How did college sports get so big...

How did college sports get so big in the U.S. and not other countries?

Sports IQ by Anthony Ciardelli

Episode notes

In episode two of Sports IQ, we try to answer why college sports are so popular here, but not in other countries? To find out, Anthony interviews Victoria Jackson, a professor and historian at Arizona State University.

Find out what the first EVER official college athletics contest in the U.S. was, what role college football played in the college sports industry as we know it today, and what president celebrated the broken nose his son received playing football.

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