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Sports Reference
Comprehensive statistical databases for professional baseball, football, basketball, hockey and soccer, as well as college football and basketball.
Spotrac
Comprehensive database providing salary and contract information for the major professional sports.

Rodney Fort's Sports Business Data
Very useful collection of sports business data maintained by Rodney Fort, a sports economist in the Sport Management program at the University of Michigan.
SPJ Toolbox - Sports Data
Hosted by the Society of Professional Journalists, the SPJ Toolbox plays an important role in providing journalists, students, professors and people in many professions with reliable resources for reporting, editing, verifying and visualizing information for complex stories.

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Communication & Sport
Communication & Sport (C&S) is a cutting-edge, peer-reviewed bimonthly journal that publishes research to foster international scholarly understanding of the nexus of communication and sport.
Sport communication research: A social network analysis
By Marion E. Hambrick. Sport Management Review Volume 20, Issue 2, April 2017, Pages 170-183. This article says that "the sport communication field expanded significantly from 1980 to 2015" and "the number of publications, collaborations, and authors per publication increased."

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