Sports
New York is home to teams in each of the major American professional sports leagues. Baseball is the city's most closely followed sport. There have been fourteen World Series championship series between New York City teams; such matchups are called Subway Series. The city's two current Major League Baseball teams are the New York Yankees and the New York Mets, which enjoy a fierce rivalry. New York City is also home to two minor league baseball teams, the Brooklyn Cyclones and Staten Island Yankees.
The city is represented in the National Football League by the New York Giants and New York Jets, who share Giants Stadium outside the city limits in East Rutherford, New Jersey, and in the National Hockey League by the New York Rangers and the New York Islanders. The National Hockey League is headquartered in Manhattan.
New York City has a rich basketball history. The first national college-level basketball championship, the National Invitation Tournament, was held in New York in 1938 and remains in the city. Rucker Park in Harlem is a celebrated court where many professional athletes play in the summer league. The city's National Basketball Association team is the New York Knicks.
As a global city, New York supports many events outside the big four American sports, including the U.S. Tennis Open, the New York City Marathon and the Millrose Games of track and field held at Madison Square Garden. Red Bull New York, formerly known as the MetroStars, is a professional soccer club based in New Jersey that participates in Major League Soccer. Many sports are associated with New York's immigrant communities; stickball, a street version of baseball, was popularized by youths in working class Italian and Irish neighborhoods in the 1930s. In recent years several amateur cricket leagues have emerged with the arrival of immigrants from South Asia and the Caribbean.
(Source: Wikipedia.org)
