Cities with the most professional sports franchises

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College basketball takes center stage on the sports calendar each March as the NCAA basketball tournament gets underway. The tournament brings a packed three weeks of high-pressure games as 68 teams compete for the college basketball crown. Along the way, millions of Americans fill out brackets, join office pools, and tune in to games as March Madness unfolds.

For most of the rest of the year, professional sports are more popular among U.S. sports fans. According to polling from Gallup, professional football is America’s most popular sport , with 62% of Americans identifying as fans, and professional baseball is close behind with 57%. And the two less popular major pro sports, basketball and hockey, have each trended upward significantly in popularity over the last two decades. Meanwhile, both college football and college basketball lag slightly behind their professional equivalents in popularity.

One caveat to this data is […]

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