Contents:
Introduction 3
1. SPORT AND ITS DEVELOPMENT IN THE USA 4
1.1. Historical background, names of national sports, borrowed games 4
1.2. Problems and prospects of American sport 6
2. THE VARIETY OF AMERICAN SPORTS 9
2.1. Professional sport 9
2.1.1. The business of sport 9
2.1.2. Major sports 10
2.1.2.1. Baseball and business 10
2.1.2.2. Basketball 12
2.1.2.3. Football: an American spectacle 13
2.1.2.4. Bowling 15
2.1.3. Problems in professional sport 16
2.1.4. Olympic Games and the names of American heroes 17
2.2. Leisure sports 17
2.2.1. Badminton 17
2.2.2. Bowling 20
2.3. Sports for the disabled 21
2.4. Women in sports 22
2.4.1. Women and traditional sports and games 23
2.4.2. Women’s sport in the 19th century 24
2.4.3. Challenging gendered boundaries 25
2.4.4. The age of modern sports 26
3. RECREATION IN THE USA 29
3.1. Sports at colleges 30
3.1.1. College and sport 30
3.1.2. Sport and money 31
3.1.3. Women's Collegiate Sport 32
3.1.4. Intramural and club sports 32
3.2. Animals in sport 32
3.3. Unusual sports 33
3.4. Camps 33
CONCLUSION 35
LITERATURE 36
INTRODUCTION
Nowadays a lot of people are getting more and more ambitious and now the always hurry somewhere, they are eager to do everything and are afraid of losing any minute that can bring them happiness, joy, glory or just money. ............
