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[quote=""dmbishop""]Guess Mark has one less fan in Tampa. Personally, I'd rather see a site on a free platform that gets the job done and has updated stats and features as opposed to a custom designed site that is never updated and has little and often incorrect information on it...

I was watching the Southern Illinois/Naptown All-Stars game on ESPN3 and decided to switch to an FCS playoff game during halftime. When I tried to go back to the ABA game, it wasn't on the list in the player. The link was still on the homepage, but when I clicked it, it said the game would be availa...

[quote=""turbocamyes""]Height International Basketball Association

https://www.facebook.com/iHIBA[/quote]

Thanks! Hadn't seen that one yet.

Here's my latest list. Let me know if I'm missing anything. Current Leagues American Basketball Association American Professional Basketball League Central Basketball Association Eastern Basketball Alliance Florida Basketball Association Independent Basketball Association International Basketball Le...

[quote=""preeths""]Equipment costs, roster size, insurance, venue costs and history all play a part. Plus, teams can generally only play one football game a week, an average of one home gate every couple of weeks, where a baseball team might average six home games in a two-week s...

[quote=""preeths""]That's really what the semi-pros are doing. Just hard to earn any revenue doing it that way.[/quote] Is that more because the equipment costs and large roster size eat up the revenue so fast that only a nationwide megaleague can have anything left for player pa...

[quote=""Andy J""]I think Portland has it's own sports identity . I don't see how they could claim the Ducks or OSU. PSU is not major college football , it wouldn't take anything from a pro football team. It may not want to pay for an NFL team but would support a team that it doe...

Does anybody see smaller regional pro leagues with smaller payrolls (a la minor league baseball and lower level hockey) as a possibility or is outdoor football so expensive as to require any league paying its players anything to be as big as MLS to survive?

[quote=""Dan K""]You might be right about the NBDLA as its site appears to be gone (http://www.nbdla.com).[/quote]

Still there, you were off by a letter.

http://nabdla.com/

Admittedly, nothing very promising re: their chances of ever playing a game there either.

Here is my most recently updated list of leagues Full Season Fall-Winter American Basketball Association American Professional Basketball League National Basketball League of Canada National Basketball Association Development League Texas Basketball Association United Basketball League Early Season ...