How about the National Association of Manufacturers or the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association?
Those are sports organizations?
I think the differences should be clear. Sports teams provide entertainment. The others you named provide jobs, products, food. Pretty sure you would be hard pressed to find people making the salaries that the professional sports players make in manufacturing. I know for a fact there is not a cowboy alive that is paid like NFL players are paid.
It may be time to figure out the difference between want and need when deciding what to subsidize.
I have never been able to justify in my mind the salaries paid to athletes. What makes them worth so much? If the taxpayers weren’t paying a lot of the way for them through exemptions and money for stadiums they could not support the outrageous salaries.