No
I believe that getting into professional sports is a hindrance in learning and acting upon Deen. I also do not see it as any productive service for society. Mind you almost all professions somehow make some contribution for society along with the fact that it is earning for us.
This has always been problem with US.
They make their own agents in muslim world and calls rest as extremist. And they meet with their agents and reject so called "extremist". Thus meeting themselves and claiming to have met representatives of other party. .