Buying Your Own Professional Sports Franchise (at Least a Few Shares of One)

Plenty of fans might dream of owning a piece of their favorite sports teams -- and in a few cases, you can. But unlike most other business spaces, the opportunities for retain investors to get involved in this one are very limited.

On this episode of Industry Focus: Consumer Goods host Vincent Shen and guest Fool Daniel Kline open up the mailbag and answer a listener's question on sports team stocks. The two talk about all the opportunities investors (and fans) have in the sports world. They also explain how tracking stocks work and why there are limited opportunities in the sports world to directly buy an interest in a franchise.

Finally, the Fools talk about how McDonald's (NYSE: MCD) is revamping its strategy to emulate the incredibly successful Domino's Pizza (NYSE: DPZ) model.

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