Sports
- 11 metres — approximate width of a doubles tennis court
- 15 metres — width of a standard FIBA basketball court
- 15.24 metres — width of an NBA basketball court (50 feet)
- 18.44 metres — distance between the front of the pitcher's rubber and the rear point of home plate on a baseball field (60 feet, 6 inches)
- 20 metres — length of cricket pitch (22 yards)
- 27.43 metres — distance between bases on a baseball field (90 feet)
- 28 metres — length of a standard FIBA basketball court
- 28.65 metres — length of an NBA basketball court (94 feet)
- 49 metres — width of an American football field (53⅓ yards)
- 59.436 metres — width of a Canadian football field (65 yards)
- 70 metres — typical width of soccer field
- 91 metres — length of American football field (100 yards, measured between the goal lines)
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn,
Thy sports are fled and all thy charms withdrawn;
Amidst thy bowers the tyrant’s hand is seen,
And desolation saddens all thy green;
One only master grasps the whole domain,
And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain;”
—Oliver Goldsmith (1730?–1774)
“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)
“In the end, I think you really only get as far as you’re allowed to get.”
—Gayle Gardner, U.S. sports reporter. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 87 (June 17, 1991)