NFL
March 28th, 2010
By Nick Harris
28 March 2010
The New York Yankees are the best-paid team in global sport measured by average first-team wages, ahead of Real Madrid, Barcelona, Chelsea and basketball’s Dallas Mavericks, according to the inaugural Annual Review of Global Sports Salaries (ARGSS), to be published this week by sportingintelligence.
The average first-team pay at the Yankees was £89,897 per player per week in 2009, or £4.7m per player last year, when the Yankees won the World Series - the biggest prize in baseball. Real Madrid’s stars earned £4.2m per year each in the period reviewed for Spanish football. The corresponding figures were...
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February 8th, 2010
By Nick Harris
8 February 2010
The New Orleans Saints' victory over the Indianapolis Colts in last night's Super Bowl in Miami was the most-watched TV show in American history, beating the 27-year-old ratings record set by the final edition of M.A.S.H in 1983. Figures just released show that yesterday's game attracted 106.7m viewers in the US alone, which also makes it the most-watched NFL game in history, according to CBS, which also broadcast that famous M.A.S.H episode. That had an audience of 105.97m viewers.
The broadcaster said 46 per cent of US homes watched Saints win 31-17, with the triumph sealed in...
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February 3rd, 2010
3 February 2010
The build-up to Super Bowl continues and the New York Times does its typically excellent job in covering all bases. We like the snappy style of their Saints media day presentation, and at the heart of the story this weekend will be memories of a hurricane, and the faith of those who sought to rebuild a city and its morale, quarterback Drew Bees included. The Colts media day, including Peyton Manning, is here.
Also in the NYT there's a feature about the Indianapolis Colts' Pierre Garcon, of Haitian heritage, with the effects of a more recent natural disaster on...
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