Baseball

Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...

• Minor league baseball
  Minor league baseball
  Minor league baseball is a hierarchy of professional baseball leagues in the Americas that compete at levels below Major League Baseball and provide opportunities for player development. All of the minor leagues are operated as independent businesses...
  
  
  • International League
    International League
    The International League is a minor league baseball league that operates in the eastern United States. Like the Pacific Coast League and the Mexican League, it plays at the Triple-A level, which is one step below Major League Baseball. It was so named because it had teams in both the United States...
    
     (Class-AAA)
  • Mexican League (Class-AAA)
  • Pacific Coast League
    Pacific Coast League
    The Pacific Coast League is a minor-league baseball league operating in the Western, Midwestern and Southeastern United States. Along with the International League and the Mexican League, it is one of three leagues playing at the Triple-A level, which is one step below Major League Baseball.The...
    
     (Class-AAA)
  • Eastern League (Class-AA)
  • Southern League
    Southern League (baseball)
    The Southern League is a minor league baseball league which operates in the Southern United States. It is classified a Double-A league. The original league was formed in , and shut down in . A new league, the Southern Association, was formed in , consisting of twelve teams...
    
     (Class-AA)
  • Texas League
    Texas League
    The Texas League is a minor league baseball league which operates in the South Central United States. It is classified a Double-A league. The league was founded in 1888 and ran through 1892...
    
     (Class-AA)
  • California League
    California League
    The California League is a Class A Advanced minor league baseball league which operates throughout the state of California. Before 2002, it was classified as a "High-A" league, indicating its status as a Class A league with the highest level of competition within that classification, and the fifth...
    
     (Class-A-Advanced)
  • Carolina League
    Carolina League
    The Carolina League is a minor league baseball affiliation which operates in the South Atlantic Coast of the United States. Before 2002, it was classified as a "High A" league, indicating its status as a Class A league with the highest level of competition within that classification, and the fifth...
    
     (Class-A-Advanced)
  • Florida State League
    Florida State League
    The Florida State League is a Class A-Advanced minor league baseball league operating in the state of Florida. They are one of three leagues currently operating in Class A-Advanced, the third highest of six classifications of minor leagues...
    
     (Class-A-Advanced)
  • Midwest League
    Midwest League
    The Midwest League is a Class-A minor league baseball league which operates in the Midwestern United States.-History:Six teams – the Belleville Stags, the Centralia Cubs, the Marion Indians, the Mattoon Indians or East Frankfort White Sox, the Mount Vernon Braves, and the West Frankfort...
    
     (Class-A)
  • South Atlantic League
    South Atlantic League
    The South Atlantic League is a minor league baseball league based chiefly in the Southeastern United States, with the exception of three teams in the Mid-Atlantic States...
    
     (Class-A)
  • New York – Penn League (Short-Season A)
  • Northwest League
    Northwest League
    The Northwest League of Professional Baseball is a Class A-Short Season minor baseball league. The league is the descendant of the Western International League which ran as a class B league from 1937-1951 and class A from 1952-1954...
    
     (Short-Season A)
  • Appalachian League
    Appalachian League
    The Appalachian League is a Rookie-class minor league that began play in 1937 with one year of inactivity in 1956. From 1937 to 1962, it was a Class D League. Teams are located in the Appalachian regions of Virginia, North Carolina, West Virginia and Tennessee...
    
     (Rookie-Advanced)
  • Arizona League
    Arizona League
    The Arizona League is a minor league baseball league that operates in and around Phoenix, Arizona. It is a rookie-level professional baseball league run by Major League Baseball since 1989. Games are played at the spring training complexes of the team's parent organizations from mid-June until the...
    
     (Rookie-Advanced)
  • Gulf Coast League
    Gulf Coast League
    The Gulf Coast League is a minor league baseball league which operates in Florida. It is a Rookie League, with a season running from mid-June to late August. The season is 60 games long and teams in the league are divided into three divisions, East, North and South...
    
     (Rookie)
  • Pioneer Baseball League (Rookie-Advanced)
  • Dominican Summer League
    Dominican Summer League
    The Dominican Summer League is a branch of affiliated minor league baseball which is played in the Dominican Republic. The league was founded in 1985. The 2011 72-game season begins May 28 and ends August 20...
    
     (Rookie)
  • Venezuelan Summer League
    Venezuelan Summer League
    The Venezuelan Summer League is a minor league baseball rookie league which operates in Carabobo and Aragua states, Venezuela.The VSL was created in 1997, after several operational years of the Major League Baseball's academies in the country...
    
