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	Sports Information and Facts
		A wide range of sports were already established by the time of Ancient Greece and the military culture and the development of sports in Greece influenced one another considerably.
		Sports became such a prominent part of their culture that the Greeks created the Olympic Games, which in ancient times were held every four years in a small village in the Peloponnesus called Olympia.
		The closeness of art and sport in these times was revealed by the nature of the Olympic Games which, as we have seen, were celebrations of both sporting and artistic achievements, poetry, sculpture and architecture.
	www.mbceo.com /sports (1714 words)

	Sports History (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Sports history includes football history, basketball history, baseball history, ice hockey history, golf history, boxing history, triathlon, horseracing, soccer, and the Olympics.
		Sports history is an intriguing topic with interests for every age group, male and female.
		Basketball History - Basketball is an athletic sport, usually played on an indoor court in which two competing teams of five players each attempt to score points by throwing an inflated ball so that it descends through one of two baskets suspended, at each end of the court, above their heads.
	www.readingcottage.com.cob-web.org:8888 /sports-history.html (937 words)

	1930s: Sports and Games: Table of Contents \| 100 Years of Pop Culture
		The 1920s were thought to be the "golden age of sports." Throughout the 1930s, however, capable athletes broke previous records in rapid succession.
		Although the majority of sports remained segregated during the decade, in baseball the high-quality play of the teams in the Negro Leagues gained attention from white baseball fans.
		The United States Lawn Tennis Association promoted tennis as a sport for everyone—everyone at this time except African Americans, who were invited to play by their own American Tennis Association.
	www.bookrags.com /research/1930s-sports-and-games-bbbb-02 (515 words)

	BIO 226W Nazareth College
		This page is dedicated to women's involvement in sports and it also contains information about the history of women in sports, the importance of sports in the lives of girls and women, special attention needed for females involved in sports, famous female athletes, and famous organizations for female athletes.
		Women's history in organized sports can be traced back as far as 396 B.C. (8) Within the last couple of years, women have become more noticeable and successful in these activities.
		Women in sports are particularly vulnerable to this condition when they participate in sports where weight can affect success.
	www.naz.edu:9000 /~bio226w/health/women_in_sports/wsports&fit.htm (1382 words)

	Sports timeline - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		1993 in sports - Monica Seles is stabbed during a tennis tournament; Zambia national football team die in air crash.
		1931 in sports - France are expelled from the rugby union Five Nations Championship for professionalism.
		A tennis tournament called the Cincinnati Open begins; today, it is known as the Cincinnati Masters and Women's Open, and is the oldest tournament in the U.S. played in its original city.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sports_timeline (2899 words)

	Ivy League Sports
		Their statement also focuses on presidential governance of the league, the importance of intra-League competition, and a desire that recruited athletes be academically "representative" of each institution’s overall student body.
		Although the Ivy Presidents do not permit the change in all team sports, by 1980 the change is complete in all team sports except in football and men’s rowing.
		September, 1984 Jeffrey Orleans, a Yale graduate and lawyer and author of the federal Title IX regulation, is appointed the third Executive Director of the Council of Ivy Group Presidents.
	www.ivyleaguesports.com /WhatIsIvy/history.asp (996 words)

	Colorado Sports Hall of Fame (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		From world-famous to little-known athletes in sports ranging from football to track and field to fencing, these individuals have demonstrated those characteristics that are the true glory of athletic competition:
		The Colorado Sports Hall of Fame Museum, located on the West Side of INVESCO Field at Mile High, takes visitors on a journey through Colorado sports history.
		Timeline and pictorial history of women in sports.
	www.coloradosports.org /pageinpage/exhibit.cfm (293 words)

	Tampa Sports Authority (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		March 5, 1965 - A bill to create a Tampa Sports Authority is introduced in the Florida House of Representatives.
		August 3, 1965 - Tampa Sports Authority names William Watson & Co. of Tampa as architects and Coverdale and Colpitts of New York as economic feasibility consultants.
		June 7, 1966 - TSA announces it is ready to begin screening applicants of the job of manager of athletic facilities.
	www.tampasportsauthority.com /tsa/timeline.htm (1197 words)

	MeL: Sports
		Sports blogs provide immediate facts and passionate opinion for a wide variety of sports around the world.
		Histories and trivia of many (eventually all are promised) major and minor sports by a sports reporter and author.
		Sports occuptation descriptions, education and training needs, other sport career sites, and links to job application and search sites.
	web.mel.org /viewtopic.jsp?id=123&pathid=1001 (994 words)

