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By the early 21st century the Olympic Games and all the major team sports accepted professional competitors. However, there are still some sports which maintain a distinction between amateur and professional status with separate competitive leagues. The most prominent of these are golf and boxing. In particular, only amateur boxers could ...
List of professional sports teams in the United States and Canada; List of U.S. and Canadian cities by number of major professional sports teams; National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) List of sports; List of sports attendance figures; List of attendance figures at domestic professional sports leagues; List of professional sports ...
Professional basketball has the advantages of much smaller rosters than other professional sports, allowing the sport to be viable in smaller cities than other sports. Professional basketball leagues of varying caliber can be found around the world, especially in Europe and South America.
New York State Professional Basketball League (NYSPL), 1946–1949; Continental Basketball Association (CBA), 1946–2009; [1] originally named Eastern Pennsylvania Basketball League, then Eastern Professional Basketball League. Professional Basketball League of America (PBLA), 1947–1948; National Industrial Basketball League (NIBL), 1947–1961
This is a list of professional sports leagues by revenue. Individual sports are not included. The "Season" column refers to the sports league season for which financial data is available and referenced, which is usually not the most recently completed season of competition. Revenue is listed in millions of euros. The "Tier Level" column refers ...
Professional sports leagues in the United States includes major professional sports leagues, other highest-level professional leagues, and minor leagues.. Based on revenue, the major professional sports leagues in the United States comprises the following: Major League Baseball (MLB), Major League Soccer (MLS), National Basketball Association (NBA), National Football League (NFL), and National ...
Professional sports leagues are organized in numerous ways. The two most significant types are one that developed in Europe, characterized by a tiered structure using promotion and relegation in order to determine participation in a hierarchy of leagues or divisions, and a North American originated model characterized by its use of franchises, closed memberships, and minor leagues.
The American Basketball Association, founded in 1967, subsequently joined the NBA in the 1976 ABA-NBA merger. The second-oldest professional basketball league in the world is the Philippine Basketball Association. The PBA was long considered to be the best league in Asia, but the Chinese Basketball Association has grown tremendously in recent ...