It isn’t just sports but college sports, which seems to be a uniquely American kind of sports.
Universities created collegiate sports as a way to help colleges teach leadership skills. The competition between universities in sports became a measure of which to judge universities and later became a source of profit for universities. The NCAA regulates most of the colleges in the US.
If you see a state name when referring to sports, it is likely referring to a university with a name “University of State”. There are no state based games and professional sports in North America usually refers to a team by their name.
It isn’t just sports but college sports, which seems to be a uniquely American kind of sports.
Universities created collegiate sports as a way to help colleges teach leadership skills. The competition between universities in sports became a measure of which to judge universities and later became a source of profit for universities. The NCAA regulates most of the colleges in the US.
If you see a state name when referring to sports, it is likely referring to a university with a name “University of State”. There are no state based games and professional sports in North America usually refers to a team by their name.