     (Rookie)
  • Arizona Fall League
    Arizona Fall League
    The Arizona Fall League is an off-season league owned and operated by Major League Baseball which operates during the fall in Arizona, United States at five spring training complexes...
    
     (off-season)
  • Colombian Professional Baseball League
    Colombian Professional Baseball League
    The Colombian Professional Baseball League, also known as the Colombian Winter League, is a professional baseball league based in Colombia...
    
     (off-season)
  • Dominican Winter Baseball League (off-season)
  • Mexican Pacific League (off-season)
  • Puerto Rico Baseball League (off-season)
  • Venezuelan Professional Baseball League
    Venezuelan Professional Baseball League
    The Venezuelan Professional Baseball League or Liga Venezolana de Béisbol Profesional is the highest level baseball league in Venezuela.-Brief history:Baseball exploded in Venezuela in 1941, following the world championship in Havana....
    
     (off-season)
• Independent league baseball
  • American Association
  • Atlantic League
    Atlantic League of Professional Baseball
    The Atlantic League of Professional Baseball is a professional, independent baseball organization located primarily in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern United States, especially the greater metropolitan areas of the Northeast megalopolis. It operates in cities not served by Major or Minor League...
    
    
  • Can-Am League
  • Frontier League
    Frontier League
    The Frontier League, based in Sauget, Illinois, is a professional, independent baseball organization located in the Midwestern United States, Western Pennsylvania, and Southern Ontario. It operates mostly in cities not served by Major or Minor League Baseball teams and is not affiliated with either...
    
    
  • North American League
    North American League
    The North American League is an independent baseball league that began play in the 2011 season...
    
    
  • Pecos League
    Pecos League
    The Pecos League is an independent professional baseball league Headquartered in Houston, Tx. which operates in cities in desert mountain regions throughout New Mexico, Southern Colorado and West Texas. Pecos Teams play in cities that do not have Major or Minor League Baseball teams and is not...
    
    

Basketball

Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

• Continental Basketball Association
  Continental Basketball Association
  The Continental Basketball Association was a professional men's basketball league in the United States, which has been on hiatus since the 2009 season.- History :...
  
   (1946-2008)
• American Basketball Association
  American Basketball Association (2000–present)
  The American Basketball Association, often abbreviated as ABA, is a semi-professional men's basketball league that was founded in 1999. The current ABA has no affiliation with the original American Basketball Association that merged with the National Basketball Association in 1976...
  
   (2000-present)
• Eastern Basketball Alliance
  Eastern Basketball Alliance
  The Eastern Basketball Alliance is a professional men's winter basketball league. Games are played on the weekends and the season is approximately 4 months long, January through April.-History:...
  
   (1996-present)
• Global Professional Basketball League
  Global Professional Basketball League
  The Global Professional Basketball League, often abbreviated to the GPBL, is an American men's semi-professional minor league basketball organization. The league's inaugural season will start in November 2010, with teams based in cities across the United States...
  
   (2009-present)
• International Basketball League
  International Basketball League
  The International Basketball League was a short lived professional basketball league in the United States. The IBL was headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland. The league started in 1999 and ended in 2001.-History:...
  
   (2005-present)
• Iowa Basketball Exposure League
  Iowa Basketball Exposure League
  The Iowa Basketball Exposure League is a semi-professional basketball league based in Des Moines, Iowa. The IBEL announced that the Central Iowa Hybrids, Iowa Wind Turbines, and Des Moines Hydrogen would join the league for the late spring 2010 season....
  
   (2010-present)
• Kentucky Basketball Developmental League
  Kentucky Basketball Developmental League
  The Kentucky Basketball Developmental League, often abbreviated to the KBDL, formerly known as the Kentucky International Basketball Association , is a professional basketball minor league based in the state of Kentucky, United States. Its stated goal is to be a minor league to develop American...
  
   (2004-2010)
• National Alliance of Basketball Leagues
  National Alliance of Basketball Leagues
  The National Alliance of Basketball Leagues is the descendant of the industrial-based basketball clubs that formed into the National Basketball League in the early 1930s. The league was the brainchild of Indianapolis grocer Irv Kautsky, who sponsored the Indianapolis Kautskys club team, and...
  
