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Holly Holm
Holly Holm, "The Preacher's Daughter", Albuquerque-born boxer and MMA fighter; multi-division boxing champion, UFC bantamweight champion after her 2015 head-kick KO of Ronda Rousey at UFC 193; left the UFC in 2025 and returned to boxing.
Holly Metcalf
Holly Metcalf (Harriet Morris Metcalf), American rower born 1958 in Providence, Rhode Island; won gold in the women's eight at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, the first US women's rowing gold, then coached MIT and founded Row As One, G-ROW, and WeCanRow.
Hollywood Park Racetrack
Hollywood Park Racetrack, also called the Home of Champions, was an Inglewood, California Thoroughbred track opened June 10, 1938 by Jack L. Warner, home of the Hollywood Gold Cup and first Breeders' Cup, closed December 22, 2013; its land is now SoFi Stadium.
Hollywood Smothers
Hollywood Smothers, college football running back for the Texas Longhorns (formerly Oklahoma, NC State), Charlotte NC native; 2025 First-Team All-ACC with 939 rushing yards, scored game-winning TD in Texas's 24-23 upset of No. 1 Ohio State in 2026.
Hollywood Squares
Hollywood Squares, American celebrity tic-tac-toe game show created by Heatter and Quigley, debuted on NBC October 17, 1966 with host Peter Marshall and center-square Paul Lynde; revived 1986–89, 1998–2004 (Bergeron, Goldberg), and on CBS from 2025 with Drew Barrymore and Nate Burleson.
Holmenkollbakken
Holmenkollbakken is a large ski jumping hill in the Holmenkollen district of Oslo, Norway, with a K-point of 120 meters, hosting competitions since 1892 and the 1952 Winter Olympics.
Holmenkollmedaljen
Holmenkollmedaljen, Norway's highest skiing honor, instituted 1894 by Skiforeningen, first awarded 1895 to Victor Thorn; awarded for multi-year excellence in Nordic skiing and biathlon, first para recipient Nils-Erik Ulset in 2026.
Hololive Dreams
hololive Dreams (holodori, ホロドリ) is hololive production's first official smartphone game, a free-to-play rhythm & RPG by COVER and QualiArts launched July 23, 2026 on iOS, Android, and Steam, with 50+ talents, 150+ songs, and Dream Park building.
Holstein Kiel
Holstein Kiel (KSV Holstein von 1900), German champion 1912, is a football club from Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein; promoted to the Bundesliga in 2024 as its 58th club, relegated after one season, playing at Holstein-Stadion.
Home Park
Home Park is the all-seater stadium of Plymouth Argyle FC in Milehouse, Plymouth, home since 1901, capacity 17,000, an Asset of Community Value, and a conference and events venue.
Home run
Home run (HR): baseball play where the batter hits a fair ball and scores without being put out; also called homer, dinger, tater. Includes over-the-fence and rare inside-the-park versions, affected by park, wind, and temperature.
Home Run Derby
MLB All-Star Home Run Derby, annual power-hitting contest since 1985; swing-based format (20/15/15 swings) replaced the 2015 timer in 2026; Jordan Walker is reigning champion; Griffey Jr. won three titles.
Home Safety Hotline
Home Safety Hotline is a 2024 analog horror game by Night Signal Entertainment (Nick Lives, David Johnsen) where the player is a 1990s call center operator diagnosing supernatural household pests from a database; released Jan 16, 2024, with Seasonal Worker DLC.
Home Team (2022 film)
Home Team is a 2022 American sports comedy directed by Charles and Daniel Kinnane, starring Kevin James, Taylor Lautner, and Rob Schneider, released on Netflix in January 2022.
Home video game console
Home video game console: dedicated TV-connected gaming device, from Ralph Baer's Magnavox Odyssey (1972) through Atari 2600, NES, PlayStation 2 (bestselling), to PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and Switch 2.
Homebrew (video games)
Homebrew (video games) are games created by hobbyists for proprietary consoles. Modern versions often utilize exploits, such as the PS5 Relapse jailbreak, to run on hardware not intended for user programming.
Homefront (video game)
Homefront is a 2011 first-person shooter by Kaos Studios and THQ for PC, PS3, and Xbox 360, set in 2027 North Korean-occupied America; Metacritic 70, THQ stock fell ~21-25%, Kaos closed June 2011, sequel The Revolution 2016.
Homefront: The Revolution
Homefront: The Revolution, also known as Homefront 2, is a 2016 first-person shooter by Dambuster Studios about a resistance fighting the Korean People's Army in occupied Philadelphia.
Homegrown Player Rule (England)
Homegrown Player Rule (England): Premier League squad rule from 2010/11 requiring at least 8 homegrown players in a 25-man squad, max 17 non-homegrown; homegrown means 3 seasons/36 months with an FA or Welsh FA club before age 21, any nationality.
Homeless World Cup
Homeless World Cup: annual street football tournament founded by Mel Young and Harald Schmied, first held Graz 2003 with 18 teams; 40 men's and 24 women's teams, 75 member countries, life-change and attitude-change mission.
Homestead Fe
Homestead Fe is the FIA-licensed circuit designation for the Formula E layout at Homestead-Miami Speedway, Homestead, Florida: a 2.604 km (1.618 mi) special circuit at the 1.5-mile banked oval venue opened in 1995.
Homestead Grays
Homestead Grays, Negro leagues baseball franchise founded 1910 near Pittsburgh, later splitting home games with Washington, D.C. Won nine straight pennants and three Negro World Series titles (1937–1948); Josh Gibson's team; folded May 1951.
Homeworld
Homeworld is a 1999 real-time strategy game developed by Relic Entertainment and published by Sierra, pioneering fully 3D space battles and regarded as a genre classic.
Homeworld 2
Homeworld 2 is Relic Entertainment's 2003 3D space RTS for PC and Mac, sequel to Homeworld. Players command the Pride of Hiigara against the Vaygr across 15 missions; Metacritic 83; remastered in 2015.
Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak
Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak (also known as Deserts of Kharak) is a 2016 ground-based RTS by Blackbird Interactive, a prequel to Homeworld set on planet Kharak, following Rachel S'jet's expedition to the Primary Anomaly; released January 2016, Metacritic 79.
Homicide (wrestler)
Homicide (Nelson Rodriguez Erazo, born 1977), also The Notorious 187, Brooklyn-born American professional wrestler; ROH World Champion, TNA's LAX with Hernandez, Doghouse trainer, active 1993 to 2025.
Homo Ludens
Homo Ludens (1938), Johan Huizinga's study of the play-element in culture; source of the magic circle concept, definition of play, and founding text of game studies, contrasted with Caillois.
Homosexuality in American football
Homosexuality in American football: 16 gay or bi NFL players have come out, from Dave Kopay (1975) to Carl Nassib, the first active player (2021) and only one to play a regular-season down; Michael Sam was the first drafted (2014).
Homosexuality in association football
Homosexuality in association football: LGBTQ+ players, fans, and inclusion in soccer. Few openly gay male professionals (Fashanu 1990, Daniels 2022), a more open women's game, fan attitude-behavior gaps, and campaigns like Rainbow Laces.
Homosexuality in English football
Homosexuality in English football: gay players, fans, and homophobia in the English game. Justin Fashanu came out in 1990, Jake Daniels in 2022; Rainbow Laces, Kick It Out, and FA inclusion campaigns address discrimination.