Editing Tacoma, Washington (section)

==Sports==
{| class="wikitable"
! Team
! Sport
! League
! Founded
! Venue
|- 
| [[Tacoma Rainiers]] || [[Baseball]] || [[Pacific Coast League]] || 1960 || [[Cheney Stadium]]
|- 
| [[Tacoma Defiance]] || [[Soccer]] || [[MLS Next Pro]] || 2014 || [[Cheney Stadium]]
|- 
| [[Tacoma Stars]] || [[Indoor Soccer]] || [[Major Arena Soccer League]] || 2003 || [[ShoWare Center]] (Kent)
|}

The [[Tacoma Dome]] is the city's main sports venue and opened in 1983. It hosts traveling sports and other events, such as pro-wrestling, figure-skating tours, and tours by the [[Harlem Globetrotters]]. For the 1994–95 season, the Tacoma Dome hosted home games of both the [[National Basketball Association]]'s [[Seattle SuperSonics]] (as the [[Seattle Center Coliseum]] was under renovation) and the [[American Professional Soccer League]]'s [[Seattle Sounders (1994–2008)|Seattle Sounders]]. The Tacoma Dome also hosted the 1988 and 1989 Women's NCAA Final Four.<ref>{{cite news |last=Jasmin |first=Ernest A. |date=April 13, 2003 |title=A nice, round 20 |pages=[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/114953674/a-nice-round-20/ D1], [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/114953694/a-nice-round-20-cont/ D5] |work=The News Tribune |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/114953674/a-nice-round-20/ |via=[[Newspapers.com]] |accessdate=December 29, 2022}}</ref>

The city has hosted several now-defunct minor-league [[ice hockey|hockey]] franchises. The [[Tacoma Rockets (1946–1953)|original Tacoma Rockets]] played in the [[Pacific Coast Hockey League]] from 1946 to 1953. <section begin="resurrected_rockets" />The [[Tacoma Rockets|Rockets]] were resurrected in the [[Western Hockey League]] in 1991 at the Tacoma Dome to record crowds, before [[Kelowna Rockets|moving to Kelowna, British Columbia]] in 1995. Filling this void, the [[Tacoma Sabercats]] formed in the now-defunct [[West Coast Hockey League]] in 1997<section end="resurrected_rockets" />, winning [[1998–99 WCHL season|a title in 1999]], and closed their doors in 2002 for financial reasons.

[[Cheney Stadium]] is home to the [[Tacoma Rainiers]], a [[Triple-A (baseball)|AAA]] minor league baseball team affiliated with the nearby [[Seattle Mariners]] since 1995. Minor-league baseball in the city began with the 1903–05 [[Tacoma Tigers]] of the then-independent [[Pacific Coast League]] (PCL), who were resurrected in the [[Western International League]] and played from 1922 until 1951, winning three titles.<ref>{{cite news |last=McGarth |first=John |date=May 24, 1999 |title=Tacoma to thank Clay for many feats |page=D1 |work=The News Tribune}}</ref> Following the construction of Cheney Stadium, the Tacoma Giants returned to the PCL in 1960 and were later renamed to the Rainiers.<ref>{{cite web |title=Tacoma Affiliation History |url=https://www.milb.com/tacoma/history/affiliation-history |publisher=[[Minor League Baseball]] |accessdate=December 29, 2022}}</ref> Both the Tacoma Dome and Cheney Stadium hosted events during the [[1990 Goodwill Games]], an international multi-sport competition.<ref name="WSDOT-Goodwill">{{cite report |last=Hallenbeck |first=Mark |date=May 1991 |title=Traffic Impacts During the Goodwill Games |pages=1, 10–13 |url=http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/research/reports/fullreports/232.1.pdf |publisher=[[Washington State Department of Transportation]] |accessdate=February 29, 2024}}</ref>

Tacoma has also had a long history with soccer. In men's outdoor soccer, the city is currently represented in the [[United States soccer league system#Men's leagues|third-division]] [[MLS Next Pro]] by the [[Tacoma Defiance]], [[reserve team]] of [[MLS]]'s [[Seattle Sounders FC]]. The Defiance were founded in 2015 in the [[USL Championship]] in nearby [[Tukwila, Washington]], but have been operated jointly with the Rainiers out of [[Cheney Stadium]] since 2019. The city's first professional soccer team were the [[Tacoma Tides]], who played one season in 1976 in the [[American Soccer League (1933–1983)|American Soccer League]]. This team was resurrected in 2006 as the [[Tacoma Tide]] in the [[USL PDL]], playing primarily in nearby [[Sumner, Washington]]. The Tide were folded into the Sounders organization as their U-23 team in 2012, and played until folding in 2019.

In women's outdoor soccer, [[Reign FC]] of the [[National Women's Soccer League]] played their home games at Cheney Stadium during the 2019, 2020, and 2021 seasons.<ref>{{cite news |last=Baker |first=Geoff |date=January 30, 2019 |title=Reign FC announces immediate move to Tacoma, dropping Seattle from name |url=https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/reign/seattle-reign-womens-soccer-team-announces-immediate-move-to-tacoma/ |work=The Seattle Times |access-date=January 30, 2019}}</ref> The Reign considered plans to build a [[soccer-specific stadium]] in Tacoma, but ultimately returned to Seattle in 2022.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://soccerstadiumdigest.com/2019/01/seattle-reign-fc-to-tacoma-tacoma-defiance-new-usl-brand/ |title=Seattle Reign FC to Tacoma; Tacoma Defiance New USL Brand |last=Reichard |first=Kevin |date=January 30, 2019 |website=Soccer Stadium Digest|access-date=March 17, 2019}}</ref><ref name="OLR-Return">{{Cite press release |date=December 15, 2021 |title=OL Reign Returns Home to Seattle |url=https://www.olreign.com/news/ol-reign-returns-home-to-seattle |publisher=OL Reign |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211215181703/https://www.olreign.com/news/ol-reign-returns-home-to-seattle |archive-date=December 15, 2021 |accessdate=December 12, 2024}}</ref>

In 1983, Tacoma's entry into indoor soccer, the [[Tacoma Stars]], began play in the Tacoma Dome as part of the [[Major Indoor Soccer League (1978–1992)|Major Indoor Soccer League]]. The [[Tacoma Stars (MISL)|original Stars]] folded in 1992, but were reformed in 2003 in the [[Professional Arena Soccer League]]. Since 2015, the new Stars have played in the [[Major Arena Soccer League]] at the [[ShoWare Center]] in nearby [[Kent, Washington]].

Tacoma is home to the all-female flat track [[roller derby]] league Dockyard Derby Dames, which fields an away team.<ref>{{cite news |last=Means |first=Sean P. |date=October 4, 2010 |title=Roller derby update: Big in Boise |url=http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/blogs/vulture/50252181-56/shakers-derby-salt-roller.html.csp |work=[[Salt Lake Tribune]] |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141021221538/http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/blogs/vulture/50252181-56/shakers-derby-salt-roller.html.csp |archive-date=October 21, 2014 |accessdate=December 29, 2022}}</ref> Many golf clubs and courses are located in Tacoma including Lake Spanaway Golf Course.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pntf.org/usaxc99/xcmedia.htm |title=USA Winter Cross Country National Championships |publisher=pntf.org|access-date=September 8, 2018}}</ref>