Talk:Professional sports

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This article is WAY' to oriented towards British/European sports. Sorry folks, but NOT EVERYONE IS EUROPEAN. Somebody please add in some American sports, like Baseball, Basketball, American Footbal..... -Gamingboy

Seems more Austocentric to me 206.11.112.251 19:54, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
If people want more sports in here ... put them in then? People usually contribute what they know or have an interest in.Boomshanka

this article is seriously lacking... seriously eurocentric also. Volleyball, Track & Field, arent even in the list. I was looking for sportsmanship and it linked here. This doesn't link there. The Criticism part II is heavily not NPOV. Dwarf Kirlston 19:03, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Lacking Cycling as well. It has it's own long tradition of professionalism. But at the moment the entire article is more or less a non-comprehensive list of sports where professionals exist. I miss a general discussion of the aspects of professionalism in sports. Sorry, for only complaining and not helping out myself. jzeller 22:28, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
I'm not sure what this article is designed to achieve ... comparisons between amateurism and professionalism? historical development? Maybe a clearer definition needs to be provided ...Boomshanka

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[edit] Article title

Per Wikipedia:Naming conventions, article titles should be singular, so this article should be moved to Professional sport. This applies equally to most other articles ending in "sports" (though not "List of ..."). Hairy Dude 17:50, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

I agree. Can an admin sort this out, please? Avengah (talk) 07:39, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
I remind you two British chaps that this is an article in American English. And in American English, “professional sport” does not normally function as the same abstractive collective as “professional sports”. —SlamDiego←T 09:06, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Woah

This article needs a lot of work, including defining what the article itself is trying to achieve. Is it a list of professional sports (would be a long list)? Information about historical roots of professionalism in each sport? The intricacies and logistics of money in each sport/events eg sportsperson sponsorship at olympics... Maybe a table of top/average salarys per sport would be beneficial to see what sorta money we're talking about. Any ideas?

[edit] Global perspectives task force

As other editors have mentioned, this article needs a lot of work. At the most basic level, a number of major professional sports are not listed. Improvement of this article falls under the global perspectives task force of the project on countering systemic bias, so I am going to try to start some expansion along those lines. Would love some help from anyone interested in making this article more comprehensive! Thanks. --Mackabean 01:43, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Reason for criticism

Various reasons are listed, including Horse racing, Boxing, Wrestling, and Blood sports without any explanation why they are reasons for criticism. In fact I don't understand why sports like boxing is one of the criticisms. May anyone add the reasons if they are really some criticisms? Salt 07:19, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

  • I removed the whole criticism section.. No sources were provided for any of it and the section just listed various sports as criticisms.. Why? I don't feel that section as it was written belongs in this article. Spanneraol 22:05, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

Where is the NFL??? Its the biggest money pro sport in the world.