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:
“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)
“The whole idea of image is so confused. On the one hand, Madison Avenue is worried about the image of the players in a tennis tour. On the other hand, sports events are often sponsored by the makers of junk food, beer, and cigarettes. What’s the message when an athlete who works at keeping her body fit is sponsored by a sugar-filled snack that does more harm than good?”
—Martina Navratilova (b. 1956)
“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Thy sports are fled and all thy charms withdrawn;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)