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Title: SI's Top American Athlete's Earnings
Post by: Coach is Back! on May 15, 2013, 09:49:13 AM
Insane amounts of money :o

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/specials/fortunate50-2013/index.html?sct=hp_t11_a3&eref=sihp#
Title: Re: SI's Top American Athlete's Earnings
Post by: Beefjake on May 15, 2013, 09:56:18 AM
30 for 30: Broke
Title: Re: SI's Top American Athlete's Earnings
Post by: El Diablo Blanco on May 15, 2013, 09:59:36 AM
people get mad at these salaries but it's the same people paying thousands a year for tickets to games, wearing Nike and Adidas gear, paying $49.99 for pay per view.  Good for them for making this money.
Title: Re: SI's Top American Athlete's Earnings
Post by: Coach is Back! on May 15, 2013, 10:09:03 AM
I didn't see Jay Cutler or Phil Heath's name anywhere on that list :D
Title: Re: SI's Top American Athlete's Earnings
Post by: Darren Avey on May 15, 2013, 10:20:58 AM
Boxings dead  ::)

The recent Tyson Fury fight on tv got 3.8m viewers, the last UFC got 45000!  ::)
Title: Re: SI's Top American Athlete's Earnings
Post by: G_Thang on May 15, 2013, 11:28:39 AM
Insane amounts of money :o

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/specials/fortunate50-2013/index.html?sct=hp_t11_a3&eref=sihp#

Tiger Woods was around $100M before the golf club and booze incident with his ex-wife.

I can't believe Jeter just gets $8M in endorsements, given he's more marketable with the Yankee's than 99% of that list.  
Title: Re: SI's Top American Athlete's Earnings
Post by: Nicademus on May 15, 2013, 11:59:49 AM
Boxing isn't going anywhere.  For those MMA "fans" that wished for it's demise and predicted it's downfall-the future was 5 years ago.  That was when MMA was at it's peak and in particular the UFC.

What we see now is how it will be for the foreseeable future. Ebbs and flows of up and coming fighters good bouts, bad bouts, and everything in-between.  Boxing is like soccer in many ways, a global sport that thrives in every part of the world.

Like it or not MMA  and boxing are part of the fight sport culture forever.
Title: Re: SI's Top American Athlete's Earnings
Post by: arce1988 on May 15, 2013, 12:00:39 PM
  Good post. Soccer. Boxing. World Sports.
Title: Re: SI's Top American Athlete's Earnings
Post by: manuelsonn on May 15, 2013, 12:29:59 PM
in 2013, at 44 years after  the moonlanding, 4000 years after pyramids , 2000 after integrals, when humankind has decripted the human genome map , when every kid has acces to total information-smartphones, graphene.. this  mad jumping kicking ball apes are making millions, isn t that sad? .. if humankind would wake up and direct those money into bodybuilding i am sure that the beautiful man with glasses would still be with us..
Title: Re: SI's Top American Athlete's Earnings
Post by: El Diablo Blanco on May 15, 2013, 12:57:29 PM
in 2013, at 44 years after  the moonlanding, 4000 years after pyramids , 2000 after integrals, when humankind has decripted the human genome map , when every kid has acces to total information-smartphones, graphene.. this  mad jumping kicking ball apes are making millions, isn t that sad? .. if humankind would wake up and direct those money into bodybuilding i am sure that the beautiful man with glasses would still be with us..

No it's not sad that they are making millions.  It's sad that society puts them on pedestals and pay so much money to watch it and wear shirts with other men's last names on it