Podcast | Digging Deeper - The Best Year in International Sports (Since 2017)

2018 has been a great year for sports. We say that every year, of course. Every season is sports season; it's summer somewhere. We are watching a ball being kicked, hit, thrown, chucked, struck, caught, or not, all through the year. To say nothing of those games without balls. Sports are popular with young people sure, but even older fans who have an axe to grind are known to have terrified the roughest of football hooligans.

A Nielsen survey spanning 18 global markets had 43% of respondents say they were “interested” or “very interested” in football in 2017. Given how the Champions League went earlier this year, as well as the FIFA World Cup in Russia, I suspect that number won’t be dropping anytime soon. 

Today we’re counting down the 5 biggest events in sport in 2018.