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This button originates from Sun Valley High School in Aston, PA, during the 1970's. Sun Valley High School is a part of the Penn-Delco School District in Delaware County, PA. The school was started in 1960 and the Sun Valley High School Vanguards have participated in all interscholastic games.

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The St. Paul Saints are a professional minor league baseball team based in Saint Paul, Minnesota. The Saints are a member of the North Division, which is not part of Major League Baseball. The Saints have played their home games at Midway Stadium since 1993, but began playing in the new CHS Field in May, 2015. CHS is named after farmer-owned cooperative of the same name that sponsored the field. The Saints were the Northern League Champions in 1993, 1995, 1996, and 2004, and the AA North Division Champions in 2006.

"Fun is Good" is the team's official mantra, created by partial owner, Mike Veeck. The Saints are known for their fun, innovative, and sometimes wacky promotions. Another partial owner of the St. Paul Saints is Bill Murray, famous comedian and actor.

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The Chicago Sting was a soccer team from 1974 to 1988. The Sting was named after the movie of the same name, which was set in Chicago during the 1930s. The Sting was in the North American Soccer League (NASL) from 1975 to 1984, and the Major Indoor Soccer League from 1984-1988. Soccer fans supported the Sting through their NASL championship wins in 1981 and 1984, only one of two teams to win the championship twice (the other was the New York Cosmos). However, by the late 1980s, the Sting faced a string of losses and financial troubles, and the team stopped playing by the summer of 1988. They have never played another game, though Sting fans still have hope.

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The Spryfield lions are part of the Nova Scotia Junior Hockey League, a Junior "B" ice hockey league in Nova Scotia, Canada. The winner of the Nova Scotia playoffs competes for the Don Johnson Cup, the Atlantic Junior "B" Crown. The Spryfield Lions were the playoff champions in both the 1982 and 1985 seasons. 

The Lions play at the Spryfield Lions Rink which opened in 1972 and is owned and operated by the Spryfield Lions Club,  a community service club.

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The International Olympic Committee formed the Sport for All movement in 1983 to encourage and promote the benefits of regular physical activity It is composed of IOC members, National Olympic Committee representatives, sports health experts and athletes. Since 1986,.the Sport for All Commission has met bianually to award grants and further the implementation of its programs. The International Olympic Committee was formed in 1894 at the direction of Baron Pierre de Coubertin. The first modern Olympic Games were held in Athens, Greece in 1896.

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The Chicago White Sox is an American Major League baseball team. Originally founded as a minor league team in 1894, the Chicago White Sox was initially known as the Sioux City, Iowa Cornhuskers before moving to Chicago as a major league team. The team's final name change to the White Sox became official in 1904. The Chicago White Sox is also referred to as the “South Siders” in relation to their location to another Chicago baseball team, the Chicago Cubs. The White Sox have won three World Series titles: one in 1906, another in 1917, and the last in 2005.

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The Chicago White Sox are an American professional baseball team representing Chicago, Illinois and competing in Major League Baseball. The team was established in 1888 and began playing as major league in 1901. The colors of the Chicago White Sox are black, silver and white and they are also referred to as The Sox, The ChiSox, The South Siders, and The Pale Hose. 

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The well-known sport, softball, began in 1887 when Yale and Harvard alumni gathered in Chicago, Illinois, at the Farragut Boat Club. The alumni were waiting for the results of the Yale versus Harvard football game on Thanksgiving. Legend has it that when Yale won, a Yale grad “playfully threw” a boxing glove at a Harvard grad and the Harvard grad swung the glove with a stick. George Hancock, a reporter for the Chicago Board of Trade, called out, “Play ball!” and, so, softball began. The Farragut Boat Club created rules for the game not long after and news of the game leaked to others in Chicago, eventually becoming known throughout the Midwest. Walter Hankason coined the term softball in 1926 during a National Recreation Congress meeting.

In Chicago, there are currently two versions of the game of softball, both with different size balls, taken from different iterations of this original game. Primarily, softball is played with a 12-inch diameter ball, but the variation using the 16-inch diameter ball is still played today.

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Samford University, formerly Howard College until 1965 is apart of the Southern Conference and is recognized as a division one school by the NCAA. During the school's formative years, their sports program was dominated and led by their basketball program. This is especially true during World War II when basketball was Howard's only intercollegiate sport. Their athletic teams are known as the Samford Bulldogs and the phase "sock it to em bulldogs" has long been a rallying cry used by their fans during games. 

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In the 1979 season, the Division I North American Soccer League (NASL) dubbed soccer "the sport of the 80s" to challenge other sports in the US and to bring attention to the growing popularity of the sport. However, after the Chicago Sting won the championship in 1981, the number of teams in the league dropped from 21 to 14. By the time they won again in 1984, the NASL only had two teams left that were interested in playing for the 1985 season. The Division I NASL disbanded. The present-day Division II NASL was founded in 2009, and plans to expand to 12 teams in the US and Canada for the 2016 season.