1.   A pretty amateurish way to run a professional sport.

2.   Chess can never aspire to being a truly professional sport unless they are abolished.

3.   Extreme gaps in compensation, while inevitable in professional sports today, can be fatal in business.

4.   Governments are operating professional sports teams and running venture capital funds.

5.   He is the author of a dozen studies on the impact of stadiums and professional sports on metropolitan-area development.

6.   Only a few athletes make the grade in professional sports.

7.   Professional sport involves a relatively high risk of injury.

8.   Professional sport skims off all the best players.

9.   The groups can function like political campaigns or professional sports teams, carrying their own psychic rewards.

10.   The kind of money involved in professional sport makes cheating inevitable.