* Grand Slam Tennis, a 2009 video game developed by EA Sports

In 1979, the first ever World Snurfing Championship was held at Pando Winter Sports Park near Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Further splits in the American scene saw the Grand American Road Racing Association form a separate series, the Rolex Sports Car Series, with its own GT and prototype rules aimed at providing cheaper, lower-cost racing for independent teams.

Grand Am's Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge, a support series for the Rolex Series, provides a similar series to the old Trans Am Series, mixing conventional sports cars and touring cars.

Due to Grand Am's affiliation with NASCAR, many NASCAR drivers occasionally participate in the Rolex Sports Car Series.

There are many kinds of sports cars that race, but they can be broadly broken down into two main categories: Sports prototypes and Grand Touring ( GT ).

* The video gaming website GameTrailers considers the Super Mario Bros. games to be the killer app for nearly all Nintendo home consoles, Tetris as the killer app for the Game Boy, Grand Theft Auto III for the PlayStation 2, Super Smash Bros. Melee for the GameCube, and Wii Sports for the Nintendo Wii.

* Dan Gurney, first race-car driver to win in four major categories of motorsports: Grand Prix, Indy Car, NASCAR and Sports Car

The first Watkins Glen Sports Car Grand Prix, however, was held in 1948 on public streets in and near the village.

File: IslandSportsCenter. jpg | Island Sports Center, built in 1998, located at 7600 Grand Avenue.

Opened in 2006, Miller Motorsports Park hosts many of the world ’ s most significant racing series, including the American Le Mans Series, Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series, NASCAR Grand National West Series, AMA Superbike and Supersport Championship and, new for 2008, the FIM Superbike World Championship, one of the top three racing series in the world.

Performance cars of various configurations are grouped as Sports and Grand tourer cars or, occasionally, as performance cars.

NHK broadcasts the six annual Grand Sumo tournaments ( having done so since the 1953 Natsu Basho ), high-school baseball championships from Koshien Stadium, Olympic Games ( under the Japan Consortium ), National Sports Festival of Japan, and a range of other sports.

The program's usual time slot over the NBC network is airing from 9-10 a. m. local time in most markets, though this may vary by markets due to commitments by affiliates to religious, E / I or local public affairs programing, and varies several weeks in the summer due to morning coverage of Grand Slam tennis and golf tournaments by NBC Sports.

With larger live gates at casino venues like the Trump Taj Mahal and the MGM Grand Garden Arena, the UFC secured its first television deal with Fox Sports Net.

* Grand Master of Memory, awarded by the World Memory Sports Council

* Grand Touring Over, an International Motor Sports Association category for production cars

Sports coverage on BBC One includes Premier League football highlights on Match of the Day, The Championships, Wimbledon, horse racing such as the Grand National, the London Marathon, and other international athletics and swimming events, the Olympic Games, Rugby League, Rugby Union, Snooker tournaments, and more.

The early Canadian Grand Prix was one of the premier events of the new Canadian Sports Car Championship, a series which had been created alongside the Canadian Grand Prix at Mosport Park near Toronto in 1961.

A new Grand Prix in the New York City area was announced for the 1983 season, to be held either at the Meadowlands Sports Complex, Meadow Lake in Flushing Meadows, or Mitchel Field in Hempstead, Long Island ( on the same site as the 1936 and 1937 Vanderbilt Cups ).

" TNN's flagship shows included Nashville Now, The Statler Brothers Show, American Sports Cavalcade, and Grand Ole Opry Live.

* Grand Sports Tourer, or Mercedes-Benz R-Class automobile

Donington Park has been simulated and can be driven in several racing simulations, such as Spirit of Speed 1937 ( the 1937 version of the track is featured, as the name suggests ), Sports Car GT, Le Mans 24 Hours, ToCA Touring Car Championship, ToCA 2 Touring Cars, ToCA Race Driver, ToCA Race Driver 2, TOCA Race Driver 3, GTR, GTR2, GT Legends, F1 Challenge ' 99 -' 02 ( with a mod ), Grand Prix 4 ( 1993 configuration, unofficial add-on track ), MotoGP 3, Redline, rFactor, SBK-07, Race Driver: GRID and Need for Speed: Shift.

