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By Roger Pielke Jr 15 September 2015 Intercollegiate sports in the United States are as much a part of universities as math and physics, and the start of the 2015 NFL season is as good a time as any to explore one financial aspect of this. Today at the elite levels of college football and basketball there […]

By Brian Sears 11 September 2015 Tottenham have the youngest starting XIs in the Premier League this season at 25.2 years, followed by Liverpool, while Newcastle are the only other team with an average under 26. Tim Howard (age 36) is the oldest player and Oxford Reece (age 16, turns 17 in December) is the […]

By Brian Sears 28 August 2015 This is the 24th season of the Premier League and the previous 23 seasons have involved 466 teams collectively starting campaigns. That’s 22 teams for the first three seasons, then 20 for each of the past 20 seasons. Of those 466 teams, only 18 of them, or 3.9%, began […]

By Dr Tom Markham 21 August 2015 Manchester United are by far the most valuable football club in England, worth £1.848 billion, and the only other club worth more than £1bn is Arsenal, at £1.118bn. By ‘worth’, the definition is market value, using a fixed set of financial criteria – hard economic data – to look at what they earn and […]

By John Roberts 21 August 2015                                                            REVIEW When Usain Bolt followed up his Olympic gold medals from Beijing and London by winning the world championships 100 […]

By Brian Sears 21 August 2015 No Premier League team in the past 22 seasons has won the title after winning a single point or less in their first two games. So in that sense, purely statistically, Chelsea have a slim chance of retaining their crown. They have one point from two games. In fact the only […]

By Brian Sears 7 August 2015 There are many ways to try to predict the winners of the Premier League title, as this site explored in great detail two years ago. The odds on getting even the top 10 in the correct order are 670,442,572,800 to 1. Yes, that’s 670 billion to one. And then to complete the […]

By Roger Pielke Jr 3 August 2015 After flirting with the possibility of trying to stay on, it looks like FIFA President Sepp Blatter will indeed be standing down early next year. Blatter has announced that FIFA will hold an election to choose his successor on 26 February, 2016. Everyone loves an electoral horse race, […]

By Roger Pielke Jr 20 July 2015 The fastest time in the 100m in 2015 so far belongs to Justin Gatlin, the American sprinter twice sanctioned for doping violations. That Gatlin has come back from suspension during 2006 to 2010 to become the top sprinter in the world today makes for a remarkable story. The […]

By Alex Miller                                                            20 July 2015 Chelsea and Liverpool’s new shirt sponsorship deals have helped push the combined total value for Premier League shirt deals through […]