Some Interesting Notes:

Racing:

1. 19 Overall - Lewis Hamilton - 64m
2. 21 - Fernando Alonso - 62m
3. 28 - Dale Earnhardt Jr. - 51.8m
4. 42 - Jimmie Johnson - 47m
5. 83 - Sebastian Vettel - 38m
6. 86 - Jeff Gordon - 37.4m

I suspect this might make the Hendrick Motorsports Cup Team the highest paid (Drivers) team for any motor sport series. (It would be interesting if someone found out or I did later...maybe).

1. Baseball - 27
2. Basketball - 18
3. Football - 17
4. Soccer - 15
5. Tennis - 6 (Tie Breaker = Total Earnings)
6. Racing - 6
7. Golf - 5
8. Boxing - 4
9. Cricket - 1
10. Track - 1


Endorsements Top 5.
1. 6 - Tiger Woods
2. 3 - LeBron James
3. 7 - Roger Federer
4. 8 - Phil Mickelson
5. 5 - Kobe Bryant


http://www.forbes.com/athletes/list/#tab:overall

Good for them 😃

How does a boxer not have any endorsements?

floyyd is richer than all of them and he doesn't take any endorsements as far as i know

No one cares about racing besides Ford and mouth breathers.

Either I don't know what he looks like (possible) or I've just never seen it but Mickelson does commercials?

This also shows how grossly underpaid top NFL and basketball players are due to salary caps, there's no possible way baseball should have that many of the top 100.

Gotta keep in mind that, aside from the salary cap issue, baseball has 162 games in the regular reason and lots of local TV money. They don't do so hot nationally, but they clean up on the local level and at the gate compared to other sports.

He has a huge deal with Pfizer for arthritis meds, I see those commercials almost every day. Anybody with multiple major wins is also going to have a club/shoe/ball/clothing deal.

That list seems to be missing a few things.

http://en.mediamass.net/...shikori/highest-paid.html

and that last link has updated to say it is false

SOL is ranked too high.

Interesting to see just how concentrated among the top athletes endorsements are

(except in football (real football, not American), where guys near the bottom of the top 100 make somewhat ok money)

"somewhat ok money" ha!

i declare moral victory.

fluff you, Sir!

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