{"id":7764,"date":"2011-06-20T15:50:28","date_gmt":"2011-06-20T19:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=7764"},"modified":"2011-06-20T14:40:06","modified_gmt":"2011-06-20T18:40:06","slug":"si-lists-the-50-highest-earning-athletes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=7764","title":{"rendered":"SI Lists The 50 Highest-Earning Athletes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s time again for Sports Illustrated\u2019s Fortunate 50 \u2014 a ranking of the 50 highest-earning athletes in American sports, plus the 20 highest-earning in the world.<\/p>\n<p>For the eighth straight year, <strong>Tiger Woods<\/strong> tops the list. But his earnings are dropping. It looks like he\u2019ll have to scrape along with just $62 million from 2010. That\u2019s down from $92 million the year before, and $127.9 million in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>At this rate, <strong>Tiger<\/strong> will run out of money in never years.<\/p>\n<p>Golf also provides the U.S. No. 2 \u2014 <strong>Phil Mickelson<\/strong> at $61.1 million.<\/p>\n<p>All of which proves one thing \u2014 golf endorsements are the best in American sports.<strong> Woods\u2019<\/strong> total includes $60 million in endorsements. <strong>Mickelson\u2019s<\/strong> includes $57 million. No one else in the top 10 has more than $30 million, and that\u2019s <strong>LeBron James<\/strong>, who comes in at No. 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s time again for Sports Illustrated\u2019s Fortunate 50 \u2014 a ranking of the 50 highest-earning athletes in American sports, plus the 20 highest-earning in the world. For the eighth straight year, Tiger Woods tops the list. But his earnings are dropping. It looks like he\u2019ll have to scrape along with just $62 million from 2010. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}