In Sport
Among the major sports leagues, the National Basketball Association has a Southwest Division since 2004. It includes teams from Texas, Tennessee and Louisiana. The National Collegiate Athletic Association has had two Division I conferences named Southwest. The Southwest Conference was active from 1914 to 1996, and featured teams from Texas, Arkansas and Oklahoma. The Southwestern Athletic Conference, established in 1920, has comprised teams from Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi and Alabama.
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“If a walker is indeed an individualist there is nowhere he can’t go at dawn and not many places he can’t 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 walking—one sport you shouldn’t 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 d’Urberville 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 (1840–1928)