The major four professional sports leagues, NFL, MLB, NHL and NBA are multi-billion dollar enterprises. Some also quietly spend a lot of money lobbying government at the federal and state levels. Please read the article linked below:
https://www.si.com/mlb/2020/02/14/nfl-nba-nhl-lobbying-us-government (Links to an external site.)
For your essay, use this article and other scholarly articles to determine the following:
1) is it an appropriate use of their resources
2) should they spend more or less resources on lobbying government
3) are the topics they are lobbying for or against relevant and important
4) what could they do with that money instead
5) what are things they could lobby for instead
