All 122 teams in North America's four major professional sports leagues have official Twitter accounts.
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The NBA stands apart from other professional sports leagues because of the popularity of gaming with its athletes.
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The concept of game day jersey sponsorship is not new to the business of U.S. professional sports leagues.
The decision of the court will have long-reaching effects for not only the NFL but all professional sports leagues.
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Athletes either receive income from playing in professional sports leagues or from sponsors.
Collins, 34, becomes the first active player in one of four major U.S. professional sports leagues to come out as gay.
George Cohen, a respected mediator who has experience in disputes with professional sports leagues and their unions, threw out a lifeline.
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Various professional sports leagues have attempted to set a level playing field by testing for drug use and suspending those found guilty.
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The NFL and other professional sports leagues have generally opposed lifting blackout rules, arguing that they help teams sell seats for home games.
Tom Coburn (R-OK) introduced a bill to eliminate the tax-exempt status of professional sports leagues, such as the NFL (yes, Virginia, the NFL is tax-exempt).
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This is great for the professional sports leagues and teams, as well as college conferences, who are getting fat increases in their broadcasting rights fees.
Get rid of it, he argues, and EA's sports business will be able to get better terms when negotiating for licenses from professional sports leagues.
The Northwest also has a general mistrust of professional sports leagues.
For starters, professional sports leagues would have to be convinced that a team owner using the exchange in that manner wasn't in effect betting against his own team.
It has become such a big business in fact that professional sports leagues like the NFL have sued smaller companies for the rights to produce merchandise with team logos.
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Currently, the only revenue sharing in the NBA calls for all 30 teams to split national television revenue, as is the case in the other three major professional sports leagues, and sharing of luxury tax proceeds, a shallow pool.
NeuLion now provides similar services for other professional sports leagues, including the NFL and NBA. A recent partnership with the UFC lets mixed-martial arts fans purchase a series of fights to watch with more camera angles, audio feeds, and interactive options than they could otherwise.
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Soccer fans in the United States who have grown up in a nation filled with college athletics and closed professional sports leagues while simultaneously watching open soccer leagues with promotion and relegation elsewhere in the world have a unique perspective on how professional sports can be run.
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Other professional-sports leagues have long dealt with off-the-field issues among their owners.
That will help him with the little matter of boosting soccer in the U.S. so the MLS can launch an assault on the country's entrenched professional team-sports leagues.
The reality is that there are more than 4, 000 professional athletes in major U.S. sports leagues and only a small percentage get in trouble.
Previous Seattle expansion franchises in the major American professional sports had won an average of 37% of their games their first three years in their respective leagues.
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"The real problem with spectator numbers and media reach is that the European leagues are the leading football propositions in the region, " said Jamie Cunningham, chief executive of Professional Sports Group.
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