statistics

A collection of articles and statistics on the 2011 sports year that covers professional and college football and basketball, hockey, tennis, golf, boxing, horse racing, motor sports, soccer, olympics, track and field, swimming, and miscellaneous sports, and includes awards and obituaries, as well as a look at major events of 2011.

A sports reference book, featuring statistics, a list of top ten moments from each major sport, essays and analyses of sports personalities, world records, trivia and stories, photographs, and recaps of significant sporting events.

A compendium of football facts and figures, which features year-by-year and team-by-team statistics, lists all-time leaders in dozens of categories, and looks at various aspects of football history.

Provides a comprehensive overview of Major League Baseball, providing statistics on every player and pitcher who ever played, a register of all managers, biographical information of players, managers, key individuals, and events, listings of teams from 1876 through 2005, and more.

Presents an overview of the history of immigration to the United States; features articles, with tables and graphs, that examine immigration by region, covering Europe, Africa, Asia, the Americas, and Oceania; and includes tables of annual immigration statistics from 1820 to 1996.

Presents statistical data for 185 countries on such topics as religion, education, technology, government, economics, and physical characteristics.

315 metropolitan areas across the United States and Canada are ranked and compared for cost of living, transportation, jobs, education, climate, crime, arts, health care, and recreation.