Sports and Scenic Sports in America
Sports:
The American Football:American professional football is played during the
late summer(preseason),the fall(regular season),and the winter until late in
January(post-season,or play off time).
American football as a whole is the most popular sport in the United
States; professional football and college football are the most popular forms
of the game, with the other major levels being high school and youth
football. As of 2012, nearly 1.1 million high school athletes and 70,000 college
athletes play the sport in the United States annually. The National Football
League, the most popular American football league, has the highest average
attendance of any sports league in the world; its championship game,
the Super Bowl, ranks among the most-watched club sporting events in the
world, and the league has an annual revenue of around US$10 billion.
The American football is a sport played by two teams of eleven players on a
rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team with
control of the oval-shaped football, attempts to advance down the field
by running with or passingthe ball, while the team without control of the ball,
the defense, aims to stop their advance and take control of the ball for
themselves. The offense must advance at least ten yards in four downs, or
plays, or else they turn over the football to the opposing team; if they
succeed, they are given a new set of four downs. Points are primarily scored
by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone for a touchdown or
kicking the ball through the opponent's goalposts for a field goal. The team
with the most points at the end of a game wins.
American football evolved in the United States, originating from the sport
of rugby football. The first game of American football was played
on November 6, 1869, between two college teams, Rutgers and Princeton,
under rules based on the association football rules of the time.[2] During the
latter half of the 1870s, colleges playing association football switched to
the Rugby code, which allowed carrying the ball. A set of rule changes drawn
up from 1880 onward by Walter Camp, the "Father of American Football,"
established the snap, eleven-player teams, and the concept of downs; later
rule changes legalized the forward pass, created the neutral zone, and
specified the size and shape of the football.
Baseball:Baseball may still be the great American game,even though many
Other countries are deeply involved with the game.
Before World War II,there were two major leagues,or groupings,of baseball
teams,the other National League and the American League.
After World War II,great changes in the game took place.
Basketball:basketball was deliberately created in 1891 by a physical
education teacher in Massachusetts,Canada-born James Naismith,to provide
an indoor sports activity during the snowy winter months when outdoor
playing fields could not be used.
Other Sports Activities:
Scenic Spots
The Grand Canyon:The Grand Canyon (Hopi: Ongtupqa; Yavapai: Wi:kaʼ i:la,
Spanish: Gran Cañ ó n) is a steep-sided canyon carved by theColorado
River in the state of Arizona in the United States. It is contained within and
managed by Grand Canyon National Park, the Kaibab National Forest, Grand
Canyon-Parasheople
and
the Navajo
Nation.
President Theodore
Roosevelt was a major proponant National Monument, the Hualapai Tribal
Nation, theHavasupai pent of preservation of the Grand Canyon area, and
visited it on numerous occasions to hunt and enjoy the scenery.
The Grand Canyon is 277 miles (446 km) long, up to 18 miles (29 km) wide
and attains a depth of over a mile (6,093 feet or 1,857 meters).Nearly two
billion years of Earth's geological history have been exposed as the Colorado
River and its tributaries cut their channels through layer after layer of rock
while the Colorado Plateau wasuplifted.While the specific geologic processes
and timing that formed the Grand Canyon are the subject of debate by
geologists,recent evidence suggests that the Colorado River established its
course through the canyon at least 17 million years ago.Since that time, the
Colorado River continued to erode and form the canyon to its present-day
configuration.For thousands of years, the area has been continuously
inhabited by Native Americans, who built settlements within the canyon and
its
many
caves.
The Pueblo
people considered
the
Grand
Canyon
("Ongtupqa" in the Hopi language) a holy site, and made pilgrimages to
it.The first European known to have viewed the Grand Canyon was García L
ópez de Cárdenas from Spain, who arrived in 1540.
The
Rocky
Mountains:The Rocky
Mountains,
commonly
known
as
the Rockies, are a major mountain range in western North America. The
Rocky Mountains stretch more than 3,000 miles (4,800 km) from the
northernmost part of British Columbia, in westernCanada, to New Mexico, in
the southwestern United States. Within the North American Cordillera, the
Rockies
are
somewhat
distinct
from
the Pacific
Coast
Ranges and
the Cascade Range and Sierra Nevada which all lie further to the west.
The Pacific Coast:The West Coast or Pacific Coast is the term for the
westernmost coastal states of the United States. The term most often refers
to the states of California, Oregon and Washington. More specifically, the
term refers to an area defined on the east by the Cascade Range, Sierra
Nevada and Mojave Desert, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean. The U.S.
Census groups the five states of California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska, and
Hawaii together as the Pacific States division.
Florida:Florida is a state in the southeast United States, bordered to the
west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia, to the east
by the Atlantic Ocean, and to the south by theStraits of Florida. Florida is
the 22nd most extensive, the 3rd most populous,[8] and the 8th most
densely populated of the United States. Jacksonville is the most populous
city in Florida, and the largest city by area in the contiguous United States.
The Miami metropolitan area is the eighth-largest metropolitan area in the
United States. Tallahassee is the state capital.
New York State:
Hawaii:Hawaii is the 50th and most recent U.S. state to join the United
States, having joined on August 21, 1959.[24] Hawaii is the only U.S. state
located in Oceania and the only one composed entirely of islands. It is the
northernmost island group in Polynesia, occupying most of an archipelago in
the central Pacific Ocean. Hawaii is the only U.S. state not located in
theAmericas. The state does not observe daylight saving time.
Alaska:is a U.S. state situated in the northwest extremity of the North
American
continent.
the Canadian territory
Bordering
of Yukon and
the
state
to
the Canadian
the
east
are
province of British
Columbia; to the north are the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas, southern parts of
the Arctic
Ocean.
To
the
west
and
south
is
the Pacific
Ocean,
withRussia (specifically, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug and Kamchatka Krai)
farther west across the Bering Strait. Alaska is the largest state in the United
States by area, the 4th least populous and the least densely populated of
the 50 United States. Approximately half of Alaska's residents (estimated at
738,432 by the Census Bureau in 2015[3]) live within theAnchorage
metropolitan area. Alaska's economy is dominated by the oil, natural gas,
and fishing industries, resources which it has in abundance. Tourism and
military bases are also a significant part of the economy.