While efforts to curb sales of alcoholic beverages to underage fans at professional sporting events have improved since the 1980's, sales to intoxicated fans have not.
Researchers at the University of Minnesota studied nearly three hundred 40 alcohol purchase attempts by actors pretending to be intoxicated or under 21.
They found 18 percent of underage buyers bought alcohol, as well as 74 percent of clearly intoxicated buyers.
Both groups had the most success in the stands, versus concession booths.
Experts say more needs to be done to lower alcohol sales to underage and intoxicated buyers, especially because of the risk to the general public when these fans get behind the wheel.

And in other medical news…
A new report finds a majority of severe sports injuries to females are caused by cheerleading.
The report comes from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
It shows cheerleading accounts for 65-percent of severe sports injuries among high school girls and almost 68-percent among college women, numbers that are higher than previously thought.
Researchers say catastrophic injuries to female athletes have increased because of the difficult gymnastic stunts done in cheerleading.