Sports
New York hosted the 1932 and 1980 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid. The 1980 Games are known for the USA–USSR hockey game dubbed the "Miracle on Ice" in which a group of American college students and amateurs defeated the heavily favored Soviet national ice hockey team 4–3 and went on to win the gold medal against Finland. Along with St. Moritz, Switzerland and Innsbruck, Austria, Lake Placid is one of the three cities to have hosted the Winter Olympic Games twice. New York City bid to host the 2012 Summer Olympics but lost to London.
New York is the home of one National Football League team, the Buffalo Bills (based in the suburb of Orchard Park). Although the New York Giants and New York Jets represent the New York metropolitan area and were previously located in New York City, they play in MetLife Stadium, located in East Rutherford, New Jersey. The Meadowlands stadium will host Super Bowl XLVIII in 2014. There has been much controversy over several proposals for a new New York Jets football stadium. The owners of the New York Jets were willing to split the $1.5 billion cost of building a new football stadium over Manhattan's West Side rail yards, but the proposal never came to fruition.
New York also has two Major League Baseball teams, the New York Yankees (based in the Bronx) and the New York Mets (based in Queens). New York is home to three National Hockey League franchises: the New York Rangers in Manhattan, the New York Islanders on Long Island and the Buffalo Sabres in Buffalo. New York has two National Basketball Association teams, the New York Knicks in Manhattan, and the Brooklyn Nets in Brooklyn. There are a variety of minor league teams that can be found all through the State of New York, such as the Long Island Ducks.
List of all New York State professional sports teams | ||
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Club | Sport | League |
Buffalo Bills | Football | National Football League |
New York Red Bulls | Soccer | Major League Soccer |
Brooklyn Nets | Basketball | National Basketball Association |
New York Knicks | Basketball | National Basketball Association |
Rochester Raging Rhinos | Soccer | USL First Division |
Buffalo Sabres | Ice hockey | National Hockey League |
New York Islanders | Ice Hockey | National Hockey League |
New York Rangers | Ice Hockey | National Hockey League |
Adirondack Phantoms | Ice Hockey | American Hockey League |
Albany River Rats | Ice Hockey | American Hockey League |
Binghamton Senators | Ice Hockey | American Hockey League |
Elmira Jackals | Ice Hockey | ECHL |
Rochester Americans | Ice Hockey | American Hockey League |
Syracuse Crunch | Ice Hockey | American Hockey League |
New York Mets | Baseball | Major League Baseball |
New York Yankees | Baseball | Major League Baseball |
Brooklyn Cyclones | Baseball | New York – Penn League |
Staten Island Yankees | Baseball | New York – Penn League |
Jamestown Jammers | Baseball | New York – Penn League |
Batavia Muckdogs | Baseball | New York – Penn League |
Auburn Doubledays | Baseball | New York – Penn League |
Oneonta Tigers | Baseball | New York – Penn League |
Tri-City Valley Cats | Baseball | New York – Penn League |
Hudson Valley Renegades | Baseball | New York – Penn League |
Binghamton Mets | Baseball | Eastern League |
Buffalo Bisons | Baseball | International League |
Rochester Red Wings | Baseball | International League |
Syracuse Chiefs | Baseball | International League |
Long Island Ducks | Baseball | Atlantic League of Professional Baseball |
New York Dragons | Arena football | Arena Football League |
Albany Conquest | Arena football | af2 |
Long Island Lizards | Lacrosse | Major League Lacrosse |
Rochester Rattlers | Lacrosse | Major League Lacrosse |
Buffalo Bandits | Lacrosse | National Lacrosse League |
Rochester Knighthawks | Lacrosse | National Lacrosse League |
New York Titans | Lacrosse | National Lacrosse League |
Brooklyn Wonders | Basketball | American Basketball Association |
Buffalo Silverbacks | Basketball | American Basketball Association |
Rochester Razorsharks | Basketball | American Basketball Association |
Strong Island Sound | Basketball | American Basketball Association |
Albany Patroons | Basketball | Continental Basketball Association |
New York | Gaelic football | Gaelic Athletic Association |
New York | hurling | Gaelic Athletic Association |
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn,
Thy sports are fled and all thy charms withdrawn;
Amidst thy bowers the tyrants 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)
“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)
“Reading about ethics is about as likely to improve ones behavior as reading about sports is to make one into an athlete.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)