Slideshow: Playing The Field: PE And Pro Sports

After Comcast-Spectator agreed in July to sell the Philadelphia 76ers to a group led by Joshua Harris, an Apollo Global Management co-founder, and including David Blitzer, a Blackstone Group senior managing director, and after Tom Gores, the founder and chief executive of Platinum Equity, signed a deal in April to buy the Detroit Pistons, we got to wondering, over at sister publication Buyouts, about other participation by buyouts pros—and even firms themselves—in big-league sports. Here's what we found:

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