Forbes: The World’s 25 Top-Earning Athletes
Posted on October 30th, 2007 by Yours Truly under Business Profiles
1. Tiger Woods - 100 mil.
2. Oscar Del La Hoya - 43 mil.
3. Phil Mickelson - 42.2 mil
4. Kimi Raikkonen - 40 mil.
5. Michael Schumacher - 36 mil.
6. David Beckham - 33 mil.
7. Kobe Bryant - 32.9 mil.
8. Shaquille O’Neal - 31.9 mil.
9. (tie) Michael Jordan - 31 mil.
9. (tie) Ronaldinho - 31 mil.
11. Valentino Rossi - 30 mil.
12. Alex Rodriguez - 29.2 mil.
13. Roger Federer - 29 mil.
14. Derek Jeter - 28.3 mil.
15. LeBron James - 27.3 mil.
16. Floyd Mayweather - 26.5 mil.
17. Yao Ming - 26.3 mil.
18. Vijay Singh - 25.8 mil.
19. Leonard Davis - 25.4 mil.
20. Arnold Palmer - 25 mil.
21. Jeff Gordon - 24.5 mil.
22. Kevin Garnett - 24.3 mil.
23. Reggie Bush - 23.8 mil.
24. Allen Iverson - 23.3 mil.
25. Maria Sharapova - 23 mil.
Slightly over half of the athletes are on ‘team’ sports and the high rollers seem to come from Golf and F1 Auto Racing while there are 7 NBA players on the list.



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