Sports
- Sweep (football play)
- Sweep (baseball/basketball/hockey), winning a five game series 3 games to none, or winning a seven game series 4 games to none; fans sometimes bring brooms to stadiums or arenas in the final game of an impending series "sweep" as a way to brandish and taunt the team that is down in the series. (This is more common when a team is about to sweep the series in their own stadium or arena.)
- Sweep (martial arts)
- Sweep (rowing)
- A Sweep in cricket, a shot played in cricket
- A nickname for football player Shaun Wright-Phillips
- In tennis, winning all five lines (concrete donkey-style)
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behaviour, attire, grace, learning and all their words aimeth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)
“...I didn’t come to this with any particular cachet. I was just a person who grew up in the United States. And when I looked around at the people who were sportscasters, I thought they were just people who grew up in the United States, too. So I thought, Why can’t a woman do it? I just assumed everyone else would think it was a swell idea.”
—Gayle Gardner, U.S. sports reporter. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 85 (June 17, 1991)
“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)