By Nick Harris 13 November 2016 The Cleveland Cavaliers of the NBA are now the best paid team in global sport according to Sportingintelligence’s Global Sports Salaries Survey (GSSS) for 2016, to be published in full tomorrow, and with key extracts in today’s Mail on Sunday (links below). The average first-team pay at the Cavaliers, home to NBA icon LeBron James, […]

27 August 2010 Kenny Huang is now coming under scrutiny in the US for the way in which Chinese interest last year in buying a share of the Cleveland Cavaliers NBA team came to nothing. “It never materialized, as far as completing the application process with the league,” said Cavs President Len Komoroski in an […]

By Nick Harris 21 April 2010 The NBA’s regular-season crowds for the 2009-10 season have echoed those in the NHL and NFL by dipping year-on-year, but only slightly according to a new analysis of attendances by sportingintelligence that highlights some intriguing individual “ups” and “downs” in numbers. After number-crunching official data, we have calculated that […]

By Sportingintelligence 1 June 2017 Chelsea’s Premier League title win in Antonio Conte’s first season as a manager in England earned them almost £151m in prize cash, with official figures released today showing they have pocketed £150,811,183 from central funds alone. The money comes primarily from the PL’s huge TV deals but also includes Chelsea’s share of […]

By Edmund Willison 25 April 2017 This week sees the return of the former darling of tennis, Maria Sharapova, after a 15-month drugs ban from professional sport. The highest earning woman in global sport plays as a wild card in the Porsche Grand Prix in Stuttgart from Wednesday. In the wake of her positive test early last year for a recently banned […]

. Updated on 21 December 2019 The Global Sports Salaries microsite is here The new Global Sports Salaries Survey (GSSS 2019) will be available from Monday 23 December 2019 at the link above, free. Last year’s report is here. . For more information about previous reports 2017 Report 2016 Report 2015 Report 2014 Report 2013 Report 2012 Report 2011 Report 2010 […]

By Nick Harris 11 June 2013 Manchester City are the best paid team in global sport according to Sportingintelligence’s Global Sports Salaries Survey (GSSS) for 2013, compiled in association with ESPN The Magazine and published this week to coincide with The Magazine’s ‘Money Issue’ (cover below). The average first-team pay at City, who have been transformed […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year  1 May 2012 Barcelona remain the best paid team in global sport measured by average first-team wages, with Real Madrid in second place but Manchester City of the Premier League have stormed into the top three and continue to close the gap on the Spanish […]

* 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 […]

By Nick Harris 25 August 2010 Kenny Huang’s questionable credibility as ever being a serious bidder for Liverpool has taken a further knock today with a claim by his Chicago-based business partner, Marc Ganis, that they never actually made a bid for the club.  “There was never a formal proposal submitted by us to the […]