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Why do Americans care only about football, baseball and basketball?

By Michael Weinreb
Special to Page 2

Monday, June 2, 2008

I was in a hotel room in Prague a few weeks ago, watching a Czech-language broadcast of a sport I did not know existed. A dozen men stood on a basketball court that appeared to have been fingerpainted by aliens, chasing after an orb that looked like smaller version of a Nerf soccer ball. Occasionally someone would dribble, then stop, then run four steps, then dribble again -- like a fourth-grade rec-league point guard (or Michael Jordan). Then someone would leap forward over what appeared to be ...

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