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In a surprise move our January Sports Notes column praising KaKa for not selling out for money given his higher principals and standards leaped to the top spot after only holding down the 4th position last month. You could say it was a delayed reaction. Guus Hiddink Play Russian Roulette retained the second spot from last month's ratings. SCOLARI GIVEN POISON PILL rocketed to 3rd after missing the list last month.

Thursday March 12 , 2009

SPORTS NOTES & VIDEO BEAT RULE

The Top 10 ratings for February took the top spot but we are not going to credit it as such this month. Why? Well we're going to play the Rupert Murdoch game of television scheduling and just say it's a secret and leave it at that.

In a surprise move our January Sports Notes column praising KaKa for not selling out for money given his higher principals and standards leaped to the top spot after only holding down the 4th position last month. You could say it was a delayed reaction. Guus Hiddink Plays Russian Roulette retained the second spot from last month's ratings. SCOLARI GIVEN POISON PILL rocketed to 3rd after missing the list last month.

Overall we question the integrity of International football which we feel is focused primarily on power, ego and money. The firing of Scolari, the hiring of Hiddink and the lack of support and the childish bickering from Chelsea players all factored into our analysis and opinions.

In a surprise entry our Sports Notes column from January 2006 SEA Games $#!T Hits The Fan leaped into the 8th spot. That column pretty much describes the sorry state of Cambodian football with the focus being what effect gambling has on the game in Southeast Asia. It was at that time several Vietnamese players were arrested for fixing football matches.

The irony being that the Cambodian Football Federation went on to have gambling concerns sponsor their Premiere League. What followed were more scandals regarding the under 17 squads accused of fixing matches. Recently Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen closed all of the Cambo Six football gambling business citing that they caused domestic violence, theft and robbery as reported in the February 25th issue of the Cambodia Daily.

Several years ago portions of the gambling revenues from these businesses were supposed to go towards supporting Cambodia's football programs where national team players were being paid only $20 a month. If it's a mess your looking for….THIS IS IT.

Part 2 of our 2008 YEAR IN REVIEW column ranked fourth thus moving up one spot.

Our television coverage aka our Video Beat columns took five of the Top 10 spots 5, 6, 7, 9 and 10. The Grammy Award coverage was our fastest rise in taking the fifth position followed by the Amazing Race Season 14 notched the 10th spot thus qualifying as a fast riser.

The Grammy's being dull was our focus in that column with Rihanna taking the spotlight after being a no show due to a bust up (pun intended) with her boyfriend.

That column also features American Idol's new judge Kara DioGuardi's conflict with a contestant we deemed the Bikini Girl. It was down and dirty but all survived and the show now goes on with DioGuardi and without the Bikini Girl. Let us bow our heads and pray. Other highlights of the Video Beat columns were the return of the Amazing race USA edition and the Celebrity Apprentice Final. A thread about this column is that there is a relationship with the winner of the Celebrity Apprentice and Simon Cowell. What is it? Read on…

As we noted last month when press releases make an impact in the ratings we will not include them in our Top 10 but will mention them in the body of the column. Last month the NBA had three that made such an impact and they continue to do so. This month Entertainment made the greatest upward thrust in the ratings.

The three stories that qualified are:

1. Van Morrison’s "Astral Weeks: Live At The Hollywood Bowl"

2. Robert Riggs Award Winning CBS & ABC Television Journalist

3. Public Television Rocks!”

For a change of pace we are highlighting an archive story. Given that the World Baseball Classic is in progress we are featuring our Mike Piazza column from 1998.

TOP SECTIONS VISITED

International football/SOCCER moved up to the first position from third in our most visited sections thus reclaiming the position that it has dominated since we have published our Top 10 ratings.

Our Television section moved up fours spots from 6th to 2nd but was outdone by the Entertainment section which made the greatest leap forward by gaining seven spots from 10th to 3rd.

The NBA returned to the list by taking the fourth spot. After failing to make the list in February it did manage to rank 5th in our January listings. Our Business section also reentered the list taking the 6th spot after failing to do so in our February ratings after ranking 2nd in January.

Our Phnom Penh section fell from first to seventh and American Idol dropped one spot to eighth. Sports Notes also dropped one spot from eighth to ninth and the Lakers reentered the list by locking down the 10th spot. BIT (Business Internet Technology) ranked 11th. For our French language readers the NBA MAX section fell to 12th place.

The Top 10 most visited sections are:

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