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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…

(CNN) — Extreme sports legend Dean Potter is one of two BASE jumpers found dead in Yosemite National Park after attempting an aerial descent from Taft Point, authorities said. The two men’s bodies were located during a helicopter search around noon Sunday, said Scott Gediman, a spokesman for the park. Potter, 43, and Graham Hunt, 29, were reported missing late Saturday by friends, Gediman said. The two had jumped from…

  On Sunday night, when I first learned that Dan Jennings could be the Marlins’ next manager, I started calling some of his friends in the industry. Jennings, a friendly, gregarious sort, has many such friends. And the first reaction of many was, “He wouldn’t do that.” Oh, yes he would. The choice of Jennings, confirmed Monday morning by Jon Heyman of CBS Sports, was announced several hours later. The…

Sky Sports will televise three live games simultaneously on Sunday as the battle to avoid relegation from the Premier League takes top billing. Hull City, Newcastle United and Sunderland all go into the weekend with the possibility of demotion to the Championship and, with the race for the title and Champions League places sewn up, the focus is on the bottom of the table. Sky will broadcast live from the…

One appreciates that it would be good business for everyone if Gerrard had a good match and scored a goal in his last Anfield game: it’s a simple, lovely story that even a child could grasp. However, that does not mean that everyone watching on the box has a reading age of six. When Crystal Palace, thoughtlessly and selfishly, went in at the interval on level terms, Jones was getting…

EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. –  As an Air Force crew chief in Afghanistan and Iraq, part of Sgt. Tim McDonough’s dangerous mission was recovering the remains of soldiers killed in combat. An explosion in Afghanistan in 2005 changed his life. He suffered a brain injury and nine surgeries later, McDonough has seizures, limited range of motion and host of other medical problems. Even worse, he lost the camaraderie he…