Sports in the United States have been around for hundreds of years, including during colonial days before the Declaration of Independence was crafted and signed and the country broke free from British rule to eventually become a sovereign nation.
It was nothing like we know today, of course, where sports are everywhere and encompass much of our daily lives on one scale or another.
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But sporting events of many types took place during the 1770s and as America prepares to celebrate its 250th anniversary with the arrival of the Fourth of July, we examine the sporting landscape from those early days and
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