  
• National Professional Basketball League
  National Professional Basketball League
  National Professional Basketball League was a pro basketball league in the USA in . The league played just one season, with no championship finals ever being staged. Grand Rapids, Kansas City, Louisville and Saint Paul all disbanded during the season; Denver moved to Evansville...
  
   (1950-1951, 2007-2008)
• NBA Development League
  NBA Development League
  The NBA Development League, or NBA D-League, is the National Basketball Association's official minor league basketball organization. Known until summer 2005 as the National Basketball Development League , the NBA D-League started with eight teams in the fall of 2001...
  
   (2001-present)
• Premier Basketball League
  Premier Basketball League
  The Premier Basketball League, often abbreviated to the PBL, is a men's professional basketball minor league in the United States that began play in January 2008. The league had ten teams for the 2008 season and thirteen teams for the 2009 season. Nine teams from Canada and the United States...
  
   (2007-present)
• United Basketball League
  United Basketball League
  The United Basketball League is a spring professional minor basketball league in the Southern United States. Originally founded by Mac Claire in 2006 as the Regional Basketball League, the UBL is scheduled to begin its inaugural season in the spring of 2008...
  
   (2006-Present)
• United States Basketball League
  United States Basketball League
  The United States Basketball League , often abbreviated to the USBL, was a professional men's spring basketball league. The league was formed in 1985. The final champions are the Kansas Cagerz, who won the title game on July 1, 2007.-History:...
  
   (1985-1988, 1989-2007)
• West Coast Pro Basketball League
  West Coast Pro Basketball League
  The West Coast Professional Basketball League, often abbreviated to the WCBL, is an international professional men's spring basketball league featuring teams from the West Coast of the United States and China.-Current clubs:...
  
   (2007-present)
• World Basketball Association
  World Basketball Association
  The World Basketball Association, often abbreviated to the WBA, is a professional men's spring basketball league in the United States.-History:The WBA was conceived in 2004, with seven teams scheduled to play...
  
   (2004-present)
• Metro-East Basketball League (2010-present)

American football

American football

American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...

• American Indoor Football Association
• American Professional Football League
  American Professional Football League
  The American Professional Football League is a Midwestern United States-based indoor football league founded in 2003. The league consists of professional and semi-professional teams, with a few core teams that play a full 10 game schedule and other teams that play partial schedules. At the end of...
  
  
• Arena Football League
  Arena Football League
  The Arena Football League is the highest level of professional indoor American football in the United States. It is currently the second longest running professional football league in the United States, after the National Football League. It was founded in 1987 by Jim Foster...
  
  
• Continental Indoor Football League
• Indoor Football League
  Indoor Football League
  The Indoor Football League began in 1999 as an offshoot of the troubled Professional Indoor Football League. Keary Ecklund, the owner of the Green Bay Bombers and Madison Mad Dogs, left the PIFL after its first, financially-troubled, season to start his own league. Unlike the PIFL, the IFL was an...
  
  
• North American Football League
• Southern Indoor Football League
  Southern Indoor Football League
  The Southern Indoor Football League was an indoor football league based in the Southern and Eastern United States. The most recent incarnation of the league was a consolidation of an earlier league of the same name that was formed by Thom Hager along with Dan Blum, Robert Winfrey and Dan Ryan in...
  
  
• United Football League
• Professional Development Football League

Ice hockey

Ice hockey

Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...

• American Hockey League
  American Hockey League
  The American Hockey League is a 30-team professional ice hockey league based in the United States and Canada that serves as the primary developmental circuit for the National Hockey League...
  
  
• Canadian Hockey League
  Canadian Hockey League
  The Canadian Hockey League is an umbrella organization that represents the three Canadian-based major junior ice hockey leagues for players 16 to 20 years of age. The CHL was founded in 1975 as the Canadian Major Junior Hockey League, and is composed of its three member leagues, the Western Hockey...
  
   (an Umbrella of three Major Junior Hockey Leagues)
  • Ontario Hockey League
    Ontario Hockey League
    The Ontario Hockey League is one of the three Major Junior ice hockey leagues which constitute the Canadian Hockey League. The league is for players aged 15-20.The OHL also operates under the Ontario Hockey Federation of Hockey Canada....
    
     (Major Junior)
  • Quebec Major Junior Hockey League
    Quebec Major Junior Hockey League
    The Quebec Major Junior Hockey League is one of the three major junior ice hockey leagues which constitute the Canadian Hockey League...
    
