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| The
Best Paid Athletes
Ten
years ago athletes in individual sports dominated Forbes'
list of the highest-paid athletes. Today a golfer (Tiger
Woods)
and a race car driver (Michael Schumacher) occupy the
top
two spots, but only one boxer (Oscar De La Hoya) and
one tennis
player (Andre Agassi) made the cut. Methodology.
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Forbes:
The World's Highest Paid Celebrities
June
17, 2004
Start
with money. Add fame. Mix. Forbes ranks the relative
star
power of actors, athletes, singers and talking heads--how
much they
earn and how many people are paying attention. |
Forbes:
The Highest and Lowest Paid CEOs
April
22, 2004
The
heads of America's 500 biggest firms got an aggregate
8% pay
raise last year, earning total compensation of $3.3
billion. That
helps reverse the 35% pay hit they took in 2002. |
Forbes:
The World's Richest People
February
26, 2004
After
two years of falling fortunes, the collective net worth
of
the world's billionaires jumped half a trillion dollars
in the past
year, to $1.9 trillion. |
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King
Of The Court
By Kurt Badenhausen
Andre
Agassi is nearing the end of his playing days, but
marketers
still pay him top dollar. More... | Six
Degrees of Tiger Woods
By Lisa DiCarlo
It's
no secret that Tiger Woods is a marketer's dream. No
company has capitalized on the appeal of the good looking,
clean-cut, articulate, scandal-free golf whiz more
than Nike.
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Ramp To Riches
By Lea Goldman
Tony
Hawk made a fortune by making skateboarding cool. What
happens when he gives up his wheels? More... | Madness
of Crowds
By Michael Freedman
The
world's most popular professional sport is a study
in
financial contrasts and often desperation. More... | Pistons
Man In Glass House
By Dan Ackman
Last
night, the Detroit Pistons won the NBA championship.
More... | Golden
Boy
By Evan Hessel
Oscar
De La Hoya has found a new way to score knockouts--by
promoting fights himself. More... | Slam
Dunk
By Kurt Badenhausen
The
NBA's latest well-paid phenom is showing on and off
the
court that he might be worth all the hype. More... | |
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