,Click to edit Master text styles,Second level,Third level,Fourth level,Fifth level,Click to edit Master title style,*,University of International Business and Economics Press,Click to edit Master text styles,Second level,Third level,Fourth level,Fifth level,Click to edit Master title style,*,Unit 16,Sports and Media,The United States of America,英美国家概况,The United States of America,Think about these questions before we start:,1.Can you name three sports popular in the U.S.A.?,2.Please list some features of the U.S.media.,3.Whats the relationship between sports and media?,Warming-up Activities,Contents,Media in America,Sports in America,I Sports in America,Contents:,1.1,Introduction,1.2,School and College Sports,1.3,Basketball,1.4,American Football,1.5,Baseball,1.6,Soccer,1.1 Introduction,Americans interest in spectator sports seems excessive and even obsessive to many foreign visitors.,What seems distinctive about the American interest in sports:People in all walks of life are represented among ardent sports fans,and the collective audience for sports events is enormous.,What seems distinctive about the American interest in sports is that it is not confined to particular social classes.People in all walks of life are represented among ardent sports fans,and the collective audience for sports events is enormous.,1.1 Introduction,Expressions from sports are extraordinarily common in everyday American speech.,African Americans are heavily overrepresented in the major sports of baseball,football,basketball,and track.,Female athletes and games among female teams get more attention in the United States than elsewhere.,1.1 Introduction,the most popular sports in America:,American football,baseball,basketball,and in some states,hockey(in the order of descending popularity),1.2 School and College Sports,In 2003,58 percent of boys and 51 percent of girls in high school played on a sports team.,The most popular sports for boys are American football,basketball,track and field,baseball,and soccer.For girls,the most popular are basketball,track and field,volleyball,softball,and soccer.,Sports also play an important role in the everyday social scene at American colleges and universities.,Playing for a college team on scholarship is one way students help pay for the cost of earning an undergraduate degree.,1.3 Basketball,Origin:,In 1891 James Naismith,a young physical education teacher in Springfield,Massachusetts,invented a new game that could be played indoors during the cold winter months to keep the students occupied and out of trouble.,Basketball gained quickly popularity due to its simple equipment requirements,indoor play,competitiveness,and easily understood rules.,1.3 Basketball,NBA:,Today,the National Basketball Association(NBA)is the major professional basketball league in the world,with teams in the United States and Canada.The NBA now has 29 teams competing in two conferences,the Eastern and Western,in four separate divisions.Every year,in the second week of February,the NBA interrupts its season to celebrate the annual All-Star game,featuring the games best players as selected by fans throughout the United States and Canada.At the end of the season,the champions from the Eastern and Western conferences meet in a best-of-seven series to determine the NBA champion.,1.3 Basketball,Do you watch NBA games?Which star do you like best?,1.4 American Football,American football is a distinct type of football that developed in the United States in the 19th century from soccer and rugby.It requires teams to run,throw and kick an oval ball across a 100-yard field(91.4 meters),is unrelated to the game most of the world knows by that name,and which Americans call soccer.,1.4 American Football,The Super Bowl is the final contest of the NFLs season.Each year,on a Sunday at the end of January or beginning of February,tens of millions of Americans declare their own unofficial holiday.,1.5 Baseball,Also known as“the national pastime.,In 1845,Alexander Cartwright formalized a list of rules by which all teams could play.,1.5 Baseball,the World Series:,The major league baseball season lasts from April to October and includes the regular season,the playoffs,and the World Series.The most victorious team in each league is said to have won the“pennant;the two pennant winners met after the end of the regular season and a series of playoff within league subdivisions in the World Series.The winner of this series becomes the major league world champion.,1.6 Soccer,Soccer is distinguished from American or Canadian football and from rugby in that it is primarily played with the feet.,Today,however,according to FIFA,the United States has more official soccer players than any other nation in the worldalmost 18 million.,1.6 Soccer,History,International Participation,The annual U.S.Open Cup is a single-elimination tournament open to all affiliated amateur and professional teams in the United States.,The USA has competed in every World Cup competi