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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“Americans living in Latin American countries are often more snobbish than the Latins themselves. The typical American has quite a bit of money by Latin American standards, and he rarely sees a countryman who doesn’t. An American businessman who would think nothing of being seen in a sport shirt on the streets of his home town will be shocked and offended at a suggestion that he appear in Rio de Janeiro, for instance, in anything but a coat and tie.”
—Hunter S. Thompson (b. 1939)
“Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting.
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—George Orwell (1903–1950)
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—Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)