Sports, Games, and Recreation

This page:
Sports, generally | Baseball | Soccer | Games | Outdoor Recreation

Sports, generally

• Everyrule.com - Official rules of sports, games, and etiquette

Sports News:

• BBC Sport - Catch up on the football (i.e., soccer) and cricket news, not to mention rugby and snooker!
• CBS Sportsline - With real-time scoring
• ESPN
• Sports Illustrated/CNN
• The Sports Network

Olympics:

• International Olympic Committee - Official site

Academic Study of Sports:

• Intute: Sport and Leisure Practice - Academic emphasis
• Scholarly Sports Sites - A directory from the University of Calgary

Baseball

• Major League Baseball - Official site
• Baseball-Reference - Statistics and history
• BaseballLibrary.com - Data on players, chronology, the greatest teams, hypothetical matchups of historical players
• Sporting News Baseball Archive - Histories of the greatest players, the World Series, the All-Star Game
• Yahoo Baseball

Research:

• Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) (Some content available to members only)

Baseball Index:

• The Baseball Index (TBI) - An index to books, articles, songs, and more (SABR)

Selected Teams:

• San Francisco Giants official site
• Oakland A's official site

Soccer

World:

• Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) - The governing body of the sport; find official rules here
• FIFA World Cup - Official site
• SoccerNet (ESPN)
• World Soccer (Yahoo)
• World Soccer News (internetsoccer.com)

U.S.: Major League Soccer (MLS):

• MLSnet.com - Official site of Major League Soccer
• Yahoo Sports: MLS

Games

Chess:

• About Chess (About.com)
• U.S. Chess Federation - Publishers of Chess Life
• World Chess Live - Site for online play. Requires paid membership.

Outdoor Recreation

• Great Outdoors Recreation Pages (GORP)
• Pickatrail - Guide with an emphasis on the U.K. and U.S.
• Trails.com - Subscription site for trail maps (includes TopoZone)