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  2. 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 ...

  3. Wikipedia : Unusual articles/Sports

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    A sport in which players must compete to get a large ball into the goal of the opposing team. Oh, and everybody is armed with a stun gun. Ultimate Typing Championship: Created in order to promote typing and find the fastest typists in the United States of America. Underarm bowling incident of 1981

  4. History of sports in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The sport continued to thrive with iconic players like Cal Ripken Jr., known for his consecutive games streak. The NFL solidified its position as America's most popular sport with stars like Jerry Rice. The league's expansion and the introduction of new teams contributed to its growing popularity.

  5. 10 Weird Olympic Sports That No Longer Exist, from Tug of War ...

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    It's a nightmare-inducing feat for most teens in physical education (been there), but believe it or not, the activity was an official Olympic sport in 1896, 1904, 1906, 1924 and 1932.

  6. 5 of the Wackiest Sports in Olympic History

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    Running deer shooting at the 1912 Stockholm Olympic Games. Credit - AP. T here will be 32 sports at the Paris Summer Olympic Games (Jul. 26-Aug. 11). While some events—such as fencing, swimming ...

  7. Sports in the United States by state - 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 ...

  8. Why there are so few Asian Americans in major U.S. sports - AOL

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    The root cause of underrepresentation. A century ago, with U.S. sports in their infancy, Asian Americans made up 0.2% of the American population.

  9. 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.