I If you take time to analyze the current sociological and political situations around the world, you will notice one very interesting thing: that those issues can only occur and grow in a society with certain distinct qualities. For example, due to the large amount of progress that American society has made since the Civil war, legal slavery cannot exist in our society, while it still does exist in countries such as Niger, Nigeria, and Ghana. Though practices such as slavery cannot exist in our American society due to laws meant to protect the people, controversy over the dominance of sports and media can definitely grow due to the sociological climate and practices that are unique to the United States. Take this quote for example by James Michiner the author of the the book Sports and America.

"The United States is the only nation in the world, so far as I know, which demands that its schools like Harvard and Ohio State...assume responsibility for providing the public with sports entertainment. Ours is a unique system which has no historical sanction or application elsewhere. It would be unthinkable for the University of Bologna, a most ancient and honorable school, to provide scholarships to illitterate soccer players that that they could entertain the other cities of Northern Italy, and it would be equally proposterous for either the Sorbonne or Oxford to do so in their countries. Our system is an American phenomenom, a historical accident which developed from the existing football games played at Yale and Harvard and to a lesser extent Princeton and certain other schools during the closing years of the nineteenth century. If we had professional teams which provided football entertainment, we mghtt not have placed the burden on our schools. But we had not professional teams, so our schools were handed the job...By a quirk of history...the tradition had become ingrained and see not the remotest chance of altering it."

Though this is true, where exactly is this world where sports has such a strong grasp on the financial, entertainment, and educational aspects of American society?