The NFL was already by far the healthiest professional sports league and it just got healthier.
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From a fairness perspective, every professional sports league with significant revenue sharing should have payroll floors.
"This isn't a cause, it's a professional sports league and will be marketed as such, " she says.
The NBA was the first professional sports league to partner with YouTube in 2005 to unveil the NBA Channel and to join their "Claim Your Content" program.
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As a result of today's announcement, the NBA D-League, the NBA's official minor league, will feature the most live games on YouTube by a major professional sports league.
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The White House event focused on successes already in place from Major League Baseball, the National Football League, the National Basketball Association, the National Hockey League and every other professional sports league in the country.
When the Baltimore Ravens face the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl XLVII in New Orleans on February 3rd, it will mark the first time in any North American professional sports league that 2 brothers will oppose each other as coaches of the respective teams vying for a World Championship.
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The two games that the teams will play against each other will mark the sixth edition of the event, which when launched in 2004, marked the first time that an American professional sports league played games in China. 2012 will be the first time that an NBA championship winning team has competed in the China Games.
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To see why it should stand firm, we need only return to the NBA. Though still a major force in professional sports, the league has somewhat lost its luster in recent years.
Not a month seems to pass in which there's not some new TV contract announced for a professional or college sports league, and the figures are astonishing billions of dollars, piled high over years, sometimes decades.
There are few major league professional sports where men and women compete directly, and stock car racing is expensive, competitive and potentially lethal.
It is the costliest punishment in the history of professional sports, and the league received plaudits and great PR by taking such a hard stance against those involved.
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Franchises in professional sports are purchased by owners with the understanding that the League subjects them to rules and restrictions.
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By the end of 1984 the league dissolved, and for many American sports fans the idea of professional soccer in the United States became a distant thought.
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The international energy drink maker owns a NASCAR team, a Major League Soccer (MLS) team and sponsors a slew of extreme sports and other professional athletes around the globe.
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Professional computer-gaming in the West has been around for several years, with outfits like the Electronic Sports League in Europe and Major League Gaming in America.
The NFLPA has been keen to note that Batterman was the lead outside labor counsel for the NHL when that league locked out the players in one of the most protracted and damaging work stoppages in all of professional sports.
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