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The Haitian sports culture may seem to lean decisively towards the world's sport, football, but recently, basketball has been finding a foothold in the country and, once upon a time, the sport of choice in the country was the now outlawed cockfighting. Today, football dominates the sporting arena, with hundreds of clubs dedicated to the sport on a local level all over the country. Still, Haitians play other types of sports including volleyball and a game little known outside of the country called Blagaball, which has its roots in baseball, and involves a stick for a bat and an orange for a ball.

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