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Sports
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Archery
National Archery Association
Badminton
USA Badminton
Baseball and Softball
Babe Ruth League
Baseball America - "The home for baseball insiders."
Baseball Cards: 1887-1914 - 2,100 early baseball cards dating from 1887 to 1914 from the Library of Congress. Searchable by keyword and browsable by player, team, league, city and card set.
Baseball Films of the Silent Era - Carl Bennett's "database of information on films produced in the silent era of world cinema."
Baseball Links - John Skilton's comprehensive collection of baseball links.
Boston Red Sox
Business of Baseball Committee - "The goal of this site is to provide research tools for those wishing to learn more about the business end of professional baseball."
By Popular Demand: Jackie Robinson and Other Baseball Highlights, 1860s - 1960s - Library of Congress
Carolina League Baseball - Greensboro, North Carolina
Jackie Robinson: A Baseball Celebration - New York Times Web Special
Little League Baseball - Official site provides information on Little League Baseball World Series.
Major League Baseball
National Baseball Hall of Fame - Cooperstown, New York. The A. Bartlett Giamatti Research Center provides Archival Finding Aids and Inventories.
New York Yankees
Physics of Baseball - Adam Kleinbaum, Harvard Science Review, Winter 1997. (See archives.) The Science of Sports issue also has articles on golf, sprained ankles, concussions in football and anabolic steroids.
Society for American Baseball Research - With links to members' websites
Softball - Official site of the Women's Pro Softball League
Total Baseball
Basketball
College Hoops Insider
D3hoops - "Definitive resource for Division III men's and women's basketball."
Harlem Globetrotters
Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame - Springfield, Massachusetts
NBA.com - Official site of the National Basketball Association
NCAA Final Four - Official site of the NCAA basketball championships.
ShaqWorld Online - Shaquille O'Neal
Biomechanics
Biomechanics Magazine - "Magazine of body movement and medicine."
Biomechanics Worldwide- J. Pierre Baudin's extensive collection of links to biomechanic resources in the U.S. and Canada. Includes links to journals, societies, conferences, career opportunities.

Coaches' Information Service (CIS) - An initiative of the International Society of Biomechanics in Sports and the University of Edinburgh. Offers short articles and research in the following subjects: basketball, coaching, cricket, field athletics, golf, gymnastics, rowing, soccer, strength & conditioning, swimming, team handball, tennis, track athletics, volleyball and water polo.
Among Hit Parade Top 20, for example, is a paper on Kicking (in soccer) by Pekka Luhtanen, Research Institute for Olympic Sports, Finland, and What Stroke Should be Taught First?
(swimming) by Ross Sanders, University of Edinburgh, Scotland. Provides information on editors.
International Society of Biomechanics in Sports - Sponsors of the XVIth Symposium of the International Society of Biomechanics in Sports held at the University of Konstanz, July 21-25, 1998.
You can search for keywords and authors in all ISBS Proceedings back to 1987. In the Who's Who database you can search for a person, a biomechanist with a specific expertise or colleagues in a specific country. Their ISBS Coaches' Info Service "is a new platform to communicate applied biomechanics research with coaches and athletes of various sports."
Biographies
Badjocks - Bob Reno
Current Biography Excerpts - "Online excerpts from all of the articles on sports figures that have appeared in Current Biography since 1983."
Distinguished Women of Past and Present: Sports
Endurance Radio - "Online radio programs and interviews with endurance athletes and coaches." With Archives. Recent interviews: Bruce Jenner, John Wallace, Greg Tanner, Jeff Galloway,
Melanie Mcquaid, Drew Holms, Conrad Daniels, Christine Des Efants, Paul Greer, Ryne Melcher, Scott Slade, Pat Connelly, Richard Diaz, Bruce Bauman, and Nancy Eastman.
Coaching
National Athletic Trainers' Association
College Sports
College Fight Songs Homepage - Trevor D. Barnes
College Hoops Insider
CollegeNews Online - Links to about 400 campus newspapers. Browse College Name or geographically.
College Sports News Daily
Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC)
Ivy League Sports - Council of Ivy Group Presidents. Offers pages devoted to Fall, Winter and Spring sports (some of which have archives dating back to the 1950s).
