{"id":231952,"date":"2026-06-30T16:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T16:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/231952\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T16:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T16:44:08","slug":"pittsburgh-ranked-the-2nds-best-sports-town-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/231952\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh ranked the 2nds best sports town in America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> A new survey says Pittsburgh is the second-best sports city in the United States, behind only New York City.<\/p>\n<p>The Sports Business Journal, along with CivicScience, conducted a Sports Consumer Insights survey to see what Americans really think about sports.<\/p>\n<p>VisitPITTSBURGH\u2019s President and CEO Jerad Bachar told the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/06\/29\/sports-at-250-pittsburgh-punches-above-its-weight-in-ranking-of-americas-best-sports-cities\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sports Business Journal <\/a>that Pittsburgh\u2019s sports culture \u201cfar exceeds its size.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Football is ranked as America&#8217;s sport with 36 percent of survey respondents choosing it. <\/p>\n<p>Baseball was next at 25 percent, followed by basketball with 8 percent. <\/p>\n<p>New York topped the best sports cities list with 20 percent of the vote, followed by Pittsburgh with 16 percent of the vote. <\/p>\n<p>And the Steelers earned third place as America&#8217;s team with 14 percent support. <\/p>\n<p>The New York Yankees edged out the Dallas Cowboys for the top spot in that category. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new survey says Pittsburgh is the second-best sports city in the United States, behind only New York&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231953,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74,1067,10997,1833,726,8445],"class_list":["post-231952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-penguins","tag-pittsburgh-pirates","tag-pittsburgh-steelers","tag-sports","tag-visitpittsburgh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}