     (Major Junior)
  • Western Hockey League
    Western Hockey League
    The Western Hockey League is a major junior ice hockey league based in Western Canada and the Northwestern United States. The WHL is one of three leagues that constitute the Canadian Hockey League as the highest level of junior hockey in Canada...
    
     (Major Junior)
• Central Hockey League
  Central Hockey League
  The Central Hockey League is a mid-level professional hockey league, owned by Global Entertainment Corporation. Its current champions are the Bossier-Shreveport Mudbugs, which defeated the Colorado Eagles four games to three in the 2011 playoffs....
  
  
• ECHL
  ECHL
  The ECHL is a mid-level professional ice hockey league based in Princeton, New Jersey with teams scattered across the United States...
  
   (Formerly: East Coast Hockey League)
• Federal Hockey League
  Federal Hockey League
  The Federal Hockey League is a professional ice hockey league with teams in the Northeastern United States and Ontario. The FHL began operations in November 2010. Don Kirnan serves as the league's first commissioner....
  
  
• United Hockey League
  United Hockey League
  The United Hockey League was a low-level professional ice hockey league , with teams in the United States...
  
  
• All American Hockey League
• Southern Professional Hockey League
  Southern Professional Hockey League
  The Southern Professional Hockey League is a low-level professional ice hockey league based in Charlotte, North Carolina, with teams located in the southeastern United States.- History :...
  
  
• USHL (Junior A Tier 1)

Association Football (Soccer)

• North American Soccer League (FIFA Division II)
• USL Pro
  USL Pro
  The USL Professional Division, commonly known as USL Pro , is a professional men's soccer league in the United States that began its inaugural season in 2011....
  
   (FIFA Division III)
• USL Premier Development League
  USL Premier Development League
  The USL Premier Development League is the amateur league of the United Soccer Leagues in the United States, Canada, and Bermuda, forming part of the American Soccer Pyramid...
  
   (FIFA Developmental Division)
• National Premier Soccer League
  National Premier Soccer League
  The National Premier Soccer League is a United States soccer league recognized by the United States Soccer Federation and FIFA as a Division IV league...
  
  
• Pacific Coast Soccer League
  Pacific Coast Soccer League
  The Pacific Coast Soccer League is a soccer league featuring teams from British Columbia, although the league has also featured teams from Washington in the past as well...
  
  
• W-League
  W-League
  The USL W-League is a national women's soccer league in the United States on the 2nd level of women's soccer in the United States soccer pyramid, alongside the Women's Premier Soccer League and below Women's Professional Soccer....
  
   (FIFA women's Division II)
• Women's Premier Soccer League
  Women's Premier Soccer League
  The Women's Premier Soccer League is a national women's soccer league in the United States and Puerto Rico, and is on the 2nd level of women's soccer in the United States soccer pyramid, alongside the W-League and below Women's Professional Soccer....
  
   (FIFA women's Division II)

Auto racing

Auto racing

Auto racing is a motorsport involving the racing of cars for competition. It is one of the world's most watched televised sports.-The beginning of racing:...

• ARCA
• American Speed Association
  American Speed Association
  The American Speed Association is a sanctioning body of motorsports in the United States formed in 1968. The Association was based in Pendleton, Indiana and currently is headquarters in Daytona Beach, Florida. ASA was most famous for a national touring series which began in 1973 but was...
  
  
• CRA
  Champion Racing Association
  Champion Racing Association is an auto racing sanctioning body in the United States founded in 1997 by Glenn Luckett and R. J. Scott. All CRA cars must use Hoosier Racing Tires.-Super Series:...
  
  
• Indy Pro Series
  Indy Pro Series
  Firestone Indy Lights is a developmental automobile racing series sanctioned by IndyCar. Previously, another series named Indy Lights filled the same role for CART and ran from 1986 to 1993 as the American Racing Series and Dayton Indy Lights from 1991 to 2001...
  
  
• NASCAR Nationwide Series
• NASCAR Camping World Truck Series
• NASCAR Canadian Tire Series
  NASCAR Canadian Tire Series
  The NASCAR Canadian Tire Series , commonly abbreviated as NCATS, is a national NASCAR racing series in Canada that is based from the old CASCAR Super Series which was founded in 1981.-History:...
  
  
• NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour
  Whelen Modified Tour
  The NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour is a stock car racing series owned and operated by NASCAR in the Modified division. The Modified division is NASCAR's oldest division, and its one of two open-wheeled divisions...
  
