Sports Check
This 14-time champion was bounced in the first round of the French Open for the first time in his career earlier this week.
Who is Rafael Nadal?
This landmark legislation mandated equality for any federally funded educational program.
What is Title IX?
This Chicago sports franchise has the most total all-time championships.
Who are the Bears?
The placement of players in
certain positions based on stereotypes
about their ability.
What is stacking?
Nike made this athlete the face of their 30th anniversary edition of its "Just Do It" ad campaign featuring the slogan "Do something, even if it means sacrificing everything."
Who is Colin Kaepernick?
The Women's College World Series kicks off this weekend, and this Big 12 school is the No. 1 seed.
Who are the Texas Longhorns?
This decade is often referred to as the "Golden Age of Sports."
The Chicago White Sox beat this team to win the 2005 World Series.
Who are the Houston Astros?
A term used to describe the reputation of the sports section of a news organization because of the traditional lack of critical coverage of issues within sports.
What is the "toy department"? (or "toy box")
Former New York Knicks player who enthralled the sports world with a hot streak that came to be known as "Linsanity."
Who is Jeremy Lin?
This team claimed the inaugural PWHL Championship, the Walter Cup, with a Game 5 win over Boston on Wednesday.
What is Minnesota?
William Randolph Hearst’s New York Journal
created the first of these in 1885.
What is a sports section?
Who are the Cubs?
What is the sports/media complex?
Former WNBA player who took a hiatus from the sport to advocate for the release of a wrongly convicted man.
Who is Maya Moore?
This 15-time LPGA Tour winner announced her surprise retirement at age 29 on Tuesday.
Who is Lexi Thompson?
In the 1880s-1920s, sports was a driver and benefactor of this type of journalism because it fit well within the industry’s move away from traditional conventions and toward a race for profit.
What is yellow journalism?
The Chicago Sky won the 2021 WNBA Championship after defeating this team 3-1.
Who are the Phoenix Mercury?
A concept explaining how the norms and expected behaviors that are socially associated with men become a dominant cultural force that exercises control over others.
What is hegemonic masculinity?
American sprinters who raised a black-gloved fist on the podium at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics.
Who are Tommy Smith and John Carlos?
After MLB's historic decision to officially integrate Negro League stats this week, he became the new all-time batting leader with a .372 average, surpassing Ty Cobb's .367.
Who is Josh Gibson?
This landmark legislation allowed sports teams to negotiate with broadcasters and ushered in a new era of commercialized sports.
What is the Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961?
The DePaul Blue Demons last made the men's Final Four in this year.
What is 1979?
A term that refers to the absence of representation of a specific group of people in the media.
What is symbolic annihilation?
A man often credited with being the "Father of the Game" of baseball.
Who is Henry Chadwick?