MLS (Soccer)
MLS (Soccer) Soccer (football to the world outside the US and Canada) is traditionally thought of as a minority sport in those two countries – but the success of MLS shows that the minority is growing each year in leaps and bounds. Attendance is greater than for the comparable leagues in basketball and hockey and […]
NFL Playoffs
NFL Playoffs There’s nothing like it. When the clock turns on another new year, when the winter blizzards set in in some cities and others remain sunny, almost summer-like, when the big bodies are exhausted after a long, hard-fought season, that’s when the fun starts. And the fun is called the NFL playoff, leading up […]
NFL (US Football)
NFL (US Football) It is reckoned that the first professional footballer in the US was Yale All-American Guard William Heffelfinger in 1892. However we have to span the years until after the First World War with the formation of theAmerican Professional Football Association. This included ten teams from four different states but only lasted two […]
NFL Preseason
NFL Preseason
US Open (Tennis)
US Open (Tennis) The United States Open Tennis Championships, known as the US Open tournament takes place in late August and early September of each year. It is the last Grand Slam tournament to be played in a calendar year and is considered by many as the most important of them four. The tournament was […]
MLB (Baseball)
MLB (Baseball) Major League Baseball (MLB) represents the oldest and most popular of all the four major American sports. The sport is now contested by a total of 30 teams playing in the two leagues, the American League (AL) and National League (NL), with 15 teams in each league. The AL and NL operated as […]