Highest earning U.S. professional athletes

• gorocks99

  

  http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/specials/fortunate50-2010/?eref=sihp
  
  Mr. Woods is still number 1, despite being down about $9 million from last year.
  
  Top by sport:
  
  Golf:
  #1 Tiger Woods
  
  Boxing:
  #3 Floyd Mayweather
  
  Basketball:
  #4 LeBron James
  
  Baseball:
  #5 Alex Rodriguez
  
  Football:
  #9 Peyton Manning
  
  Racing:
  #16 Dale Earnhardt Jr.
  
  No hockey, soccer, or other sport stars are represented. FWIW, among international professionals, Roger Federer ranks #1 (would be #2 in the U.S. rankings) and Lionel Messi is at #2 (just behind LeBron James).
• trackandccrunner

  Seeing Stafford at 11 on that list just made me laugh at how crazy that is.
• thedynasty1998

  

  There are quite a few NFL first to second year players in the top 50. The NFL really needs to do something about the rookie salaries.
• Mohican00

  

  Mr. Woods is still number 1, despite being down about $9 million from last year.

  soon to be about $750 million
• jpake1

  

  Yea, the NFL salary structure is one of the biggest jokes in sports. But hey, they made it.
• ironman02

  Mohican00;429114 wrote:soon to be about $750 million

  
  Wasn't the report about the $750 million false? I thought I heard that it was actually much lower than that.
• Mohican00

  

  ironman02;429342 wrote:Wasn't the report about the $750 million false? I thought I heard that it was actually much lower than that.

  
  A source to TMZ said that it was only $100 million....
  
  http://dimewars.com/Blog/Tiger-Woods-To-Pay--100-Million-NOT--750-Million-In-Divorce.aspx?BlogID=d243eebb-a7ad-453f-973a-1b892b0b2e08
  
  so not yet substantiated
• ironman02

  Ok, thanks. Whatever ends up happening, Elin isn't gonna be hurting for cash.
• Con_Alma

  The report is based on earnings not net worth. Tiger can pay out his $100 mill and still be #1 on this list.