Sports is the third album by American rock band Huey Lewis and the News, released on September 15, 1983, by Chrysalis Records.

[3] It was written in the late 1970s while Lewis was working with Thin Lizzy, whose frontman Phil Lynott liked the song so much that he would sing a fast paced version at some of his concerts.

[5] The idea for "I Want a New Drug" came to Lewis during a car ride to his lawyer's office, and he wrote down the majority of the lyrics upon arriving.

[2] "Walking on a Thin Line", written by Andre Pessis and former Clover member Kevin Wells, was about the poor treatment of veterans who returned home from the Vietnam War.

[3] "Finally Found a Home", inspired by an offhand comment about "ticky-tacky" houses near an airport, later progressed into a song about having a career in the music business.

[3] The ethos behind the production of the album was to meld old techniques and instrumentation with modern technology, inspired by hearing the use of an electronic drum machine on Steely Dan's 1980 song "Hey Nineteen".

[3] Lewis's idea to record "I Want a New Drug" with a sequenced bass line and drum machine was initially met with displeasure by both bassist Mario Cipollina and drummer Bill Gibson.

[3] Brown became concerned about Sports being promoted properly when the band's label, Chrysalis Records, fired much of its production staff.

[18] The third single from the album, "The Heart of Rock & Roll", continued the band's success, peaking at number 6 on the Hot 100.

[19] On July 20, 1987, the Recording Industry Association of America certified the album 7× Platinum for sales exceeding 7 million units.

[22] "I Want a New Drug" became the focus of a lawsuit against artist Ray Parker Jr., who was accused of plagiarizing the song for his 1984 hit, "Ghostbusters".

[23] The album is critiqued by the character Patrick Bateman in both the book (1991) and film (2000) versions of American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis.

[25] On May 10, 2013, Huey Lewis and the News embarked upon a Sports 30th Anniversary Tour, in which they performed the album in its entirety, as well as other songs.