Sports
- Knifehand strike, also known as the karate chop, a fast and focused strike with the side of the hand
- Professional wrestling attacks, offensive moves in professional wrestling, used to set up an opponent for a submission hold or for a throw
- Chops (juggling), a juggling pattern using three balls or clubs
- Chopping the blinds, in poker, when all players fold to the blinds, who then remove their bets
- Michael Chopra (born 1983), football striker from Cardiff City's team
- Chan-Ho Park (born 1973), pitcher for the New York Yankees
- Backspin, a shot such that the ball rotates backwards (as though rolling back towards the player) after it is hit
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“Short of a wholesale reform of college athletics—a complete breakdown of the whole system that is now focused on money and power—the women’s programs are just as doomed as the men’s are to move further and further away from the academic mission of their colleges.... We have to decide if that’s the kind of success for women’s sports that we want.”
—Christine H. B. Grant, U.S. university athletic director. As quoted in the Chronicle of Higher Education, p. A42 (May 12, 1993)
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