Despite of the short American history as a nation, sports in the United States are a great source of pride and stories of superation. Sports as a part of culture have so much influence in people; in sportpeople as well as in the public.
The four major team sports in the United States are American footbal (whose major league is the NFL), basketball (with its league NBA), baseball (in the MLB) and ice hockey (NHL league). They are considered as the greatest exponent of the respective sport over the world what makes them even more important. Sports are particularly associated with education in the United States, with most high schools and universities having organized sports. College sports competitions play an important role in the American sporting culture. In many cases college athletics are more popular than professional sports, with the major sanctioning body being the NCAA.
However, these are not the unique sport tendencies since the individual sports such as swimming, athletics or motorsport have great importance in The United States, especially in the Olympic Games where they were the major winners of medals with 104 metals.
As we have already seen, The United States is a world power when referring to sports. However, the most widespread sport in the world is not the same in this country: football or how is known in USA, soccer. Soccer is not a leading professional sport, but it is played widely at the youth and amateur levels. A recent addition as an American pastime, it gained popularity in the later half of the 20th century. The creation of professional leagues such as MLS, and the success of US national teams has fueled its growth to sport, that is now widely played throughout all age groups, even though it is not very famous around the world. On the other hand, basketball matches of the NBA are retransmitted over the world for their quality and brilliant way of playing and they are followed by million of people every day.
Here, the official websites of the four major national leagues where you can enjoy of the videos, news, scores and so on:
www.nfl.com
www.nba.com
www.mlb.com
www.nhl.com
Sources: www.wikipedia.com
By: Estefanía Benítez Sánchez
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