The National Football League is the biggest, and by far the most popular sports league in the country. ... The first NFL championship conference winners were the unrivaled Akron Pros from Ohio, which is now the name of the college team the Akron Zips. ... Teams soon began drafting college players and eventually incorporated multiracial teams, though segregation was an issue for several decades. ... During this time, a rival professional football team known as the United States Football League posed a serious competitor to the NFL. However, the National Football League survived the competiti...

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College basketball lives for a game scheduled on CBS or ESPN (highly recruited high school players are more likely to go to a team that regularly gets national television exposure), and I'd even go far enough to say that television coverage has dictated the pace and feel of American football. ... There is no serious objection however because without television, football simply wouldn't remain in the homes and hearts of Americans. ... Second, Americans love violence, and soccer doesn't deliver on that subject the way that American football and hockey do. ... America loves its foo...

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Timmy was the star on Sino High School's football team. Timmy and his family prayed he would get a scholarship to play football in college. ... Based on Timmy's sophomore and junior years of football at Sino High School, most people were pretty confident Timmy would be offered a scholarship somewhere to play football. He had been recruited by college coaches since his sophomore year. ... After his injury all colleges lost interest in recruiting him to play football for them. ...

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Lacrosse Speech There are professional hockey players, professional football players, and professional soccer players. ... Lacrosse is a mixture of three sports hockey, football, and soccer. ... It grew so popular that college teams started forming in the early 1900s. ...

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Engineers are individuals who went to college and graduated with degrees after four or more years of demanding schoolwork. ... I am going to take a stab in the dark here and say that most "sanitation engineers" did not go to college; many probably didn't even finish high school. ... In the National Football league you have The Kansas City Chiefs and Washington Redskins. ... The list is endless if you figure in all the High School and College mascots. ...

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One path is to get a college degree in Business or sports management or even both. ... Especially today when the NCAA has implemented a 1 year minimum eligibility for college in basketball and also 3 years to play for college football. ...

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The Roaring Twenties The Roaring Twenties was a decade of fun and general good feeling in the United States. The country was caught up in new music, new dances, new games, blossoming literature, different fashions, new heroes and heroines, and booming business that left everyone with a good fee...

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Fair amounts seek jobs to pay for necessities: car insurance, clothes, and college expenses. ... For example, high school senior Brian Holle gave up playing football to work at his time-consuming job at Jiffy Lube. ...

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Aside from professional sports teams having offensive names, high school and college teams also have offensive names. ... There are other offensive team mascots aside from Indian mascots as the Imperial Valley College Arabs and the Hollywood High Sheiks. ... Like at a football game when a team is playing another team with a Martin Luther King Jr. mascot, they might have a sign that says "Murder the Kings." ...

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Aside from professional sports teams having offensive names, high school and college teams also have offensive names. ... There are other offensive team mascots aside from Indian mascots as the Imperial Valley College Arabs and the Hollywood High Sheiks. ... Like at a football game when a team is playing another team with a Martin Luther King Jr. mascot, they might have a sign that says "Murder the Kings." ...

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Applebee of the British College of Physical Education promoted the sport of field hockey in the US in the early 1900's ("Field Hockey" US Field) The United States Field Hockey Association (USFHA) for women was established in 1922 the game was featured again in Amsterdam's program in1928. ... Both teams have eleven players just like football and ice hockey. ...

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