Sports
Central Idaho is home to one of North America's oldest ski resorts, Sun Valley, where the world's first chairlift was installed in 1936. Other noted outdoor sites include Hell's Canyon, the Salmon River, and its embarkation point of Riggins.
| Club | Sport | League |
|---|---|---|
| Boise Hawks | Baseball | Northwest - (Class A) |
| Boise State Broncos | NCAA | Div I FBS – MWC |
| Idaho Vandals | NCAA | Div I FBS – WAC |
| Idaho State Bengals | NCAA | Div I FCS – Big Sky |
| Idaho Falls Chukars | Baseball | Pioneer - (Rookie) |
| Idaho Stampede | Basketball | NBA D-League |
| Idaho Steelheads | Ice hockey | ECHL |
Boise is the host to the largest 5 km run for women, the St. Luke's Women's Fitness Celebration.
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“There be some sports are painful, and their labor
Delight in them sets off. Some kinds of baseness
Are nobly undergone, and most poor matters
Point to rich ends.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Reading about ethics is about as likely to improve one’s behavior as reading about sports is to make one into an athlete.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“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)