After watching The Last Dance on Netflix, we thought, we’d share a synopsis of Michael Jordan’s career. While there is debate across boxing, tennis, football and nearly all sports, we can almost agree that the greatest of all time in basketball is uncontested. Here’s the rise of basketballs greatest ever player: Photo Credit- Flickr School Years […]
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This is a rough time for most of the global, a period of constant bad news and uncertainty can be tough on us mentally. Over the past few weeks we reached out to some of our athletes to see how they are dealing with the Coronavirus lockdown, and asked then for some motivation advice. Here’s what […]
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We love to get behind and answer much asked sports trivia, and there are so many interesting ones that thousands of people search for daily on the internet. One which gets asked a lot is ‘which is the fastest sport’, this is a tough one because there are so many categories involved – dies it […]
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Sponsorship in sport is big business, and the overall size of the market took us by surprise. It’s estimated that around $60 billion was spend on sports sponsorship in 2019! And in North America where everything is bigger that includes this market, The USA and Canada accounts for a sports sponsorship spend of approximately $24.2 billion. Europe […]
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Most countries play the most popular global sports like football, tennis, golf etc. Some countries more are focused on off shoots of the mainstream sports, for example North America has American Football and baseball. But some countries have completely unique sports, Ireland is one such country, where are gaelic football and hurling are the national […]
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The normal sporting calendar has been completely decimated, leaving a huge void in sports, the summer Olympics postponed, the NBA season on hold, all major football, golf and tennis events suspended.. Things haven’t been this bleak in the sports calendar since the great wars in 1914-19 and 1939-45. Right now eSports is the only winner […]
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There are only 3 occasions that the summer Olympics hasnt been held in recent years €“ In World War 1 the games weren’t held from 1915-18, in World War 2 there was no Olympics during the years 1940-1945. And this year, the Summer Olympics has been postponed because of the disastrous Corona Virus Pandemic. The world has been turned upside […]
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In this new era of social distancing new rules apply, in most countries gyms are closed, as are sports clubs even public sports grounds, so forget about team sports, we now need to look at sports where we don’t need other humans involved Water Sports If your restriction rules it, the water is a great […]
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Major League Soccer – MLS is the top tier men’s professional soccer league in the United States and Canada. The MLS plays 4th to the traditional sports – NFL, NBA, MLB and the NHL. But it’s catch up fast, According to a 2018 Gallup poll, 7% of Americans cited soccer as their favourite sport to […]
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There are billions of sports fans around the world and many of these actively use social media everyday. Many on this list are or were at the top level of what they do and when you throw social media in the mix these athletes can be turned into superstars. The millions of fans following these female […]
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It wouldnt be a stretch to say agents are footballs new rock stars. With the staggering sums of money being invested in their clients and the amounts the agents are then due, they wouldnt miss the odd car driven into a swimming pool. Agents have more negotiating muscle than ever before, so here we rank the […]
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According to gaming historians, the first eSports event took place on October 19th, 1972 in Stanford University, California. Students competed against each other playing the sci-fi rocket combat game, Spacewar, and the winner got a year long subscription to the Rolling Stones magazine. Theres a certain beautiful romance to this and its not surprising […]
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With the advancements in sports science, improvements to equipment, professional year-round training programmes and techniques that have evolved over time, youd be forgiven for assuming that world records just steadily improve over time. And to a large extent this holds true, take the 100m world record, you could almost draw a linear graph of […]
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The current social media revolution means it takes more than superhuman skill to reel in the big sponsorship deals. Having a massive social media following makes you an influencer to millions of sports fans around the world, this is a major attraction to sports brands and indeed all types of brands who want to sell […]
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Bigger TV rights deals, social media and massively growing sports brands means more $$$ for sports superstars. And some of the recent deals have been just astounding. Take Roger Federer, in 2018 at the ripe old age of 37, he signed a 10 year $300 million deal with Japanese sports and street wear brand […]
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The COVID-19 Pandemic is wreaking havoc upon the world. Restrictions are making it very hard to deal with, socialising has been made impossible, playing sport is not really and option and gyms are closed. We reached out to a few athletes on PledgeSports to get their reaction on the current crisis and the postponement of […]
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In the space of a few weeks Corona Virus or COVID-19, which is the correct medical term, has caused worldwide panic. This is now being classed as a worldwide pandemic and is having a major short term effect on economies, the stock market and travel and most of all human beings. 1000’s have already died […]
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During this current COVID-19 crisis where gyms and sports clubs are closed in many countries, many will fall back to running as a means of exercise, and there’s a reason why – Running is possibly the most accessible sport in the world, all you need is a pair of runners and youre off and if […]
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Injury is every athletes worst nightmare, you can’t train, you can compete and if you are on your countries high performance funding programme, you run the risk of being cut. As unfair as it sounds, this actually happens! We have worked with many athletes who have has funding cut due to longer term injuries. For […]
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If you play or even just watch tennis then you probably know that there are a few different surfaces. We want to give you an idea of what it’s like to play on the 4 main ones and the differences in speed, bounce etc. There are four main types of tennis court surface: clay courts, […]
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We all know that mountain climbing can be dangerous and every year we hear about tragic losses on Mount Everest or K2 but there are many other less familiar mountain which are far more dangerous. Based on death-to-summit ratio Everest is actually quite safe compared to most mountains on the list below. 6 of the most […]
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