I don't know about the top 10, but here are five of the very largest ones. Most of these numbers are from 2010 but a few of them are from 2008/9.
I can answer that according to each sport competition revenue.
1- NFL returned 7.8 bill $ in 2009
2- MLB returned 6.8 bill $ in 2009
3- NBA returned 4..0 bill $ in 2009
4-The English premier league returned 3.2 Bill $ in 2009
Please note that the World cup 2010 in south Africa returned a revenue estimated by 3.8 Bill $ in nearly 1 month time.
I don't know about the top 10, but here are five of the very largest ones. Most of these numbers are from 2010 but a few of them are from 2008/9.
Sports are a great past-time for all people and tend to generate a lot of revenue. It is believed that baseball generates the most revenue amongst all other sports.
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top sports: soccer, football,...
40% of all revenue
All of us did, the people that watch sports on major networks, talk about them on social media, or read about them on sports blogs and sites. All of these activities generate revenue for sports and thus allow the sports stars to be very well compensated. The bigger the audience gets, the more revenue comes in and the more players and stars can ultimately be paid.
The University of Detroit Mercy has the top sports program.
There are a great many top sports in the United States of America. These sports include football, baseball, and swimming.
the top richest sports are football rugby basketball cricket golf and tennis
The top 100 sports are as followed: Football tennis horse riding basketball and so on!