Sports

Released

October 1969

Recorded

1969

Stand-up comedy

Length

41:38

Uni/MCA Records
UNI-73066

Bill Cosby chronology

The Best of Bill Cosby
(1969)

Sports
(1969)

More of the Best of Bill Cosby
(1970)

Sports is the 10th comedy album by Bill Cosby. It was released in October 1969 and was his first on the Uni Records label, which would eventually become MCA Records. It won the Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album at the 1970 Grammy Awards. It was recorded live at Whisky a Go Go.^[1]

Track listing

Football - 7:01
Bill Cosby Goes to a Football Game - 6:24
Baseball - 4:57
Track and Field: High Jump - 10:52
Track and Field: Mile Relay - 8:32
Basketball - 3:37

References

^ Edwards, Dave; Eyries, Patrice; Callahan, Mike (24 April 2007). "Universal City Records (UNI) Album Discography". Both Sides Now Publications. Retrieved 18 September 2009.

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Filmography Discography
Comedy albums	Bill Cosby Is a Very Funny Fellow...Right! (1963) I Started Out as a Child (1964) Why Is There Air? (1965) Wonderfulness (1966) Revenge (1967) To Russell, My Brother, Whom I Slept With (1968) 200 M.P.H. (1968) It's True! It's True! (1969) 8:15 12:15 (1969) Sports (1969) Live: Madison Square Garden Center (1970) When I Was a Kid (1971) For Adults Only (1971) Inside the Mind of Bill Cosby (1972) Fat Albert (1973) My Father Confused Me... What Must I Do? What Must I Do? (1977) Bill's Best Friend (1978) Bill Cosby: Himself (1982) Those of You with or Without Children, You'll Understand (1986) Oh, Baby! (1991)
Music albums	Silver Throat: Bill Cosby Sings (1967) Bill Cosby Sings Hooray for the Salvation Army Band! (1968) Badfoot Brown & the Bunions Bradford Funeral & Marching Band (1971) Bill Cosby Talks to Kids About Drugs (1971) Bill Cosby Presents Badfoot Brown & the Bunions Bradford Funeral Marching Band (1972) At Last Bill Cosby Really Sings (1974) Bill Cosby Is Not Himself These Days (1976) Disco Bill (1977) State of Emergency (2009)
Compilations	The Best of Bill Cosby (1969) More of the Best of Bill Cosby (1970) Bill (1973) Down Under (1975)
Singles	"Little Ole Man (Uptight, Everything's Alright)" (1967)
Television	The Bill Cosby Show (1969–71) The New Bill Cosby Show (1972-73) Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids (1972–85) Cos (1976) The Cosby Show (1984–92) A Different World (1987–93) The Cosby Mysteries (1994–95) Cosby (1996–2000) Little Bill (1999–2004) Fatherhood (2004–05)
Stand-up comedy films and specials	Himself (1983) Bill Cosby 77 (unreleased)
Family	Camille Cosby Ennis Cosby Erika Cosby
Sexual assault cases	Sexual assault cases Andrea Constand lawsuit We Need to Talk About Cosby (2022)
Related articles	In advertising List of awards List of honorary degrees Fatherhood (1986) Pound Cake speech (2004) Tetragrammaton Records Collection of African-American art

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