[Sleeper]

Diversity in sports should be driven by market forces, rather than by a forced distribution, allowing for consumer choice to dictate what people want to see. For instance, the US has every major professional sport, but the market determines which ones are the most successful by the tickes that are sold. In other countries, especially those where the populace lacks disposable income, the choices are greatly reduced (soccer and baseball as an example) and are driven by the cost to participate. The more limited the choices, the greater the passion for the choices that exist. That is why the balance of the world finds soccer (football) to be so important, yet the US is just now getting interested in the World Cup and professional soccer as a viable enterprise within the US. Even in the UK, which has a similar socio-economic structure to the US, soccer players are high-profile celebrities. In the US, soccer players are down the list from Football (college and pro), Baseball, Hockey, Basketball.