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Megasites
Baseball
Boarding & inline skating
Hockey
Iditarod & sled dogs
The Olympics
Soccer
Survival Skills
Careers in sports
Athletes

Megasites

Multnomah County Library - Research - Sports: http://www.multcolib.org/ref/sports.html

Links to various sports sites.
NBA.com: http://www.nba.com/

The official website for all the NBA teams, including the Blazers.
NFL.com: http://www.playfootball.com/

The official website for the NFL.
Sports Illustrated for Kids: http://www.sikids.com/

Click here to get the latest issue online.
US Figure Skating Association: http://www.usfsa.org/

The official website for US figure skating information.
WNBA: http://www.wnba.com

Everybody knows the NBA, but do you know about the Women's NBA?
Women and Girls in Sports: http://www.feminist.org/sports/

This website explores how to empower women to be more involved in sports and information about women and the Olympics.

Baseball

General Baseball Sites

America's Pastime: The Men Who Made the Game: http://library.thinkquest.org/J002612/home.htm

This Thinkquest website explores great players of the game and quizzes your baseball knowledge.
Major League Baseball: http://www.mlb.com/

The official website for the major leagues. Includes stats and game results, audio and video, and more.
Minor League Baseball: http://www.minorleaguebaseball.com/app/index.jsp

The official website for the minor leagues. Includes stats and game results, audio and video, and more.
National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum: http://baseballhalloffame.org/

Read hall of famers biographies and explore the online exhibits like listening to classic world series games online.
The Science of Baseball: http://www.exploratorium.edu/baseball/

This website from San Francisco's Exploratorium explains how players take into account wind and spin on the ball when up to bat and presents biographies of women of baseball from the late 1800s through the 20th century. Take a player from the past and place him during a different era to see how his stats stack up against others of that time.
Baseball Almanac: http://www.baseball-almanac.com/

This website provide stats including famous firsts, fabulous feats, famous families, and example autographs.
This Day in Baseball History: http://www.nationalpastime.com/

Select a date and learn what happened on that day in the history of baseball.
Ballparks: http://www.ballparks.com/

History of U.S. major league baseball parks, football stadiums, hockey rinks, covering current, former, and planned parks. Provides photographs, statistics, history, and trivia for each field.
Baseball Cards: 1887-1914: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/bbhtml/bbhome.html

View electronic images of the front and back of early baseball cards. Browse by team, player, city, or league.
Baseball: The Game and Beyond: http://library.thinkquest.org/11902/?tqskip=1

This website from Thinkquest presents how to create a curve ball pitch, how to figure out how far a ball will travel when hit, how one should twist his/her body when swinging the bat, and more.
baseballamerica.com: http://www.baseballamerica.com

This website provides stats and scores and a player finder. The website also provide information about independent leagues.
History of the World Series: http://www.sportingnews.com/archives/worldseries/

History of the World Series from 1903 to the present.
Little League On-Line: http://www.littleleague.org

Facts and fun pages about little league.

Women in Baseball

All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, 1943-1954: http://www.aagpbl.org/

This is the official website for the history of women in baseball. Learn about the formation of the league, the rules of conduct for the players, and rules of play. There are articles about the league and biographies of the players as well as team information and photographs of the league.

Negro Baseball League

Black Baseball's Negro Baseball Leagues: http://www.blackbaseball.com/

This website presents the history of the teams and players of the Negro Leagues and includes photos, soundclips from some of the famous negro baseball league players.

Boarding & inline skating

Skateboard Science: http://www.exploratorium.edu/skateboarding/

Learn how the right board and the right conditions can create great tricks.
Jump into Snowboarding: http://tqjunior.thinkquest.org/3885/?tqskip=1

A brief history of the sport, interview with professional snowboarder, dictionary, equipment, and more. From ThinkQuest Junior whose focus is for grades 4 to 6.
Skate FAQs: http://www.skatefaq.com/

Inline skating techniques, tutorials and more.

Hockey

Hockey Hall of Fame: http://www.hhof.com/index.htm

Explore the exhibits online, learn about inductees to the hall of fame and more.

The Iditarod

Iditarod: Race Across Alaska: http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/iditarod/

Scholastic presents this online activity website about the Iditarod, the racers, facts and statistics of towns along the trail, and more.
Iditarod: http://www.iditarod.com/

The official website for the race.
Junior Iditarod: http://www.jriditarod.com/

Learn about teens mushing the Iditarod, read their short biographies and keep track of who is where in the race and who won.
Rachael Scdoris: http://www.rachaelmushing.com/

Iditarod musher from Central Oregon who is legally blind, who completed the 2006 Iditarod.
Cabela's Iditarod: http://www.cabelasiditarod.com/

This website includes information on the Husky, the dog of the Iditarod, pre-race and up-to-the-minute updates on the race as it occurs. The website also includes an education section that a number of lesson ideas.
Alaska's Iditarod Dog Sled Race: http://tqjunior.thinkquest.org/3796/?tqskip=1

This website from ThinkQuest Jr. provides brief be interesting information about Iditarod equipment, check points, routes, prizes, and more.
Iditarod: http://www.adn.com/iditarod/

The Alaska Daily News provides online facts and up-to-the-minute race standing and results. The website includes a race guide, race history back to 1998.

