Cause And Effect Essay On 9/11 Sports

September 11 attacks in the United States in 2001 had a significant impact on major sporting events prompting cancellations, postponements, and rescheduling of match fixtures. The terrorist attack had such a huge unprecedented impact on the American people that nothing else seems important than addressing the security challenge at the moment. For example, 15 major league baseball games and four Major League Soccer games scheduled for that night were all postponed without any plan for rescheduling. The same is true of U.C.L.A. and Southern California who postponed all sports events through the weekend except for Saturday night's U.C.L.A.-Arizona State football game.

While some events were immediately postponed or cancelled, others like the National Football League had a searching of
Among these are the Professional Golfers' Association who postponed the fixture scheduled for the following day opening rounds of the American Express Championships (with Tiger Woods) in St. Louis, the Tampa Bay Classic in Palm Harbor, Fla., and the Buy.Com Tour's Oregon Classic in Junction City, Ore; Country Club was called off with the organization saying “the tournament would not be played this week and would be rescheduled or canceled”. The Long Island Golf Association's women's amateur championship at Bethpage State Park's Yellow Course was cut from two days to one, and several women whose husbands worked at the World Trade Center left before finishing the first round. Similarly, Minor League Baseball playoff games were postponed in nine leagues

The story is the same with Horse Racing where all live racing around the country, including the Meadowlands, Yonkers Raceway, Calder, Laurel, Pimlico, Philadelphia Park and Delaware Park, was canceled through that same day. Auto Racing was not left out as Nascar canceled qualifying for its events in Loudon, N.H., this