there are colleges where sports seem to be dominant, there are many others which have excellent academic reputations and are also good in sports.
Others simply conclude that Americans simply like sports activities and always have. They like to play a friendly play of softball at family picnics, and "touch football "(not tackling!) games can get started on beaches and in parks whenever a few young people come together. "Shooting baskets" with friends is a favorite way to pass the time, either in a friend's driveway (the basket is over the garage door) or on some city or neighborhood court. And on a beautiful autumn afternoon-the sun shining in a clear blue sky, the maple trees turning scarlet and the oaks a golden yellow-it is fun to go with friends to a football game. And go they do.
So large numbers of Americans watch and participate in sports activities, which are a deeply ingrained part of American life. Americans use sports to express interest in health and fitness and to occupy their leisure time. Sports also allow Americans to connect and identify with mass culture. Americans pour billions of dollars into sports and their related enterprises, affecting the economy, family habits, school life, and clothing styles. Americans of all classes, races, sexes, and ages participate in sports activities-from toddlers in infant swimming groups and teenagers participating in school athletics to middle-aged adults bowling or golfing and older persons practicing t'ai chi.
I think all necessary topics have been discussed in my course paper and that means that this kind of work is fulfilled.
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