Baseball
August 1st, 2010
By Nick Harris
2 August 2010
Cristiano Ronaldo is the world’s most popular athlete in all of global sport according to new research by sportingintelligence to coincide with Facebook reaching the landmark of 500m active users.
Social networking is increasingly important in the promotion and marketing of sports stars and teams. Thus Facebook, now the No1 social networking site in history by some margin, is one key democratic barometer of popularity and / or the extent of marketing success.
And Portugal’s Ronaldo, 25, the winger who shot to fame with Manchester United and who now plays for Real Madrid, is the most popular athlete...
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April 20th, 2010
By Pete Wilson
20 April 2010
The NHL has followed the NFL in registering a season-on-season decline in crowds according to a sportingintelligence analysis of NHL attendances for the 2009-10 regular season. But just as the NFL’s drop in numbers was small given the severity of the recession (a one per cent drop), so the NHL’s fall was also fairly minor, a drop of 2.23 per cent.
This website has calculated the total number of paying spectators at the 1,230 games in the NHL’s 2009-10 regular season at 20,996,455, or 17,070 fans per game. That is down 2.23 per cent on the 21,475,223...
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April 2nd, 2010
By Nick Harris
2 April 2010
Average pay across America’s NFL differs less between its richest and poorest teams than in any other major sports league in the world, according to sportingintelligence’s Annual Review of Global Sports Salaries, published today.
The study calculates pay at more than 200 teams across 10 leagues including in the richest leagues in football, gridiron, baseball, cricket, basketball and ice hockey.
In the period under review in the NFL, the highest-paid team by average player salary (not total roster bill) earned just 1.86 times as much as the lowest-paid team. The highest-paid team were the Dallas Cowboys and the...
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