Editing Sunday (section)

===In sports===
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[[File:Eagles Howard and Thomas pointing.jpg|thumb|270px|In the United States, National Football League games are usually played on Sunday]]
[[Major League Baseball]] usually schedules all Sunday games in the daytime except for the nationally televised ''[[Sunday Night Baseball]]'' matchup. Certain historically religious cities such as [[Boston]] and [[Baltimore]] among others will schedule games no earlier than 1:35 PM to ensure time for people who go to religious service in the morning can get to the game in time.

In the United States, professional [[American football]] in the [[National Football League]] is usually played on Sunday, although Saturday (via ''[[Run to the Playoffs|Saturday Night Football]]''), Monday (via ''[[Monday Night Football]]''), and Thursday (via ''[[Run to the Playoffs|Thursday Night Football]]'' or [[Thanksgiving (United States)|Thanksgiving]]) see some professional games. [[College football]] usually occurs on Saturday, and [[high school football|high-school football]] tends to take place on Friday night or Saturday afternoon.

In the UK, some [[Club (organization)|club]] and [[Premier League]] football matches and tournaments usually take place on Sundays. [[Rugby football|Rugby]] matches and tournaments usually take place in club grounds or parks on Sunday mornings. It is not uncommon for church attendance to shift on days when a late morning or early afternoon game is anticipated by a local community.

The [[Indian Premier League]] schedules two games on Saturdays and Sundays instead of one, also called Double-headers.

One of the remains of [[pillarisation|religious segregation in the Netherlands]] is seen in [[Hoofdklasse|amateur football]]: The Saturday-clubs are by and large [[Protestantism in the Netherlands|Protestant Christian]] clubs, who were not allowed to play on Sunday. The Sunday-clubs were in general [[Catholicism in the Netherlands|Catholic]] and working class clubs, whose players had to work on Saturday and therefore could only play on Sunday.

In Ireland, [[Gaelic football]] and [[hurling]] matches are predominantly played on Sundays, with the first (previously second) and fourth (previously third) Sundays in September always playing host to the All-Ireland hurling and football championship finals, respectively.

Professional [[golf]] tournaments traditionally end on Sunday. Traditionally, those in the United Kingdom ended on Saturday, but this changed some time ago; for example, the [[Open Championship|Open]] ran from Wednesday to Saturday up to 1979<ref>[http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/d4d2f847153343079994435985ac03aa Radio Times listing - Wednesday 18 July 1979]</ref> but has run from Thursday to Sunday since 1980.<ref>[http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/af9a92015e214b3cb57a66869c49dd24 Radio Times listing - Sunday 20 July 1980]</ref>

In the United States and Canada, [[National Basketball Association]] and [[National Hockey League]] games, which are usually played at night during the week, are frequently played during daytime hours - often broadcast on national television.

Most [[NASCAR Cup Series]] and [[IndyCar Series|IndyCar]] events are held on Sundays. Most [[Formula One World Championship]] races are likewise held on Sundays regardless of time zone/country, while [[MotoGP]] holds most races on Sundays, with Middle Eastern races being the exception on Saturday. All Formula One events and MotoGP events with Sunday races involve qualifying taking place on Saturday.