After a few rounds at ABC, the foosball table makes for a fine diversion.

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Instead of spending money on camps and summer travel, her family will invest in a foosball table.

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The historically leaky U.S. defense displayed the organization of a foosball table as the players hurled their bodies in front of every open Italian shot they could get to.

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But the Uber offices themselves have the usual Silicon Valley accouterments as I walk with Mr. Kalanick to a cluttered conference room, we pass a game room with a Foosball table, a Pepsi-stocked fridge and two tapped beer kegs.

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Three of the camps I saw had outdoor soccer fields, and various camps also had foosball, table-tennis, and aerobic exercise equipment.

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If you asked Americans to rank the most important sports to them, table tennis might come in somewhere a little above foosball or bumper pool.

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