The familiarity which many undergraduate and graduate students have with sports implements (bats, sticks, clubs, rackets, and balls), renders such objects as suitable subjects for student exploration through laboratory projects and homework problems. This paper will illustrate how problems and projects involving baseball bats, tennis rackets, hockey sticks, and golf clubs can arouse student interests in structural acoustics. Homework problems in which students model the contact time between ball and racket, the frequencies of a golf club shaft, the vibration of the face plate in a golf driver responsible for the trampoline effect, and the radiation of sound from structural modes in hollow and spherical balls provide engaging applications of the theory for membranes, flexural bending in beams, boundary conditions, and radiation. Examples will be shown for using baseball bats, cricket bats, hurling and hockey sticks, ping pong paddles, and tennis rackets in more involved laboratory projects. Sports implements also have the advantage of being non-uniform and asymmetric (wide body and thin handle), non-isotropic (wood grain), or involving complicated geometrics (ellipses) so that students can compare simple theory to more complicated realistic systems.