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:
“I looked so much like a guy you couldn’t tell if I was a boy or a girl. I had no hair, I wore guys’ clothes, I walked like a guy ... [ellipsis in source] I didn’t do anything right except sports. I was a social dropout, but sports was a way I could be acceptable to other kids and to my family.”
—Karen Logan (b. 1949)
“It is usual for a Man who loves Country Sports to preserve the Game in his own Grounds, and divert himself upon those that belong to his Neighbour.”
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)
“In the past, it seemed to make sense for a sportswriter on sabbatical from the playpen to attend the quadrennial hawgkilling when Presidential candidates are chosen, to observe and report upon politicians at play. After all, national conventions are games of a sort, and sports offers few spectacles richer in low comedy.”
—Walter Wellesley (Red)