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  • 1Sports in New York City — have a long and distinguished history. The city has a few historic sports venues: Ebbets Field, home of the Brooklyn Dodgers from 1913 until 1957, was torn down in 1960, and the Polo Grounds in northern Harlem was the home of the New York Giants… …

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  • 2Sports law — is an umbrella term used to describe the legal issues at work in the world of both amateur and professional sports. Sports law overlaps substantially with labor law, contract law, antitrust law, and tort law. Issues like defamation and privacy… …

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  • 3Sports day — Sports days are annual events staged by many schools in which children participate in competitive sporting activities, often with the aim of winning trophies or prizes. They are usually held in the warmer seasons, either at the beginning or… …

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  • 4Sports diplomacy — is when sport is used as a political tool to enhance (or sometime worsen) diplomatic relations between two entities. The intention is sometimes to bring about radical change. While the Olympics is often times the biggest political example of… …

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  • 5Sports in Brooklyn — Brooklyn has a storied sports history and has been a breeding place for many famous sports figures such as Joe Paterno (The Pennsylvania State University), Joe Pepitone (MLB), Joe Torre (MLB), Larry Brown (NBA), Mike Tyson (boxing), Paul Lo Duca… …

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  • 6Sports in Hamilton, Ontario — Below is the expanded version of the Sports section from the Hamilton, Ontario Wikipedia page.In 1930 Hamilton, Ontario, Canada was the site of the very first Commonwealth Games, then known as the British Empire Games. The Games came to Hamilton… …

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  • 7sports stadia —    The design and location of sports stadia has been an active political, sporting and planning issue in Britain since the late 1980s, since when the landscape of stadia has changed beyond all recognition. The catalyst was the Hillsborough… …

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  • 8SPORTS — There is no evidence of sports among the Jews during the obscure period between the close of the Bible and the Maccabean periods. At the beginning of this latter period, in the second century B.C.E., circumstances conspired to make sporting… …

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  • 9Sports in Jacksonville, Florida — Jacksonville, Florida is home to a number of professional sports teams. The Jacksonville Jaguars of the National Football League compete at the major league level. The city s other sports teams are minor league. Jacksonville is also home to two… …

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  • 10Sports in New Orleans — New Orleans is home to a wide variety of sporting events. Most notable are the home games of the New Orleans Saints (NFL) and the New Orleans Hornets (NBA), the annual Sugar Bowl, the annual Zurich Classic (PGA Tour) and horse racing at the Fair… …

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