The document discusses major sports and leagues in the United States. It provides details on the NFL, MLB, NBA, and NHL - the four most popular professional leagues. The NFL consists of 32 American football teams divided into conferences and divisions. MLB is composed of 30 baseball teams from the US and Canada. The NBA has 30 men's basketball franchises, 29 in the US and 1 in Canada. The NHL operates a professional ice hockey league with 30 member clubs, 7 in Canada and 23 in the US. The document also briefly mentions some prominent Russian players who have found success playing in the NBA and NHL.

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2. *
*Introduction
*Sport in the USA
*NFL
*MLB
*NBA
*NHL
*Russian players in American leagues

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*Sport is probably as old as the
humanity itself. It has been developing
with the developing and growth of the
mankind. All over the world people of
different ages are very fond of sports
and games.
*Sport not only helps people to become
strong and to develop physically but
also makes them more organized and
better disciplined in their daily
activities. It makes for a healthy mind
in a healthy body. Sports help people
to keep in good health.

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* Sports form an important part of the culture of the United
States. The four most popular team sports are ones that
developed in North America: American football, baseball,
basketball and ice hockey. The major leagues of these sports,
the National Football League (NFL), the Major League Baseball
(MLB), the National Basketball Association (NBA) and the
National Hockey League (NHL) enjoy massive media exposure
and are considered the preeminent competitions in their
respective sports in the world. Three of those leagues have
teams that represent Canadian cities, and all four are among the
most lucrative sports leagues in the world. Soccer (association
football) is less popular as a spectator sport in the United States
than it is in many other countries, though it has wide
participation in amateur and semi-professional levels,
particularly among youths and people of Latin American descent,
which constitutes people from Mexico all the way down to South
America. The top league, Major League Soccer, is starting to
approach the level of the NBA and the NHL in terms of
attendance, although it lags far behind in average salary and TV
interest.

5. * The National Football League (NFL) is the highest
level of professional American football in the United
States, and is considered the top professional
American football league in the world. It was formed
by eleven teams in 1920 as the American
Professional Football Association, with the league
changing its name to the National Football League in
1922. The league currently consists of thirty-two
teams from the United States. The league is divided
evenly into two conferences – the American Football
Conference (AFC) and National Football
Conference(NFC), and each conference has four
divisions that have four teams each, for a total of 16
teams in each conference. The NFL is an
unincorporated association, a federal nonprofit
designation, comprising its 32 teams. The NFL is the
most attended domestic sports league in the world
by average attendance per game, with 66,960 fans
per game in 2010–11. Although not as frequently as
the other major professional sports leagues in the
United States, the NFL still is not immune to labor
disputes, such as the players' strikes of 1982 and
1987, and more recently a lockout in 2011, though
the latest did not result in the cancellation of any
regular-season games.
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7. * Major League Baseball (MLB) is the highest
level of professional baseball in the world,
consisting of teams that play in the
American League and the National League.
The two leagues merged in 2000 into a
single MLB organization led by the
Commissioner of Baseball, after 100 years
as separate legal entities
* MLB constitutes one of the major
professional sports leagues of the United
States and Canada. It is composed of 30
teams — 29 in the United States and 1 in
Canada. With the International Baseball
Federation, MLB also manages the World
Baseball Classic. With an average
attendance of 30,352 people per game,
Major League Baseball has the fifth highest
average attendance of any sports league
behind the NFL, Bundesliga, AFL, and
Premier League.

9. * The National Basketball Association (NBA) is
the pre-eminent men's professional basketball
league in North America. It consists of thirty
franchised member clubs, of which twentynine are located in the United States and one
in Canada. It is an active member of USA
Basketball (USAB),which is recognized by the
International Basketball Federation as the
National Governing Body (NGB) for basketball
in the United States. The NBA is one of the 4
major North American professional sports
leagues. NBA players are the world's best paid
sportsmen, by average annual salary per
player.
* The league was founded in New York City on
June 6, 1946 as the Basketball Association of
America (BAA). The league adopted the name
National Basketball Association in 1949 after
merging with the rival National Basketball
League (NBL). The league's several
international as well as individual team offices
are directed out of its head offices located in
the Olympic Tower at 645 Fifth Avenue in New
York City. NBA Entertainment and NBA TV
studios are directed out of offices located in
Secaucus, New Jersey

11. * The National Hockey League
is an
unincorporated not-for-profit association which
operates a major professional ice hockey league
of 30 franchised member clubs, of which 7 are
currently located in Canada and 23 in the United
States. Headquartered in New York City, the NHL is
widely considered to be the premier professional
ice hockey league in the world, and one of the
major professional sport leagues of the United
States and Canada. The Stanley Cup, the oldest
professional sports trophy in North America, is
awarded annually to the league playoff champion
at the end of each season.
* The league was organized on November 26, 1917,
in Montreal, Canada, during World War I after the
suspension of operations of its predecessor
organization, the National Hockey Association
(NHA), which had been founded in 1909. It started
with four teams and, through a series of
expansions, contractions, and relocations, the
league is now composed of 30 active franchises.
After a labour dispute that led to the cancellation
of the entire 2004–05 season, the league resumed
play under a new collective bargaining agreement
that included a salary cap. In 2009, the NHL
enjoyed record highs in terms of sponsorships,
crowds and television audiences.

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* Andrey Kirilenko On June 30, 1999, at age 18 years,
132 days, Kirilenko was the youngest European player
at the time to be drafted in the National Basketball
Association, when the Utah Jazz selected him with the
24th pick. Kirilenko was also the first Russian picked
in the first round of an NBA Draft.
* Aleksandr Ovechkin Russian professional ice hockey
left winger and captain of the Washington Capitals of
the National Hockey League
* Ilya Kovalchuk Russian professional ice hockey left
winger who is an alternate captain of the New Jersey
Devils of the NHL
* Timofey Mozgov is a Russian professional basketball
player for the Denver Nuggets of the NBA
* Pavel Datsyuk is a professional ice hockey player from
Russia and alternate captain for the Detroit Red Wings
of the NHL

14. *We all need to exercise. Even if
you don't plan to make a career in
sport you still have to practice.
Regular exercises give you more
energy. That is why many people
who suffer from general tiredness
should take more exercise than
more rest.
*Exercise makes you feel and look
better.

15. *Thanks for your attention