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According to Bill Nye the sport with the worst carbon footprint and therefore consumes the most energy is baseball. Pro baseball plays the most games and at the major league level at least the average fan travels 26 miles back and forth to the game. There are 3 levels of minor league baseball in hundreds of cities in North America with all that travel by teams and fans. On top of that most baseball games are night games with all that high power lighting.
A little mass transit, population consolidation and team/locale reconfiguration and that footoprint will be reduced--the anti-sport or anti-sport spectacle attitude will never play well to the big audience, though Roman gladiator style sport probably could be done much more sustainably and somewhat reduce the population as well. It certainly deserves serious consideration.
Wasn't there something about funding for a new government program for breeding lions? :-)