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<blockquote data-quote="helotaxi" data-source="post: 382630" data-attributes="member: 550915">Most of the funding for amatuer sports comes from the local level.&nbsp; For city rec leagues for example the city generally provides the locale (fields, goals etc...) and the officials are paid from team entry fees.&nbsp; Basically you pay to play.&nbsp; High school sports are funded by the school board and the state.&nbsp; NCAA is paid for mostly by sponsers and ticket sales (with football and basketball ticket sales funding most of the other sports).At the national and Olympic level the government monitors the whole thing but most all of the money comes from entry fees (for nationals) and corporate sponsorships.&nbsp; Amatuer status is a big thing in the US.&nbsp; With the exception of a few sports, you cannot be on the Olympic team if you are being paid for something related to your sport.&nbsp; This has been relaxed a lot in the last few years, but by and large, national level athletes are training and competing out of their own pocket and work at something else to earn a living.&nbsp; Once you get to that level a lot of your equipment and travel is free but direct compensation is pretty rare.Corporate sponsership is big business and falls under the company&#039;s advertising budget.&nbsp; You don&#039;t see much of it unless you are involved in the sport, which makes sense because you are the target audience that the sponser is advertising to.&nbsp; For example it doesn&#039;t make sense for Speedo to sponser basketball because they are a swimming equipment company.&nbsp; Go to a swim meet and you will see Speedo everywhere but Wilson will be nowhere to be found.The Special Olympics is a non-profit charitable organization.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="helotaxi, post: 382630, member: 550915"] Most of the funding for amatuer sports comes from the local level. For city rec leagues for example the city generally provides the locale (fields, goals etc...) and the officials are paid from team entry fees. Basically you pay to play. High school sports are funded by the school board and the state. NCAA is paid for mostly by sponsers and ticket sales (with football and basketball ticket sales funding most of the other sports). At the national and Olympic level the government monitors the whole thing but most all of the money comes from entry fees (for nationals) and corporate sponsorships. Amatuer status is a big thing in the US. With the exception of a few sports, you cannot be on the Olympic team if you are being paid for something related to your sport. This has been relaxed a lot in the last few years, but by and large, national level athletes are training and competing out of their own pocket and work at something else to earn a living. Once you get to that level a lot of your equipment and travel is free but direct compensation is pretty rare. Corporate sponsership is big business and falls under the company's advertising budget. You don't see much of it unless you are involved in the sport, which makes sense because you are the target audience that the sponser is advertising to. For example it doesn't make sense for Speedo to sponser basketball because they are a swimming equipment company. Go to a swim meet and you will see Speedo everywhere but Wilson will be nowhere to be found. The Special Olympics is a non-profit charitable organization. [/QUOTE]

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