	Library - Internet Reference Collection - Sports
		The Sports Library of the Amateur Athletic Foundation of Los Angeles presents this set of links to sports information sources "that may be of special interest to sports researchers."
		Links to numerous sports servers (CNN, professional team websites, etc.) as well as to TV, radio and newspaper sports pages and other major sports sites (NBA, NCAA, National Hockey League, etc.) from the American Statistical Association's Section on Statistics in Sports.
		Sports news and analysis, schedules, scores, team standings, and more from the ESPN sports network.
	www.santarosa.edu /library/Refs/sports.shtml (440 words)

	1960s: Sports and Games History: Table of Contents \| bbbb_04_package.xml
		The 1960s saw professional sports finally attain dominance in the hearts of American sports fans.
		The overlapping seasons of professional baseball, football, hockey, and basketball offered sports fans year-round entertainment, and television broadcasting increased in sophistication to make sports coverage more exciting.
		Professional football became the most popular American sport in the 1960s, surpassing baseball in attendance and in television viewership.
	www.bookrags.com /history/1960s-sports-and-games-bbbb-04 (563 words)

	List of timelines - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Chronologies or timelines are important in understanding history.
		Timeline of Chinese espionage against the U.S. includes information relating to the 1996 United States campaign finance controversy and nuclear espionage detailed in the Cox Report released by the U.S. Congress in 1999
		Timelines of History: a collection of timelines by time, country, today in history along with assorted subjects
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_timelines (447 words)

	Post-News Educational Services -- A Slam-dunk for Women's Sports (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		There's much debate about whether sports viewing audiences care much for the women's league, because the intensity and excitement of play doesn't match that of their men's counterpart - the NBA, founded in 1949.
		In this week's lesson, you'll shoot through a timeline of sports history and track important events.
		Start at the beginning, at the History of Women in Sports Timeline, hosted by the St. Lawrence County Branch of the New York State of AAUW (American Association of University Women).
	www.postnewseducation.com /nieag12.shtml (807 words)

	The Online NewsHour: Generation Next \| The Demographic \| Timeline - Sports \| PBS
		He is stripped of his medals and banned from the sport for two years.
		In Nagano, Japan, snowboarding debuts as an official sport at the Winter Olympics.
		In a Sports Illustrated interview, former baseball MVP Ken Caminiti admits to using steroids in the 1990s.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/generation-next/demographic/timeline_sports.html (1184 words)

	Kansas Kaleidoscope, April 1998
		After all Dr. James Naismith, the man who invented the sport and became known as the "father of basketball," was the college's first basketball coach.
		From the time Kansas became a state in 1861 until the KSU Wildcats won the Fiesta Bowl, sports has been a passion in the state.
		Follow the timeline to learn who made the plays and what happened in between.
	www.kshs.org /publicat/kaleidoscope/1998april.htm (415 words)

	Fandemonium - The Boston Globe
		This is why we are so sure we are home to the best sports fans in America.
		When I examined the Boston sports fan in 1990, the Bruins were contenders, the Celtics were chic, the Sox were cursed, and that football team - what was its name again?
		Hockey was rarely an option for girls in 1990, but today, rinks are full of girls eyeing a high school hockey career, a college scholarship, and even an Olympic medal.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/magazine/articles/2006/06/18/fandemonium (4221 words)

	GLINN-- Gays and Sports Timeline (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Gays & Sports Timeline: 1800s, "Swedish and German gymnasts begin performing acrobatic and tumbling routines in swimming areas, developing the sport of diving.", "The game of soccer which evolves from centuries of different ball games where participants are not allowed to use their hands, develops formal rules of play."
		Gays & Sports Timeline: 1891, "Basketball is invented by James Naismith of the YMCA in Springfield, Massachusetts as an indoor sport to play between football and baseball seasons.
		Gays & Sports Timeline: 1975, "The Education Act of 1972 is applied to sports.", "Reporter Lynn Rosellini writes a ground breaking series of articles on homosexual athletes, `Gays in Sports' in the Washington Star.
	www.glinn.com.cob-web.org:8888 /news/tline7.htm (1120 words)

