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Sports 2024-11-19 (Season 41)

SPORTS & THE CITY

At 800 West Main & 700 Central in this city are a company & a venue both involved in Triple Crowns

Sports 2024-11-14 (Season 41)

SPORTS TEAMS

Fittingly, this team was born on November 1, 1966, the day the franchise was awarded

Sports 2024-06-21 (Season 40)

SPORTS

50 years ago Vin Scully announced he got "a standing ovation in the Deep South" for breaking a longtime record

Sports 2023-05-31 (Season 39)

SPORTS & THE MOVIES

A Geena Davis Institute study found shortly after a 2012 franchise film's release, women's participation in this sport rose 105%

Sports 2023-03-28 (Season 39)

TRANSPORTATION USA

This public agency runs the USA's busiest bus terminal, opened in 1950 for commuters awed by its polished steel & stone

Sports 2023-02-16 (Season 39)

SPORTS

In 2010 they introduced the 4-point shot, 35 feet from the basket

Sports 2022-05-27 (Season 38)

SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT

In 2021 this Hall of Fame athlete launched Omaha Productions

Sports 2021-12-22 (Season 38)

SPORTING EVENTS

In 1752 one of the first races in this sport was run--4 miles from Buttevant Church to St. Mary's Doneraile

Sports 2021-07-30 (Season 37)

COMEDY & SPORTS

These are the 2 of a reporter's 5 W's that are not on the baseball team in Abbott & Costello's "Who's on First?"

Sports 2021-02-17 (Season 37)

WINTER SPORTS

The specific skill that gave this sport its name was eliminated from international competition after the 1990 World Championships

Sports 2020-09-25 (Season 37)

HIGHEST-PAID ATHLETES

On Forbes' 2020 list of the 100 Highest-Paid Athletes, at age 50 this active individual sportsman is the oldest

Sports 2020-02-19 (Season 36)

INTERNATIONAL SPORTS

It’s the only country that has played in every FIFA World Cup tournament, winning 5 times

Sports 2020-02-10 (Season 36)

SPORTS TERMS

A member of the British Amateur Athletic Club wrote this 1867 set of 12 regulations whose name honors nobleman John Sholto Douglas

Sports 2020-01-07 (Season 36)

INTERNATIONAL SPORTS STARS

Now with over 185 million followers, he surpassed Selena Gomez in 2018 to become the most followed person on Instagram

Sports 2019-03-25 (Season 35)

FOREIGN TRANSPORTATION

Operating for only one week a year, a train line to this city moves over half a million people a day

Sports 2018-10-19 (Season 35)

SPORTS

A low center of gravity is a key to success in this sport with moves including gaburi-yori & uwate-dashinage

Sports 2018-09-14 (Season 35)

SPORTS HALLS OF FAME

Posthumously, Axel Paulsen was among the first group of inductees into the World Hall of Fame for this in 1976

Sports 2018-06-27 (Season 34)

SPORTING EVENTS

This annual event first held in 1934 includes play in areas named Pink Dogwood, Flowering Peach & Azalea

Sports 2018-04-26 (Season 34)

SPORTS IN COURT

This athlete lost a 1931 lawsuit against the Curtiss Candy Company

Sports 2018-03-02 (Season 34)

SPORTS TEAM MASCOTS

Echoing a rock band with 8 platinum albums, the teams of the Ark. School for the Deaf are named for this animal

Sports 2017-07-06 (Season 33)

SPORTS TRADITIONS

Since 1986, reaching the quarterfinals of this event has entitled you to free tickets & free tea for life

Sports 2017-06-21 (Season 33)

SPORTS & POLITICS

After moving to Johannesburg in 1903, he formed the Passive Resisters Soccer Club

Sports 2017-06-05 (Season 33)

WORLD TRANSPORTATION

It traverses hundreds of bridges, the longest stretching 2 miles across the Amur River

Sports 2017-06-02 (Season 33)

SOCIAL & SPORTS BARRIERS

Condoleezza Rice & South Carolina businesswoman Darla Moore became the first female members of this in 2012

Sports 2017-04-05 (Season 33)

