Or to support with tax dollars in any way the operations of a professional sports franchise.

It was, at the time, the highest amount ever paid for an American professional sports franchise.

Maybe we should start thinking about newspapers as more like professional sports franchises.

The city has formerly been home to three professional sports franchises.

No owner of an American professional sports franchise has been connected to his team for as long.

Local ownership of more than one professional franchise is not unprecedented.

The legislation includes sports from the high school and college level to the four professional franchises that play in the state.

He still runs his team more like a boarding school than a typical professional sports franchise.

They made their first appearance in 2002, their final year as a professional franchise.

Every professional sports franchise is now using computers to organize their collected information and data.