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  2. Sport in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    A 2016 survey by Sport England found that basketball was the third most-played sport among the 14–25 age group in England, just behind rugby union in numbers—but both sports combined have less than one-third the participation of football. Additionally, a British sport journalist pointed out that football academies are "really bad at letting players out of the system who aren't going to ...

  3. High school football - Wikipedia

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    According to 2017 study on brains of deceased gridiron football players, 99% of tested brains of NFL players, 88% of CFL players, 64% of semi-professional players, 91% of college football players, and 21% of high school football players had various stages of CTE. [25] Other common injuries include injuries of legs, arms, and lower back. [26 ...

  4. Amateur sports - Wikipedia

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    However, a survey of high school athletes in 2006 showed that high school athletes are more likely to cheat inside of the classroom than non-athletes, especially boys participating in football, baseball, and basketball and girls participating in softball and basketball. [48]

  5. James Collins (footballer, born 1990) - Wikipedia

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    James Steven Collins (born 1 December 1990) is a professional footballer who plays as a striker for EFL Championship club Derby County.Starting his career at Aston Villa, he did not break through to the first team and has since represented a number of teams in the English Football League and the Scottish Premiership.

  6. Kim Min-jae (footballer) - Wikipedia

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    Kim embarked on his youth football career with the football club of Tongyeong Elementary School. [8] He later transferred to Gaya Elementary School in Haman and graduated from there. He entered Yeoncho Middle School and Suwon Technical High School [ ko ] which has produced many international footballers such as Park Ji-sung .

  7. NBA high school draftees - Wikipedia

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    The NBA high school draftees are players who have been drafted to the National Basketball Association (NBA) straight out of high school. The process of jumping directly from high school basketball to the professional level is also known as going prep-to-pro. Since 2006, drafting high school players has been prohibited by the NBA collective ...

  8. List of match-fixing incidents - Wikipedia

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    Fenerbahçe Sports Club, filed a 250 million TL lawsuit against the TFF (Turkish Football Federation) for compensation for any damage it suffered due to the match-fixing conspiracy. [29] The match-fixing investigations of Norwegian Second Division saw Norway and Sweden arresting individuals in 2012, including players of Follo FK and Asker Fotball.

  9. List of U.S. states and territories by educational attainment

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    The survey does not measure graduation rates from different educational institutions, but instead, it measures the percentage of adult residents with a high school diploma. [ 4 ] Overall, 90.3% of Americans over the age of 25 had graduated from high school in 2021, with the highest level found in the state of Massachusetts at 96.1% and the lowest in the state of California at 84.4%.