While some of the big players in the industry include football, basketball, baseball, and soccer, there is also a huge appeal for sports such as cricket and hockey. The industry can also be broken down into the aforementioned team sports, and individual sports such as tennis and golf.

Not all professional sports are team sports. Individual sports such as golf, tennis, and motorsports have their own governance structures as well. Competitions often take the forms of tours and tournaments such as the Professional Golfers’ Association (PGA) TOUR, Wimbledon, or the XFINITY racing series.