It's unlikely you'll ever meet one of these friends but you still write to each other
A PEN PAL
A Major League Baseball team bears this name once a derogatory term for Northerners
YANKEES
A long-distance public road race as well as a baseball term for scoring a bunch of runs to make up a deficit
A RALLY
To propel a kayak or the implement employed to achieve it
PADDLE
With its own Hall of Fame & rules of play the CFL is this organization
THE CANADIAN FOOTBALL LEAGUE
Someone who makes all the decisions appoints himself as these 2 jobs; executioner is sometimes added
JUDGE AND JURY
A National Hockey League team bears this name once a derogatory term for Canadians
CANUCKS
Rodeo is featured at the Calgary this a term for a frenzied rush of cattle & that's no bull
A STAMPEDE
This triple meter ballroom dance is also a verb meaning to walk with casual assurance
WALTZ
Passing advice from coach Jason Garrett: How do you throw a perfect this? Don't hold it too tight don't hold it too loose
A SPIRAL
This phrase can refer to whatever means necessary or the 2 possibilities for a ball hit down the line in baseball
FAIR OR FOUL
DAILY DOUBLE!!! This onetime insult referencing a famous product of Wisconsin is now a word of pride
CHEESEHEAD
The 2019 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships included (probably) the last race for this all-time great a bronze in downhill
LINDSEY VONN
DAILY DOUBLE!!! To recite with musical intonation perhaps in the style of a Gregorian one
CHANT
Change the last 4 letters in touchdown to get this word for a kickoff that isn't returned from the end zone
A TOUCHBACK
Ships of yore masked their nationality with these now a term for any covert act designed to make another entity look guilty
A FALSE FLAG
Not everyone was fond of the Jayhawkers when they were a guerrilla group from this state
KANSAS
In 2021 we'll go down to the water & check out the best-of-13 chase for this oldest international sports trophy
THE AMERICA'S CUP
3-letter word meaning to tint a garment or what you use to do so
DYE
This Texas NFL team won 3 Super Bowls in the 1990s
THE COWBOYS
La Francais est la langue d'amour translates as French is this
THE LANGUAGE OF LOVE
Once a derisive term this 7-letter dialect is now arguably the most famous British accent
COCKNEY
A bonspiel is a meet where teams from various clubs compete in this Olympic sport; a molson or 2 may get consumed
CURLING
Something you inflate or to gain weight as if you've been inflated
BALLOON
At one time the 7th-string QB at Notre Dame he went on to a Hall of Fame career as a 49er
JOE MONTANA