Sports, Games, and Recreation

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

Sports, generally

• Everyrule.com - Official rules of sports, games, and etiquette
• International Sports Calendar (International Olympic Committee)
• Sports Reference - A group of sites giving statistics in baseball, football, basketball, hockey, and the Olympics

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
• SB Nation - sports blogs
• Sports Illustrated/CNN
• The Sports Network

Olympics:

• International Olympic Committee - Official site
• The Olympics: A Guide to Reference Sources (Library of Congress)

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 Almanac
• Baseball Hall of Fame
• Baseball Library.com - Data on players, chronology, the greatest teams, hypothetical matchups of historical players
• Baseball Reference - Statistics and history
• Sporting News Baseball Archive - Histories of the greatest players, the World Series, the All-Star Game
• Yahoo Baseball

Research and Education:

• Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown, N.Y.
• 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 and sponsor of the World Cup; find official rules here
• SoccerNet (ESPN)
• World Soccer (Yahoo)

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

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

Curling

• Curling Basics - Animated explanation of rules and terms
• Curling News

Games

Chess:

• About Chess (About.com)
• Laws of Chess (International Chess Federation, F.I.D.E.)
• U.S. Chess Federation - Publishers of Chess Life
• World Chess Live - Site for online play. Requires paid membership.

Word Games:

• Los Angeles Times crosswords, etc.

Outdoor Recreation

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