In the rare event that a professional basketball team would play an entire song, you can bet that the franchise paid dearly for it.
High school? Falls into the who cares category. No one is going to accrue the negative publicity to be had by going after a high school. If a high school team did use a song, I’d wager that it would fall under the typical square foot schedule that a parks and rec department would have to fill out (and pay) if it held a dance. I doubt that even the most savvy of lawyers could convince a judge that a master use license was required.
I appreciate the info. Are partial songs not covered?
Some baseball teams, for example, play excerpts as batters step to the plate - positive for the home team, negative for the visitors.
I remember there was one baseball player who got beat up by Tawney Kitane, the girl who crawled around on the hood of a car in some White Snake video. Naturally they played the song when he came up in opposing parks. I'm guessing that White Snake didn't give permission.