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Sports anime have become one of my preferred genres, though I avoid over indulging since the team development tends to be pretty same-y, especially in the "sports ball" variety of shows.

Haikyuu
Yowamushi Pedal
Kuroko no Basket
Hajime no Ippo

I actually fell away from Kuroko no Basket and need to eventually go back. It was just progressing way too similarly to Haikyuu, which I had just finished watching the first season of, and I felt like Haikyuu was doing it all better with enough realism to keep even the more unreal grounded. Kuroko just goes a little too far outside the bounds of reality sometimes to force ridiculous competition, which is entertaining at times in its own right.