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:
“Guys do not have a genetic blueprint that allows them to understand or love sports.”
—Lesley Visser, U.S. sports reporter and announcer. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 82 (June 17, 1991)
“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Thy sports are fled and all thy charms withdrawn;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)
“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)