John S. and James L. Knight Foundation - The Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletic issues Reports on college sports, including A Call to Action: Reconnecting College Sports and Higher Education released in June 2001 (in pdf format).
National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) - Has links to members.
National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) - Provides a Statistics page and links to members.
NCAA Sports
The NCAA and Collegiate Athletics - Archived lecture (1:01:29) given by Myles Brand, president of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, at Boston College on February 20, 2004.
NCAA Final Four - Official site of the NCAA basketball championships.
Columnists
Shirley Povich Tribute - Tribute to the Washington Post columnist who died June 4, 1998.
Cricket
CricInfo: the Home of Cricket on the Internet
Lords Cricket Grounds - Owned by the Marylebone Cricket Club, and located in St John's Wood - part of the London borough of Westminster. "Lord's is the home of Middlesex County Cricket Club and the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), as well as the International Cricket Council (ICC)."
Croquet
Croquet World Online Magazine
Diving
Diving Medicine Online - Ernest S Campbell
Doc's Diving Medicine Home Page - Edmond Kay, a physician for the University of Washington's Diving Safety Program, has put together this undersea medicine site focusing on diving safety for both sport and professional divers.
Education
American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation & Dance (AAHPERD)
Field Hockey
National Field Hockey Coaches Association (NFHCA)
Football (American)
American Football Coaches Association
Buffalo Bills Online - Official site
Denver Broncos - Official site
Green Bay Packers - Official site
NFL - Official site of the National Football League
Superbowl.com - Official site
Football (European)
Archive of the Royal Dutch Football Association (KNVB)
Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA)
Football Association - Official site of the English Football Association
Golf
American Junior Golf Association
Bad Golf Monthly
British Open - Official site
CNN/SI Golf Plus
ESPN Golf Online
Golf Online - "From the editors of Golf Magazine"
Golf.com - Golf Digest and NBC Sports. Their Golfers Network offers eight hours of audio coverage a day.
Golfcourse.com - Includes locators for Golf Courses, Associations, Instructors and Repair Shops.
Golfweek - "Magazine preferred by serious golfers." Recommended by Gary Trask n the April 2, 2007 Wall Street Journal: "Of all the magazine Web sites, this one is the most user-friendly and informative. Not only does it provide articles from Golfweek magazine, but it also has all of the wire stories and information on every golf event imaginable."
Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA)
Mr. Golf Etiquette - With an Etiquette Primer and links to other Etiquette Sites.
National Golf Foundation - Trade association for the business side of golf
Golf Course Construction Activity - Tracks golf courses that are in the planning and construction cycle.
Industy Calendar - "Tracks many trade shows, consumer golf shows, business meetings, industry conferences, educational seminars and other important events related to the business of golf."
PGA of America - Official site
PGA Tour & GolfWeb
Play18: the Official Golf Course Internet Site
Royal Birkdale Golf Club - UK
Ryder Cup
Tiger Woods Official Golf Website - Produced by CBS Sportsline
United States Golf Association
Wall Street Journal Golf Journal: Selected articles:
Taking Up Golf at Midlife: How a dedicated beginner, starting now, can get decent by fall by John Paul Newport, Golf Journal, Wall Street Journal, April 14, 2007.
Getting the Pro Look: To Play With Her Husband, a Novice Buys Lessons -- and Outfits - Laura Landro, Golf Journal, Wall Street Journal, February 2, 2008. "I may not yet be able to play the game -- but at least I look the part."
The Mad Scientist of Course Design - September 15, 16-2007. "Pete Dye, 81, shuns computers, doing everything by feel. Here's a look at his latest project" in Pound Ridge, New York.
Gymnastics
Gymn - Electronic forum for gymnastics. Has gymnast biographies.
USA Gymnastics Online
History
Amateur Athletic Foundation of Los Angeles - Offers full-text of Olympic Games Official Reports including Bill Mallon's The 1896 Olympic Games, The 1900 Olympic Games, The 1904
Olympic Games and The 1908 Olympic Games. There's also an Olympic Games Primer and Olympic Oral Histories. From the Search Page you can view the full-text of a number of journals including Outing from 1883 to 1899.
