14-0 by France, its biggest ever win, a men's Euro qualifying record, with a Mbappé hat-trick and a debut goal from Zaïre-Emery.