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Sport With three major sports teams, Cleveland is an unusually sports-driven city given its relatively small size. The city’s baseball team is the Cleveland Indians (tel: (866) 488 7423; website: www.indians.com), who play at Jacobs Field, which is considered one of the finest baseball stadiums in North America. A few steps away is Gund Arena (tel: (216) 420 2287; website: www.gundarena.com), where the Cleveland Cavaliers (website: www.cavs.com) play basketball. During winter the Gund is also home to the Cleveland Barons (tel: (216) 420 0000; website: www.clevelandbarons.com) ice hockey team. The Cleveland Browns (website: www.clevelandbrowns.com) are the city’s football team and play at Cleveland Browns Stadium, on the waterfront next to the Great Lakes Science Center. The Cleveland Crunch (tel: (216) 896 1140; website: www.crunchsoccer.com) play soccer fall and spring at Cleveland State University’s Convocation Center. Baseball is played from the middle of spring to the middle of autumn, football during the autumn, basketball during the winter and spring and soccer autumn and spring. Tickets are usually available from Ticketmaster (tel: (216) 241 5555; website: www.ticketmaster.com) or Tickets.com (tel: (216) 241 6000 or (800) 766 6048; website: www.tickets.com) instead of or as well as the above numbers. Fitness centres: Balley Total Fitness, 3600 Park East Drive (tel: (216) 765 8085), offers racquetball, free weights, a fitness room, weight machines, track, sauna, steam room and pool. Blacks Health World, 11934 Lorain Avenue (tel: (216) 252 1695), offers free weights, weight machines and cardio equipment. LifeStart Athletic Club, One Cleveland Center, 1375 East Ninth Street (tel: (216) 621 0770), offers a variety of health, fitness and wellness programs. Golf: Golf is exceedingly popular in Cleveland. There are some 300 courses located in northeastern Ohio. Two popular choices are within the Cleveland Metroparks. Big Met Golf Course, 4811 Valley Parkway, Fairview Park (tel: (440) 331 1070; website: www.clemetparks.com/recreation/bigmet.html; US$18 per 18 holes), is a very popular par-72 course dating from 1926. Manakiki Golf Course, 35501 Eddy Road, Willoughby Hills (tel: (440) 473 3370; website: www.clemetparks.com/recreation/manakiki.html; US$14), is another popular public course, known for its mansion clubhouse and links designed by Donald Ross. Tennis: The Mayfield Village Racquet Club, 6685 Best Drive (tel: (440) 461 8105; US$26 per hour per court), has 12 courts and charges a guest fee of US$5. |
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