Top 10 Highest Paid Sports Teams In The World

New York Yankees came out on top globally of a new study of all the world’s professional sports
teams in terms of salary. United States is well represented as well. Seven American teams were
belonging at the top 10, six of which qualified for the playoffs last year. In fact, nine out of 10 of
the teams on the list that qualified for the playoffs of their respective leagues.

The top 10 list is courtesy by the Annual Review of Global Sports Strategies, as published by
sportingintelligence.com. Amount of dollar was given as an approximation of the average annual
salary of a first-team player on the team.

1. New York Yankees -- Major League Baseball (USA) - $7,000,000

Some critics say the Yankees buy championships. And yet the

2009 World Series title was the teams first since the year 2000,

in spite of the fact that George Steinbrenner's crew has outspent

other Major League teams every year since then. The gap

between the Yankees payroll and that of the second-highest Major League Baseball team (app.

$70 million) was more than the overall payroll of 11 other clubs.

2. Real Madrid - La Liga (ESP) - $6,333,591

In the year 2009, Real Madrid paid a $120 million transfer fee to

British powerhouse Manchester United for the rights to Cristiano

Ronaldo. It was part of a summer spending wild activity which

saw Real deal out more than $250 million in salary and fees.

3. Barcelona - La Liga (ESP) - $6,082,940

Spending a little bet less than Real Madrid didn't seem to hurt

Barca last year. Behind FIFA World Player of the Year Lionel

Messi, Barcelona also won La Liga and the UEFA Champions

League.

4. Chelsea -- English Premier League (GBR) - $5,361,957

Recently Chelsea spending as led to two FA Cup titles in the

past three years but the club is still looking for its first Premier

League title since 2006. Saturday's match up with first-place

Manchester United will help decide this year's championship.


5. Dallas Mavericks - National Basketball Association (USA) - $5,315,097

Recently Mark Cuban's roosters are qualified for the playoffs for

the 10th straight season. If not for an unfortunate collapse in the

2007 finals, Dirk Nowitzki and the rest of the Mav’s would have a

title too.

6. Los Angeles Lakers - NBA (USA) - $5,098,920

Kobe Bryant and the rest of the Lakers are one of three teams on

this list to have won a title in 2009.


7. Detroit Pistons - NBA (USA) - $4,995,573

Having the third-highest payroll in the NBA didn't help the Motor

City’s team get over .500 last seasons. The Detroit Pistons team

did sneak into the playoffs though but were promptly swept by

the next team on our list.

8. Cleveland Cavaliers -NBA (USA) - $4,940,707

Cleveland currently holds the best record in the NBA, but fans just

as concerned with what will happen in the coming July when King

James becomes a free agent. If the King re-signs with his

hometown club, look for Cleveland to stay on this list for the better part of the next decade.

9. Boston Celtics - NBA (USA) - $4,885,055

The nucleus of the Celtics is aging quickly, but Boston fans can't

mind too much. The club got a title out of this team in 2008.


10. New York Knicks - NBA (USA) - $4,881,952

The 2009 Knicks weren't as much of a disaster as other recent

editions (the 32 wins were nine more than NY had the year

before), but it's never good when a team's highest paid player is

more known for sitting on the bench in street clothes and making

bizarre rants on the Internet.

King James Breaks Kobe's Record

LeBron James, Cleveland Cavaliers forward hailed as the youngest NBA player to reach 15,000 points breaking the Kobe Bryant’s record in the National Basketball Association on their game last Saturday. James, who scored 13 of his 29 points in the fourth quarter, scored the historic basket in the opening quarter of Cleveland’s 92-85 win over the Chicago Bulls.

The King finishes with 29 points for a career total of 15,026 and garnered 11 boards for the Cav’s and posted their 12th victory in their last 13 games.

“I was born with a God-given gift,” the King said. “I take full edge of it by being able to do what I do on the hard court. Hopefully, I can continue to stay healthy, and hopefully, I’ll continue breaking records.” He added.

LeBron James scored his first points on a dunk and then hit two free throws about 40 seconds later, giving him 15,001 career points.

James broke Bryant’s record by more than two years, reaching the mark at 25 years, 79 days while Bryant was 27 years, 136 days when he did it for the Los Angeles Lakers. He did it in just 540th game compared to 657 for Bryant.

“There’s not a milestone that I think he’s going to attain that would shock me at all,” Cavalier’s coach Mike Brown said.

LeBron James make seven straight points later in the game as Cleveland Cavaliers increased its lead to 10, sending Chicago Bulls to their 10th consecutive loss.

The Internet’s Impact on Intelligence

Internet makes us smarter…do you agree?

The general argument that linking intelligence to the Internet seems to go like this: Because of this huge online memory store, parts of our mind that would have been tied up in the dark days preceding the Web are freed to accomplish new tasks.

The web help us to accommodate all the data we need, we all know finding an answer is very simple as typing a keyword into a search engine, and this certainly alters our approach to any task that requires data we lack. Now, it is easy for us to acquire such knowledge, the web provides it for us, and we are more productive behind this lightened load.

Other characterizes the Web as an extension of our brains. Jamais Cascio, in his Atalntic article “Get Smarter” discusses the rise of computer and devices bestow “exocortical technology” that allows us to performed any task we never dreamed of. He stated: “As the digital systems we rely upon become faster, more sophisticated, and more capable, we’re becoming more sophisticated and capable too.” In his fascinating article he also discussed that in addition to computers, drugs will be developed that help us perform experimental task better.

But some people protesting that the Web’s sophisticated system, has pawned a certain amount of unpleasant things: paparazzi-fueled news, silly viral videos, a huge number of scams and sex scandals. While the Internet can be seen as a mechanism to help us achieve things, it also appears to be able to distract us, sell us things we don’t need, and lead us down fruitless paths as we seek information.

Other could argue that the Internet is still in its infancy, and guides will arise to point us in the right path. But one could also argue that powerful entities who picture out the medium as a piggy bank waiting to be broke into pieces don’t want that to happen.

Dramatic Impact of Technology on Relationship

Do you notice the great changes…love letters have been replaced by love IM’s and love SMS…

Internet, cell phones, mobile devices, and some other hi-tech gadgets, are made possible in reaching out people in new exciting ways, in fact majority of U.S residents says that technology makes a difference in their love and personal relationship.

Technology in modern times, the advent of technology has been made a great influence on dating and relationships. There are text messages via cell phones, e-mails, webcams, Instant Messengers, Friendster, Facebook, blogs, online dating services and many more tools to use for the purpose of dating.

A study shows that almost half of those (46%) questioned about their present relationship habits claimed that use of emails, texting and internet chat rooms has led to a rise in the number of people being unfaithful to their partners.

And almost third or 29 % acclaimed using emails, text messaging and internet chat rooms to flirt with prospective partners and to mold an affair. Of those, almost a quarter (22 per cent) confessed to doing so every day while 62 per cent admitted to doing so once a week.

The world is a more exciting but changeable place, one in cultural and social transition due to the revolution in technology. After all, we are not moving as fast in adapting to those changes and are finding the speed at which our lives are being altered really quite bewildering and scary.