The NFL, by a large margin, earns the most revenue and has the most popularity of any professional sports league in the United States, and holds the title as the world’s most commercially successful sports league.
However, in an increasingly global society and economy, the NFL languishes in popularity outside of North America. International players are [...]
June 2, 2008
Ever since baseball was first played in the 1830s, the game has regarded as America’s national pastime.
However, baseball actually has more popularity in several foreign countries such as Japan, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Venezuela, Taiwan, the Dominican Republic, and Panama. As a result, baseball has had a tradition for over a century of being [...]
May 30th, 2008
Globalization has taken the hold of America’s major sport, but no league has had more success or a more involved future with the international market than the NBA.
Seventy-six of the NBA’s 360 active roster players are international players from thirty-eight different countries. Yao Ming regularly breaks the record for the most votes to [...]
Throughout the twenty-first century, globalization has spread across economy, political relations, people, and popular culture all over the planet.
The world of sports has also been radically globalized during this same period of time.
NBA and MLB are filled with players that reside from countries outside of the United States. The arrival of Yao Ming added thirty [...]
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September 8th 2008
College football, unlike any other major sport, lacks a playoff. In the current BCS system, due to polls and automatic BCS berths, only schools from the Pac-10, Big Ten, Big 12, SEC, Big East, and the ACC can compete for national titles.
However, in recent years, the top teams in the WAC and Mountain [...]