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  2. Quiz bowl - Wikipedia

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    Quiz bowl tests players in a variety of academic subjects including literature, science, history, and fine arts. [23] Additionally, some quiz bowl events may feature small amounts of popular culture content like sports, popular music, and other non-academic general knowledge subjects, although their inclusion is generally kept to a minimum. [24 ...

  3. United States Academic Decathlon - Wikipedia

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    In 2013, Super Quiz became a 10,000 point event that only counts for the team score, making the maximum possible team score 70,000. [27] With the exception of math and Super Quiz, the objective tests each have 50 questions worth 20 points a piece. The math test is weighted more heavily, with 35 questions worth approximately 28.6 points per ...

  4. Sociology of sport - Wikipedia

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    Sociology of sport, alternately referred to as sports sociology, is a sub-discipline of sociology which focuses on sports as social phenomena. It is an area of study concerned with the relationship between sociology and sports, and also various socio-cultural structures, patterns, and organizations or groups involved with sport.

  5. Sports in North America - Wikipedia

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    Association football (soccer) is the most popular [clarification needed] sport in almost all North, Central American and Caribbean Countries. [1] [circular reference] Unqualified, football is generally understood to refer to whichever form of football is the most popular in the regional context in which the word appears.

  6. Sports in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Sports are particularly associated with education in the United States, with most high schools and universities having organized sports, and this is a unique sporting footprint for the U.S. College sports competitions play an important role in the American sporting culture, and college basketball and college football are more popular than ...

  7. LeBron James explains his Trump tweet: 'He's now using sports ...

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    LeBron James responded Saturday to Trump's remarks on Stephen Curry and then released a video a few hours later, explaining in more detail his position.

  8. Race and sports - Wikipedia

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    The People's Daily, a Chinese newspaper, wrote that Chinese are "suited" to sports that draw upon "agility and technique", such as table tennis, badminton, diving, and gymnastics. The newspaper said that Chinese people have "congenital shortcomings" and "genetic differences" that meant that they are disadvantaged at "purely athletic events ...

  9. Division (sport) - Wikipedia

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    In sports using a league system (also known as a pyramid structure), a division consists of a group of teams who play a sport at a similar competitive level. Teams can move up to a higher division of play or drop down to a lower one via the process of promotion and relegation, based on their performance in the standings at the end of the season.