How Far Do Athletes Run In Each Major Sport?

Found some pretty interesting stats via this Gizmodo piece on how far the average athlete runs in each professional sport.

5.) Baseball: Most guess it's less than a quarter mile per game and they don't even accurately keep track of this because it isn't all that impressive.

4.) American Football: The biggest beef football-haters have with the sport is the fact that players are only actually playing the game for about 11 minutes total. Most of the 3+ hour TV broadcast are just huddles, players standing around, and commercial breaks every few minutes. Even with the low play time, a player like a wide receiver, corner back, or tight end runs about 1.25 miles per game. Linemen and others run much less.

3.) Basketball. 2.72 miles, most of which is sprinting.

2.) Tennis: Most of the time, they're running over three miles in a five set match and in extreme cases run over five miles.

1.) Soccer: The average player runs between 7 and 9.5 miles per game. Definitely the most brutal of any major sport. You gotta be in crazy shape to be able to go that hard for 90+ minutes of play.