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Unread 01-11-2012, 01:28 PM
 
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Default Most isolated sports city

So the general parameters are no pro sports of any kind (not independent league baseball, not ECHL, pro golf tournaments, major race tracks etc) and no NCAA DI schools within a 2-hr drive, or roughly 120 miles.

What's the largest city in the continental US without the above?

A guess with very little research is St George, UT, pop 73000. Only team in town is NCAA DII Dixie State, and Vegas is just over 120 miles away.
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Unread 01-11-2012, 01:35 PM
 
Location: Cleveland, OH
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I think you may be forgetting about one major D-I program:

Hawaii Rainbow Warriors

Look how far they have to travel for their football games: http://hawaiiathletics.com/schedule.aspx?path=football&
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Unread 01-11-2012, 01:36 PM
 
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Probably a city or town in Alaska.
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Unread 01-11-2012, 01:36 PM
 
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I think that's it Hawaii not Utah.
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Unread 01-11-2012, 01:38 PM
 
Location: Cleveland, OH
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So the general parameters are no pro sports of any kind (not independent league baseball, not ECHL, pro golf tournaments, major race tracks etc) and no NCAA DI schools within a 2-hr drive, or roughly 120 miles.

What's the largest city in the continental US without the above?
I just realized you did say "continental"...my bad.
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Unread 01-11-2012, 02:39 PM
 
Location: Washington D.C. By way of Texas
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Probably Billings, MT or Bismarck, ND.
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Unread 01-11-2012, 03:23 PM
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Somewhere in North Dakota or Montana
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Unread 01-11-2012, 04:48 PM
 
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Barrow, Alaska: Home of the Whalers

ESPN.com - E-Ticket: The Real Frozen Tundra
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Unread 01-11-2012, 05:43 PM
 
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Probably Billings, MT or Bismarck, ND.
Perhaps. I find a minor league team called the "Billings Mustangs" and Bismarck has a "NBA Development League" team called the "Dakota Wizards", but both might be smaller than what's meant so make them count as lacking.

Other than a professional indoor-football team I don't think I found anything for Sioux City, Iowa. The city once had a PGA event, but that was almost sixty years ago. Although Medford, Oregon had some minor-league teams once, I don't know that I'm finding anything now. They don't appear to have a professional indoor-football team anymore. Although they did host a PBA, Professional bowling, event by the looks of it. I'm not sure if Waco, Texas has any teams or at least it sounded like all it's teams might be past-tense, but it sounds like Baylor University has a team.

Sports isn't my area though so I could be way off.
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Unread 01-11-2012, 05:57 PM
 
Location: Washington D.C. By way of Texas
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Waco is out. He said a team without a D1 football program. I basically took that as FBS schools only and Baylor plays in the Big 12. It's also 1 1/2 hours from the DFW area.
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