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History of the National Football League
The National Football League (NFL) was founded in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association (APFA), adopting its current name in 1922 and becoming the first successful nationwide professional league. Two founding teams, the Chicago Bears (originally Decatur Staleys) and the Arizona Cardinals (Racine Cardinals), remain acti...
Swimming at the Summer Olympics
Swimming has been a foundational sport at every modern Summer Olympics, opening its events to women since 1912 and now boasting the second-highest number of medal contests after athletics. Initially, early competitions from 1896 to 1906 took place in open water venues like the Mediterranean Sea or the Seine, before the introduction of ...
Synchronized swimming
Artistic swimming, formerly known as synchronized swimming, is a captivating sport where athletes perform meticulously choreographed routines to music, judged on execution, artistic impression, and declared difficulty. Governed by World Aquatics (previously FINA), it has been part of t...
Para swimming
Para swimming is an adaptation of competitive swimming for athletes with disabilities, governed by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC). It made its Paralympic debut at the Rome 1960 Games, initially for athletes with spinal cord injuries. Eligibility significantly broadened over the decades, i...
AVRO 1938 chess tournament
The AVRO tournament was a highly prestigious international chess competition held in the Netherlands from November 6 to 27, 1938, bringing together the world's eight strongest players. Paul Keres and Reuben Fine tied for first place, with Keres ultimately declared the winner on tiebreak, and the event was intended to find a challenger ...
2016 Summer Olympics
The 2016 Summer Olympics, officially branded Rio 2016, made history as the first Games held in South America and a Portuguese-speaking nation, taking place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from August 5 to 21, 2016. Announced as host city on October 2, 2009, Rio welcomed 11,...
Prominent women's sports leagues in the United States and Canada
North America hosts numerous professional and semi-professional women's sports leagues, predominantly in the United States, featuring top-tier competitions in team sports like basketball, soccer, and ice hockey, as well as individual sports. While some leagues, such as the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA)...
Swimming in India
Swimming in India, while popular for leisure, is striving for professional recognition under the Swimming Federation of India (SFI), formed by a merger of the National Swimming Association and the Indian Swimming Federation. Indian swimmers have recently achieved historic milestones, with Sajan Prakash...
1992 Summer Olympics
The 1992 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXV Olympiad and branded as Barcelona '92, took place from July 25 to August 9, 1992, in Barcelona, Spain. These games were historically significant, being the first since the end of the Cold War and the first unaffected by boycotts since 1972, nota...
Sports teams named Redskins
The use of "Redskins" as a sports team name is a central part of a broader controversy concerning offensive Native American names and symbols, as the term itself is now widely regarded as disparaging. The most prominent team, the NFL's Washington Redskins, faced decades of campaigns to change its name, ultimately yielding to investor a...
College football national championships in NCAA Division I FBS
In NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) college football, there is no official NCAA-hosted national championship, leading it to be known as a "mythical national championship." Historically, various independent organizations and individuals, called "selectors," have declared champions, often leading to controversy; for exampl...