Throughout week 2 we have been taking a look back to the past of sports. Aiming mainly towards American history we talked about religions, colligate, and how sports have grown from the times people started playing them. Growing from games in a bar or during workers down time up to a huge business sport has become the major part our lives. Reading Sports In Society chapter 3 was a look into the past building into what it is today. It starts back into 1000 BC honoring the Gods and showing dominance between people. Within the Greeks and the Roman Empire, governments used Gladiators and other spectacles to distract citizens from poverty and starvation. Sports haven’t changed much in those aspects and ways they used by people but have become so much more beginning with colonization and industrialization. 
Colonies allowed sports to migrate to countries all over the world spreading them from just one culture into multiple. In addition industrialized countries gave more free time to workers who now had time to relax from work. The wealthy during the period could do things like play baseball and by accident grew into Americas past time and become a multiple billion-dollar industry. Breaking barriers of color and gender with players like Jackie Robinson or Title IX have become major events for history and becoming a better society. Sports give moments people remember all their lives and have done so much in the growth of society.
Article: Sports In Society by Jerry Coakley
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