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The Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) is a professional women's basketball league in the United States.

It is currently composed of twelve teams.

The league was founded on April 24, 1996 as the women's counterpart to the National Basketball Association (NBA), and league play started in 1997.

The regular season is played from June to September with the All Star game being played midway through the season in July and the WNBA Finals at the end of September until the beginning of October.

College football is American football played by teams of student athletes fielded by American universities, colleges, and military academies, or Canadian football played by teams of student athletes fielded by Canadian universities.

It was through college football play that American football rules first gained popularity in the United States.

No minor league farm organizations exist in American football.

Therefore, college football is generally considered to be the second tier of American football in the United States; one step ahead of high school competition, and one step below professional competition.

It is in college football where a player's performance directly impacts his chances of playing professional football.

The best collegiate players will typically declare for the professional draft after 3 to 4 years of collegiate competition, with the NFL holding its annual draft every spring.

256 players are selected annually.

Those not selected can still attempt to land an NFL roster spot as an undrafted free agent.

The National Basketball Association (NBA) is the major men's professional basketball league in North America, and is widely considered to be the premier men's professional basketball league in the world.

It has 30 teams (29 in the United States and 1 in Canada), and is an active member of USA Basketball (USAB), which is recognized by FIBA (also known as the International Basketball Federation) as the national governing body for basketball in the United States.

The NBA is one of the four major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada.

NBA players are the world's best paid athletes by average annual salary per player.

Basketball is a non-contact team sport played on a rectangular court by two teams of five players each.

The objective is to a ball through a hoop in diameter and high that is mounted to a backboard at each end of the court.

The game was invented in 1891 by Dr. James Naismith, who would be the first basketball coach of the Kansas Jayhawks, one of the most successful programs in the game's history.

The National Hockey League (NHL) is a professional ice hockey league currently composed of 30 teams – 23 in the United States and 7 in Canada – with a 31st team in Las Vegas scheduled to begin play in the 2017–18 season.

Headquartered in New York City, the NHL is considered to be the premier professional ice hockey league in the world, and one of the major professional sports leagues in 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.