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Sports Activities
Other Sports Activities
 Americans
are avid sports fans. One sport that has been gaining in
popularity is ice hockey, first played in Canada and states
bordering that
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country. Yet it has spread throughout
the United States with professional teams in the warm states of
Florida and California. It is also popular as a collegiate sport.
Not
only is Track
and Field popular, especially in universities, but Americans
support racing of all sorts: horses , dogs, automobiles, and bicycles.
Court games such as tennis, Racket
ball, and Volleyball have their
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supporters, and other field games such
as Field Hockey, Lacrosse,
and particularly Soccer, gain new spectators daily. The intensely
individual sports of golf and bowling have many amateur
participants, and sponsored matches are watched by many on television.
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Golf
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Professional
wrestling is now a branch of the entertainment business,
but collegiate wrestling is a serious sport, and boxing, both amateur
and professional, has a large number of followers, nourished unfortunately
by the urge to wager money.
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