It dawned on me that there are musical styles mentally associated with the major US sports.

Basketball lends itself well to rap music and the game seems to fit that style (especially since the NCAA theme of "One Shining Moment" is annoying).

Football seems to be best with the background music being the epic-sounding classical music pieces.  Is it even possible to see NFL highlights without hearing songs like Round Up or "The Lineman"?

And baseball?  Baseball songs seem to always tell stories--refletive or giving a sense of longing in some way, perhaps an idealism or naivete that seems more distant daily though I admit--I liked the song "Tessie" by the Dropkick Murphys on the MLB 2005 XBox game enough that I downloaded it off of Itunes as well.