How the World benefits from the globalization of basketball The globalization of basketball benefits the US by bringing the best players from foreign countries to play in the NBA thus boosting the level of competition and making the game more interesting. ... The foreign television stations must then pay the NBA or some other American company to air it which brings additional money into the US economy. ... Clifford enjoys the fact that he can go to the Yucatan and be surrounded by Americans. "Every guest at the Posada Capitan Lafitte speaks North American English. ... All the guests at hi...

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How the World benefits from the globalization of basketball The globalization of basketball benefits the US by bringing the best players from foreign countries to play in the NBA thus boosting the level of competition and making the game more interesting. ... The foreign television stations must then pay the NBA or some other American company to air it which brings additional money into the US economy. ... Clifford enjoys the fact that he can go to the Yucatan and be surrounded by Americans. "Every guest at the Posada Capitan Lafitte speaks North American English. ... All the guests at hi...

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There are many races living together in America. ... According to this theory, the reason that black athletes dominate National Basketball Association (NBA) is that black athletes tend to have advantages in physical features compared with other races, such as height. ... American football was developed from soccer and rugby football in America (History of football). For that reason, American football is one of the most popular sports in America. ... This situation could be a reason that we hardly see any other races rather than American athletes in American football. ...

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Today a scout for the NBA asked you to play professional basketball, as soon as you graduated high school. ... However, this is America, and those athletes, who are legally adults, need to be able to make their own decision based on their personal preferences and not what society thinks that they should do. ... There were "eight American Athletes on the 2002 United States Winter Olympic team", "Andre Agassi, Pete Sampras, Anna Kournikova, Monica Seles, and the Williams sisters all went pro before their 18th birthdays",and "Tiger played in his first professional tournament in 1992, at age 1...

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According to Sage, " despite pervasive and systematic discrimination against African Americans, they have played a continuing and significant role in every are of American history" (p.275). ... According to Sage, " those sports closely linked to upper-class patronage and with less spectator interest, and thus less economic impact, have been slow to provide access to African Americans" (p.279). ... The first argument being that, almost 80% of the athletes in the National Basketball Association are of African-American descent. ... In the eyes of the spectator, watching Vince Carter play is mo...

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Maybe if Georgia Tech would have asked Stephan Mauyberry to stick out the rest of his seasons for a few thousand dollars other than his millions in the NBA he would have stayed in school. ... College basketball and football are still some of the highest rated TV in America and it doesn't look to have any downward spirals ahead. ...

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Sports are a very important part of the American society. ... When the American people think of women in sports, they think of ice skating, field hockey and diving. ... "Many American are learning that the triumph of women's team sports is the result of something called Title IX."" ... The WBNA plays in the summer so that they do not have to compete with the NBA, NFL, NHL, or NCAA for the airtime that is required to run a successful league. ... They had a commitment from twelve Olympians including American star, Mia Hamm. ...

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Nonetheless, says former NBA forward Bob Bigelow, author of Just Let the Kids Play and perhaps the most pointed provocateur in the lively debates over youth sports, "Many adults have the misguided belief that looking at a kid at this stage gives an indication of what he'll be like down the road: 'My gosh, wait till we see him at 14, 18, 22!' ... The American Academy of Pediatrics formally opposes specialization before a child reaches puberty, usually at 11 for girls and 12 for boys. ...

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