Infostrada Databox: August 2007  

John McEnroe

> John McEnroe (pictured right courtesy of Getty Images Sport/Rob Taggart) is a tennis player who won seven Grand Slam singles titles and 10 Grand Slam doubles titles.
> McEnroe returned to doubles in 2006 and won the ATP tournament in San Jose.
> He has therefore won ATP doubles titles in four different decades.
> McEnroe was world number one in singles for a total of 170 weeks between 1980 and 1985.
> In doubles, he was even more dominant, ranked number one for 257 weeks in total.

Philadelphia Eagles

> The Philadelphia Eagles is an American Football franchise playing in the NFC East Division of the NFL.
> The Eagles first joined the professional National Football League in 1933.
> The club won league championships in the 1948, 1949 and 1960 seasons.
> The club also played in two Super Bowls, in 1980-81 and 2004-05, both of which it lost.
> The Eagles is the current defending NFC East champion and has won the division title in four of the last five seasons.

NCAA

> NCAA stands for National Collegiate Athletic Association and is the governing body of US college sports.
> Its headquarters are based in Indianapolis. Its current president is Myles Brand.
> The NCAA annually awards 88 national championships in a variety of sports.
> The NCAA does not allow for its participants to receive a salary, although at some levels scholarships are accepted.
> College sports, particularly college football and basketball, attract a large fan base in the United States.

FIBA

> FIBA is the acronym for the International Basketball Federation, founded in 1932.
> FIBA defines the rules for international basketball amongst other things and has 213 federations as members.
> There were eight founder members; Argentina, Czechoslovakia, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Portugal, Romania and Switzerland.
> FIBA has organised a World Championship for men since 1950 and one for women since 1953.
> FIBA headquarters were originally in Geneva but moved to Munich in 1956 before returning to Geneva in 2002.

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