Sports Check
The top-ranked team in the first College Football Playoff rankings this season.
What is Tennessee?
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?
Former star basketball player of Yeshiva University, a Jewish college in New York, where he was the NCAA's leading scorer.
Who is Ryan Turrell?
The former Kansas City Royals bench coach who was recently hired as the new manager of the Chicago White Sox.
Who is Pedro Grifol?
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?
Former NFL assistant coach, and son of current NFL head coach, who was sentenced to three years in prison for a drunken driving accident.
Who is Britt Reid?
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 team won it's record 6th straight world title on Tuesday in Liverpool, England.
Who is the U.S. women's gymnastics team?
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 DePaul Blue Demons last made the men's Final Four in this year.
What is 1979?
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?
The last person to throw a no-hitter in the World Series before the Astros combined no-hitter last night against the Phillies in Game 4.
Who is Don Larsen?
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?
This Chicago NFL franchise won two league championships. (Pre-Super Bowl)
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?