Why%20study%20American%20Sports%20History?

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Why study American Sports History?

• Introduction to the course

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Answer the following

• How has Sports impacted your life?
• Why do Sports exist?
• Have sports always been so important to America?

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Sports are important to every society

• Why else would we dress up like fools in public?
  
• In the case of Soccer around the world the fans
  may literally risk their lives to go the game.

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Sports show society at its best and worst

• Players from an opposing team carry an injured
  player after she hit a home run
• The Malice at the Palace

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Sports offers hope and relief to some of the
problems of society

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• http//www.youtube.com/watch?v0qR4-8Y-y9Mfeature
  related
• During The Great Depression, WWII, after 9/11,
  sports continue to offer comfort

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As we examine how sports has changed, we will see
how America has changed.