The Power 100 is released for 2010 and this year its ALL athletes!!! No more suits on the list…just the real stars! No surprise here though that, regardless how many broads he bedded in the last few years that WEREN’T his wife, the folks over at BusinessWeek still love Tiger Woods as he tops the list of the most powerful, influential athletes the world over. Below is a quick rundown of who made the list, most of which you should know immediately (if you don’t you’re a dipshit) along with their reported earnings for ‘09 and sport.
Yous should know everyone in the top 15 or 20, but they get a little less commonplace in the lower ranks for most people…
- Tiger Woods* $103mil, Golf
- LeBron James* $44mil, Basketball
- Phil Mickelson $52mil, Golf
- Albert Pujols* $18mil, Baseball
- Peyton Manning $27mil, American Football
- Dwayne Wade* $28mil, Basketball
- Michael Phelps $6mil, Swimming
- Adrian Peterson* $9.5mil, American Football
- Shaquille O’Neal $35mil, Basketball
- Lance Armstong* (earnings unavailable), Cycling
- Raphael Nadal* $ 31.5mil, Tennis
- Kobe Bryant* $33mil, Basketball
- Larry Fitzgerald* $11mil (Seriously, #13?), American Football
- Ryan Howard $16.5mil, Baseball
- Brett Farve $19mil, American Football
- Serena Williams* $11.5mil, Tennis
- Roger Federer* $32.8mil, Tennis
- Eli Manning $27.5mil, American Football
- Joe Mauer $13.5mil, Baseball
- Tim Duncan $25.7mil, Basketball
- Jimmie Johnson** $15.3mil, Auto Racing
- Kevin Garnett $26.4mil, Basketball
- Chris Johnson $4.5mil, American Football
- Randy Moss $7mil, American Football
- Drew Breese $17.5mil, American Football
- Kurt Warner $19.8mil, American Football
- Usain Bolt (earnings unavailable), Track & Field
- Jeff Gordon** $21.5mil, Auto Racing
- Dirk Nowitzki $26.3mil, Basketball
- Tom Brady $18mil, American Football
- Kevin Durant* $11.8mil, Basketball
- CC Sabathia $15.5mil, Baseball
- Derek Jeter* $30mil, Baseball
- Prince Fielder $9mil, Baseball
- David Beckham $23mil, Football
- Dwight Howard $27.1mil, Basketball
- Alexander Ovechkin $12mil, Hockey (or according to BusinessWeek “Sport: NBA/Washington Capitals—F”)
- Andre Johnson $8mil, American Football
- Sidney Crosby $13mil, Hockey
- Hines Ward $6.3mil, American Football (How can you not love this guy?)
- Mark Martin** $7.3mil, Auto Racing
- Venus Williams $8mil, Tennis
- Donovan McNabb $22.5mil, American Football
- Chris Paul* $14.5mil, Basketball
- Dale Earnhardt, Jr.** $26mil, Auto Racing
- Mark Teixeira $20.8mil, Baseball
- LaDanian Tomlinson* $9.2mil, American Football
- Tony Stewart $16.8mil, Auto Racing
- Chase Utley $11.8mil, Baseball
- Jim Furyk $15mil, Golf
- Shaun White (earnings unavailable), Snowboarding & Skateboarding
- David Wright $8.25mil, Baseball
- Ilya Kovalchuk $8mil, Hockey
- Ben Roethlisberger* $10.3mil, American Football
- Steve Nash* $18.1mil, Basketball
- Lorena Ochoa $1.7mil, Golf
- Evan Longoria $625k, Baseball
- Deron Williams* 14.3mil, Basketball
- Paul Pierce* $21.3mil, Basketball
- Carmello Anthony* $23.8mil, Basketball
- Alex Rodriguez* $39mil, Baseball
- Johan Santana $20.9mil, Baseball
- Tim Lincecum $700k, Baseball
- Apolo Anto Ohno (earnings unavailable), Skater
- Stewart Cink* $4.6mil, Golfer
- Ray Allen* $20.5mil, Basketball
- Carl Edwards $10.6mil, Auto Racing
- Yao Ming $34.4mil, Basketball
- Troy Polamalu* $8.3mil, American Football
- Kyle Busch $10.2mil, Auto Racing
- Landon Donovan* $1.9mil, Football
- Manny Pacquiao* $39mil, Boxing
- Padraig Harrington $7.6mil, Golf
- Vince Carter* $21.3mil, Basketball
- Tony Romo $3.6mil, American Football
- Dustin Pedroia $2.5mil, Baseball
- Ichiro Suzuki $18.5mil, Baseball
- Ray Lewis $12mil, American Football
- Andy Roddick $12.3mil, Tennis
- Maria SAharapova $23.9mil, Tennis
- Sergio Garcia $23.2mil, Golf
- Fedor Emelianenko (earning unavailable), MMA (How can you not love THIS guy?)
- Derrick Rose $6.1mil, Basketball
- Vijay Singh $9.3mil, Golf
- Steven Jackson* $12mil, American Football
- Andy Murray $8.9mil, Tennis
- Allen Iverson $8mil, Basketball
- Danica Patrick $10.8mil, Auto Racing
- Brandon Roy* $4mil, Basketball
- Manny Ramirez $26.8mil, Baseball
- Floyd Mayweather, Jr. $30.3mil, Boxing
- Candace Parker $5mil, Basketball
- Shane Mosley $2.6mil, Boxing
- Diana Taurasi $1mil, Basketball
- Misty May-Treanor $650k, Volleyball
- Brock Lesnar (earnings unavailable), MMA
- Patrick Kane $1mil, Hockey
- Chad Ochocinco $5.75mil, American Football
- Matt Ryan* $8.4mil, American Football
- Ryan Sheckler (earnings unavailable), Skateboarding
Now if you’re wondering why some of these athletes have an asterisk (*) by their names, it’s because they are all sponsored by the same company, Nike. There are a total of 28 people, 6 in the top 10, on the list with major Nike contracts. If you’re math is so horrible you can’t figure it out on your own, it’s 28% of the 100 most influential athletes. the double asterisk (**) was marked because all 4 of those drivers race for the same team, Hendrick Motorsports.
How in the hell Larry Fitzgerald made it to number 13 is unknown to me, but there are a lot of people I don’t agree with on this list. The top 10 is pretty sound, and there is an obvious biased toward American athletes and sports, made painfully obvious by the fact there are only two footballers on the list (Donovan and Beckham). There should be more of them in my opinion..I’m guessing they left Theirry Henry off the list cause he’s french, and I’m fine with that. I am, however, curious why they left off Cristiano Ronaldo, Ronaldo de Assis Moreira (Ronaldhino to most), Wayne Rooney, etc. from the list. Also where are the people from motorsports outside the US, like Formula 1, e.g. Kimi Raikkonen, Michael Schumacher, Lewis Hamilton, Jensen Button, Sebastian Vettel, Filipe Masa, Fernando Alonso, etc.?
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