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10-13-2004, 08:21 PM
College football, men's pro basketball, auto racing and men's college basketball also the favorite sports of many people
ROCHESTER, N.Y., Oct. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- For the second year in a row, professional football leads baseball by 2-to-1 (30% to 15%) as the nation's favorite sport. Nineteen years ago, in 1985, when The Harris PollŽ first asked this question, professional football and baseball were in a virtual tie (24% to 23%) for first place. With a few small wobbles in the numbers, football (up six points since 1985) has steadily increased its following at the expense of baseball (down 8 points since 1985).
While baseball (15%) has slipped badly, it is still ahead of college football (11%), men's pro basketball (7%), auto racing (7%), and men's college basketball (6%).
These are the results of a nationwide Harris InteractiveŽ survey of 2,555 U.S. adults surveyed online between September 20 and 26, 2004.
Read entire story here (http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/041013/nyw173_1.html).
ROCHESTER, N.Y., Oct. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- For the second year in a row, professional football leads baseball by 2-to-1 (30% to 15%) as the nation's favorite sport. Nineteen years ago, in 1985, when The Harris PollŽ first asked this question, professional football and baseball were in a virtual tie (24% to 23%) for first place. With a few small wobbles in the numbers, football (up six points since 1985) has steadily increased its following at the expense of baseball (down 8 points since 1985).
While baseball (15%) has slipped badly, it is still ahead of college football (11%), men's pro basketball (7%), auto racing (7%), and men's college basketball (6%).
These are the results of a nationwide Harris InteractiveŽ survey of 2,555 U.S. adults surveyed online between September 20 and 26, 2004.
Read entire story here (http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/041013/nyw173_1.html).