Professional Sports

5. Concern for _____ procedures is a secondary purpose of pro sports leagues (1)
9. A single group or individual owns the league and all teams (A)
10. 2022 expansion football league (A)
13. Four categories of ownership rules and policies (A)
15. Professional sports league with no salary cap (A)
17. An emerging source of revenue (1)
18. The league collects revenues and distributes them to each club in this type of ownership structure (1)
21. Year in which the Sports Broadcasting Act was passed, banning the airing of NFL games on Saturdays throughout most of the fall (#)
23. Revenues paid directly to the team (1)
26. Type of revenue sharing (2)
28. a legal contract written by an employer and a union representing the employees, present in all big four sports (A)

1. New age limit for players directly entering the NBA 2024 (1)
2. Consequence for exceeding a salary cap or threshold (2)
3. MLB minimum salary 2022 (#)
4. Special type of contract in the NBA that allows players to earn more salary (1)
6. Current commissioner of the NFL (1)
7. Components of professional sports which ensure every team has the financial opportunity to field a competitive team (2)
8. _____ survival: a purpose of professional sports (1)
11. Along with a single entity structure, is another structure of leagues (1)
12. Minimum salary designation for a team (2)
14. Revenues directly paid to the league (1)
16. _____ of SES as clubs can be placed in preferred cities (1)
19. _____ sharing: designed to narrow the gaps in the financial resources of the participating teams (1)
20. NFL expansion team 2002 (1)
22. Professional sports league that is a single entity structure (A)
24. Restriction on the maximum amount any team in a league can pay to players (2)
25. Statutes that prohibit the restriction of trade, present in all professional leagues except the MLB (1)
27. Professional sport association with the highest average salary per player, in the USA (A)