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The world’s 10 most valuable sports teams

This year’s Forbes list of the world's most valuable teams is heavy with two kinds of football and features a new top squad. Can you guess which team, and which sport, nabbed the number one spot?

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The world’s 10 most valuable sports teams

This year’s Forbes list of the world's most valuable teams is heavy with two kinds of football and features a new top squad. Can you guess which team, and which sport, nabbed the number one spot?
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The US women will open their Olympic soccer tournament against France Wednesday. In some ways, they will be seeking to emulate the technical skills of their opponents.
Summer Olympics Soccer: 5 athletes to watch

The US men did not qualify for the tournament, but Team USA women are among the favorites, and the London Olympics promise a glimpse of some of the world's top stars.
Billionaire as Russia's president? The 5 richest men in Russia.

Mikhail Prokhorov, one of Russia's richest men – and the owner of the New Jersey Nets basketball team – has announced that he will challenge Vladimir Putin in the March 2012 presidential elections. His move to throw his hat in the ring has thrown the spotlight once again on Russia's billionaires. A record number of billionaires now call Russia home – 114 of them, according to an annual list of the 500 richest Russians published in February by the Moscow-based Finans magazine. The number of billionaires is up from a mere 77 in 2009. To make this year's list, a Russian tycoon had to be worth at least $160 million. The assets of the top 10 grew last year by a whopping 30 percent to a combined worth of $182 billion. The bonanza has yet to reach Russia's struggling middle class; average incomes rose a paltry 4 percent last year, according to the state statistics agency Rostat. To be a former associate of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin helps, apparently. According to the magazine, Arkady Rotenberg, who did judo training with a teenaged Mr. Putin, jumped 17 places to become Russia's 63rd richest person, worth $1.75 billion. Two neighbors from Putin's summer home community near St. Petersburg also shot through the ranks this year to become the 115th and 184th richest persons. Here are the top five:
02/14/2011 04:18 pm
The Sports Economist How we (fail to) nurture young talent

Professional leagues contribute to the rough experience of talented young athletes, if they focus on developing talent at the expense of personal growth.
10/28/2010 02:05 pm
Africa Monitor Spain vs Paraguay: Three reasons Spain will likely beat Paraguay

Spain vs Paraguay is at 2:30 pm ET on Saturday, July 3. Spain is not just about David Villa. The team's 'tika-tika' style of play has served it well this World Cup.
07/03/2010 09:39 am
Africa Monitor Cameroon vs. Denmark: 2-1 loss eliminates Cameroon from the World Cup

Cameroon was expected to be Africa’s best performer at the continent’s first World Cup. But its 2-1 loss to Denmark makes it the first team to crash out of the World Cup.
06/19/2010 09:19 pm
Africa Monitor Japan vs. Cameroon: Japan tames the Indomitable Lions, 1-0

After today's lackluster performance in the Japan vs. Cameroon game, the Indomitable Lions will have to do something spectacular to rescue their World Cup campaign.
06/14/2010 02:04 pm
Africa Monitor Japan vs. Cameroon: Will Eto'o deliver for Africa's best hope?

Cameroon has a central spine of experienced and talented players, including star striker, Samuel Eto’o, undoubtedly one of the best forwards in the world. Will he shine in the Japan vs. Cameroon match?
06/14/2010 11:21 am
Africa Monitor Holland vs. Denmark: Will the men in orange perform in this World Cup?

The Dutch shouldn’t find too much to worry them in Group E. Denmark are a so-so side, who are likely to battle it out with Cameroon for second spot behind the men in orange.
06/14/2010 08:48 am
The Sports Economist 'Great recession' catches up with English Premier League

The English Premier League, one of the richest in world soccer, could see one of its teams go bankrupt.
02/25/2010 11:34 am
Global News Blog Lessons from Togo attack for World Cup host South Africa?

The news that Angolan separatists sprayed bullets into the Togo team's bus on Friday, killing three and wounding several others, has cast a dark shadow over the African Cup of Nations soccer tournament. What can South Africa learn from this?
01/11/2010 12:58 pm
'Farouk1986': what Christmas bombing suspect wrote online

Online posts by 'Farouk1986,' thought to be the Christmas Day bombing suspect, suggest a student preoccupied by university admissions and English soccer clubs, but who was also apparently lonely and conflicted.
12/29/2009 12:26 pm
Top universities: Britain pushes Oxford and Cambridge to recruit more widely

Top universities Oxford and Cambridge draw 43 percent of students from private schools that educate 7 percent of the population. They face pressure to take applicants' social and economic background into account.
12/01/2009 12:00 am
King of my own (Internet) domain!

Column: The liberalization of Internet domain names will help companies, but it will also make the Web way more complicated.
06/10/2009 01:00 am
Bruni and Sarkozy disarm the British in cross-Channel charm offensive

France's first couple breeze past centuries of British-French antagonism on two-day state visit.
03/28/2008 01:00 am