Leisure time in the U.S.A. part 2:Sports

Paduraru Andrei, Pricop Alexandur, Vlad Popa,Adrian Zanoschi, Ovidiu Dascalescu,Ravan Genge, Cehan Floris

Sports are an important part of the culture of the United States. The four major professional sports leagues in the United States areMajor League Baseball (MLB), the National Basketball Association (NBA), the National Football League (NFL), and the National Hockey League (NHL); all four enjoy massive US media exposure and are considered the preeminent competitions in their respective sports in the world, although only basketball and baseball (and to a lesser extent hockey) have substantial followings in other nations

BASKETBALLBasketball is a sport played by two teams of five players on a rectangular court. The objective is to shoot a ball through a hoop high mounted to a backboard at each end. Basketball is one of the world's most popular and widely viewed sports. Basketball originated in 1891 when James Naismith was assigned to teach a physical education class at a Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) training school in Springfield, Massachusetts. He had the idea of nailing up raised boxes into which players would attempt to throw a ball.When boxes couldn't be found, he used peach baskets.

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 football (an oval-shaped ball), attempts to advance down the field by running with or passing the 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 theyturn over the football to the opposing team; if they succeed, they are given a new set of four downs. Points can be scored by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone for a touchdown, kicking the ball through the opponent's goalposts for a field goal, or tackling the ballcarrier in his own end zone for a safety. The team with the most points at the end of a game wins.

FOOTBALL

Baseball is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of nine players each who take turns batting and fielding. The offense attempts to score runs by hitting a ball thrown by the pitcher with a bat and moving counter-clockwise around a series of four bases: first, second, third, and home plate. A run is scored when a player advances around the bases and returns to home plate. Players on the batting team take turns hitting against the pitcher of the fielding team, which tries to prevent runs by getting hitters out in any of several ways. A player on the batting team who reaches a base safely can later attempt to advance to subsequent bases during teammates' turns batting, such as on a hit or by other means. The teams switch between batting and fielding whenever the fielding team records three outs. One turn batting for both teams, beginning with the visiting team, constitutes an inning. A game comprises nine innings, and the team with the greater number of runs at the end of the game wins.

BASEBALL

HOCKEY

Ice hockey is a team sport played on ice in which two teams of skaters use sticks to shoot a hard rubber hockey puck into their opponent's net to score points.Ice hockey teams usually consist of four lines of three forwards, three pairs of defencemen, and two goaltenders. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take the puck and score a goal against the opposing team. Each team has a goaltender who tries to stop the puck from going into the goal.

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