American Soccer History Archives - Maintained by Dave Litterer and described as a "comprehensive repository of information, statistics and essays relating to all aspects of the history of soccer in the United States from the 1860's to the present."
Baseball Cards: 1887-1914 - 2,100 early baseball cards dating from 1887 to 1914 from the Library of Congress. Searchable by keyword and browsable by player, team, league, city and card set.
Baseball Films of the Silent Era - Carl Bennett's "database of information on films produced in the silent era of world cinema."
British Society of Sports History - Links to discussion, study, research and publications on the history of sport and physical education maintained by Richard William Cox.
Distinguished Women of Past and Present: Sports
National Archives of Canada - Ottawa. Among the extensive digital collections is Sporting Lives: Images of Canadian Athletes.
National Baseball Hall of Fame - Cooperstown, New York. The A. Bartlett Giamatti Research Center provides Archival Finding Aids and Inventories.
The Sports Page: Images from the Keystone-Mast Collection - Greatest moments in sports in images from 1900 through the late 1930's taken by early Keystone View Company stereographers.
Hockey
A to Z Encyclopedia of Ice Hockey - Developed by the Ice Hockey Annual and Graphyle Consultants.
Heisman Trophy
Hockey: A Nation's Passion - Created by the Virtual Museum of Canada
LCS Hockey - Last issue published June 23, 2000. Provides a National Hockey League Archive (1917-1997).
National Hockey League
NHLPA - Official site of the National Hockey League Players' Association
New York Rangers
SLAM! Sports Hockey - Canadian hockey news from Canadian Online Explorer.
Images
Corbis - Stock photography and pictures. A rich resource for locating historic and contemporary photographs of athletes including many from the Underwood & Underwood archive of Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig.
National Archives of Canada - Ottawa. Among the extensive digital collections is Sporting Lives: Images of Canadian Athletes.
The Sports Page: Images from the Keystone-Mast Collection - Greatest moments in sports in images from 1900 through the late 1930's taken by early Keystone View Company stereographers.
International
Australian Sports Commission
International Association of Athletics Federation (IAFF) - Sponsors of the tenth World Championships in Athletics to be held in Helsinki. Has an archive of Past Championships Results since 1983.
Lacrosse
Intercollegiate Women's Lacrosse Coaches Association (IWLCA)
Iroquois Nationals Lacrosse
Law
U.S. Sports Law - Links to federal and state documents, texts and law journal articles dealing with amateur, professional and international sports from the Legal Information Institute at Cornell
Law School.
Libraries
Joyce Sports Research Collection - University Libraries of Notre Dame. Features guides to the Libraries' holdings in five subject areas: Baseball, Basketball, Boxing, American Football, and Wrestling. There is an Autographed Baseball Collection with an Index of Signatures and an Index of Baseballs which includes photographs of the balls from several angles
National Archives of Canada - Ottawa. Among the extensive digital collections is Sporting Lives: Images of Canadian Athletes.
National Baseball Hall of Fame - Cooperstown, New York. The A. Bartlett Giamatti Research Center provides Archival Finding Aids and Inventories.
Magazines
FindArticles.com - Free online article-search service allows you to search for (and read) articles published over the last 1 to 2 years in more than 300 reputable magazines and journals. You can view publications by subject or by name.
New Zealand Journal of Sports Medicine - Has a Journal Watch which links to article citations in PubMed for 9 sports medicine journals.
Sports Illustrated
Misc.
American Athletic Institute
Ballparks by Munsey and Suppes
CNN/AI - From CNN and Sports Illustrated. Includes CNN/SI Golf Plus.
Goodwill Games
JFM's NBA and NFL Power Ratings - Maintained by James F. McConnell, a retired professor of chemistry at SUNY Cortland.
LevelEdge - Sports recruiting management portal for coaches, recruiters, student-athletes and their parents founded by Lisa Henderson.
New York Yacht Club
Only a Game - NPR and 90.9 WBUR Boston. With Show Archives. In Quidditch for Muggles commentator Bill Littlefield visits Chocksett Middle School in Sterling, Massachusetts, for a game of Quidditch.
Sports Psychology with Karlene Sugarman, M.A. - Part of the larger Psych Web site.
