Rating the ranking
                By Marco Casanova
                
                
                    
Summary
                    The ranking results are taken seriously by key stakeholders in the US sports business. There is no empirical evidence that the published monetary value of a brand and the overall business performance of the respective brands in sports have a statistically relevant correlation with each other.
                
                
                
                    About Marco Casanova
                    
                    Marco Casanova is Founder & Managing Partner of the Branding-Institute since 2002. He serves in various Executive Boards and is consulting as strategic advisor various global large-scale and mid-sized enterprises of multiple industries as well as international organizations, associations and countries and their governmental institutions in brand and reputation guided stakeholder management. He holds a vast global network into various opinion leader circles through his political, economic and scientific activities.