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  • College Athletes Unionizing – Alabama & Texas Make More Money Than the NHL & Most of the NBA

    College Athletes Unionizing – Alabama & Texas Make More Money Than the NHL & Most of the NBA

    Once College Basketball for 2014 is over, the main thing in college sports that will grab the headlines will be the first steps in the attempt of college athletes, mostly football players, to unionize with the main goal starting to get paid for their services to universities, which means being given a piece of the huge money pie that is College Athletics, mostly coming from TV Deals.

  • 10 Most Valuable NFL Teams

    Not winning a Super Bowl since the 1995 season or just one playoff game since the 1996 season doesn’t change the fact that Jerry Jones has perfected the money making abilities of the Dallas Cowboys, lately thanks to turning his new Cowboys Stadium into the most coveted sporting venue in America, making the Cowboys the most valuable sport franchise in America, not just the NFL.

  • Competitions With the Largest Payouts in Sports (Infographic)

    Where is most of the money in sports? Probably big sponsorship deals and TV contracts, but because not all of those deals are done directly with players and the teams, tournaments, competitions and leagues have the power of distrubuting the money to their teams and mostly the succesful ones that reach the final stages and win titles.

  • The Most Valuable Soccer Teams in the World

    Barcelona have been the most successful club in Europe and the world during the last few years, but financially they are still behind two other clubs, some would daresay bigger. Real Madrid, the most profitable club in the world during the course of last year, and Manchester United, the most valuable sport team in the world.