Sports Shorts

Tale of the Tape
Looking at this weekend's WBC super welterweight title fight between Oscar de la Hoya and Floyd Mayweather, Jr. through an eBay lens, de la Hoya should score a resounding victory. De la Hoya is crushing Mayweather in eBay sales, 800 to 100 in related items sold over the past month. Items related to de la Hoya jumped significantly each week in April, including an 87 percent jump in the middle of the month and 22 percent this past week.

Warriors are Golden
As the Golden State Warriors were improbably dispatching the Dallas Mavericks, on eBay the sale of related Warriors items, including memorabilia, tickets, pennants, skyrocketed 81 percent this week over last. A total of nearly 870 have sold, up from about 480.



Milwaukee's Finest
Another surprise winner is the Milwaukee Brewers who have the best record in baseball (18-9) and just swept the defending World Series champion St. Louis Cardinals. While Brew Crew-related items have jumped 25 percent week over week, fans are probably waiting to see what transpires as the young season wears enters the summer -- the Brewers haven't been in first place this late in the season since late August 1983, according to Elias Sports Bureau. At that time in Milwaukee, if you recall, a nation was embracing the Ballad of Joannie and Chachi as Happy Days was entering its 11th and final season.