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	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Major North American professional sports leagues
		The designation as to whether a league is a major or minor league is made by the national or international governing body for that sport, not by the popular perception of that sport (e.g., TV ratings or number of articles in the daily newspaper).
		There are two major exceptions: The NFL has not had a franchise in L.A. since 1995 and the Green Bay Packers survive in professional sports' smallest metropolitan area (less than 300,000) thanks to a unique community ownership, and their proximity to the larger Milwaukee area, not to mention the loyalty of their fanbase.
		Major League Baseball is increasingly luring away the stars from the Japanese leagues, the European hockey leagues have become a major source of star talent for National Hockey League clubs and the National Basketball Association frequently recruits talent from professional leagues in Europe and Latin America.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Major_professional_sports_league (7430 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: National Hockey League
		The term major professional sports league is used to describe the most important and well regarded leagues in the biggest professional sports in a country or region.
		The league was founded in 1917 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada with four teams, and through a series of expansions, reductions and relocations is now composed of 30 teams, 24 of which are based in the United States and six in Canada.
		Because the sport originated in Canada, Canadians have historically constituted a large majority of the players in the NHL.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/National-Hockey-League (704 words)

	How money changed Red Auerbach's game - The Boston Globe
		When he arrived at the Celtics in 1949, the Lakers still played in a city that actually has lakes; the league had franchises in such metropolises as Sheboygan, Waterloo, and Fort Wayne, and the Celtics finished dead last in their division.
		The financial gains that the league has reaped in the subsequent five decades have contributed to an explosion in player salaries.
		In an era when the sport's biggest stars enjoy such enormous wealth, motivating players and promoting teamwork is a constant challenge for all coaches and GMs.
	www.boston.com /sports/basketball/celtics/articles/2006/11/01/how_money_changed_red_auerbachs_game (785 words)

	Sports, by Gerald W. Scully: The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics: Library of Economics and Liberty
		Major league sports, as every reader of the sports pages knows, is a major league business.
		But in all sports, revenues from national television contracts have grown as a percent of total revenues, and these revenues are divided equally among the clubs.
		Partly because of the broadcast exemption to antitrust laws, and partly because of the judicious expansion of the leagues in all of the professional team sports, fans are unlikely to see competing sports leagues rise.
	www.econlib.org /library/Enc/Sports.html (1818 words)

	Professional sports league organization - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Professional sport leagues in Australia are based on this model as well, with the most notable examples being the Australian Football League (Aussie rules) and National Rugby League (rugby league).
		Usually the national league winners are considered the national champions (a notion also used in franchise-based leagues), and the disparities may be settled by means of a Super Cup, although this is considered a special event and has not been mandatory in any league anywhere in the world.
		Major cities such as London may have many teams in the professional leagues: for example, it has six teams in the 2006-07 FA Premier League alone.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Professional_sports_league_organization (1691 words)

	The Anniston Star - Clarett sues NFL over draft eligibility rule
		The NFL is the only major professional sports league that has such a stringent rule for entry into the league.
		The league’s executives have maintained that the rule is in place to protect younger, smaller players from competing against tougher, more physical opponents.
		These officials, who asked not to be identified because of the league’s tampering rules, expressed concerns about whether the 6-foot, 230 pound Clarett could hold up over a 16-game regular season, but they said his combination of power and explosiveness puts him among the top three running backs in college.
	www.dailyhome.com /sports/2003/as-college-0924-0-3i23w5613.htm (557 words)

	CBC Sports Online: Major League Soccer coming to Toronto (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Major League Soccer is the top professional soccer league in the United States.
		On Nov. 12, the league's board of governors is scheduled to meet and vote on whether to admit as many as two new teams for the 2007 season.
		Unlike other pro sports leagues, MLS is organized as a "single-entity" organization, meaning the league (and not the individual teams) contracts directly with the players.
	www.cbc.ca /sports/indepth/mls_toronto (1178 words)

	Sportscolumn.com - Sports News - Major League Baseball Needs a Salary Cap
		When professional sports leagues began, a cap was not necessary because players were earning salaries similar to that of the common working class.
		Before the compromise, nearly seventy-five percent of league revenues went towards player salaries and the remaining twenty-five percent was not sufficient for the operating costs of the league.
		This is because the benefits from the other leagues along with the negative affects of not having a cap are hard to ignore.
	www.sportscolumn.com /story/2005/11/25/203112/55 (2330 words)

