what are some of their major sports?
Football
California
The NFL Super Bowl has been hosted in California 11 times at four different stadiums: Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, the Rose Bowl, Stanford Stadium, and San Diego's Qualcomm Stadium. A twelfth, Super Bowl 50, was held at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara on February 7, 2016.

California has long had many respected collegiate sports programs. California is home to the oldest college bowl game, the annual Rose Bowl, among others.
who went to california during the gold rush The news of gold brought approximately 300,000 people to California from the rest of the United States and abroad. when did it take place? 1848–1855 who found it? James W. Marshall how was this discovery confirmed? It was confirmed by San Francisco newspaper publisher and merchant Samuel Brannan. how are the forty-niners associated with this? The gold seekers, called "forty-niners", attacked and pushed off whole indigenous societies off their lands. can you tell me more about the place where this event took place? It is the most populous U.S. state and the third-largest by area, and is also the world's thirty-fourth most populous subnational entity. which are the various ethnic groups seen there? Non-Hispanic whites and Hispanic or Latino.
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California [SEP] Sports
California has long had many respected collegiate sports programs. California is home to the oldest college bowl game, the annual Rose Bowl, among others. California is the only U.S. state to have hosted both the Summer and Winter Olympics. The 1932 and 1984 summer games were held in Los Angeles. Squaw Valley Ski Resort in the Lake Tahoe region hosted the 1960 Winter Olympics. Los Angeles will host the 2028 Summer Olympics, marking the fourth time that California will have hosted the Olympic Games. Multiple games during the 1994 FIFA World Cup took place in California, with the Rose Bowl hosting eight matches (including the final), while Stanford Stadium hosted six matches.