Sport(s) in the USA

In America, you will find the most popular sports to be Football, Basketball, Baseball, and Hockey.  Although these may be the most popular, Americans of all ages, race, and gender participate in many other sports.  Because there are so many different sports to play in in America, the sport(s) community is one that continues to develop and broaden as the years go by, and one that thrives on its culture of diversity.  If a person coming to America for the first time went to a 'gameday,' they would find loyal fans and the atmosphere to be loud, exciting, and electrifying.  They will find this 'gameday' to be very social and lively event.  Jack Coakley writes, "we can't escape the fact that social life is complex and characterized by inequalities, power differences, and conflicts of interest between different categories of people" (Coakley, 14).  Here, the outsider will find values in sports such as competition, sportsmanship, fairness, and responsibility.  Sports are a large part of American society and is a community of its own that will continue to grow.