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Texas is home of several national sports league franchises among other professional sports, being the second most populated U.S. state.Since the state is located in the South Central United States, most teams are part of the Central / South or West league divisions, with the notable exception of the NFL Dallas Cowboys, which is an NFC East franchise.
Professional sports leagues as known today evolved during the decades between the Civil War and World War II, when the railroad was the main means of intercity transportation. As a result, virtually all major league teams were concentrated in the northeastern quarter of the United States, within roughly the radius of a day-long train ride.
This article is a list of teams that play in the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada: Major League Baseball (MLB), the National Basketball Association (NBA), the National Football League (NFL), the National Hockey League (NHL), Major League Soccer (MLS), and the Canadian Football League (CFL).
The Houston Dash became the first expansion team in the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) and played its first season in 2014.. The expansion of the National Women's Soccer League began with the league's sophomore season in 2014, when the league expanded to a ninth team in Houston, and is an ongoing process that currently has seen five expansions, three direct or indirect relocations, and ...
As the sport has evolved, the collegiate brand now attracts thousands of players each year, and professional leagues continue to find ways to expand. “It wasn’t like that 15 years ago,” UNC ...
An expansion team is a new team in a sports league, usually from a city that has not hosted a team in that league before, formed with the intention of satisfying the demand for a local team from a population in a new area. Sporting leagues also hope that the expansion of their competition will grow the popularity of the sport generally.
The following list contains all urban areas in the United States and Canada containing at least one team in any of the six major leagues. The number of teams in the Big Four leagues (B4) (NFL, [2] MLB, [3] NBA, [4] and NHL [5]) and the Big Six leagues (B6) (aforementioned leagues plus MLS [6] and CFL) [7] are included in the table below.
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