  
• NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour
  Whelen Southern Modified Tour
  The NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour is a stock car racing series owned by NASCAR and operated in the Southeastern United States as part of its Modified Division...
  
  
• NASCAR K&N Pro Series East
• NASCAR K&N Pro Series West

Rugby union

Rugby union

Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...

• Vodacom Cup
  Vodacom Cup
  The Vodacom Cup is an annual rugby union competition in South Africa which is contested between February and May. The cup is the third most prestigious competition in rugby union in South Africa, behind Super Rugby and the Currie Cup. It runs at roughly the same time as Super Rugby and serves as an...
  
   (South Africa; also includes one team each from Namibia and Argentina)

Baseball

Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...

• Baseball Challenge League
  Baseball Challenge League
  The is a baseball league in Japan. The abbreviated designation "."-Teams:-External links:*...
  
   (Japan)
• Eastern League
  Eastern League (Japanese baseball)
  The is one of the two minor leagues of Japanese professional baseball. The league is owned and managed by the Central League.-History:The league was created in 1955, and contained the minor league teams of the seven professional teams that had their homefields in the Eastern region of Japan...
  
   (Japan)
• Kansai Independent Baseball League
  Kansai Independent Baseball League
  The is a professional baseball league in Japan. Its debut season was in .The league's activities became public in 2008. Plans to form the league were announced at a press conference on March 6. On July 30, the names of the four teams were released....
  
   (Japan)
• Shikoku-Kyūshū Island League
  Shikoku-Kyushu Island League
  The is a baseball league on the islands of Shikoku in Japan. Neither the Central nor the Pacific League has a team based in Shikoku.IBLJ Inc. operates the league...
  
   (Japan)
• Western League
  Western League (Japanese baseball)
  The is one of the two minor leagues of Japanese professional baseball. The league is owned and managed by the Pacific League.-History:The league was created in 1952 as the Kansai Farm League, and contained the minor league teams of the seven professional teams that had their homefields in the...
  
   (Japan)

Basketball

Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

• National Basketball League (China
  People's Republic of China
  China , officially the People's Republic of China , is the most populous country in the world, with over 1.3 billion citizens. Located in East Asia, the country covers approximately 9.6 million square kilometres...
  
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• Philippine Basketball League
  Philippine Basketball League
  The Philippine Basketball League is a commercial semi-professional basketball league in the Philippines. The league is composed of several commercial teams with several collegiate and provincial stars.-History:...
  
   (Philippines
  Philippines
  The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...
  
  , 1983-present)
• PBA Developmental League
  PBA Developmental league
  The PBA Developmental League, or PBA D-League, is the Philippine Basketball Association's official minor league basketball organization.- History :...
  
   (Philippines
  Philippines
  The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...
  
  , 2011-present)

Australian Football

• TAC Cup
  TAC Cup
  The TAC Cup is an under 18 Australian rules football representative competition held in Victoria, Australia. It is based on geographic regions throughout country Victoria and metropolitan Melbourne with each team representing 12 Victorian regions....
  
   (Victoria)
• South Australian National Football League
  South Australian National Football League
  The South Australian National Football League is an Australian rules football league based in the Australian state of South Australia. It is also the governing body for the sport of Australian rules football in South Australia....
  
   (South Australia
  South Australia
  South Australia is a state of Australia in the southern central part of the country. It covers some of the most arid parts of the continent; with a total land area of , it is the fourth largest of Australia's six states and two territories.South Australia shares borders with all of the mainland...
  
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• Victorian Football League
  Victorian Football League
  The Victorian Football League which evolved from the former Victorian Football Association , taking its new name as from the 1996 season, is the premier Australian rules football league in Victoria The Victorian Football League (VFL) which evolved from the former Victorian Football Association...
  
   (Victoria)
• West Australian Football League
  West Australian Football League
  The West Australian Football League is an Australian rules football league based in Perth, Western Australia. The WAFL is the second-most popular in the state, behind the nation-wide Australian Football League...
  
   (Western Australia
  Western Australia
  Western Australia is a state of Australia, occupying the entire western third of the Australian continent. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Great Australian Bight and Indian Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east and South Australia to the south-east...
  
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Basketball

Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

• Conference Basketball League (New Zealand
  New Zealand
  New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
  
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• State Basketball League
  State Basketball League (Western Australia)
  The State Basketball League is Western Australia's second-tiered, semi-professional basketball competition. There are two competitions in the SBL. One for the mens and one for the women's...
  
   (Australia
  Australia
  Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
  
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