New York Yankees
Derek Jeter
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Baseball is popular in the Americas, East Asia and Australia. In its usual form, the game is between two teams of nine players on a playing field consisting of 4 bases, arranged in a diagonal square ("the diamond") and a large outfield. 
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LA Lakers
History in the Making
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Basketball is a ball sport played by two teams of five players on a side. It is one of the most popular sports in the United States, being highly suited to viewing by spectators as an indoor sport on a relatively small court with only ten players. The ball is large and easy to follow, and the lack of protective gear makes it possible to see the reactions of players. The sport is also reasonably popular in other parts of the world such as southern Europe and in the former Soviet Union.
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Desire-Football
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Sometimes known outside of North America as Gridiron Football, American Football is a competitive team sport in which two teams fight for control of an oblate spheroid ball (a direct descendant of a size 3 rugby ball), which they have to carry in the arms and/or pass to another player (only one forward pass permitted per football play).
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David Beckham
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The sport called football in most the rest of the world is called soccer in the United States and a few other countries. wo teams of eleven players on each side contend to get a spherical ball into the other team's goal. The side which does this the most frequently is the winner. The primary rule for this objective is that nearly all players cannot use their hands or arms in any way while on the field.
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Mark Messier
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Ice hockey, known simply as "hockey" in areas where it is more common than field hockey, is a team sport played on ice. The objective of the game is to score by playing a hard rubber disc, the puck, in one of the goals placed on opposite sites of the rink. The players may control the puck using a long, curved stick. Players may also kick the puck and redirect it by hand without closing the hand on the puck.
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Group Effort - Rugby
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Rugby football is a catch-all term which may refer to two related but separate sports: Rugby League and Rugby Union. Both forms of the game are very popular in the United Kingdom, France, Australia and New Zealand. The distinctive features common to both rugby games are the ovoid ball and the fact that passing the ball forwards is illegal, so that ground can be gained only by running with the ball or kicking it.
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