	Major professional sports league - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The major professional sports leagues are those professional sports leagues with the largest fan bases and the most lucrative television contracts (and therefore, the largest revenues and player salaries).
		Although all four major leagues have had at least one franchise relocate to another city in the last decade except for the NFL (the Baltimore Ravens are the most recent NFL team to relocate and they are now in their 11th season), relocation of teams is generally uncommon compared to other leagues.
		The French (Ligue 1) and German (Bundesliga) top leagues are not generally regarded as being quite of the same calibre as the first three, but are usually defined as major leagues too, due to the stature of France and Germany in world football terms.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Major_professional_sports_league (7602 words)

	Resistance to Sports Psychology - Article by Bill Cole
		Sports professionals who assist athletes, coaches and parents in maximizing their mental sports performances are known by a variety of names and titles:
		Sports psychologists definitely help you think positive and maintain healthy, winning attitudes and beliefs, and they sometimes give you a pep talk, but they go far beyond that to give you assessment, structure, guidance, advice, perspective, confidence and proper mental performance techniques.
		The sports psychologist will balance and manage his or her advice and interventions around the approaches your other coaches are using with you.
	www.mentalgamecoach.com /articles/ResistanceToSportsPsychology.html (6200 words)

	Sports: WNBA has the game, not fans
		At 7:30 on a Friday night, you wouldn't expect to find the head of a major professional sports league hanging around her downtown Manhattan office taking phone calls from the media.
		The league is riding a wave of heightened attention in the wake of several rules changes this year, chief among them a shortened shot clock that has significantly quickened the pace of the games and sent scoring to an all-time high.
		Orender was in attendance in late May when the Minnesota Lynx set a league record for most points in a game, beating the Los Angeles Sparks 114-71 - also tying the league mark for most 3-pointers in a game with 15.
	www.sptimes.com /2006/07/12/news_pf/Sports/WNBA_has_the_game__no.shtml (697 words)

	Professional Basketball: Pitt grad Kantner first woman referee to be fired by NBA
		Stu Jackson, the league's senior vice president of operations, fired Kanter a week ago because she failed to progress sufficiently over five seasons.
		Rod Thorn was the league's vice president for operations and Darrell Garretson was the supervisor of officials in '97.
		Although Kanter received a written evaluation at the end of the 2000-01 season that said she "needed to show improvement," there was nothing in any of her evaluations that suggested she was in danger of being fired, she said.
	www.post-gazette.com /sports/other/20020718nba3.asp (672 words)

	New Rules Project - Community Owned Sports
		At the amateur level, organized sports, especially with the advent of girls' sports leagues, involves more active and ongoing citizen involvement than virtually any other activity, including politics and religion.
		But organized sports is becoming a business, and professional sports has become a business like any other: corporatized, absentee owned, increasingly mobile and disconnected from place.
		In response to Major League Baseball's plan to eliminate the Minnesota Twins from the league, Senator Paul Wellstone introduced legislation in November 2001 to amend the Clayton Act to make the antitrust laws applicable to the elimination or relocation of major league baseball franchises.
	www.newrules.org /sports/index.html (391 words)

	Sports Tickets, Concert Tickets & Theater Tickets @ BuySellTix.com
		Whether you are looking for sports tickets, concert tickets, theatre tickets, or you have an extra ticket that you want to sell, you are at the right place.
		We also have a large variety of Sports Tickets to choose from: MLB tickets, NASCAR tickets, NBA tickets, Final Four basketball tickets, NFL tickets, and NHL tickets.
		We also have any and all professional sports league playoff tickets.
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	Phoenix - Sports (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		In addition, nine Major League Baseball teams conduct spring training in the area.
		Glendale Arena is the home of the Phoenix Coyotes, a professional ice hockey team of the National Hockey League.
		The Arizona Sting are a professional lacrosse team from Glendale that play in the National Lacrosse League.
	phoenixcoyotesnhl.com /sports.html (327 words)

