But I think the commissioner and I, with all due respect, has to understand if you believe that there isn't some type of betting or attempts at fixing a game in any sport, including the National Basketball Association, then he has been blinded for the decades that he spent as commissioner.

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Although most high schools and colleges have cheerleaders, only 29 state high school athletic associations recognize cheerleading as a sport, and the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) does not include competitive cheerleading in its list of sponsored sports.

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"Players are increasingly reluctant to play in the UK, which reduces broadcaster and sponsor interest, and therefore the impact of that event on the sport and the local and national economy, " says The Lawn Tennis Association.

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"Japanese bass fishing is a 'dark fishing' and cannot be called a sport, " Minuro Sato , the director of Japan's National Federation of Fisheries Cooperative Association, recently told the Los Angeles Times.

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