111.   The public has little interest in what it considers to be the petty problems of professional team sport athletes.

112.   The sale of the Devils leaves the Islanders and Mets as the only local professional teams that are the subject of sales negotiations.

113.   The professional teams housed in Greater Boston are the primary sports interest, while Connecticut has the Hartford Whalers, and they are no life-and-death proposition.

114.   The Southland has become accustomed to having two professional teams in baseball, basketball, football and hockey.

115.   The stadium would house only one professional team but would remain open year-round for concerts, conventions and other sports, like college basketball or hockey games.

116.   There are publicly owned professional teams.

117.   There are several professional teams in the area to provide competition, and Zenga knows the coaches and directors, and the shortcuts to the stadiums.

118.   There is wan competition from the only professional team in the state, the NHL Whalers, and there is no other significant collegiate interloper.

119.   They view the U.S. as the one true professional team in the World Cup, although they are certain there are ways to beat them.

120.   They are first to suffer a clear salary rollback, under a fixed wage scale, the direct result of the bitter labor wars gripping American professional team sports.