	Simmons Libraries College Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Organized Sports Cup, presented by Alumnae Association, won by Class of 1916.
		Winter sports program limited to two weekends at Lake Ponkapoag due to weather.
		- Sports Center opened, containing a 100-meter running track, basketball and squash courts, two weight rooms, dance studio, indoor pool and sauna, and cardiovascular workout room with latest in fitness equipment.
	www.simmons.edu /resources/libraries/archives/sport_timeline.html (2132 words)

	Timelines - AlternaTime (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Canisius College and has been collecting timelines on the Internet since 1993.
		Timeline of Events Relevant to the Northern Plains Tribes
		Timeline: Major Events in the U.S. Genome Project
	www.canisius.edu /~emeryg/time.html (137 words)

	Women's Sports Foundation HOME (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Her sport is orienteering — a type of adventure race in which participants navigate their way through rough terrain.
		The current report highlights key indicators of the status of both the status of physical activity and health for Hispanic female youth in the Chicago metropolitan area; these indicators are then compared with national averages in order to contextualize the results.
		This is the inner beauty of sports and competition and it can serve us all well as adult athletes.
	womenssportsfoundation.org /cgi-bin/.../gogetfit/article.html?record=55 (209 words)

	SportsBusinessJournal.com
		EA Sports has signed an exclusive six-year licensing deal with the Collegiate Licensing Company to develop, publish and distribute interactive college football video games.
		Dr Pepper signs a deal with ABC Sports and the ACC to title sponsor the conference’s first college football championship game, to be held Dec. 3 at Alltel Stadium in Jacksonville.
		The athletes are competing for the largest purse in action sports, and a $1 million bonus pool based on year-end standings.
	www.sportsbusinessjournal.com /index.cfm?fuseaction=page.feature&featureId=1812 (4036 words)

	Timeline: Women in Sports
		Lucy Diggs Slowe becomes the first African-American woman to win a national title in any sport when she wins the first women's title at the American Tennis Association (ATA) national tournament.
		Figure skating is the only sport open to women at the first Winter Olympic Games.
		Baseball commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis bans women from the sport later that year.
	www.factmonster.com /spot/womeninsportstimeline.html (603 words)

	The Seattle Times: Sports: Timeline: The key decisions and actions from tackle to snap
		The Seattle Times: Sports: Timeline: The key decisions and actions from tackle to snap
		Timeline: The key decisions and actions from tackle to snap
		There are dozens of questions to answer, scenarios to envision, decisions to be made.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/sports/2002676904_snaptimeline11.html (596 words)

	Women in Sports
		Anyone who turned on the TV in the evening to watch the sports report would see the latest news about men in sports.
		Diana Crump is famous in the sport of _____.
		To find information on the Internet to make your own timeline about women in sports, it would probably be best to search under the key word(s)_____.
	www.edhelper.com /ReadingComprehension_35_14.html (244 words)

	Sports (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		healthy sports activities, stop the abuse of athletes, and develop resources for those studying or interested in sports reform
		Ride and Tie a relatively unknown sport that combines trail running, endurance riding, and most of all, strategy
		Sports Temples of Boston, Images of Historic Ballparks, Arenas and Stadiums 1872-1972
	www.nlc.state.ne.us /nsf/sports.html (577 words)

	USATODAY.com - Congress involved in sports over the years (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		June 2002: Rep. Bart Gordon, D-Tenn., introduced a bill to prohibit sports agents from giving gifts and money to prospective athletes and their families in order to get them to sign contracts.
		The Sports Agency Responsibility and Trust Act became law in September 2004.
		Currently, there are three bills that would establish standards for drug testing in pro sports and mandate harsh penalties for transgressors.
	www.usatoday.com /sports/2005-06-23-timeline-congress-sports_x.htm (641 words)

	BBC SPORT \| OTHER SPORTS \| Timeline: Racing's foot-and-mouth crisis
		You are in: You are in: Other Sports
		BBC Sport Online takes a look at how events surrounding the foot-and-mouth outbreak have affected the sport.
		Links to more Other Sports stories are at the foot of the page.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/hi/other_sports/1204872.stm (429 words)

	Sports: McPherson timeline
		NOV. 27, 2002: Police charge McPherson with felony grand theft and misdemeanor theft in connection with the R&R check.
		FEB. 13, 2003: Prosecutors charge McPherson with a felony in connection with the five checks he bounced in August.
		MARCH 4, 2003: McPherson is charged by police with gambling on pro and college sports, including all FSU football games, via the Internet, a misdemeanor.
	www.sptimes.com /2003/06/01/news_pf/Sports/McPherson_timeline.shtml (683 words)

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