Queens Park Rangers Football Club plays football (soccer) in the English Football League Championship (formerly known as Division 1). The club, known as QPR, was originally formed in 1882 by boys from the Droop Street Board School. The students attended St. Jude's Institute and were known in those very early days as St. Judes. In 1886 the team took the name of Queens Park Rangers after merging with a team called Christchurch Rangers. The team plays at the 19,148 capacity Loftus Road Stadium in London. In 2007 QPR was purchased by Formula One tycoons Bernie Ecclestone and Flavio Briatore, who sold a 20% stake to the family of steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal in December of the same year.

Premier & Curzons Fitness Clubs operates some 30 Premier Club fitness centers throughout Canada. The company also operates women-only Mademoiselle Clubs, often as club-within-a-club facilities inside Premier Clubs; Mademoiselle Clubs cater to women who prefer to work out without concern of being seen by members of the opposite sex. Club programs and features include day spas, senior programs, yoga classes, indoor running tracks, swimming, and racquet sports.

DreamNex knows how to combine business and pleasure. The French company operates SexyAvenue.com, a leading European adult-content Internet site offering erotic photos and videos, lingerie and sex toys, and an online dating service. Its Belgian subsidiary, Enjoy, hosts Europe's largest network of erotic Webcams. DreamNex offers its Web site in five languages and claims nearly 50 million visits per month and 3,000 transactions per day. Photo and video distribution accounts for the more than three-quarters of the company's revenue. About half that revenue comes from French customers. Founder, chairman, and CEO Patrice Macar and other members of management hold about 54% of DreamNex.

Preferred Hotel Group was founded in 1968. Preferred Hotel Group operates a network of independent luxury hotel brands that collectively include approximately 700 properties in some 75 countries. Brands include Preferred Boutique, Preferred Hotels & Resorts, Summit Hotels & Resorts, and Sterling Hotels. Its Historic Hotels of America, an affiliation of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, includes more than 200 historically significant hotels. The company provides sales, marketing, and technology solutions to its properties, as well as reservation and guest support services. The Preferred Hotel Group operates from some 30 worldwide sales offices.

Harlem Globetrotters International owns and operates the famous Harlem Globetrotters basketball troupe, known for its display of outrageous hoops skills, stars and stripes uniforms, and iconic Sweet Georgia Brown theme song. The team was formed in Chicago in 1926 as the Savoy Big Five and has performed in 120 countries; its roster has included such notable players as Wilt Chamberlain, Curly Neal, and Meadowlark Lemon. Harlem Globetrotters International, Inc. is 80%-owned by investment fund Shamrock Capital; chairman Mannie Jackson, a former Globetrotter himself, owns the rest.

The Los Angeles Dodgers sports franchise is one of the oldest and most storied franchises in Major League Baseball, boasting six World Series championships and 21 National League pennants. The team was started in Brooklyn, New York, in 1884 but moved west to Los Angeles in 1957. Hall of Famers such as Sandy Koufax and Roy Campanella have played for the Dodgers, which was the first team to break the color barrier with the signing of Jackie Robinson. The team plays home games at Dodger Stadium. Real estate developer Frank McCourt has owned the Dodgers since 2004.

Augusta National is an exclusive golf and country club that boasts about 300 members, including many business leaders, political figures, and of course notable golfers. Membership is by invitation only; the club does not allow women to become members. Augusta National organizes and runs the famed Masters golf tournament, generating revenue through broadcast rights fees and sponsorships. The course was designed and built by golf champion Bobby Jones and Scotsman Alister Mackenzie in 1932 and hosted the first Masters event two years later.

Lodgian is a multi-brand hospitality franchisee that operates some 35 hotels in more than 20 US states and one hotel in Windsor, Canada. The company's portfolio is focused mostly on the mid-market segment serving both leisure and business travels with full-service brands franchised from InterContinental Hotels (including Crowne Plaza and Holiday Inn) and Marriott (Courtyard by Marriott, Fairfield Inn by Marriott, Residence Inn by Marriott, SpringHill Suites by Marriott). It also runs a handful of unaffiliated and other branded hotels (Hilton, Carlson, Starwood, and Wyndham).

Tampa Bay Rays Baseball owns and operates Florida's Gulf Coast baseball franchise. Founded as the Devil Rays, the franchise was originally awarded to a group led by local businessman Vincent Naimoli and joined joined Major League Baseball in 1998 as an expansion franchise along with the Arizona Diamondbacks. Playing host at Tampa's Tropicana Field, the team earned its first ever American League Pennant in 2008. (The Rays fell to the Philadelphia Phillies in the World Series, however.) CEO Stuart Sternberg leads a management group that purchased control of the team in 2004.

For Coventry City Football Club, sports help to bring people together. The club currently plays its football (soccer) in the English Football League Championship. Originally formed in 1883, Coventry City FC was known as Singers until 1898, when the team changed its name to Coventry City. The team, nicknamed the Sky Blues, wears jerseys that are sponsored by the Cassidy Group. The club's revenues are derived from game day receipts such as ticket sales.

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