NFL remains by far the best attended domestic sports league in the world

January 4th, 2013

* By Sportingintelligence 4 January 2013 The NFL has increased its attendance levels from an average of 67,394 fans per regular season game in 2011 to 67,591 in 2012, Sportingintelligence can reveal on the eve of the 2012-13 season NFL play-offs. As our updated global attendances league table shows (also below), the new figure keeps the NFL comfortably in the No1 place as the best attended professional domestic sports league in the world, by average attendance per game. There are better attended sports leagues in US College football, as a previous feature on this site explored. But the NFL holds sway in the world of professional sports. The German Bundesliga’s top division keeps...

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Openly gay Olympians won six times as many golds as their peers. Why?

August 23rd, 2012

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 22 August 2012 There were 23 openly gay athletes across all sports at the London 2012 Olympic Games according to observers who monitor such trends closely, notably Outsports.com. Ten of them won medals (43 per cent) and seven of them won gold medals (30.4 per cent), including the British equestrian rider Carl Hester, in the team dressage. Hester was the only openly gay athlete among the 451 men and women in Team GB. By definition, 23 people is a small sample size, but the fact that it's so small is part of the story. The...

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London 2012: Better for Great Britain than 1908 despite fewer gold medals

August 13th, 2012

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 13 August 2012 The past few days we've heard that Great Britain has enjoyed its best Olympic medal haul since 1908 but in relative terms London 2012 was much better for the hosts. In 1908, there were only 2,008 competitors from 22 nations competing, and Britain provided a third of those by herself. So one might reasonably have expected Britain to win a lot of the 110 gold medals on offer, on home turf and in home water, in events as varied as tug of war and motorboat racing. Britain did indeed win lots of golds,...

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