Business week recently highlighted the top 3 highest paid athletes of 9 different sports. Check out some of the numbers:
Basketball
- Joe Johnson ($12.7 million a year)
- Zach Randolph ($12 million)
- Carlos Boozer ($11.6 million)
Football
- Vince Young ($9.7 million)
- Reggie Bush ($9 million)
- Mario Williams ($9 million)
Tennis
- Roger Federer ($8.3 million)
- Justine Henin ($4.2 million)
- Maria Sharapova ($3.8 million)
Soccer
- Cristiano Ronaldo ($12.4 million)
- Wayne Rooney ($11.7 million)
- Landon Donovan ($900,000)
Formula One
- Fernando Alonso ($20.4 million)
- Lewis Hamilton ($2.8 million)
- Heikki Kovalainen ($2.8 million)
Baseball
- Carlos Zambrano ($6.7 million)
- Dontrelle Willis ($4.35 million)
- Francisco Rodriguez ($3.8 million)
Nascar
- Kyle Busch ($4.8 million)
- Brian Vickers ($3.9 million)
- Reed Sorenson ($3.5 million)
Golf
- Lorena Ochoa ($2.6 million)
- Camilo Villegas ($1.8 million)
- Julieta Granada ($1.6 million)
Hockey
- Ilya Kovalchuk ($5 million)
- Rick DiPietro ($4.5 million)
- Eric Staal ($4 million)
Check out the full report here.
One Response
FranktheYank
February 14th, 2008 at 1:48 pm
1Landon Donavan? Where did the soccer list come from? There are way more higher paid soccer players in the world. 900K? Thats nothing.
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