Sweep - Sports

Sports

  • Sweep (football play)
  • Sweep (baseball/basketball/hockey), winning a five game series 3 games to none, or winning a seven game series 4 games to none; fans sometimes bring brooms to stadiums or arenas in the final game of an impending series "sweep" as a way to brandish and taunt the team that is down in the series. (This is more common when a team is about to sweep the series in their own stadium or arena.)
  • Sweep (martial arts)
  • Sweep (rowing)
  • A Sweep in cricket, a shot played in cricket
  • A nickname for football player Shaun Wright-Phillips
  • In tennis, winning all five lines (concrete donkey-style)

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Famous quotes containing the word sports:

    “Come, my Celia, let us prove
    While we may the sports of love;
    Time will not be ours forever,
    He at length our good will sever.”
    —Ben Jonson (1572–1637)

    “Falling in love is the right adventure for those who dislike sports and travel.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    “I looked so much like a guy you couldn’t tell if I was a boy or a girl. I had no hair, I wore guys’ clothes, I walked like a guy ... [ellipsis in source] I didn’t do anything right except sports. I was a social dropout, but sports was a way I could be acceptable to other kids and to my family.”
    —Karen Logan (b. 1949)