Race_&_Sport

Race & Sport Michael Jordan draws large audiences to every game due to his amazing playing style, and he is called "the god of basketball." Tiger Wood has won golf tournaments many times, and the media reports his score everyday during the game no matter how he plays. Michael Johnson is the fastest runner in two-hundred-meter races in the world. Ichiro Suzuki became one of the best leading hitters in Major League Baseball (MLB) during his rookie season. There are many races living together in America. Therefore, America is sometimes called a melting pot of races. In the sports' world, it is a slightly different story. In that context, have you ever thought about the relationship between race and sport' Why do black athletes sometimes dominate a particular sport, such as basketball' Why are there many Asian and Hispanic players in MLB' According to Sociological Dynamics of Sport and Exercise, there are three possible theories that might cause racial differences in sport participation. The first one is "biological reasoning," which means all differences come from genes. 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 players, sport, basketball, baseball, american, football, athletes, japanese, play, races, one, america, people, black, tend, sports, player, popular, major, however, year, very, season, reasons, reason, rather, professional, particular, league, ichiro, game, dominate, become, world, won, three