Sports In New York

 SPORTS IN THE CITY

Hi today we going to talk about sport in NYC.

New York City is home to the headquarters of the National Football League, the National Hockey League, the National Basketball Association, Major League Baseball and Major League Soccer.
Each of these professional sports leagues has a strong presence in the metropolitan area.

-BASEBALL:
 Baseball is still regarded as the most popular sport, The "Subway Series" is the annual regular season meeting between the New York Mets and the New York Yankees. 

 

-BASKETBALL:
The first national basketball championship for major colleges, the National Invitation Tournament, was held in New York in 1938, and its semifinal and final rounds remain at Madison Square Garden.
Basket teams:  New York Knicks, Brooklyn Nets, New York Liberty, etc...

  

- AMERICAN FOOTBALL:
In 2010, both the New York Giants and the New York Jets play in MetLife Stadium. The Giants, were founded in 1925, founded in 1960, the originally named New York Titans, later branded as the Jets in 1963.

  

- SOCCER
The New York Red Bulls of Major League Soccer have played in the metropolitan area since the league's founding in 1996, they play in a new stadium in Harrison, New Jersey that was completed in 2010.
Teams: New York City FC, New York Red Bulls