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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 ...
The following list contains all urban areas in the United States and Canada containing at least one team in any of the six major leagues. The number of teams in the Big Four leagues (B4) (NFL, [2] MLB, [3] NBA, [4] and NHL [5]) and the Big Six leagues (B6) (aforementioned leagues plus MLS [6] and CFL) [7] are included in the table below.
This article is a list of teams that play in the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada: Major League Baseball (MLB), the National Basketball Association (NBA), the National Football League (NFL), the National Hockey League (NHL), Major League Soccer (MLS), and the Canadian Football League (CFL).
This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. ( February 2011 ) This article features a listing of all professional sports teams based in the United States and Canada, in addition to teams from other countries that compete in professional leagues based in the two countries.
It was founded as the Basketball Association of America in 1946, and adopted its current name in 1949, when the BAA partially absorbed the rival National Basketball League. Four teams from the rival American Basketball Association joined the NBA with the ABA–NBA merger in 1976. It currently has 30 teams, 29 in the United States and 1 in Canada.
The following is a list of sports/games, divided by category. According to the World Sports Encyclopaedia (2003), there are 8,000 indigenous sports and sporting games . [ 1 ]
Sports clubs and teams in the United States by sport (31 C) ... American football in the United States (11 C, 12 P) Archery in the United States (3 C, 8 P)
Native American sports and games (4 C, 25 P) P. ... Pages in category "Sports originating in the United States" The following 64 pages are in this category, out of 64 ...