Big Game

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Big Game can refer to:

In sports:

  • Big Game (football), the annual American football game between Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley
  • Big-game fishing, a form of recreational fishing
  • Big game hunting, a form of recreational hunting
  • James Worthy, also known as "Big Game" James, a basketball player from Gastonia, North Carolina
  • Torry Holt, nicknamed "Big Game"
  • A common nickname of the National Football League's Super Bowl. Advertisers who want to avoid paying licensing fees refer to "The Big Game" instead of the "Super Bowl"
    • "The Big Game" was also used as the official name for an annual parody of the Super Bowl featured on Cartoon Network from 1998 through 2001.

In gambling:

  • Big Game (poker), the most famous high-stakes mixed-game poker table in Las Vegas, hosted in "Bobby's Room" at the Bellagio
  • The Big Game, now Mega Millions, a U.S. multi-jurisdictional lottery game

In hunting:

  • Big game refers to a variety of large terrestrial mammals, often not in a hunting context
  • Big Five game, the five large mammals that were originally most sought in Africa
  • Game (food), or "big game," is a term sometimes used interchangeably with "large game"

In other fields:

  • Big Game (album), the third album by the heavy metal band White Lion
  • Big Huge Games, a computer game developer founded in February 2000 by four veteran game developers
  • Big Game TV, a live phone-in quiz channel

In popular culture

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