Welcome to Industry Focus, the podcast that dives into a different sector of the stock market every day.

I'm your host Fitz and Chen and it's Thursday, August 3rd, and joining me in studio at full

headquarters is Fool.com com contributor Dan Klein.

So we're pre-recording this show for next week and we have lined up for our

foolish listeners a mini mailbag with an interesting question on tracking stocks and investments in

professional sports teams and we'll follow up if we have time on some earnings for

McDonald's and the pizza company it's emulating.

But Dan, it's great to see you again.

Every time you come from Fool HQ, your tan is a little darker.

Thank you for sending the full jet to get me.

So Florida, I'm guessing, is treating you quite well.

It's delightful.

You know, living someplace where it's never cold, you really do not get tired of that.

Sure.

All right, so I'm going to lead us off with our listener question and

this comes in from Frank Coleman and it's a two-parter and his first question

was what do you think of sports team stocks such as Manchester United, Taker M-A-N-U and Liberties Atlanta Braves

tracking stock, ticker B-A-T-R-A, at least for the A-class?

Do you know of any other publicly traded sports?

So unfortunately, Frank, there's not much out there for investors who are interested

in buying into professional sports, teams, or leagues, unless of course you have a couple billion dollars.

There's a big except, there's one that we've talked about.

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