San Antonio is home base to the Spurs NBA basketball team. The San Antonio Spurs have won four NBA Championships: 2007, 2005, 2003 and 1999.
San Antonio is also home to a variety of other sports such as the San Antonio Silver Stars WNBA, San Antonio Rampage central hockey league, San Antonio Missions baseball team and Retama Park horse racing.
San Antonio
is the second-largest city in the state of Texas and the seventh largest city in the US. It is the
destination of 7 million visitors each year. A survey of 37,000 readers of Conde
Nast Traveler Magazine ranked San Antonio number eight among America's
top 10 destination cities. In San Antonio, the health care industry is a
$7 billion enterprise employing more than 100,000 people. It is one of
the city's three largest employers, along with the military, tourism,
education and recreation.
With over 300 days of sunshine annually, San Antonio and surrounding areas
offer an abundance of outdoor sports and recreation. Numerous rivers in the
Texas Hill Country north of San Antonio provide opportunities for canoeing,
tubing and white-water rafting. Area lakes attract fishermen, as well as water
skiing, jet skiing, and sailing enthusiasts. The Gulf coast is only 100 miles away.
Working ranches throughout Central and South Texas are available as
hunting leases for wild game, while dude ranches offer a taste of the
Old West, complete with horseback riding. Numerous state parks offer
opportunities for hiking in the rugged terrain of the Hill Country.
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