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Podcast: Everything Everywhere Daily: History, Science, Geography, & More
Episode: College Sports
Description: In the 19th century, several American universities began to compete with each other in several sporting events in friendly intercollegiate competitions.Fast forward over a hundred years, and college sports in the United States is a multibillion-dollar business. How did institutes of higher education become some of the biggest sports organizations in the world? And how did this situation come to be, and why does it only exist in the United States?Learn more about college sports and how it became to be such a big business on this episode of Everything Everywhere D...