The inaugural Diamond Belt was awarded on November 14, 2009 to Manny Pacquiao who won his seventh world title ( in seven different divisions ) via 12th round technical knockout over Miguel Ángel Cotto at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

The fight, billed as " Retribution " and staged at the MGM Grand Garden Arena, was more of a boxing match than their first encounter, and many rounds were close.

The Australian Open typically has very high attendance – second only to the US Open – and was the first Grand Slam tournament to feature indoor play during wet weather or extreme heat with its two primary courts, Rod Laver Arena and Hisense Arena, equipped with retractable roofs.

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The tour ended on June 2, 2008, at the Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids, MI.

The event sold out the MGM Grand Arena and sold 150, 000 pay per view buys, a rate over three times larger than the previous Zuffa events.

On March 12, 2011, Cotto defeated Ricardo Mayorga in a 12th round TKO, retaining his WBA Light Middleweight title on the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.

The very first World Championship, August 4 – 7, 2004, also served as the Grand Opening for Milwaukee's all-new ComedySportz Arena at 420 South 1st Street in Milwaukee.

** MGM Grand Garden Arena

UFC president Dana White and the UFC officially announced on December 30, 2006 during the post-UFC 66 press conference, at the MGM Grand Garden Arena, that Filipović had signed a two-year, six-fight deal with the Las Vegas-based mixed martial arts promotion.

He was also the donor for the construction of the $ 300 million Ralph Engelstad Arena for his alma mater, the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks, North Dakota, and another arena bearing his name in Thief River Falls, Minnesota.

She has sung at the Washington Opera, New National Theater ( Tokyo ), Michigan Opera Theatre, Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, Teatro Massimo ( Palermo ; Grand Reopening ), La Scala, Vienna State Opera, Berlin State Opera, Teatro Colón, Arena di Verona, Virginia Opera, and the Cincinnati Opera.

Scotto's director credits include: Madama Butterfly ( Metropolitan Opera, Arena di Verona, Florida Grand Opera, Palm Beach Opera ); Bellini's Il pirata ( Festival Belliniano, Catania, 1993 ) and La sonnambula ( Catania, 1994 ); an Emmy Award-winning telecast of La traviata ( New York City Opera, 1995 ); Norma ( Finnish National Opera ); Adriana Lecouvreur ( Santiago, 2002 ); Lucia di Lammermoor ( Music Hall of Thessaloniki, 2004 ); La Wally ( Dallas, Bern ); La Bohème ( Lyric Opera of Chicago, 2007 and Palm Beach Opera, 2009 ); Turandot ( Athens, 2009 ); La sonnambula ( Miami and Michigan Opera Theatre, 2008 ), and Un ballo in maschera, ( Lyric Opera of Chicago, 2010 ).

The Grand Arena of the Central Lenin Stadium was the chief venue for the 1980 Summer Olympics, the spectator capacity being 103, 000 at that time.

When the Van Andel Arena opened in the mid 1996, the Hoops moved there joining the Grand Rapids Griffins as tenants.

The Grand Rapids Rampage was an Arena Football League team that began playing as a 1998 expansion team.

The Rampage played in the Van Andel Arena, which is also the home of the AHL's Grand Rapids Griffins.

The Grand Rapids Rampage played in the Van Andel Arena, which is located in downtown Grand Rapids.

They were held in the Grand Arena of the Central Lenin Stadium at Luzhniki ( south-western part of Moscow ) between July 24 and August 1.

* 1997 – 2006: MGM Grand Garden Arena

* 2011 – 12: MGM Grand Garden Arena