The attendance of a sports league is an important measure for it’s popularity, just like sales volume is for a product or company. As you would expect, the domestic pro sports league with the highest average attendance per game in the world is the NFL (2008/09 season). On third place comes the first soccer league […]
Kitzbühel in Austria is one of the most fancy ski resort in the Alps and home of probably the most famous downhill ski race of them all: The “Hahnenkamm” race on the legendary “Streif” slope. An extremely difficult and fast racetrack: The drivers only need three seconds from the start until they reach speeds of […]
Rugby is one of the most physical, most “typically male” sports you can get. When the players touch and tackle each other, there is no protective wear like in (American) football. Gareth Thomas is a rugby legend. “Alfie”, that huge fullback from Wales, completely fits into the picture you may have of rugby players. Maybe […]
“Indexed” is one of my favorite blogs (it’s on my blogroll on the right as well). Jessica Hagy creates relations between seemingly unrelated things with a great sense of humor. She does not post about sports a lot, but last week she did. In her blog entry called “Blitzed“, she postulated that for both quarterbacks […]
The African Nations Cup usually is a tournament of joy. The best national teams from all over Africa meet to determine their champion. Spectators playing drums, singing and dancing on the stands, teams in colorful jerseys with nicknames like the Squirrels taking on the Mambas (you think you know who was to win that one? Actually […]
A quiet time in the sports year: The soccer leagues in Europe are either taking a winter break or postponing most of their matches due to heavy snow and NBA and NHL are early in the season. The only big league really heating up is the NFL, where the playoffs started this weekend. So for […]
As in most American sports leagues, the NFL does not have a relegation rule. So basically any team can play a season no matter how unsuccessful, they will be allowed to play again next season. In addition to that there is a salary cap that limits the wages to be paid to players and new […]
During the very last days of the old and the first days of the new year, a sport which is quite unpopular in wide parts of the world draws the attention of TV viewers in countries like Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Norway, Finland and Japan: Ski Jumping. This crazy activity of skiing down a ramp and […]
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