	Vegas nfl betting
		Las Vegas hosts several non-major-league sports teams: the Las Vegas Gladiators in the Arena Football League, the Las Vegas 51s, a Los Angeles Dodgers franchise in the Triple A Pacific Coast League, and the Las Vegas Wranglers of the ECHL hockey league.
		However, due to the perceived risks of professional sports being played in a city with legal sports betting, none of the major professional sports leagues have ever had a team in Las Vegas, with the notable exception of the Utah Jazz' half-season schedule at the Thomas and Mack Center in 1983-84.
		The possibility of relocating or adding a professional major-league team to Las Vegas is an ongoing discussion that the city leaders are having with several leagues.
	www.freewebs.com /maxmixer/vegas-nfl-betting (274 words)

	History of Sport Administration
		Nearly all contemporary major sports evolved, or were invented, in the city.
		The first master's programs were developed after requests from professionals in the sport industry indicated a need for people trained in the unique aspects of managing sport.
		In general, the sport industry is divided in commonly recognized segments, including, but not limited to, professional sport, intercollegiate athletics, voluntary athletic associations such as the NCAA and high school athletic associations, recreational sport, facility management, event management, promotions and marketing, health and fitness, and sporting goods retail operations just to name a few.
	www.louisville.edu /edu/hpes/spad/SPAD_hist.htm (376 words)

	Cavaliers: Black Heritage Celebration - Sports Legends
		He gained notoriety in the Negro Baseball Leagues and was the first of the old Negro League players to be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
		A Columbus native, Bill Willis was not able to play professional football until 1946, when he was asked by Paul Brown to join the Cleveland Browns along with Marion Motley as the only African-Americans on the team and in the league.
		The 1956 National League Rookie of the Year for the Cincinnati Reds, Frank Robinson is one of the greatest fl pioneers in Major League Baseball history and the only player to have won the MVP trophy, hit All-Star game homers, hit 200 or more home runs, and became the first fl manager in both leagues.
	www.nba.com /cavaliers/history/bhc_sportslegends.html (1591 words)

	Professional Sports
		Over the past 15 years, members of our firm have provided consulting services with respect to nearly two-thirds of the 115 existing major league professional sports franchises (Major League Baseball, National Football League, National Basketball Association, and National Hockey League), representing both the public and private sectors.
		Our firm is able to provide these services by drawing upon the years of experience of its professional staff.
		Being consistently involved in many major transactions throughout the country allows our professionals to obtain knowledge of both tangible and intangible components of completed transactions, the reasons for aborted and failed efforts, and changes in the marketplace affecting revenue streams of a variety of types of sports and event facilities.
	www.cslintl.com /professionalsports.htm (127 words)

	Twin Cities Spectator and Recreational Sports - Minnesota Vikings football, Minnesota Twins baseball, Timberwolves ...
		For spectator sports, there is an abundance of professional or top-level amateur sports to enjoy in the Twin Cities.
		There are major league franchises in baseball, basketball, football and hockey; plus, minor league teams in soccer, and also baseball.
		The newest professional team in the Twin Cities is the Minnesota Swarm of the National Lacrosse League.
	www.twincitiestours.com /sports.html (640 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > Sports -- NHL-League and union 'agree deal to end lockout'
		WASHINGTON –; The National Hockey League and its players' union have agreed in principle a new salary deal which would end a season-long lockout, the Los Angeles Times reported on Thursday.
		The new pact will feature a salary cap linked to 54 percent of league revenue and a 24 percent rollback of existing contracts and qualifying offers, the newspaper said, citing anonymous sources familiar with the negotiations.
		The owners-union dispute led to the NHL becoming the first major professional sports league to lose an entire season to a labor dispute.
	www.signonsandiego.com /sports/20050707-0508-sport-nhl-peace.html (284 words)

	Topps Sports Collectibles \| Home Page
		Topps is a leading producer of Collectible Trading Cards, currently marketing product in all four major North American professional sports – Major League Baseball, NFL Football, NBA Basketball and NHL Hockey.
		Each brand is specially designed to satisfy the collecting needs of specific types of collectors and sports fans.
		There is no doubt that our sports products have stood the test of time.
	www.toppscanada.com /SportsCollect/index.htm (239 words)

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