December 21, 2025
Boys born in American Samoa are estimated to be 56 percent more likely to play in the National Football League than boys from anywhere else in the U.S.
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Why Do Athletes Wear Numbered Jerseys?
“The new and enterprising Cleveland Club management has taken the bull by the horns and numbered its players,” proclaimed Sporting Life magazine on July 8, 1916. A weekly sports journal based in Philadelphia Sporting Life had recommended that teams adopt numbering “years ago”—a suggestion that
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