SportServer - Nando Times
SportsWeb - International sports news from Reuters
TSN - Canadian sports
Special Olympics International
Sport! Science - San Francisco Exploratorium has sections on Baseball, Cycling and Hockey and Skateboarding.
Sportif - Sports-related German search engine created by the Bundesinstitut für Sportwissenschaft (Federal Institute of Sport Science).
Sporting Life - UK
SportLink - Sporting Goods Manufacturers' Association
Sports and Eligibility - Who is Eligible to Play? - Webcast of November 11, 2005 symposium held at Case Law School.
United States Sports Academy - Daphne, Alabama; "America's graduate school of sport"
News
CBS SportsLine
ESPN
FoxSports
New York Times Sports
Sporting News - Site highlights include
100 Most Powerful People in Sports
archives
Tennis Soccer
NBA
College Basketball
Baseball
NHL
NFL
College Football
Sporting News Radio
Sports Network - Continuous sports scores and news feed
USA Today Sports
Washington Post - Sports
Yahoo! - Sports - They also provide scores, news, standings, stats and schedules in their Sports News for various sports including , Major League Baseball, National Hockey League, National Basketball Association, World Soccer, Tennis and Golf.
Olympics
Amateur Athletic Union - Sponsor of the Junior Olympics
Amateur Athletic Foundation of Los Angeles - Offers full-text of Olympic Games Official Reports including Bill Mallon's The 1896 Olympic Games, The 1900 Olympic Games, The 1904
Olympic Games and The 1908 Olympic Games. There's also an Olympic Games Primer and Olympic Oral Histories. From the Search Page you can view the full-text of a number of journals including Outing from 1883 to 1899.
Ancient Olympics - Part of the Perseus Digital Library, Tufts University Classics Department
International Olympic Committee - On July 6th they selected London as the host for the 2012 games.
Louis S. Nixdorff 1928 Olympic Games Collection, 1926-1978 - From the Smithsonian National Museum of American History Archives Center which has several other sport-related collections.
Official Website of the Olympic Movement
Olympics Through Time - Traces the history of the Games from ancient Greece through their modern revival in 1896. (Foundation of the Hellenic World)
United States Olympic Committee
Reference
SIRC: A World of Sport Information - "World's leading provider of sport information and research." (Formerly known as SportQuest: Sport Information Resource Centre, compiler of Sport Discus)
Sports Hot Sheet: directory of official sports web sites - Compact and useful listing of essential sports links compiled by Jack Styczynski, a librarian at the NBC Reference Library.
Virtual Library of Sport
Rowing
Dad Vail Regatta - Philadelphia. "Largest collegiate regatta in the United States, with over 100 colleges and Universities from the U.S. and Canada."
National Rowing Foundation
River and Rowing Museum - Henley-on-Thames, UK
World Wide Web Virtual Library: Rowing
Rugby
Canterbury of New Zealand - Rugby clothing and gear.
Running
Against the Winds: American Indian Running Traditions - Online exhibition at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University.
Dr. Pribut's Running Injuries Page - Stephen M. Pribut describes common running injuries and how to avoid them, as well as including information on basic biomechanics, shoes, stretching, cold and hot weather running, selecting a sports physician, and relevant organizations.
Runner's World Online
Skating
United States Figure Skating Association
Skiing
Cross-Country Skiing - Great Outdoor Recreation Pages
Downhill Skiing - Great Outdoor Recreation Pages (GORP)
SkiNet
SnowSports Industries America (SIA) - "National association representing ski, snowboard, cross country, telemark and snowshoe suppliers, manufacturers and distributors."
U.S. Ski Team - Official web site of the U.S. Ski Team, USSA and the Snowboard team.
Soccer
American Soccer History Archives - Maintained by Dave Litterer and described as a "comprehensive repository of information, statistics and essays relating to all aspects of the history of soccer in the United States from the 1860's to the present."
Major League Soccer
SoccerAge
SoccerAmerica
Soccernet - Comprehensive general soccer site.
