what was the first sporting event televised in the united states? Babeball, rugby, tennis or golf?
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Baseball, it is still the first sports in this country.
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Rugby in the US doesn't have the strong foundation that other sporting activities have for example like baseball, basketball and now soccer enjoy.\n\nIn the past, rugby was played in many of the the private schools which have the European influence. Elite Universities' on the east coast of the US like Yale and Harvard have strong teams.\n\nThe current USA President Bush played rugby at Yale. General Dockins who was the Heisman Trophy winner at West Point took part in the Oxford vs Cambridge Rugby Match which is played annually in  London, England in front of over 70, 00 fans.\n\nThe sport is cheap to run at the youth level with a good start as just touch rugby where the girls and boys need just running shoes, shorts and t-shirts to play. The fields,cones for marking space and balls are reasonable in cost.
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football,hockey,basketball\nbaseball,gambling!!!1
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tennis  \n1345, most likely from Anglo-Fr. tenetz "hold! receive! take!," from O.Fr. tenez, imperative of tenir "to hold, receive, take," which was used as a call from the server to his opponent. The original version of the game (a favorite sport of medieval Fr. knights) was played by striking the ball with the palm of the hand, and in O.Fr. was called la paulme, lit. "the palm," but to an onlooker the service cry would naturally seem to identify the game. The use of the word for the modern game is from 1874, short for lawn tennis, which originally was called sphairistike (1873), from Gk. sphairistike (tekhne) "(skill) in playing at ball," from the root of sphere. It was invented, and named, by Maj. Walter C. Wingfield and first played at a garden party in Wales, inspired by the popularity of badminton. \n"The name 'sphairistike,' however, was impossible (if only because people would pronounce it as a word of three syllables to rhyme with 'pike') and it was soon rechristened." ["Times" of London, June 10, 1927]
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American football in its current form grew out of a series of three games between Harvard University and McGill University of Montreal in 1874. McGill played rugby football while Harvard played the Boston Game, which was closer to soccer. As often happened in those days of far from universal rules, the teams alternated rules so that both would have a fair chance. The Harvard players liked having the opportunity to run with the ball, and in 1875 persuaded Yale University to adopt rugby rules for their annual game. In 1876 Yale, Harvard, Princeton, and Columbia formed the Intercollegiate Football Association, which used the rugby code, except for a slight difference in scoring.
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Check out the Fox Soccer channel upgrade on your satelitte.  Also, online, Mediazone.com has annual passes to rugby games that you can stream on your computer at any time.  Now they tend to be southern hemisphere focused but check it out.
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The national game : Hockey, \nThe popular game : Cricket
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Tennis: Originating in England in the late 19th Century, the game spread first throughout the English-speaking world, particularly among the upper classes.\n\nRugby:The legendary story/myth about the origin of Rugby football—whereby a young man named William Webb Ellis "took the ball in his arms [i.e. caught it] and ran" while playing Rugby School's already distinctive version of football (not to be confused with association football, which was codified much later) in 1823\n\nCricket:A basic form of the sport can be traced back to the 13th century, but it may have existed even earlier than that. The game seems to have originated among shepherds and farm workers in the Weald between Kent and Sussex. Written evidence exists of a sport known as creag being played by Prince Edward, the son of Edward I (Longshanks), at Newenden, Kent in 1300.\n\nIn 1598, a court case referred to a sport called Creckett being played at the Royal Grammar School, Guildford around 1550. The Oxford English Dictionary gives this as the first recorded instance of cricket in the English language.\n\nVolleyball:On February 9, 1895, in Holyoke, Massachusetts, William G. Morgan, a YMCA physical education director, created a new game called Mintonette as a pastime to be played preferably indoors and by any number of players. The game took some of its characteristics from tennis and handball. Another indoor sport, basketball, was catching on in the area, having been invented just ten miles away in the city of Springfield, Massachusetts only four years before. Mintonette (as volleyball was then known) was designed to be an indoor sport less rough than basketball for older members of the YMCA, while still requiring a bit of athletic effort.
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Volleyball was "invented" in the U.S.
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Most played: soccer\nMost watched: soccer\nMost lucrative: golf\nLeast played/watched/lucrative: Who cares?
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Cricket by a long way. In it's modern form it can be dated back at least until the 1660's, but probably until the 13th century. There is now evidence to suggest a similar game was even played in ancient Rome!\nAs for baseball, the earliest known mention of the sport is in a 1744 British publication, A Little Pretty Pocket-Book, by John Newbery. It contains a wood-cut illustration of boys playing "base-ball". Rounders was actually only codified in the 1840's, so it is hard to say if baseball came from Rounders or not.
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the first is baseball\nand the 2nd is basketball
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What for? Football? Rugby? ETc..
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golf- its a relaxing sport and you get a great tan if its a sunny day!\n\nbasketball- high energy, fast paced, the pressure is always fun  i love scoring mad points on opponets and playing tight defense!\n\nsoftball- sliding is sweeeeeet! throwing out base runners or catching a diving fly ball is awesome and hitting a home run or rbi is cool too
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All time favorite to play or watch is American Football.  Second to watch is Women's Volleyball  ;-)\n\nPS -  I've seen the lads play Aussie Rules Football...those guys are INSANE!!!
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To play: volleyball and tennis (tie)\nTo watch: baseball
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Derived from the English game of rugby, American football was started in 1879 with rules instituted by Walter Camp, player and coach at Yale University.