College sports in the United States are a huge deal. Almost all major American universities have football, baseball, basketball and hockey programs, and 【21】______ millions of dollars each year to sports. Most of them earn millions 【22】______ as well. in television revenues, sponsorships. They also benefit 【23】______ from the added publicity they get via their teams. Big-name universities 【24】______ each other in the most popular sports. Football games at Michigan regularly 【25】______ crowds of over 90,000. Basketball's national collegiate championship game is a TV 【26】______ on a par with (与…相同或相似) any other sporting event in the United States, 【27】______ perhaps the Super Bowl itself. At any given time during fall or winter one can 【28】______ one's TV set and see the top athletic programs—from schools like Michigan, UCLA, Duke and Stanford — 【29】______ 29in front of packed houses and national TV audiences. The athletes themselves are 【30】______ and provided with scholarships. College coaches identify 【31】______ teenagers and then go into high schools to 【32】______ the country's best players to attend their universities. There are strict rules about 【33】______ coaches can recruit—no recruiting calls after 9 p. m., only one official visit to a campus—hut they are often bent and sometimes 【34】______ . Top college football programs 【35】______ scholarships to 20 or 30 players each year, and those student-athletes, when they arrive 【36】______ campus, receive free housing, tuition, meals, books, etc. In return, the players 【37】______ the program in their sport. Football players at top colleges 【38】______ two hours a day, four days a week from January to April. In summer, it's back to strength and agility training four days a week until mid-August, when camp 【39】______ and preparation for the opening of the September-to-December season begins 【40】______ . During the season, practices last two or three hours a day from Tuesday to Friday. Saturday is game day. Mondays are an officially mandated day of rest. 【21】