Sports
Further information: History of National Football League in Los Angeles| Team | Sport | League | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles Dodgers | Baseball | Major League Baseball – National League | Dodger Stadium |
| Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim | Baseball | Major League Baseball – American League | Angel Stadium of Anaheim |
| Los Angeles Lakers | Basketball | National Basketball Association | Staples Center |
| Los Angeles Clippers | Basketball | National Basketball Association | Staples Center |
| Los Angeles Kings | Ice hockey | National Hockey League | Staples Center |
| Anaheim Ducks | Ice hockey | National Hockey League | Honda Center |
| Los Angeles Galaxy | Soccer | Major League Soccer | The Home Depot Center |
| Chivas USA | Soccer | Major League Soccer | The Home Depot Center |
| Los Angeles Sparks | Basketball | Women's National Basketball Association | Staples Center |
The Greater Los Angeles area also has three well-known horse racing facilities: Santa Anita Park, Los Alamitos Race Course and Hollywood Park Racetrack and three major motorsport venues: Auto Club Speedway, Long Beach street circuit, and Auto Club Raceway at Pomona. In addition, the city of Los Angeles hosted the Summer Olympics in 1932 and 1984.
The Los Angeles area media market currently lacks a National Football League team. After the 1994 season, the Los Angeles Rams moved to St. Louis, Missouri and the Los Angeles Raiders returned to their original home of Oakland, California (both teams played each other in Anaheim during the 1994 season, with the Raiders winning). There are two competing plans to build a stadium which will become home to an NFL team in the future, one in the City of Industry and one in Downtown Los Angeles. In 2009 the city council of the City of Industry approved the construction of a stadium and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a bill with an evironmental exemption to support a stadium in that city. In 2011 the Los Angeles City Council approved plans to build Farmers Field in Downtown Los Angeles.
As a whole, the Los Angeles area has more national championships, all sports combined (college and professional), than any other city in the United States, with over four times as many championships as the entire state of Texas, and just over twice that of New York City.
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“I looked so much like a guy you couldn’t tell if I was a boy or a girl. I had no hair, I wore guys’ clothes, I walked like a guy ... [ellipsis in source] I didn’t do anything right except sports. I was a social dropout, but sports was a way I could be acceptable to other kids and to my family.”
—Karen Logan (b. 1949)
“In the past, it seemed to make sense for a sportswriter on sabbatical from the playpen to attend the quadrennial hawgkilling when Presidential candidates are chosen, to observe and report upon politicians at play. After all, national conventions are games of a sort, and sports offers few spectacles richer in low comedy.”
—Walter Wellesley (Red)
“Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn,
Thy sports are fled and all thy charms withdrawn;
Amidst thy bowers the tyrant’s hand is seen,
And desolation saddens all thy green;
One only master grasps the whole domain,
And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain;”
—Oliver Goldsmith (1730?–1774)