Sports Marketing
Warsaw Sports Marketing Center - University of Oregon
Sports Medicine
Athletic Training - California State University, Chico, provides useful information on injuries
American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine - Headquartered in Rosemont, Illinois, the Society "promotes and supports educational and research programs in sports medicine, including those concerned with fitness, as well as programs designed to advance our knowledge in the recognition, treatment, rehabilitation and prevention of athletic injuries." Ask the Sports Doctor has information about sports injuries.
Dr. Pribut's Running Injuries Page - Stephen M. Pribut describes common running injuries and how to avoid them, as well as including information on basic biomechanics, shoes, stretching, cold and hot weather running, selecting a sports physician, and relevant organizations.
Physician and Sportsmedicine Online
New Zealand Journal of Sports Medicine - Has a Journal Watch which links to article citations in PubMed for 9 sports medicine journals.
Nicholas Institute of Sports Medicine and Athletic Trauma (NISMAT) - Site resources include a Runner's Resource Guide and a Physical Therapy Corner with information on such topics as Hamstring Pull, Tennis Elbow and Knee Injuries and the Female Athlete.
Swimming
Swimmers Guide Online - International, descriptive database of accessible, full-size, year-round pools.
Swimming Times
USA Swimming
Tennis
ATP Tour - International tennis news. Official site of the Association of Tennis Professionals.
College Tennis Online
Davis Cup - Official site
Roland Garros (French Open)
Tennis Australia
Tennis Magazine Online
Tennis Server - Daily news from tournaments, statistics, links to other resources, photographs and columns on sports psychology, the pro circuit, collegiate tennis, and pro tips
Tennis Warehouse - Tennis products
U.S. Professional Tennis Association
United States Tennis Association
Wimbledon Championships - Official site of the All England Lawn Tennis & Croquet Club.
Volleyball
American Volleyball Coaches Association
Volleyball Ball Worldwide
Webcasts & Media Archives
CBC Archives: Great Interviews - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Don Cherry: A Coach, A Commentator, A Controversy - Hockey coach and commentator. 8 TV clips and 5 radio clips.
Chuvalo turns a negative into a positive - Boxer George Chuvalo, 29 May 1998. See also Still Standing: The People's Champion George Chuvalo with 14 TV clips and 7 radio clips.
Eagleson answers his critics - Alan Eagleson, Hockey union leader, 15 October 1991. See also The Rise and Fall of Alan Eagleson with 12 TV clips and 5 radio clips.
Nancy Greene: sellout? - Nancy Greene, Skier, 10 November 1973. See also Ski Queen Nancy Greene with 6 TV clips and 8 radio clips.
Hockey's meteoric star - Wayne Gretzky, Hockey Great, 15 March 1974. See also The Great Wayne Gretzky with 16 TV clips and 8 radio clips.
Catching up with Rick Hansen -Rick Hansen, Wheelchair athlete, 11 January 1994. See also Rick Hansen: Man In Motion with 17 TV clips and 2 radio clips.
Meet the Hewitts - Foster Hewitt, Hockey broadcaster, 5 October 1956.
Jumping for Joy - Greg Joy, Olympian, 10 January 1977.
Princeton University WebMedia
Library of Congress Webcasts
Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria: Reflections on the First Baseball Classic of 2006 - 30 June 2006
Sharon Robinson: Jackie's Nine: Jackie Robinson's Values To Live By - 6 November 2001
Sharon Robinson: Bookfest 01 - 9 October 2004. "She created and now manages "Breaking Barriers, In Sports, In Life," a national character-education program designed to empower students with strategies to help them face obstacles in their lives."
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar - 9 October 2004. Discusses "Brothers in Arms: The Epic Story of the 761st Tank Battalion, WWII?s Forgotten Heroes"
Baseball Panel: Sharon Robinson, Neal Conan, Bob Edwards, Scott Simon - 12 October 2002
John Feinstein - 8 September 2001. "Author of several books that detail events and personalities in sports."
Shane Evans - 12 October 2002. Evans is an "illustrator of a series of children's books featuring basketball greats Shaquille O'Neal and Magic Johnson."
Stephen Borelli: How About That! The Life of Mel Allen - 18 October 2005. "The first biography of Allen, one of the most famous sports broadcasters in American history."
Women in Sports
Distinguished Women of Past and Present: Sports
SportsForWomen
Women's Sports Foundation

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