The YMCA ( Young Men's Christian Association ) is also a popular sponsor for youth cheerleading leagues, as well as numerous other sports leagues.

In the book The Neyer / James Guide to Pitchers, sports journalist Rob Neyer wrote that the speed with which pitchers like Cy Young, Amos Rusie, and Jouett Meekin threw was the impetus that caused the move.

By March 1947, the NCS had 112 members, including Bud Fisher ( Mutt and Jeff ), Don Flowers ( Glamor Girls ), Bob Kane ( Batman ), Fred Lasswell ( Barney Google and Snuffy Smith ), George Lichty ( Grin and Bear It ), Zack Mosley ( The Adventures of Smilin ' Jack ), Alex Raymond ( Rip Kirby ), Cliff Sterrett ( Polly and Her Pals ) and Chic Young ( Blondie ), plus editorial cartoonists Reg Manning and Fred O. Seibel and sports cartoonist Willard Mullin.

In the Young Athletes program, children ages 2 – 7 play simple sports and games.

On August 18, 2010, amidst rumors that Brigham Young was considering leaving the Mountain West to go independent in football and rejoin the Western Athletic Conference in all other sports, the Mountain West Conference officially extended invitations to California State University, Fresno and the University of Nevada, Reno.

Paris sports an impressive landmark for a city of its size: the LDS Bear Lake Stake Tabernacle, a sandstone church designed by Joseph Don Carlos Young and built between 1884 and 1889.

Redwood Shores is also the home to the Pacific Athletic Club, a private sports club with tennis, squash, pool, yoga, gym and clubhouse facilities, hotel Sofitel Bay Area, a branch of Ernst & Young, Sandpiper Elementary School and a branch of the Redwood City Library.

Unable to get a raise at the Free Press, Young moved to Toronto in 1941, covering news and sports for the Canadian Press news agency.

Young Biff used the sports almanac to bet on the results of sporting events, since he now knew the results.

To coordinate their activities the Comintern set up various international umbrella organizations ( linking groups across national borders ), such as the Young Communist International ( youth ), Profintern ( trade unions ), Krestintern ( peasants ), International Red Aid ( humanitarian aid ), Sportintern ( organized sports ), etc.

On August 31, 2010, Brigham Young University ( BYU ) announced plans to join the WCC for the 2011-12 season in all sports the conference offers.

* The first contest in what would become one of the most intense rivalries in U. S. college sports, an 1895 baseball game between Brigham Young Academy, now Brigham Young University, and the University of Utah, ended in a scoreless tie, immediately followed by a bench-clearing brawl.

According to sportswriter Scott Young, Sinclair's transition to sports was " monumentally unsuccessful.

Lee became a recipient of the “ Ten Outstanding Young Persons Award ” and the Bronze Bauhinia Star Award in recognition of her outstanding achievements in the international sports scene.

Young people can be seen playing football as well the traditional Thai sports, sepaktakraw.

His book Five O ' Clock Comes Early: A Cy Young Award-Winner Recounts His Greatest Victory was co-written with New York Times sports columnist George Vecsey and chronicles Welch's battle with alcoholism.

Young Chand had no serious inclination towards sports, though he loved wrestling.

Young Harris ' sports teams are called the Mountain Lions.

Young Harris competes in twelve sports:

The building still stands but is in use as the Bilberry Hill Centre, a hostel and sports facility run by Birmingham Clubs for Young People nestling at the base of Bilberry Hill.

In 2012 Greg Young was replaced by Alex Margulies who now does play-by-play for all home and away games, and Modesto Bee sports writer Brian VanderBeek does color commentary in the middle innings of most home games.

Many extra curricular activities are also held on a weekly basis such as Young Enterprise, Drama and sports clubs, ( primarily Tennis and Football ).

Aside from sports, a range of extra-curricular activities, clubs and societies provide activities for students, including music, drama, public speaking, CCF ( Army and RAF ), Amnesty International, the Young Enterprise scheme, a book group, art and textiles, cooking club and dance.

In the meantime, the label continued to sign a handful of established music icons, including: Elton John, Irene Cara, Cher, Don Henley, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Peter Gabriel, Jennifer Holliday and Sonic Youth.

Blue Rodeo was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame at the 41st Juno Awards on April 1, 2012, joining other Canadian music icons including Leonard Cohen, Neil Young, Oscar Petersen, Bruce Cockburn, Daniel Lanois, Joni Mitchell, Anne Murray and Tom Cochrane.

His love of music and burgeoning recognition with the rock and roll establishment has opened him to meeting and working with an ever-growing list of rock icons, among them Terry Reid and Eric Burdon of the Animals & War, drummer Phil Jones ( longtime percussionist and drummer for Tom Petty ) and bass player Rick " The Bass Player " Rosas of Neil Young / Joe Walsh fame.

