CONCLUSION. Now I think we have found the ansver to the question why so many sports are popular in the Uneted States.
One reason may be that the variety and size of America and the different climates found in it have provided Americans with a large choice of summer and winter sports. In addition, public sports facilities have always been available in great number for participants, even in sports such as golf, tennis, or skating.
The fact that the average high school, too, offers its students a great variety of sports, often including rowing, tennis, wrestling, and golf, may have contributed to the wide and varied interest and participation of Americans in sports.
This, in turn, may explain why Americans have traditionally done well internationally in many of these sports. Another reason might be that Americans like competitions, by teams or as individuals, of any type. Its the challenge, some say. Some people point out that American schools and colleges follow the tradition of all English-speaking societies in using sports activities as a way of teaching social values. Among these are teamwork, sportsmanship when they win, American players are expected to say, well, we were just lucky, and persistence not quitting when the going gets rough. As a result, being intelligent and being good in sports are seen as things that can go together and, as an ideal, should.
While there are colleges where sports seem to be dominant, there are many others which have excellent academic reputations and are also good in sports. Others simply conclude that Americans simply like sports activities and always have. They like to play a friendly play of softball at family picnics, and touch football not tackling! games can get started on beaches and in parks whenever a few young people come together.
Shooting baskets with friends is a favorite way to pass the time, either in a friends driveway the basket is over the garage door or on some city or neighborhood court. And on a beautiful autumn afternoon- the sun shining in a clear blue sky, the maple trees turning scarlet and the oaks a golden yellow- it is fun to go with friends to a football game. And go they do. So large numbers of Americans watch and participate in sports activities, which are a deeply ingrained part of American life. Americans use sports to express interest in health and fitness and to occupy their leisure time. Sports also allow Americans to connect and identify with mass culture.
Americans pour billions of dollars into sports and their related enterprises, affecting the economy, family habits, school life, and clothing styles.
Americans of all classes, races, sexes, and ages participate in sports activities-from toddlers in infant swimming groups and teenagers participating in school athletics to middle-aged adults bowling or golfing and older persons practicing tai chi. I think all necessary topics have been discussed in my course paper and that means that this kind of work is fulfilled.
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