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10 Most Expensive Footballers in History
The current global economic crisis can be seen in football transfers as well, with 2012 not putting a single player in the top 20 of the most expensive footballers in history. That is still controlled mostly by Real Madrid transfers from the last 12 years, bringing in Cristiano Ronaldo, Zinedine Zidane, Kaka and Luis Figo.
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10 Leading Active Scorers in the NBA
There’s no one really close to Kobe Bryant when it comes to the NBA’s active scoring leaders. While the Lakers’ one-man show is surging past 30,000 points, out of the current top 10, only LeBron James looks like he’ll be reaching that mark later in his career. Where do they stop? How far do they reach?
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10 Most Valuable NHL Teams
The list of the 10 most valuable teams in the NFL shows us that the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Montreal Canadiens, despite their lack of success in recent times, are still the top of the heap when it comes to economics and value. It also teaches us that if you’re going to profitable, you better be placed in the Eastern part of the United States, with the Kings being the exception, not the rule.
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10 Highest Paid Football Managers
The man who speaks and complains more than any other manager in the world also gets paid better than the rest of ’em. Jose Mourinho leads a pack that included Roberto Mancini, Arsene Wenger, Alex Ferguson and Carlo Ancelotti as the highest paid football managers in the world, although his time with Real Madrid isn’t the best and most solid he’s ever had.
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10 Oldest NBA Players
The list of the ten oldest players beginning the 2012-2013 NBA season has a few certain future hall of fame inductees on it, like Tim Duncan, Steve Nash, Ray Allen and Jason Kidd. There are two players over the age of 40, Grant Hill and Kurt Thomas but the most impressive fact is the New York Knicks having four of these players, including Rasheed Wallace coming out of retirement.
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10 Most Overrated NFL Players
There might be a lot of reasons why the New York Jets aren’t very popular with many NFL players, and part of it is their two quarterbacks, Mark Sanchez and Tim Tebow, each bad in his own way. According to SI.com, who surveyed 180 players, those two are the most overrated players in the league, along with two highly paid Eagles and other high-profile quarterbacks, Tony Romo and Tom Brady.
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10 Most Hated NFL Players
After going through the guys people like to love, it’s time to put the spotlight on the most hated played in the NFL according to Nielsen and E-Poll market research, which tells us that it’s never good to play for the Cowboys (Tony Romo) or one of those schools people love to hate (Notre Dame, USC) if you’re planning on having a disappointing career like Matt Leinart and Brady Quinn.
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10 Most Popular Players in the NFL
Being the most popular player and the least goes hand in hand in the NFL, and in most sports. Obviously, this being a quarterback league, they will feature prominently in any top 10 list, with 5 (Matthew Stafford, Drew Brees, Peyton Manning, Robert Griffin III, Aaron Rodgers) making it in, with the Green Bay Packers the only team with multiple players on it.
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10 Most Expensive Football Transfers in Summer 2012
Who would have guessed three years ago that Paris Saint-Germain will have three players in the top 10 most expensive signings of the 2012 summer transfer window? Despite big names like Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Robin van Persie and Eden Hazard, the most expensive deal was to get Thiago Silva of AC Milan.