Abstract: The route to western sports culture researches is embodies in the game between the three mainstream schools, neo-Marxism, British cultural studies and French postmodernism, which are also the theoretical sources for western sports culture researches. Not only do they have experts and scholars specialized in sports culture researches, but quite a few elite intellectuals have illustrated their comments on sports culture. Besides, scholars from United States, Scandinavian countries and the rising Asian scholars focus more and more on this realm. Sports culture researches stand a good chance to become the hotspot of sports studies in the future.