Cordish has blamed this partly on the lack of a professional sports team at the arena.
The Nets claim to be the first major professional sports team to achieve carbon-neutral status.
At stake is an important source of value for nearly every professional sports team: taxpayer subsidies.
Manchester United is the first professional sports team to offer shares on an American market since the Cleveland Indians in 1998.
Of these 14 schools, 7 are located within states that have no professional sports team (Ole Miss, Mississippi State, Arkansas, Kentucky, Alabama, Auburn, South Carolina).
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Neither Louisville nor Lexington is home to a professional sports team.
For the first time (in the United States), a professional sports team has replaced the names of its players on their jerseys with their Twitter handles.
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The Packers are the only publicly-owned Big Four professional sports team in the U.S. By my count, 112, 158 shareholders own around 4.8 million shares of the team.
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If I was the GM of a professional sports team, I would look at film from after a tough loss to determine which players I would sign.
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It hasn't attracted a professional sports team as planners had hoped, but city officials said it has regularly booked such events as the Big 12 Conference's men's basketball tournament.
More recently, many states have begun offering a sort of middle ground: A variation on the traditional design -- professional sports team logos, calls to nature conservation, celebrations of the arts, etc.
But up until the Nets moved from New Jersey to Brooklyn this season, the borough had been without a professional sports team since the Dodgers left for Los Angeles in 1957.
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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.
To make matters worse, they play just a few miles away from perhaps the hottest team in professional sports these days, the Miami Heat.
In fact, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell recently said that every team in professional sports should use the Saints as a model for how to interact with their community.
In professional sports, the ownership and management of each team tries to build a customer base.
Whether in the workplace, professional sports, or your local community, team building requires a keen understanding of people, their strengths and what gets them excited to work with others.
As we both know from our own sports past and professional management experience, a true team finds its own rhythm in creating a winning tradition.
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.
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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The team is also interested in a second site near other professional-sports facilities in Minneapolis.
In fact, structuring a college athlete's diet is less complicated during the NCAA tournament because of the frequency of team meals, said Amy Bragg, president of the Collegiate and Professional Sports Dietitians Association.
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This is also a team that makes due without the high salaries and perks that some other professional sports teams enjoy.
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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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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If you are worn down by the cold enthusiasm of professional sports, the joyless grind through the schedule and the perfunctory fist-bumps of millionaires, here is a team unafraid to let their personalities slip through, and let a game feel like a game.
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