Sports Check
On March 4, he became the first NBA player to reach 50,000 career points.
Who is LeBron James?
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?
This alliteratively named beast has been the team's mascot since 1969.
Who is Benny the Bull?
This team topped Sportico's second annual list of the world's 100 most valuable sports teams.
Who are the Dallas Cowboys?
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")
Other than Michael Jordan, this player was the only one to play on each Bulls championship team.
Who is Scottie Pippen?
Who is Jimmy Johnson?
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?
This player, whose No. 4 jersey was the first retired by the team, is known as the "Original Bull."
Who is Jerry Sloan?
This ESPN program will air its final show on May 23, after 23 years and more than 4,900 episodes.
A man often credited with being the "Father of the Game" of baseball.
Who is Henry Chadwick?
The Chicago Sky won the 2021 WNBA Championship after defeating this team 3-1.
Who are the Phoenix Mercury?
American sprinters who raised a black-gloved fist on the podium at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics.
Who are Tommie Smith and John Carlos?
What is No. 45?
She will be the first woman in seven years to compete in NASCAR's top circuit at the Shriners Children's 500 in Phoenix this weekend.
Who is Katherine Legge?
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 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?
The Bulls selected this player with the first overall pick in the 1999 NBA Draft.
Who is Elton Brand?