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MLB Rumors - MLBTradeRumors.com: Odds and Ends: Duran, Ichiro, Wright, Manny, Wilson
Bootlegger Sports- Sports Humor Blog: Must Make Basketball Playing Son
The Two Man Game: Heard It Through the Grapevine
MLS Expansion And Development: GALAXY's Beckham tops earners' list w/ $ 45 million+ in 2008
The World's Beautiful Game: David Beckham leads latest SI list of top earners
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Odds and Ends: Duran, Ichiro, Wright, Manny, Wilson
MLB Rumors - MLBTradeRumors.com —
... Though money is tight for many American franchises, SI reports that the earnings for the world's twenty richest athletes are at an all-time high. Ichiro, with $22.5MM, is the only ballplayer on the list. ...
Must Make Basketball Playing Son
Bootlegger Sports- Sports Humor Blog —
... , which in case you couldn’t tell by their cutesy title, is the 50 highest paid athletes across all sports when you include endorsements and salary. When I say athletes, I mean American athletes, because God forbid you include rich, foreign soccer players,tennis stars, boxers or racecar drivers who are making bank. If you must know who’s in the money overseas, you can check out that list here. For the rest of you beer-swilling Americans, the time has come for you to produce a male heir and then lock him in a gym with a basketball until he’s ...
Heard It Through the Grapevine
The Two Man Game —
... or don’t have will likely hinge on Josh Howard’s team option for that season. It’s also worth noting that letting Kidd bolt this summer would likely turn into a disastrous campaign, which puts another feather in the cap of the Nets. The Nets have the Mavs’ draft pick in the 2010 draft, and a regular season failure only makes the Kidd-Harris trade look that much more foolish.
Kidd ranked as the 19th highest-paid American athlete, while Dirk ranked 16th among his international peers. (via TrueHoop)
Knicks head coach Mike ...
GALAXY's Beckham tops earners' list w/ $ 45 million+ in 2008
MLS Expansion And Development —
... from Sports Illustrated,
( http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/more/specials/fortunate50/2009/index.20.html ) ...
David Beckham leads latest SI list of top earners
The World's Beautiful Game —
from Sports Illustrated,
"It's boom time for foreign-born athletes. Despite the slow economy, the average earnings of the top 20 non-American sportsmen are at an all-time high $29.5 million. Of those 20, only four play in U.S.-based leagues, led by perennial powerhouse David Beckham, who is back in Major League Soccer with the Los Angeles Galaxy..."
Read the complete article and view the entire list here
GALAXY's Beckham leads "International 20" top athlete earners' list
San Diego MLS Project —
... Major League Baseball in terms of payout. Six Europe-based footballers in addition to Becks make this year's list, while four F1 drivers also take the checkered flag here with earnings in excess of $20 million each.
Of the 20, only four play in U.S.-based leagues, led by perennial powerhouse David Beckham, who is back in Major League Soccer with the Los Angeles Galaxy at least through the end of this season.
Story Source Link: SPORTS ILLUSTRATED's "International 20" - Top-earning athletes
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SI's Top 20-earning international athletes topped by Becks (again)
San Diego eXtreme Sports Coalition —
... Major League Baseball in terms of payout. Six Europe-based footballers in addition to Becks make this year's list, while four F1 drivers also take the checkered flag here with earnings in excess of $20 million each.
Of the 20, only four play in U.S.-based leagues, led by perennial powerhouse David Beckham, who is back in Major League Soccer with the Los Angeles Galaxy at least through the end of this season.
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SPORTS ILLUSTRATED's "International 20" - Top-earning athletes
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Sports top earners - the Fortunate 50 and International 20
TheOriginalWinger.com —
... Anyways, this is a futbol site and it is definitely It’s boom time for foreign-born athletes. Despite the slow economy, the average earnings of the top 20 non-American sportsmen are at an all-time high $29.5 million. In all, this year’s list features seven soccer players. See who they are are where they rank internationally after the jump ...
F1 links: Vatanen could take on Mosley
F1 Fanatic - The Formula 1 Blog —
... "Speaking to German newspaper Bild, Ecclestone said: 'This was all a big misunderstanding.' He added: 'I did not put Hitler forward as a positive example, but simply noted that, before his appalling crimes, he acted successfully against unemployment and the economic crisis.' Ecclestone claimed that it was never his intention to 'hurt the feelings of a community … many of my closest friends are Jews.'" (Thanks LewisC)
The top-earning non-American athletes
Kimi Raikkonen is second on $40.1m, Fernando Alonso fifth on $35m and Lewis ...
