Sport
Baseball
- Northern League (baseball, 1902–71), the name of the five 'northern' baseball leagues
- Northern League (baseball, 1993–2010), an independent baseball league in the United States
Cricket
- Northern Premier Cricket League, a cricket league in England
Football
- Northern Football League, also known as Ebac Northern League, an association football league in North East England
- Northern Football League (Scotland) A now defunct Scottish football competition, in existence between 1891 and 1920
- Northern League (New Zealand), an association football league covering the northern part of the North Island, New Zealand
- Northern Premier League, also known as EvoStik League and previously UniBond League, an association football league covering the whole of the north of England
Ice hockey
- Northern League (ice hockey, 1966–1982), existed in the late 1970s and early 1980s in the United Kingdom
- Northern League (ice hockey, 2005–), a current minor ice hockey league in the United Kingdom
Motorcycle speedway
- Northern League (speedway), one of two British speedway leagues between 1929 and 1931
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Famous quotes containing the word sport:
“Every American travelling in England gets his own individual sport out of the toy passenger and freight trains and the tiny locomotives, with their faint, indignant, tiny whistle. Especially in western England one wonders how the business of a nation can possibly be carried on by means so insufficient.”
—Willa Cather (18761947)
“If a walker is indeed an individualist there is nowhere he cant go at dawn and not many places he cant go at noon. But just as it demeans life to live alongside a great river you can no longer swim in or drink from, to be crowded into safer areas and hours takes much of the gloss off walkingone sport you shouldnt have to reserve a time and a court for.”
—Edward Hoagland (b. 1932)
“Justice was done, and the President of the Immortals, in Æschylean phrase, had ended his sport with Tess. And the dUrberville knights and dames slept on in their tombs unknowing. The two speechless gazers bent themselves down to the earth, as if in prayer, and remained thus a long time, absolutely motionless: the flag continued to wave silently. As soon as they had strength they arose, joined hands again, and went on.
The End”
—Thomas Hardy (18401928)