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Paris Saint-Germain’s average wage bill is higher than any other team in world sport, according to 2015’s annual report from Sporting Intelligence and ESPN The Magazine. PSG has since disputed the report and released a statement: Paris Saint-Germain firmly denies the information published this Wednesday in the recent study by SportingIntelligence for ESPN concerning the average first-team player salary. While winning the Ligue 1 for the third consecutive year, the Club…

Alex Livesey/Getty Images See Also The Los Angeles Dodgers were the highest-paid team in U.S. sports in 2014 with players making an average of $8 million in salary, according to the folks at Sporting Intelligence. However, the Dodgers were not the highest-paid team in the world. Soccer club Paris Saint-Germain of France’s Ligue 1 is the new highest-paid team in the world with their players making an average of…

Hours after Riley Curry, adorable daughter of Steph Curry, stole the show at the NBA MVP’s postgame press conference an incredibly strange controversy took over the internet. A few writers, who apparently were worried about making their deadlines (though as former friend of For The Win Adi Joseph points out it was an early game), complained that kids shouldn’t be allowed on the podium because it’s a waste of time,…

Paris Saint-Germain’s average wage bill is higher than any other team in world sport, according to 2015’s annual report from Sporting Intelligence and ESPN The Magazine. PSG has since disputed the report and released a statement: Paris Saint-Germain firmly denies the information published this Wednesday in the recent study by SportingIntelligence for ESPN concerning the average first-team player salary. While winning the Ligue 1 for the third consecutive year, the Club…

Luckily for sports fans, David Letterman has long loved the games—he even co-owns an IndyCar racing team. In his 33 years on TV, he’s interviewed countless big-name athletes, and done many goofy bits involving sports. As he signs off on Wednesday night, here’s a top 10 list for Letterman and sports: 10. Little Buddy As Pete Rose chased Ty Cobb’s all-time hit record in 1985, Letterman poked a little fun…

Paris Saint-Germain top the list of the biggest salaries paid to athletes across the whole of sport, according to a survey of wages conducted by Sporting Intelligence and ESPN The Magazine. ESPN FC’s Gab Marcotti discusses financial fair play and its possible changes moving forward in regards to business plans of football clubs. Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger says the Financial Fair Play system was doomed to failure because of the…

Paris Saint-Germain’s average wage bill is higher than any other team in world sport, according to 2015’s annual report from Sporting Intelligence and ESPN The Magazine.   Players at the French football club earn an average weekly wage of £101,898, paying out more than Spanish giants Real Madrid (£96,933) and 2014’s biggest spenders Manchester City (£96,455), while La Liga champions Barcelona (£90,675) rank fourth. The Los Angeles Dodgers (£89,999) are…

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Paris Saint-Germain are paying a higher average wage than any other club in any sport worldwide – with football clubs making up four of the top five positions in the salary table. The Qatari-owned PSG’s average weekly wage – £101,898 – makes them sport’s biggest spenders, ranking them above Real Madrid (£96,933), last year’s top-ranked Manchester City (£96,445) and Barcelona (£90,675). Major League Baseball’s Los Angeles Dodgers (£89,999) complete the…

“Notre Dame’s just not prepared to participate in any model where the athlete isn’t a student first and foremost — that’s the hallmark for us,” Notre Dame AD Jack Swarbrick told USA TODAY Sports after a Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics meeting in Washington, D.C., during which he appeared as a panelist.(Photo: Matt Cashore-USA TODAY Sports, Matt Cashore-USA TODAY Sports) WASHINGTON — Notre Dame’s athletic director and Northwestern’s president emeritus…

We like sports babies around here, because sports babies are cuter than regular babies. That’s a fact. So it is with great pleasure that we welcome Steph Curry’s daughter, Riley, into the ranks of the world’s great sports babies. Not only did Riley tell her dad that he was talking too loud, she also hit him with a “This is dumb, let’s go watch Dora the Explorer” fake yawn. That’s…

By Dan Roan BBC sports editor Golf’s world number one Rory McIlroy says he wants to be “the best player of my generation”. The Northern Irishman, 26, won his third tournament of the year on Sunday, recording a seven-stroke victory at the Wells Fargo Classic on the PGA…

Liverpool’s Raheem Sterling is expected to tell the club he wants a move away from Anfield this summer. The England forward, 20 has rejected a new £100,000-a-week contract, and denied being a “money-grabber” in a BBC Sport interview last month. Sterling told Brendan Rodgers he wants to go before the Chelsea game on 10 May and will now meet the Reds manager and…

For a list of all the latest deals, check out the transfers page. Manchester City midfielder James Milner, 29, will turn down a new four-year contract worth up to £165,000 a week in order to join Arsenal. Liverpool also want the England international. (Daily Star)  Liverpool are also interested in City’s 29-year-old Bosnia striker Edin Dzeko. (Daily Mail)  …

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Raheem Sterling is expected to tell Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers he wants to leave Anfield this summer. The England forward has already turned down a new £100,000-a-week contract, and denied being a “money-grabber” in a BBC Sport interview last month. Sterling will meet Reds chief executive Ian Ayre and Rodgers on Friday, when he is set to tell them he wants to go….

With the conclusion of the SEC’s regular season in baseball on Sunday, the 2015 edition of the SEC All-Sports Trophy has been awarded — and like the last eight, and 22 of the previous 23 awarded, it belongs to Florida. In one of the closest races in the history of the award, the conference title won by the Florida men’s outdoor track and field team Saturday night pushed…

Skechers USA Inc., the casual footwear brand that was tripped up by its line of “toning shoes,” is now outpacing traditional athletic-shoe companies at their own race. Skechers accounted for 5% of the sports-footwear market for the quarter ended in March, according to retail tracker NPD Group, moving past Adidas AG’s 4.6% as well as the 4% shares notched by Asics and New Balance. Nike Inc. and its proprietary Jordan…

Raheem Sterling is expected to tell Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers he wants to leave Anfield this summer. The England forward has already turned down a new £100,000-a-week contract, and denied being a “money-grabber” in a BBC Sport interview last month. Sterling will meet Reds chief executive Ian Ayre and Rodgers on Friday, when he is set to tell them he wants to go….

The president of this fine nation started his own Twitter account Monday — @POTUS, which is different from the staff-run @BarackObama account. Given his first tweet, we’re expecting to see more of his personality shine through, as opposed to just campaign/bureaucratic stuff: Hello, Twitter! It’s Barack. Really! Six years in, they’re finally giving me my own account. — President Obama (@POTUS) May 18, 2015 And given Obama’s follow list, we’re…