Born In The Usa

Centro Cultural Alteno

Born in the USA

By:

Luis Eduardo Hernandez Guzman

Second Year of High School

Adviser:

Veronica Sainz Rogers

Arandas Jal. February/2012
Index

Sports in the United States………………………………………….…………1
Most Popular Sports…………………………………………………………...2
The Scope of the Sports Industry in the United States…………………….3
American Cuisine……………………………………………………….………4Classic American Cuisine………………………………………………….…..5
Fast Food………………………………………………………………………..6

Sports in the United States
Sports form an important part of the culture of the United States. The four most popular team sports are ones that developed in North America :American football, baseball, basketball and ice hockey. The major leagues of these sports, the National Football League (NFL), the MajorLeague Baseball (MLB), the National Basketball Association (NBA) and the National Hockey League (NHL) enjoy massive media exposure and are considered the preeminent competitions in their respective sports in the world. Three of those leagues have teams that represent Canadian cities, and all four are among the most lucrative sports leagues in the world. Soccer (association football) is lesspopular as a spectator sport in the United States than it is in many other countries, though it has wide participation in amateur and semi-professional levels, particularly among youths and people of Mexican and Central American descent.
Professional teams in all major sports operate as franchises within a league. All major sports leagues use the same type of schedule with a playoff tournament afterthe regular season ends. In addition to the major league-level organizations, several sports also have professional minor leagues.
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 popularthan professional sports, with the major sanctioning body being the NCAA.

Most Popular Sports
Though baseball has historically been called the "national pastime," American football has grown in popularity with the advent of television over the last several decades. Most debates about America's most popular sport tend to center on the degree of Americans' identification either of these twogames; the question may never be resolved, though many believe football has overtaken baseball.
Advocates of baseball point to the overwhelming number of baseball tickets sold annually in the United States and Canada, compared to NFL football. It is likely the average individual American will attend many times more baseball games in their lives than NFL football games, due to baseball's longerschedule and football's (generally) higher ticket prices. Advocates of football, in turn, point to football's large television audience, including the Super Bowl, typically the most-watched television event of the year. Football also enjoys more organized youth participation, though the sport has recently[when?] endured negative publicity in the world of youth sports due to media coverage ofdocumented health and injury risks posed to players[29][30] Certain teams of both sports, such as the Boston Red Sox,[31] New York Yankees, Dallas Cowboys and Pittsburgh Steelers,[32] have cultivated famously loyal fan bases across the country. In many cases, identification with a certain football or baseball team is a matter of family inheritance and local identity.

The Scope of the Sports Industry inthe United States
Sport plays an important role in society. From the Olympic Games in ancient Greece, to the spectacles in the Coliseum in Rome, to tournament in medieval Europe, to today’s high-profile professional sports leagues, society has long celebrated and fixated on sporting events. Today, sport plays an important part in the fabric of society, including a prominent role in social...