| It is worth taking a look at the nature of | | | | Baseball, but there would be ten times as |
| sport, in particular team sports, in the USA | | | | many who would faint at the very idea. |
| to really understand where I am coming from | | | | Cricket has become one of the most important |
| on this. You see around the world there are a | | | | parts of life in some of the poorest areas of |
| few sports which really catch the imagination | | | | the world, like India, Pakistan and |
| not just of nations, but of continents. | | | | Bangladesh. Baseball on the other hand is |
| Football is the premier example of this | | | | limited to the US, with a Japanese team |
| infectious love for a game that can change | | | | thrown in to make a World Series!Basketball : |
| lives.Take Brazil as an example of what | | | | Just like baseball, the favourite of many |
| football means around the world. How many | | | | Americans is derived from a European girls |
| people can tell you anything at all about one | | | | game, called Netball. Not being able to keep |
| of the largest countries on the globe - | | | | to the rules, the US boys started running |
| Amazon rain forest and... oh yeah, | | | | with the ball and bouncing it around, they |
| football.Pele is the undisputed king of | | | | gave it a new name and now we have |
| football and sums up everything about Brazil | | | | Basketball.So am I being anti-American here? |
| to the outside world. An ordinary boy with | | | | certainly not. The US sports fans have a love |
| extraordinary skill, went on to become the | | | | for their chosen game just like the rest of |
| best known footballer ever. The name 'Pele' | | | | us around the world. We have our superstar |
| is familiar to every young boy in Europe, | | | | footballers and they have Michael Jordan. The |
| Asia and Africa - he's the player they want | | | | problem is the perception of those of us that |
| to become, in the game he wanted to play. But | | | | share a global fascination with the same |
| in America the children grow up wanting to | | | | sports, while the US seems to avoid |
| play a sport that will probably never see | | | | international competition by making up its |
| them known outside of their own | | | | own sports and not letting the rest of us |
| backyard!American Football : Almost solely | | | | join in. In my opinion there would be nothing |
| played in the US and yet one of the biggest | | | | better for football than for the Americans to |
| sports in America. It's impossible to imagine | | | | get behind it 100%, throw an obscene amount |
| that this game could have been devised from | | | | of money at it and turn it into the one and |
| anything other than Rugby, with a huge | | | | only truly global game. The chances are slim, |
| helping of protective padding to enable even | | | | but we can only hope.Duncan Rice is the |
| the wimpy boys to join in! All that | | | | webmaster of the live football scores website |
| protection and a separate team for offence, | | | | latestfootballscores.co.uk and the website |
| defence and kicking - and yet it's stilled | | | | design and hosting service pagesurfer.An |
| played at such a pace that it takes nearly | | | | amateur webmaster but expert footie fan, you |
| four hours to get through.Baseball : Could | | | | can expect to see articles relating to |
| hardly have been more like Rounders if it | | | | football (hate the word soccer) and the world |
| tried - the only difference is that rounders | | | | which revoloves around it. A great man once |
| is for girls! I can understand that some | | | | said 'football is not about life and death - |
| might even suggest that it's actually Cricket | | | | it's more important than that'. I agree. |
| that may be the non-American version of | | | | |