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Originally posted by JRutledge
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Originally posted by Dan_ref
Admittedly I'm guessing - and so are you of course - but right off the bat I would have to disagree with this, unless you confine your definition of an athlete to some sports like football, basketball and maybe some track events. I bet the ncaa keeps these statistics somewhere though.
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Well basketball and football are near the top of the most played sports in America. The NF has listed that information every year, not sure it is on their website.
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Still, the majority of players across all levels (NCAA, HS, and Pros) track the demographics of the country. This is true even in basketball unless you limit it to only NCAA Div. 1 and NBA and then only by a very small margin. In HS, the player will largely reflect their communities.
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Originally posted by JRutledge
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Originally posted by Dan_ref
Explains why you see more hockey players than water polo players coming out of the northeast and Canada than in Arizona & Southern California.
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This also explains why many pro basketball athletes come from Chicago, New York or Philly as well. And many other pro football players come from Dallas, Miami or the many other communities that have a great deal of African-Americans.
Peace [/B]
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Larger percentages of athletes of any sport will come from the large cities (except maybe calf roping). It's simply statistics. When you have 3 million people in a city, you're much more likely to have 10 physically talented people than the entire state of Nebraska (substitute any lightly populated state). Additionally, with higher densities of talented players, it pushes the ones around them to compete at a higher level thus raising the bar. Race has nothing to do with that part of it (if even any part).