All draftees are already under contract to the league, a single-entity operation similar to that of the rival American Basketball League.

M.L.S., a single-entity operation without the constraint of a players union, beat Major League Baseball to the draw on contraction and dropped 2 of its 12 teams - the Miami Fusion and the Tampa Bay Mutiny.

M.L.S. is a single-entity operation; the league owns all player contracts and imposes a tight budget for player salaries, which is about $2 million for each of the 12 teams.

As a single-entity operation, where the league negotiates and owns all player contracts, exceptions are quite common.

As a single-entity operation, the league will still sign and hold all player contracts, but it will pay only the first $400,000 of a designated player's salary.

M.L.S. is a single-entity operation, which means the league owns and negotiates all player contracts.

He is signed with the M.I.S.L. (a single-entity operation) and Kansas City for the next two years, earning $250,000 to $300,000, nearly one-third of the team's total budget for player salaries.

M.L.S., a single-entity operation, owns all player contracts and imposed a salary budget of about $2 million a year for each of its clubs.

Off the field, some difficult economic realities led to months of negotiations between the players and the W.U.S.A., a single-entity operation in which the league owns all player contracts.

M.L.S., a single-entity operation that owns all player contracts and grants owner/investors the right to operate teams, is a 13-team circuit.