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Reaching the right resource makes all the difference — especially when the question is specific, the roster detail is obscure, or the team history someone needs is buried three decades deep. This page covers how to get a message to the right place, what geographic scope the site addresses, what to put in that message to get a useful answer, and what kind of response timeline is realistic.

How to reach this office

The contact form is the primary channel for all inquiries directed to Sports Teams Authority. It routes messages by topic, which means a question about minor league affiliates in the Midwest lands somewhere different than a correction request for a historical roster entry. That routing matters — it is the difference between a 24-hour turnaround and a message sitting in a general queue for a week.

For editorial corrections specifically (a stat that is off, a city relocation date that reads wrong, a coach's tenure verified with the wrong end year), the subject line should flag "Editorial Correction" explicitly. The team that handles factual accuracy operates on a separate review cycle from general research inquiries.

There is no phone line. This is a reference operation, not a call center — and the depth of research this site covers rewards written communication anyway, because it creates a paper trail that makes follow-up faster for both sides.

Service area covered

Sports Teams Authority covers professional, semi-professional, and organized amateur teams operating within the United States. That scope spans all 50 states and includes franchises in the four major professional leagues — NFL, NBA, MLB, and NHL — as well as second-tier circuits like the USFL, the G League, Triple-A baseball, and the AHL.

College athletics fall within scope when the question concerns team structure, conference alignment, or athletic department organization — but this is not a recruiting database, and questions about individual student-athlete eligibility are outside what the site researches or can usefully address.

International leagues — Liga MX, the Premier League, Liga ACB — appear on the site only when a US-based franchise has a direct organizational relationship with an overseas club (a reserve agreement, a shared ownership structure, a formal affiliate designation). A general question about Bundesliga standings would not be the right fit here.

What to include in your message

A vague message produces a vague response, or no response at all. The three elements that move an inquiry forward most efficiently:

1. The specific team or organization. Not "an NBA team in the Southeast" — the Atlanta Hawks, the Charlotte Hornets, or whichever franchise the question is actually about. If the team no longer exists (the Seattle SuperSonics, the Hartford Whalers), the defunct franchise name is more useful than a description.

2. The time period in question. Team rosters, coaching staffs, ownership structures, and arena names change. A question about the Dallas Cowboys' offensive coaching staff without a year attached could refer to 1993, 2007, or any other season — and each answer looks completely different.

3. What the information will be used for. This is not gatekeeping — it helps determine the appropriate depth of response. A journalist on deadline needs a quick, citable fact. A documentary researcher needs sourcing lineage. A fan settling a bar argument needs the answer and nothing else. Knowing the context shapes the format of the reply.

Messages sent without any of these three elements get a clarification request before any research begins, which adds at least one full response cycle to the timeline.

Response expectations

The honest answer is that response time varies by message type, and it is worth knowing the difference before hitting send.

Factual corrections submitted with clear evidence (a Wikipedia citation is not sufficient — a primary source, a newspaper archive link, or an official league record is) are reviewed within 3 business days. If the correction holds up, the page update typically goes live within 5 business days of confirmation.

General research inquiries — "what were the original 8 teams in the ABA?" or "which NFL franchises have relocated more than once?" — receive responses within 5 to 7 business days. These are not simple lookup tasks. The answers here come from primary sources, official league records, and archival journalism, not from aggregator databases.

Partnership and content licensing inquiries are reviewed on a longer cycle, typically 10 to 14 business days for an initial response. Volume in that category is lower, but the evaluation process is more involved.

One useful contrast: a correction request is a closed question with a binary outcome (the fact is right or it is not). A research inquiry is an open question that may branch in unexpected directions once the sourcing work begins. Managing those two types differently — in terms of expected turnaround and level of back-and-forth — produces better results for everyone involved.

Messages submitted on weekends are logged immediately but enter the review queue on Monday morning. There is no after-hours triage, and marking something "urgent" in the subject line does not change queue priority for standard inquiries. Actual time-sensitive press requests should say so explicitly in the first sentence of the message body — that phrasing does flag for faster routing.

The FAQ page handles the questions that come in most often — team history timelines, how league structures work, how scope decisions get made. Checking there first is not a formality; it genuinely resolves about 60 percent of the questions that would otherwise come through the contact form, faster than any response cycle could.