** By Nick Harris 15 April 2014 Manchester City are the best paid team in global sport according to Sportingintelligence’s Global Sports Salaries Survey (GSSS) for 2014, compiled by this website and also published this week by ESPN The Magazine to coincide with The Magazine’s ‘Money Issue‘ (right). BEHIND THE HEADLINE: Get the full report as a free download The […]
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’11 goals, two hat-tricks, three pens, one red and several punch-ups … it was the greatest final ever played on American soil’
* Major League Soccer Commissioner Don Garber recently announced plans to extend his organisation’s geographic reach by adding five new franchises by 2020. The new entrants will boost MLS to 24 teams – a haunting reminder for older American fans who witnessed the North American Soccer League’s swift demise after peaking at 24 franchises in […]
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The NFL, salaries, success and the chaos of relative fairness
By Sportingintelligence 6 February 2012 The NFL has the ‘fairest’ distribution of salaries across its 32 teams of any of the ‘big five’ US sports leagues (NBA, MLB, NFL, NHL and MLS) when you take into consideration the differential between the best paid team and the worst paid team. It is also much fairer than […]
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REVEALED: Royal Wedding TV audience closer to 300m than 2bn (because sport, not royalty, reigns)
By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 9 May 2011 Fanciful predictions said two billion people would watch the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton live on TV around the world – and around 300m actually did, according to preliminary findings of research by sportingintelligence into the real global audience. That […]
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‘Sincere good wishes to Wills and Kate, but a 2bn TV audience? Garbage. Only the Olympics and the World Cup are truly global events, and half as big as that at best’
By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 26 April 2011 I’m not certain who started it, although Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt had a role in spreading the myth that the Royal Wedding on Friday will be watched by a global audience of 2 billion people. Hunt even cited this figure of 2bn […]
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Slam dunk: NBA the richest sports league in the world by average pay
By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 22 April 2011 The best paid sportsmen in the world, judged on average earnings per player across whole leagues, are the basketball players who make their living in the NBA in North America, according to the findings of sportingintelligence’s Global Sports Salaries Report 2011 (GSSS […]
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Know your global sports tycoons? How to tell your Kroenke from your Henry and your Mateschitz from your Mallya, Allen and Anschutz
* By Nick Harris 15 October 2010 With Liverpool’s ownership dispute settled, another American owner of a Premier League club is about to start reshaping a club, and that’s not a bad thing according to at least one expert interviewed elsewhere on sportingintelligence. The move by John W Henry of the Boston Red Sox into English […]
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World Cup final ‘will vie for record of second most-watched event in human history’
By Nick Harris 10 June 2010 The World Cup final on 11 July will vie with the 2002 World Cup final for the record of being the second most-watched live televised event in human history – behind the 2008 Olympic Games opening ceremony – according to Kevin Alavy, a leading authority on global TV viewing […]
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NFL has ‘fairest’ pay distribution among the world’s major sports leagues
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 […]
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Salaries report
FOR GSSS reports since 2014, visit https://www.globalsportssalaries.com/ Sportingintelligence’s Global Sports Salary Survey 2014 Obtain the full report free from 15 April 2014 by clicking this link to send an email. (Write GSSS 2014 in the subject line, and your name / organisation in the email). Or download it directly from the GSSS microsite: http://www.globalsportssalaries.com/ ———————- Sportingintelligence’s Global Sports […]
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