Comparing Newspapers

When you read an American newspaper you usually see what I call popular sports. Baseball, basketball, football dominate the sports page. Every night there seems to be a perfect game, 400 yard passing performance, or a double overtime 3 point shot that wins the game. The assignment we had was to see what is diffrent about sports sections of other countries. I chose a newspaper from India to dissect. The address of the newspaper is http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/sphome/4719148.cms. The first thing i noticed was the dominance of cricket.  I have actually played cricket before and it is nothing like baseball. There are simalarities but the game is truly unique. Through a little more research I learned that cricket is the second highest betted sport in the world. It is right behing soccer. I had no clue that it was this popular and I learned that India was the first country to have a professional cricket league. There were a lot of similarities between our sports pages. Sports has become a world wide event and that means every country has its people in sporting events. They look a lot at golf and tennis and that is because their country men are in the event. Newspapers are responsible for boosting the morale of countries and the India newspaper does this as well as anyone!!!