SPORTS MASCOTS

The animal on this NBA team's primary logo peaked about 75 million years ago

Sports 2016-07-18 (Season 32)

INTERNATIONAL SPORTS

Established in 1903, this European event was originally touted in a newspaper printed on yellow paper

Sports 2016-06-01 (Season 32)

COLLEGE TEAM SPORTS

The USA's first intercollegiate athletic event was in 1852 in this, which as a sport goes back to at least the Middle Ages

Sports 2016-04-08 (Season 32)

SPORTS MASCOTS

This Major League team has no mascot today, but from 1979 to 1981 used a mustachioed fella named Dandy

Sports 2016-03-07 (Season 32)

SPORTS NICKNAMES

Collective nickname for the group who "formed the crest of the South Bend Cyclone"

Sports 2015-11-04 (Season 32)

INTERNATIONAL SPORTS

Its name refers to safety efforts that currently restrict cylinder capacity & prohibit supercharging

Sports 2015-06-01 (Season 31)

SPORTS RULES

The Syracuse owner created this in 1954 & it may have helped his team succeed the Lakers as champs the next year

Sports 2014-11-07 (Season 31)

SPORTS LOGOS

This NFL team's logo is the only one that is a plant

Sports 2014-10-13 (Season 31)

SPORTS FIGURES

He was featured on the September 22, 1947 cover of Time with the caption "He and the boss took a chance"

Sports 2014-01-21 (Season 30)

INTERNATIONAL SPORTS

Twice the host country, this nation of 4 1/2 million leads the world in total winter Olympic medals

Sports 2013-11-29 (Season 30)

COLLEGE SPORTS MASCOTS

In 1947 Walt Disney made a handshake deal to let this university use one of his major characters as its mascot, still in use today

Sports 2013-07-17 (Season 29)

INTERNATIONAL SPORTS

2013 marks the 100th running of this event, first won by Maurice Garin with a time of 94 hours, 33 minutes, 14 seconds

Sports 2013-06-05 (Season 29)

SPORTING EVENTS

An old name for this Olympic sporting event is the quinquertium

Sports 2012-01-25 (Season 28)

INTERNATIONAL SPORTS STARS

In 2002 his No. 10 jersey from the 1970 World Cup finals sold at auction for a record $220,850

Sports 2012-01-19 (Season 28)

SPORTS & THE MOVIES

When asked for a home address in "The Blues Bros." Elwood gives 1060 W. Addison St., the home of this facility

Sports 2011-12-07 (Season 28)

SPORTING EVENTS

The cup presented since 1887 to the man who wins this is inscribed "single handed champion of the world"

Sports 2011-07-20 (Season 27)

SPORTS MOVIES

Their team colors were yellow & white & they were originally sponsored by Chico's Bail Bonds

Sports 2011-03-28 (Season 27)

SPORTS IN AMERICA

Founded in 1795, this city that hosts a popular annual sporting event has "sport" in its name

Sports 2011-01-27 (Season 27)

SPORTS AWARDS

In the 4 major U.S. sports leagues, he's won more regular season MVP awards than any other player

Sports 2010-12-23 (Season 27)

SPORTS

In 1744 the first mention of this now popular sport said, "Away flies the boy To the next... post And then home with joy"

Sports 2010-11-30 (Season 27)

SPORTS

In action since 1917, this sports franchise is now largely owned by the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan

Sports 2010-10-26 (Season 27)

SPORTS VENUES

In 2000 the Centre Court Arena in Melbourne, Australia was renamed for him

Sports 2010-09-30 (Season 27)

ALLITERATIVE ATHLETES

In 1998 these 2 baseball rivals shared top honors as Sports Illustrated's Sportsmen of the Year

Sports 2010-09-21 (Season 27)

SPORTS & THE MEDIA

On February 8, 2010 the headline in a major newspaper in this city read, "Amen! After 43 Years, Our Prayers Are Answered"

Sports 2010-06-18 (Season 26)

SPORTS VENUES

Built in 1914 & named for the club's owner in 1926, it's the oldest National League ballpark still in use

Sports 2010-04-12 (Season 26)

NEW SPORTS

In 2008, Middlebury College in Vermont won its 2nd straight championship in this sport introduced in a 1997 novel