1980s: Sports and Games
Professional and major collegiate sports continued to expand in popularity during the decade, and they continued to be lavishly paid for by television programmers eager to attract an audience. Television became critical to sports, for it provided the money that made huge salaries possible or, in the college world, allowed major football and basketball programs to build state-of-the-art facilities for their athletes. Televised sports received a big boost through the 1980s with the growing popularity of the ESPN cable-television station, which played an important role in popularizing a variety of sports. Even the Olympics fell under the.....
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