Sports, Games, and Recreation

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Sports, generally | Baseball | Soccer | Curling | Surfing | Games | Outdoor Recreation

Sports, generally

• International Sports Calendar (International Olympic Committee)
• Sports Reference - A group of sites giving statistics in baseball, football, basketball, hockey, and the Olympics

Sports News:

• BBC Sport - Catch up on the football (i.e., soccer) and cricket news, not to mention rugby and snooker!
• Bleacher Reports
• CBS Sports
• ESPN
• SB Nation - sports blogs
• Sporting News
• Sports Illustrated/CNN
• The Sports Network

Olympics:

• International Olympic Committee - Official site
• The Olympics: A Guide to Reference Sources (Library of Congress)

Sporting Event Tickets:

• StubHub
• Ticketmaster

Amateur and Recreational Sports Participation:

See also

• Nutrition and Fitness
• Active.com - Running, cycling, triathlon events; fitness advice
• American College of Sports Medicine - Advice on exercise and avoiding injuries

Women in Sports:

Jews in Sports:

• International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame, Netanya, Israel
• Jewish Baseball Museum - Currently a virtual museum, but plans are in the works for a physical museum in Chicago
• Maccabiah - International Jewish sporting events held every four years. The world competition is held in Israel.
• European Maccabi Games
• Pan American Maccabi Games
• National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame and Museum, Commack, N.Y.

Academic Study of Sports:

• Scholarly Sports Sites - A directory (Stark Center for Physical Culture and Sports)

Sports Libraries:

• Baseball Hall of Fame: Giamatti Research Center
• National Sport Information Centre, Australia
• LA84 Foundation: Sports Library and Digital Collection
• Olympic Studies Centre - Academic resources on the Olympic movement

Baseball

• Major League Baseball - Official site
• Video search
• Baseball Almanac
• Baseball Library.com - Data on players, chronology, the greatest teams, hypothetical matchups of historical players
• Baseball Reference - Statistics and history
• Sporting News Baseball Archive - Histories of the greatest players, the World Series, the All-Star Game
• Yahoo Baseball

Research and Education:

• Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown, N.Y.
• Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) (Some content available to members only)

Baseball Index:

• The Baseball Index (TBI) - An index to books, articles, songs, and more (SABR)

Selected Teams:

• San Francisco Giants official site
• Oakland A's official site

Soccer

World:

• Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) - The governing body of the sport and sponsor of the World Cup; find official rules here
• SoccerNet (ESPN)
• World Soccer (Yahoo)

U.S.: Major League Soccer (MLS):

• MLSnet.com - Official site of Major League Soccer
• Yahoo Sports: MLS

Curling

• Curling Basics - Animated explanation of rules and terms
• Curling Championships (World Curling Federation)
• Curling News
• The Curling School (CurlTech)
• Curling Zone - "Everything curling"
• USA Curling - Find a local club or event
• San Francisco Bay Area Curling Club
• Silicon Valley Curling Club

Surfing

• Surfline - Cams and reports of conditions, forecasts, news

Games

Chess:

• Laws of Chess (International Chess Federation, F.I.D.E.)
• U.S. Chess Federation - Publishers of Chess Life
• World Chess Live - Site for online play. Requires paid membership.

Word Games and Puzzles:

See also

• Word Play
• Los Angeles Times crosswords, etc.
• NPR Sunday Puzzle
• Says You - "A radio game of bluff and bluster, words and wimsy"
• Sporcle - Triva

Outdoor Recreation

• Local Hikes - Hikes near U.S. metropolitan areas
• Pickatrail - Guide with an emphasis on the U.K. and U.S.
• TrailLink - (Rails-to-Trails Conservancy)
• Trails.com - Subscription site for trail maps (includes TopoZone)
• U.S. National Park Service
• Find a Park
• Woodall's RV Travel Guide and Campground Directory - U.S. and Canada