The A-listers
August 13th, 2010
By Brian Sears
13 August 2010
So here we are, on the eve of the 19th season of the Premier League, and Manchester United hold a lead in the all-time points table big enough to ensure they will remain top dogs even if they lose every game this campaign.
They need just six more points to reach 1,500, and they sit a cool 183 points clear of their nearest rivals, Arsenal. As one of my statistical colleagues said to me the other day: “That’s a lot of points, Brian.” And I said: “Yes it is, Brian.”
United have never finished outside the top three...
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August 1st, 2010
By Nick Harris
2 August 2010
Take a sample of the world's population and ask them to nominate their favourite sports team and many experts would expect to find football's Barcelona or Manchester United, or baseball's New York Yankees or basketball's LA Lakers at the top.
Yet take a global sample of an enormous magnitude, like 500 million people, and make a judgement not on a survey question but on people asserting their affiliation by joining a fans' group, and you get a different and surprising answer.
To coincide with Facebook registering its 500 millionth active user, sportingintelligence has researched the most popular athletes...
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February 9th, 2010
By Nick Harris
9 February 2010
Just as America is ahead in the all-time Summer Olympics gold medals table and an American (Michael Phelps) is way ahead in the all-time summer Games individual golds table, so one nation is also ahead at the Winter Olympics, in the collective and individual senses. And as the build-up to the 2010 Vancouver Games gathers pace ahead of this weekend's start, some may be surprised that it isn't a Goliath in population terms out ahead, but Norway (with 4.8m people).
In 20 Winter Games to date, Norway has won 98 Winter Olympic gold medals, as well...
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