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 […]

By Jonnie Baker 27 March 2010 The ‘race for fourth’, care of Sky, is hotting up and no mistake. Obviously I should declare an interest at this stage: if Tottenham don’t finish somewhere between third and fifth I will more than likely explode in a sticky mess of frustrated bile and cold, cold hatred for […]

By Nick Harris 27 March 2010 Britain’s foremost ultra-distance runner, William Sichel, is this afternoon involved in a head-to-head battle for second place in a rarely-staged 1,000-mile run after the race was won earlier today by a German, Wolfgang Schwerk, in 11 days, 23 hours, 18 minutes and 32 seconds. As sportingintelligence has previously reported, […]

By Nick Harris 26 March 2010 Since a week ago last Monday, William Sichel has been running around a 1km circuit of road at a disused airport outside Athens in an attempt to become the first man in more than a decade to finish a 1,000-mile running race. Now into its 12th day, the World […]

By Nick Harris 26 March 2010 (NB: Story update on 27 March at the bottom). Anti-corruption investigators will be paying close attention to four particular matches in Italy’s Serie B this weekend after betting was suspended by most bookmakers earlier today on two games amid rumours of fixed draws, while betting on two further games […]

By Brian Sears 26 March 2010 As every musical statto knows, Queen’s 1984 hit single, ‘It’s a Hard Life’, derives in part from the Leoncavallo opera, ‘Pagliacci’, and close to the start of the song, Freddie Mercury sings: This is a tricky situation I’ve only got myself to blame It’s just a simple fact of […]

By Nick Harris 26 March 2010 The Red Knights group that has ambitions to buy Manchester United from the Glazer family has this morning issued a statement saying it does not expect to finalise its proposal for any bid for the club this season. The aim of group, led by the United fan and Goldman […]

25 March 2010 Can you identify the sporting arena? We take an aerial view of a ball park, football stadium, marathon course, golf course, Games venue, race track, iconic arena, athletic theatre (some literally theatres), pitch, park, stretch of water or wherever else sport takes place. And we ask you to identify it with the […]

By Nick Harris 25 March 2010 EXCLUSIVE Uefa is studying “unusual” betting patterns and outcomes in four recent matches in Italian football as part of a new probe into match-fixing that investigators believe has roots in Italy but could have links to Asia, sportingintelligence can reveal. The governing body is already deeply involved in the […]

By Andy Cole 25 March 2010 The latest rich list of footballers’ pay by France Football magazine was released yesterday and Lionel Messi has jumped to the top, making £29.6m in 2009 from salary, endorsements and sponsorships to put him above even David Beckham and Cristiano Ronaldo. I have no idea how realistic these numbers […]