Sports Megasites

NBA.com
http://www.nba.com/

The official site for all the NBA teams, including the Blazers.

NFL.com
http://www.playfootball.com/

The official site 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 Web site 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/sports.asp

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

WWW Women's Sports Page
http://fiat.gslis.utexas.edu/~lewisa/womsprt.html

Biographies of athletes and other issues in women's sports.

Baseball

General Baseball Sites | Women in Baseball | Negro Baseball League

General Baseball Sites

majorleaguebaseball.com
http://www.majorleaguebaseball.com/

The official site for the major 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 site 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 site 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 site 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.

Baseball.com
http://www.baseball.com/

This site provides stats, scores, and injuries lists for the major and minor leagues and has links to team Web sites.

baseballamerica.com
http://www.baseballamerica.com

This site provides stats and scores and a player finder. The site also provides 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/contents.html

This is the official site 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 site presents the history of the teams and players of the Negro Leagues and includes photos, sound clips 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 & Sled Dogs

Iditarod | Sled Dogs

The Iditarod

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

Scholastic presents this online activity site about the Iditarod, the racers, facts and statistics of towns along the trail, and more.

Junior Iditarod
http://www.iditarod.com/2002_jr_iditarod.html

Learn about teens mushing the Iditarod, read their short biographies and keep track of who is where in the race and who won.

Cabela's Iditarod
http://www.cabelasiditarod.com/index.html

This site 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 site 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 site 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 site includes a race guide, race history back to 1998.

What You Should Know About the Iditarod
http://www.iditarod.com/general_information.html

This site presents detailed information about the Iditarod.

Iditarod: Dog Days in Alaska
http://www.discovery.com/area/exploration/iditarod/iditarod.html

This Discovery Channel site follows a rookie team as the face the elements and race the Iditarod.

Sled Dogs

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

This Nature site 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 site provides facts about sled dog treatment and more.

The Olympics

Olympics Megasites | History of the Olympics | Sports Science and the Olympics
Athens 2004 Games | Torino 2006 Games

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.

Olympics Megasites

BrainPop: Olympics
http://www.brainpop.com/specials/olympics/

This BrainPop site explains what the Olympics is all about and uses humorous and informational audio and video clips.

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

From the International Olympic Committee.

Special Olympics International
http://www.specialolympics.org/

This site presents games and competition information, including the different sports events held at the special Olympics, as well as volunteer information.

History of the Olympics

Winter Olympics History
http://cbs.sportsline.com/u/olympics/2002/history/

CBS presents a comprehensive look back at the Olympics and is organized by year, nation, sport and athlete.

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

This BBC site presents a Flash animated site about the games.

The Olympic Games
http://library.thinkquest.org/27528/main.htm?tqskip=1

This ThinkQuest site 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 Web site provides an outstanding history of the games and Olympic symbols.

Olympics Through Time
http://www1.fhw.gr/projects/olympics/

This site 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 site was created during the 2000 Sydney games, the historical 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 site 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 site 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.upenn.edu/museum/Olympics/olympicintro.html

This site answers frequently asked questions about the ancient Olympics: When were the first games? Were women allowed to participate? How commercial were the games? Find the answers here.

96 Years of Women in the Olympics
http://www.feminist.org/archive/olympics/intro.html

Learn about the history of women's involvement in the Olympic games, and other information about women in sports, at this site created for the 1996 Games in Atlanta.

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/olympics/

This companion site for the United State Holocaust Memorial Museum exhibit explains how the 1936 games were perfect propaganda for the Nazi movement. The site includes photographs from the games with descriptions in slideshow format.

Sports Science and the Olympics

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 site used the Shockwave plug-in.

The Science Behind the Olympics
http://physics.about.com/library/weekly/aa090200a.htm

This About.com site explains how science helps improve sports techniques and use of equipment as well as answers to many sports science questions, such as "How are drug tests conducted?" or "How does altitude affect world records?"

Sport Science Meets the Olympics
http://whyfiles.org/019olympic/index.html

This site 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/index.shtml

The BBC looks at sports science at it related to the 2000 Sydney 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.

Athens 2004 Games

Athens 2004
http://www.athens.olympic.org/en/

Official 2004 Summer Olympics hosted by Athens, Greece.

Torino 2006 Games

Torino 2006
http://www.torino2006.it/eng/index.asp

Official 2006 Winter Olympics site for Torino, Italy.

Soccer

Megasoccer
http://megasoccer.com/page/main.php

Find soccer news and information from around the world. Check out their kids' site!

History of the Game
http://www.fifa.com/fifa/history_E.html

This site from FIFA presents a history of soccer.

Major League Soccer
http://www.mlsnet.com

Official site of the U.S. professional men's league.

Women's United Soccer Association
http://www.wusa.com

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

Careers in Sports

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