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:
“There be some sports are painful, and their labor
Delight in them sets off. Some kinds of baseness
Are nobly undergone, and most poor matters
Point to rich ends.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“It was so hard to pry this door open, and if I mess up I know the people behind me are going to have it that much harder. Because then there’s living proof. They can sit around and say, “See? It doesn’t work.” I don’t want to be their living proof.”
—Gayle Gardner, U.S. sports reporter. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 87 (June 17, 1991)
“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)