Sled Dogs

Sled Dog: An Alaska Epic: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/sleddogs/

This Nature website explains Dog Sleding 101, how to train a sled dog, how racing affects them, and read about Balto!
Sled Dog Action Coalition: http://www.helpsleddogs.org/

This website provides facts about sled dog treatment and more.

The Olympics

Olympics megasites
Current & Future Olympics
History of the Olympics
Sports Science

Olympics megasites

International Olympic Committee: http://www.olympic.org

From the International Olympic Committee.
Special Olympics International: http://www.specialolympics.org/

This website presents games and competition information, including the different sports events held at the special olympics, as well as volunteer information.
U.S. Olympic Team: http://www.usoc.org/

The official website for the US Olympic team.
An Educator's Guide to the Olympics: http://www.uen.org/2002/html/reach/

Learn about the traditions of the game, countries, customs, and discover some everyday heroes.

Current and Future Olympics

Torino 2006: http://www.torino2006.org

This website provides up-to-date information about the Torina games.
Bejing 2008: http://en.beijing-2008.org/

This website provides up-to-date information about the Bejing games.
Vancouver 2010: http://www.vancouver2010.com/en

This website provides up-to-date information about the Vancouver games.

History of the Olympics

Ancient Greece: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/landmarks/ancientgreece/classics/olympics/flashmovie.shtml

This BBC website presents a Flash animated website about the games.
The Olympic Games: http://library.thinkquest.org/27528/main.htm?tqskip=1

This ThinkQuest website explores the history of the games, what the Olympic symbols stand for, and highlights memorable Olympic moments.
Olympic Overview: http://www.olympic-usa.org/education/olympic_overview/history.htm

The United States Olympic Committee website provides an outstanding history of the games and Olympic symbols.
Olympics Through Time: http://agones.fhw.gr/

This website breaks down the history of the Olympics into three sections: Prehistory (ancient Olympics), Antiquity (classical), and Revival (modern).
BBC History of the Olympics: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport/hi/english/olympics2000/fans_guide/features/history/newsid_874000/874495.stm

Thought this website was created during the 2000 Sydney games, the hisorical information is still quite useful. Click on any Olympic year to read brief summaries of what made that year unique in Olympic history.
History of the Modern Olympics: http://history1900s.about.com/library/weekly/aa081000a.htm

This About.com website includes a survey of modern Olympic history and an explanation for Olympic symbols under the Interesting Olympic Facts link.
The Ancient Olympics: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Olympics/

"In this exhibit, you can compare ancient and modern Olympic sports, tour the website of Olympia as it looks today, learn about the context of the Games and the Olympic spirit, or read about the Olympic athletes who were famous in ancient times."
An Olympic Games Primer: http://www.aafla.org/6oic/primer_frmst.htm

This is a great overview of the Olympics from ancient times to the present from the Amateur Athletic Foundation of Los Angeles.
Olympic Information Center: http://www.aafla.org/6oic/over_frmst.htm

"The Amateur Athletic Foundation possesses one of the world's largest collections of materials pertaining to the Olympic Games."
The Real Story of the Ancient Olympic Games: http://www.museum.upenn.edu/new/olympics/olympicintro.shtml

This website answers frequently asked questions about the ancient olympics: When were the first games? Were women allowed to participate? How commerical were the games? Find the answers here.
Olympic History: http://www.journale.com/kodak/olympics/olympichistory/

Kodak presents on online slideshow that captures the Olympic spirit from 1896 to the present.
The Nazi Olympics Berlin 1936: http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/olympics/zcd052.htm

This companion website for the United State Holocaust Memorial Museum exhibit explains how the 1936 games were perfect propaganda for the Nazi movement. The website includes photographs from the games with descriptions in slideshow format.
Unusual Sports in the Olympics: http://library.thinkquest.org/J002862/main.htm

This Thinkquest website explores some of the lesser known sports that are or have been in the Olympics.

Sports Science

Sport Science: Winter Olympics: http://btc.montana.edu/olympics/

This site, created by Montana State University-Bozeman, presents how physics and biomechanics play a role in Olympic sports, as well as nutrition and one's physiology and psychology. This website used the Shockwave plug-in.
Sport Science Meets the Olympics: http://whyfiles.org/019olympic/

This website was created for the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and highlights how science and technology has changed and influenced the games.
BBC: The Science of Sport: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/sci_tech/features/science_of_sport/

The BBC looks at sports science at it related to the 2000 Syndey Olympics including the technology of the sports arenas, the human physiology of the athletes, and if and how the clothes they wear influences their abilities.
Sport Science: http://www.exploratorium.edu/sports/

From Exploratorium children's museum in San Francisco, this website looks at the science of baseball, surfing, skateboarding, cycling and more.Monday, March 27, 2006.

Soccer

Federation International de Football Association: http://www.fifa.com/en/

This website from FIFA presents information and the history of soccer.
Major League Soccer: http://www.mlsnet.com

Official website of the U.S. professional men's league.
Women's United Soccer Association: http://www.wusa.com

Official website of the U.S. professional women's league.

Survival Skills

Wildwood Survival: http://wildwoodsurvival.com/survival/fire/cokeandchocolatebar/

What do a chocolate bar and cola drink have to do with surviving the wilderness? Find out here.
Wilderness Survival Skills: http://www.wilderness-survival-skills.com/

What should you eat? How do you build shelter? How do you navigate where you are? Find out here.

Careers in sports

Sports Statistics as a Professional Career: http://www.amstat.org/sections/sis/career/

Interviews with several sports statisticians.