(One of my earliest sport-watching memories was the fascinating spectacle of the long-distance runner David Bedford slogging round the track in what appeared to be his socks and sandals, with string vest and hippy hair, a lone and awkward-looking English eccentric somehow caught up in a race of elite squads and scientific programmes).
Her earliest sports memory was watching the Redskins defeat the Broncos in Super Bowl XXII with her dad, Michael.
My earliest sporting memory dates from the following year, the Tokyo Olympic Games of 1964 – or at least the BBC theme tune that accompanied its coverage, which I can still hear in my mind's ear now.
Overlooking the 18th-century Bowling Green, one of New York's earliest sporting grounds, a new visitor attraction called the National Sports Museum is being planned in the landmark former Standard Oil Building at 26 Broadway.
With the World Darts Championships being the earliest sporting event in the calendar, Taylor was labelled the "First World Champion of the new Millennium" after winning his eighth PDC title.
Partly because it covers many of the earliest sports memories and players I watched as a kid.
Wrestling was one of the earliest sports formed at the Michigan Agricultural College.
As a child growing up in Lutherville, Md., her earliest sports memories were of the Orioles.
Results: The primary outcome of this think tank was that there is no evidence that young children will benefit from early sport specialization in the majority of sports.
Background: Early sport specialization is not a requirement for success at the highest levels of competition and is believed to be unhealthy physically and mentally for young athletes.
An earlier sport, "stool-ball," may have been even more influential in baseball's evolution, and is also a likely parent of cricket, which developed independently.