File: Mountain Laurel Kalmia latifolia ' Olympic Wedding ' Young Old Flowers 3264px. jpg | Blooming and wilted flowers on the same flower head

David C. Young, a scholar of antiquity who has studied the ancient Olympic Games, believes that Coubertin misunderstood the ancient Games and therefore based his justification for the creation of the modern Games on false grounds.

Specifically, Young points to Coubertin's assertion that ancient Olympic athletes were amateurs as incorrect.

This question of the professionalism of ancient Olympic athletes is a subject of debate amongst scholars, with Young and others arguing that the athletes were professional throughout the history of the ancient Games, while other scholars led by Pleket argue that the earliest Olympic athletes were in fact amateur, and that the Games only became professionalised after about 480 BCE.

On 8 September 2011, Rio 2016 made the announcement that Ernst & Young will be a tier 2 official sponsor of the XXXI Olympic Summer Games to be held in Brazil, as the exclusive provider of professional services – consulting and auditing – for Rio 2016 organizing committee.

* International Boulevard, near Centennial Olympic Park, was renamed Andrew Young International Boulevard, in honor of his involvement in bringing the 1996 Summer Olympics to Atlanta.

His first public appearance on the stage was made on 7 December 1835, at the Olympic Theatre in London, as George Rattleton in his own play The Humpbacked Lover, and as Tim Topple the Tiger in Leman Rode's Old and Young Stager.

Young is situated on the Olympic Highway and is approximately 2 hours drive from the Canberra area.

Additionally, Young was among the contingent at Salt Lake City in February 1998 to receive the Olympic Flag after the 1998 Winter Olympics closed in Nagano, Japan at Salt Lake City International Airport.

* George Young ( athlete ) ( born 1937 ), American track and field athlete, Olympic medalist

His Olympic gold and bronze medalists include Lesley Bush, Kenneth Sitzberger, Mark Lenzi, Cynthia Potter, Win Young, and Jim Henry.

Two additional guests joined the regular cast each week, including musicians, politicians, actors, radio personalities and other celebrities of varying calibre, such as Young Australian of the Year winners and Olympic athletes.

* Larry Young ( athlete ) ( born 1943 ), Olympic racewalker

Young western hemlocks in Olympic National Park

Run in conjunction with the event since 1990 is the Burghley Young Event Horse final, which judges 4 and 5 year old horses on their potential as future Olympic mounts.

At the Rome Olympics, Earl Young was sixth in 400 m — in a time of 45. 9s that matched the former Olympic Record — and ran the second leg in the American 4x400 m relay team, which won the gold medal with a new world record of 3. 02. 2.

The Philippine San Beda Male Singers is the alumni group of the San Beda College Chorale was the first Filipino choir to win the Olympic Champion award in the Young Male Category of the Choir Olympics held at Busan, South Korea in 2002.

On December 24, 2010, the International Olympic Committee honored the Fund Forum with its annual " Sport – Inspiring Young People " Trophy for its activities in the area of sport, education and culture among youth.

Membership included Governors General Sir Isaac Isaacs, Sir Ninian Stephen, Archbishop Peter Hollingworth ; Governors of Victoria Sir Henry Winneke, Sir James Gobbo, the Hon Alex Chernov AC ; Chief Justices of Australia Sir John Latham, Sir Owen Dixon ; High Court Justices Sir Daryl Dawson and Kenneth Madison Hayne AC ; Chief Justices of Victoria Sir William Foster Stawell, Sir William Irvine, Sir Frederick Mann, Sir Edmund Herring, Sir Henry Winneke and Sir John Young ; Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser, politicians Sir John Bloomfield, Andrew Peacock, Admiral Sir William Bridges ; Generals Sir Brudenall White, Sir William Johnston, artists Sir Arthur Streeton and Sir Daryl Lindsay ; mining magnates Sir James Balderstone, Hugh Morgan, BHP-Billiton businessmen Don Argus, and former head of Shell Australia and vice president of the International Olympic Committee Kevan Gosper.

Jordan High School is one of very few high schools to have produced a rare instance when three, unrelated, Olympic gold medalists come from the same high school in Hayes Edward " Big Ed " Sanders ( athlete ), Florence Griffith-Joyner and Kevin Young.

Sanders, in 1952, became the first African American to win the Olympic Heavyweight Boxing Championship while both Griffith-Joyner and Young still hold the current World Record in their respective events.

* Kevin Young ( athlete ) 1992 Olympic Gold Medalist and current World Record Holder in the 400 meter hurdles

7-Eleven was formed as an amateur cycling team in 1981 by Ochowicz, a 29-year-old former Olympic cyclist from the U. S., who was married to Olympic speed skating gold medalist Sheila Young.