what are the sports invented in united states of america and how many sports were there created in USA?
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Baseball, rodeo, football are all I can think of
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The international game known as Football (or Futbol) - what Americans refer to as "soccer" - has only gained popularity in America in the last few years, and has never been a popular spectator sport here.  Although American football does involve hand-touching, it is one of the few games played here that involves kicking the ball, so that's probably where the name came from.
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Brits actually invented the word. "Soccer," when it first appeared in the 1890s, was spelled "socca," which was short for "association" or "association football," meaning football played according to the rules laid down by the British Football Association. It was also called "socker" until the current form "soccer" appeared around 1895.
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The origins and evolution of the various bat-and-ball games are murky, and many believe that baseball is primarily an American invention. However, many believe that it originated as an adaptation of the game of rounders, and was also influenced by the rules of cricket. As far back as the 1870s, American newspapers were referring to baseball as "The National Pastime" or "The National Game." An award-winning account of the origins of the game is David Block's Baseball Before We Knew It: A Search for the Roots of the Game (University of Nebraska Press, 2005). The publisher's description of the book notes that "David Block looks into the early history of the game and of the 150-year-old debate about its beginnings. He tackles one stubborn misconception after another, debunking the enduring belief that baseball descended from the English game of rounders and revealing a surprising new explanation for the most notorious myth of all—the Abner Doubleday–Cooperstown story." In short, the debate on the game's origins may never be settled to everyone's satisfaction.
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World Cup.\n\nThis is the most watched sporting event in the world and soccer is the greatest sport in the world.  It has been proven to be the most competitive sport.  Please read the article from Boston University entitled "What is less than super about the Super Bowl?"  Which shows American Football to have the least competitive games of all of the major sports!  \n\nBelow is a copy of the article and a link to the page.\n\n\nWhat is less than super about the Super Bowl\nStatistics show that when it comes to competition, football loses\nBy Chris Berdik\n \nGraphic by Kim Han\n \nGot any plans for Sunday, say around 6 p.m.? Chances are pretty good that along with about 90 million Americans, you will be watching Super Bowl XL, between the Seattle Seahawks and the Pittsburgh Steelers. The Super Bowl is perennially one of American television’s biggest draws, this year fetching ABC a record $2.5 million for every 30 seconds of advertising. What explains such massive allure? According to a study by Sidney Redner, a College of Arts and Sciences physics professor, it’s probably not the competition.  \n\nRedner and colleagues Federico Vazquez, a GRS physics grad student, and researcher Eli Ben-Naim of the Los Alamos National Laboratory crunched a century’s worth of numbers, more than 300,000 games from the National Football League, the National Basketball Association, Major League Baseball, the National Hockey League, and the English Premier League (soccer), to determine the relative competitiveness of each sport. The researchers based the notion of competitiveness on the probability of an upset victory by the team with a lesser record of wins and losses. And when it comes to this measure of competitiveness, it turns out, the NFL comes up a loser, with a 36.4 percent chance of an upset in any given game. Soccer was the most competitive sport, with the underdog pulling off a victory 45.2 percent of the time. \n\n\nRedner, a statistical and theoretical physicist, often studies complex systems outside of mainstream physics. In this case, he and his colleagues were using sports statistics to test a model they developed to approximate competition in another complex system: society, specifically social stratification. Put simply, if class structure could be thought of as the result of millions of competitions between individuals, then adjusting the frequency and upset probability of these competitions would result in more or less egalitarian societies.  \n\n“We were not driven by sports questions; we were driven entirely by statistics,” Redner says. Indeed, sports holds little interest for Redner except as a source of statistics and as the occasional metaphor. “This sports study was sort of an off-the-wall project of something that was already out in left field,” he explains.  \n\nBut this is the Super Bowl we’re talking about, not some run-of-the-mill Sunday gridiron matchup. Surely that should ratchet up the competitiveness, right? Well, not exactly. Statistics remind us that there have been only 11 upsets in Super Bowl history, meaning the big game defies the oddsmakers only 28 percent of the time. \n\nYeah, well, you can bet the Rolling Stones won’t be performing at any World Cup halftime shows.        \n\n\n\nhttp://www.bu.edu/phpbin/news-cms/news/?dept=4&id=37743&template=7
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1. Soccer- 99% of the world can't be wrong\n2a. American Football- The NFL is worldwide\n2b. Rugby- Close to the NFL\n4. Baseball(just Cricket with some rounders added)\n5. Cricket- Not a big enough audience
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Basket ball was invented at Springfield, Mass. (home of the hall of fame) by a school teacher who wanted to add recreation by allowing children to throw a ball through a basket held at an elevation well above the children.  I understand it was something like a peach basket with the bottom removed.\n\nIn high school, I played on an intramural basketball team called the "Slowfoot Five" and we had an undefeated season (even though I did not score a single point - but I was tall).  I did save one game by preventing forfeiture when our star player had to be late (that was my job!).  Our shortest player Russy (shortest in our school) saved one game in the last few seconds when he lobbed a ball in a high arc the full lenght of the half-court we played and scored the winning basket that landed like a coin and took its time to fall through.  But he beat the Ref.'s whistle and we won by one point.  Thus the game was evolved to provide lots of excitement.  Good luck.
