The Middle Atlantic region in the United States is located between New England and the South and consists of areas of Delaware, New Jersey, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York, Virginia, West Virginia and Washington D.C. This region has been crucial in fostering the development and development of America and it has played an important role in the development of its culture, trade and commerce and industries. This region has hosted the majority of the state capitals since the American Revolution including Washington D.C, Americas current federal capital. This region can also be considered one of the most prosperous regions of the Usa as it has 43 out of the 100 highest income counties of the nation.
Professional sports play an extremely significant role in this area. A large number of areas have their own professional sports teams that take part in Major League Baseball, National Football League, National Hockey League, Major League Soccer National Basketball League championships. Together with professional sports this area is also big on the collegiate sports front having a number of universities and colleges participating in the NCAA Division I,II and III games.
The Middle Atlantic Corporation was founded in 1912 and is an athletic conference that participates within the NCAA Division III. This corporation is split into 3 conferences, namely, the Freedom Conference, the Commonwealth Conference and also the Middle Atlantic Conference. The 16 members that form this corporation are based out of the Middle Atlantic States. This association has been furthering collegiate sports in the United States since its inception in 1912 with 13 members. This association continued to grow in its strength housing over fifty teams at some point. However, following the formation of the NVAA Division I,II and III in 1974, the league decreased its size.
The member team participate in 11 mens and 11 womens sports categories including basketball, baseball, hockey, outdoor and indoor track and field, cross country, football, golf, lacrosse, swimming and tennis. They’ve already included softball, field hockey and volleyball in the womens categories.
Most of the sports news in the Middle Atlantic region is brought by the Middle Atlantic Sports Network which has serves 7 state areas and is also a regional sports network. This network provides sports news to the regions of Maryland, Delaware, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Columbia and some regions of West Virginia. The MASN was registered as TCR Sports and has been essential in broadcasting a number of the major MLB games in this region. It is through this network which has ties with almost every cable and satellite distributor in the Washington area, they make sports viewing accessible to every household in this area.
Some of the games that MASN is the formal cable sports network are Baltimore Orioles baseball, Washington Nationals baseball, Baltimore Ravens football, NCAA basketball, NCAA football, NCAA lacrosse. Not only does this network provide its viewers live games and but they also have special pre-game and post-game shows that are organised both before and after each game. In addition to this they also bring special shows, news reviews as well as the latest in the sports arena.