50 Highest Earning Athletes in U.S.

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The 50 highest-earning American athletes

By Michael McKnight, SI.com

 

For the first time since SI.com began publishing the Fortunate 50 in 2004, Tiger Woods is not No. 1. He's not even No. 2. That honor goes once again to Phil Mickelson. The new No. 1 (for now) is Floyd Mayweather, who was unranked a year ago but scored two huge pay-per-view paydays to earn $85 million without a single endorsement.

 

 

1. FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR. $85,000,000 ($0 endorsements)

2. PHIL MICKELSON $60,763,488 ($57M in endorsements)

3. TIGER WOODS $56,440,238 ($54.5M in endorsements)

4. KOBE BRYANT $48,286,000 ($28.0M in endorsements)

5. LEBRON JAMES $45,880,000 ($33M in endorsements)

6. ALEX RODRIGUEZ $33,500,000 ($3.5M in endorsements)

 

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26.TOM BRADY $22,250,000 ($10M in endorsements)

 

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It's amazing how much more basketball players make than football players. Fewer guys to pay I guess.

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This is obviously flawed analysis

 

Where are the USC and $ec football players?

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The amount of money these guys make makes me want to PUKE.

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Mayweather, the highest paid athlete in America, just got done serving two month in the Clark County Detention Center in Las Vegas. Apparently he's not wasting much of that $85 million on lawyers. LINK