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G'day Bud, as I live in Australia, we play almost everything, Lacrosse and American football included. Racquetball, Croquet, Aussie Rules, European football (soccer in the US & Australia). Paddleball is the one I don't know. We play too many variations of lawn bowls (Italians have their method, the Croats theirs, and the Standardised version). \n\nThe reason we play everything is the multicultural nature of our society. There are people from everywhere, and as we live in coastal areas on the main, we are exposed to many a sport. Why, pray tell, did you ask about a single sport rather than all, I could have gone to name quite a few.\n\nCheers, L
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So this website gives a good overview \n\nhttp://www.all-soccer-info.com/\n\nBy and large football (or soccer as it is known in the USA) originated in its current form through a series of rules and standards in England in the 1800's. \n\nThe formal competitions created in England quickly spread throughout most of the world, with the same rules being adopted across the globe.
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The best players from countries all over the in the world play on US teams. \n\nAlso do not forget, the name World seies came about 100 years or so ago. At that time, there was little question that the best baseball in the world was played in the US. It is just a name, I weould not get that worked up over it.
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All of them are American but my favorite is Baseball. Anyone can learn the rules and play. With the others it is too expensive for most to participate.
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Soccer is what the Americans call Football in order to differentiate it from "American Football" which is a completely different game.\n\nFootball is a British invented sport with a huge worldwide following now where two teams of eleven players try to kicj a round ball into the other teams net.\n\nAmerican Football has more in common with Rugby Football where two teams of players run with, carry and throw an egg shaped ball to each other and attempt to touch it down behind the goal or kick it over the goal.\n\nRugby football was invented at Rugby School in England when someone picked up the ball during a normal game of football and ran with it.\n\nThe origins of football are thought to have been in the middle ages when baying crowds would compete to kick the severed head of someone who had been executed around the streets.\n\nNot much has changed in europe!!
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Lacrosse is a fast-paced team sport played by two teams of ten players for men or twelve players for women each who use netted sticks (called the cross) in order to pass and catch a rubber ball with the aim of scoring goals by propelling the ball into the opponent's goal. Popular mostly in North America, lacrosse is the continent's oldest sport and the fastest growing sport at all levels – youth, high school, college, and professional. Lacrosse is especially popular in the northeastern part of the US and is Canada's national summer sport. It is expanding westward, with burgeoning lacrosse communities in Colorado, California, Florida and Texas.
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The uk created the game to what we know it as today.  In 1815 a famous english school, Eton College made the rules for the game and organized the sport from scratch.
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The name of the sport in England was called "Association Football."  That was shortened in the U.S. to "Assoc. Football" then eventually to "soccer" from "Assoc."
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No not just the USA. It is known as Soccer in Australia also as we have other games that are coded as football. Although football is the correct term, I don't get all caught up in that. It's not meant offensively to the game, it's just a cultural thing.
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The U.S. has had 6 appearances in the World Cup.  The best finish was in 1930 when the U.S. reached the semifinals.