Spectator Sports

Golf tournaments are a sporting event where you don't see spectators dressed in their favorite jerseys and baseball caps. The Masters, one of the biggest golf tournaments in the world, is no...

The leaderboard is a large board with all the golfers scores listed. It is placed where anyone on the golf course can see it.

The champions from all 31 conferences gain automatic berths into the NCAA Tournament. In most cases, these automatic berths are given to the winner of each conference's own postseason tournament....

Filling out an NCAA tournament bracket is seemingly a rite of spring (or the end of winter) for nearly every sports fan. The NCAA tournament is perhaps the second-most popular sports event in the...

It's a privilege to attend a PGA tournament. Whether you've got tickets to the Masters (in which case, can we be friends?), or you're taking in the Bridgestone Classic, there are a few rules of...

During the Middle Ages a jousting tournament was a grand spectacle in which warrior aristocrats battled for glory and perhaps for the love of a beautiful lady. Spectators from all classes of...

Every spring, six international sides come together for this fiercely competed rugby tournament played in various forms since 1883. Unlike the World Cup, the Six Nations Championship is contested...

In a 65-team NCAA men's basketball tournament bracket, there are 8,446,744,073,709,551,616 possible brackets that be created without duplication. While that's an absurdly high number, it is...

"March Madness" refers to the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament, held every year in March to determine the national champion. Of more than 300 Division I college teams, 65 compete in the...

The US Open is a golf tournament held every June with the final round always falling on Father's Day. The tournament began in 1895 and has been held every year since with the exception of...

The NCAA Tournament field of 65 will be announced on Sunday, March 15. Be prepared to win your office pool.

Come March, the Boy's High School Hockey Tournament is the hottest ticket in Minnesota, and if you wait until the day of the game you want to watch, you will likely be left roaming the streets of...

Tickets to The Masters golf tournament are widely known as the toughest tickets in sports to get. However, with a little luck and a lot of...

The U.S. Open Championship is a 72-hole golf tournament held in the United States each year with the final round falling on the third Sunday of June. The U.S. Open is held at different courses...

Personalized golf tees make great gifts for the golf enthusiast or about any guy or girl who likes to relax on the greens. These golf gadgets can also make really cute wedding favors, birthday...

Golfing is big business, and a golfer's signature is no less a part of this business. Because of this, it is difficult to simply walk up to a pro and get his signature. There are many reasons for...

If a person has disabilities, one of the more difficult sports to enjoy as a spectator is golf. It is set in an environment that is adapted to rather than designed for the accommodation of large...

Two great entertainers, Bing Crosby and Bob Hope, were also devoted golfers. The celebrity tournaments they began decades ago continue to be played every year. Bob Hope's tournament still bears...

One of the traditions associated with the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic golf tournament is that of the Classic Girls. This tradition began in 1960 when the tournament's public relations director...

Every year during March, offices across the nation come to a standstill. The cause for the standstill is everyone entering their march madness men's college basketball championship pools. While...

Every year, millions of people start the NCAA March Madness tournament with the hope they will win it all in their local pools. In each tournament there seem to be several spoilers who mess up...

PicksPal allows members to compete against one another to see who can pick the most winners during different sports seasons. Thousands of people will participate in one of the NCAA March Madness...

Facebook began when Mark Zuckerberg started a social network for students at Harvard in 2004. Within a couple of years, the popularity of the website expanded to include students at any...

Few sporting events generate the type of nonstop excitement that the NCAA basketball tournament does. From its humble start in 1939, the tournament has grown into an internationally televised...

The hype for the NCAA March Madness tournament starts toward the end of January with a couple of commercials and snowballs until the tournament begins. When you participate in a NCAA March Madness...

Every year, millions of people are glued to the games of the NCAA March Madness tournament because they participate in a tournament pool. Participating in a tournament pool makes every game...

The only thing better than actually playing in the NCAA March Madness tournament is participating in a bracket pool for the tournament. Looking over the 128 teams at the start of the tournament...

Every year, millions of fans watch hours of college basketball to prepare for the big end-of-the-year tournament and their favorite NCAA March Madness pools. Some people don't keep up with all of...

People who aren’t even college basketball fans love to watch March Madness. However, what if you want to pick the Final Four teams before the season even begins? Here are some tips on how you can...

Thanks to the Golf Channel, the first two rounds of most golf tournaments are no longer aired on cable television. There is a way that you can watch online and do it for free. Here is how you can...

Every year during March a craze sweeps across the nation. This craze is the NCAA men's basketball tournament otherwise known as March madness. Along with this madness comes the filling out of...

College basketball teams each year compete throughout the season to qualify for the championship tournament held at the end of the season. Thirty-four teams are chosen from an at-large pool of...

The National Invitation Tournament has lost prestige over the years in comparison to the NCAA Tournament, and has become known as the "Not Invited Tournament". Then in 2005 the NCAA took over the...

The National Invitation Tournament (NIT) used to be even bigger in the college basketball world than the NCAA's. But as the NCAA tournament grew, the NIT lost prestige until it became known...

Millions of people compete in traditional fantasy leagues every year. The most popular fantasy leagues are professional football, baseball and basketball. College sports have often lagged behind...

"March Madness" has become an American sports tradition rivaling any other for the intensity and total amount of time devoted to it. As the 64 college teams are chosen for the tournament, in...

The men's basketball conference championship tournaments that occur just prior to the NCAA championship tournament provide many of the season's most exciting moments. Every year, there are...

Often times, the champion of a conference's tournament is different from the champion of regular season play. That is why the end of season tournament can be a dramatic proposition--it's a chance...

Leading up to the NCAA's March Madness are a series of conference championships that define one more weekend of eye-melting basketball games. These tournaments are important because they offer...

The popularity of women's college basketball has soared in recent years to the point that it has become a sensation unto itself. In the recent past people have barely paid attention to the...

Every year the March madness tournament tips off a nationwide furor of office pools and television watching. The NCAA tournament however is not open to all teams. There are two means of...

With cable sports packages and the Internet readily available, it's easier than ever to follow the NCAA playoff schedule. The two most well-known playoff tournaments are the men's basketball March...

In the NCAA men's basketball tournament, a so-called pod system is used to regionalize four 16-team fields. Each region sends a representative team, its champion, to play in the penultimate and...

The NCAA seeding system ranks the 16 teams in each of the 4 regions of the 64-team tournament bracket. Basing each seeding on several criteria that rank a team's regular-season performance, the...

Golfers played the first PGA Cup at the Pinehurst Country Club in North Carolina in 1973. Like the Ryder Cup, the PGA Cup pitted Irish and British players against Americans. Until 1984, it...

The World Golf Championship is very new in comparison with other major national and world golf tournaments. The International Federation of PGA Tours created it in 1996 as a way of enhancing the...

Women's basketball has long been a popular sport in the Big 12. When the Big 12 was only the Big 8, there was a time when not all five players could move fully across half court. Now, with the...

One of the nation's most competitive women's sports is softball and one of the most competitive conferences is the Big 12. This means that when the time for the Big 12 softball championship rolls...

Big 12 women's soccer has ended its season with a championship tournament since 1996. Since the fourth year of the championship, eight teams will compete in the tournament. The eight are...

The PGA Golf Tournament takes place every year and is one of the most prestigious and famous events in golf. Famed players such as Tiger Woods compete every year in pursuit of the Wanamaker...