The folks at Hoopshype.com were kind enough to round up a list the top 30 salaries in the NBA and payrolls of all the NBA teams.
Here are some player salaries that stuck out like a sore thumb:
#2 Allan Houston - $20,718,750, Houston is business man of the decade.
#3 Michael Finley - $20,154.625, Finley gets paid […]

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Deep in the first rounds of the 2007 NBA playoffs, the NBA has made all playoff games available for purchase and download directly off their website. This is an interesting move considering that they partnered with Google Video last year to offer videos of last year’s playoff games. Individual games are available for […]

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In case you missed it, NASCAR racing star Tony Stewart recently took some shots at his employer and offered his own conspiracy theories on race fixing. He even compared it to pro wrestling.
That’s why Smoke (Tony Stewart) has such a huge following, he’s never afraid to voice his opinion.
NASCAR didn’t seem to mind too […]

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Fannation.com has finally re-launched their site since their acquisition by Sports Illustrated for $20 million. What’s new? The green layout is gone and has been replaced with a cleaner, blue layout that matches Si.com and Cnn.com. Other than that, it looks like more of the same sports websites that we’ve all come […]

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Capitalizing on the success of both “Dancing with the Stars” and fantasy sports in general, ABC.com has come up with an additional way in which fans of the show can participate. Called “fantasy dancing” the idea is familiar: you pick the dancing couple whom you think will do well each week and who will do […]

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Another UFC high profile mixed-martial arts match, yet another stunning upset. In a nationally televised broadcast fight card on Spike TV last night, one of the most reputable heavyweights in the world, Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic got knocked out at 4:51 of the first round by little known Gabriel Gonzaga of Brazil. It was supposed […]

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ESPN used EA Sport’s NBA Live 07 to simulate this year’s first round playoff matchups.  Although we personally would have used NBA2k7, arguably the best basketball video game of all time, the predictions seem very reasonable.  Check them out below: 
Eastern Conference
Detroit 4 - Orlando 1
Chicago 4 - Miami 2
Toronto 4 - New Jersey 3
Cleveland 4 - […]

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On Super Bowl media day, Brian Urlacher of the Chicago Bears wore a black cap with a Vitamin Water logo on the front of it. Unfortunately for him, the hat cost him $100,000 in fines because it’s Gatorade, and not Vitamin Water, that is the NFL’s offical drink. League spokesman Brian McCarthy reported […]

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Ultimate Fighting Championships and it’s Mixed-Martial Arts ilk has, over the last few years, arguably eclipsed boxing and wrestling in terms of popularity and market share among young men. Dan Wetzel of Yahoo! Sports posed the question of boxing versus UFC in an article today to Floyd Mayweather, considered by some to be the best […]

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I came across an interesting article regarding niche social networks and how their focused communities may be more enticing to marketers than others.
While MySpace boasts that it generates the most page views of any site, some marketers are skipping over it to tap focused networks, which reach a more targeted audience. Chad Stoller, executive director […]

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