NBA players fiancee gets $1 mil magazine deal

Never before has being married to a New Jersey Nets player had such a financial benefit. Continue reading

Pro Football players making $400 per game?

Arena Football League players could make more money cleaning toilets. Continue reading

LeBron James spent $171k on Vegas bar tab?

LeBron James knows how to party with the best of the. An internet report claims that the Miami Heat star spent Continue reading

Athlete makes video to show off $11 million dollars worth of cars, jewelry

Floyd Mayweather loves his money more than anything in life, to prove it he made a video on his website showing off his riches. Continue reading

MLB minimum salary 13 times average American worker

It used to be that average fans could relate to the struggles of first year Major League Baseball players making the minimum salary. Those days are “loooong gone” as the late great Ernie Harwell used to say. Continue reading…

NFL Players Union boss gets lower salary than Roger Goodell

Its pretty hard to make less than a guy getting a $1 wage, but NFL Players Association boss DeMaurice Smith has found a way. Continue reading…

NBA stars former wife “making it rain” in Vegas

Desperate Housewives star Eva Longoria, former wife of NBA star Tony Parker, is literally throwing money around. Continue reading…

NFL player who committed suicide owed $40k to Las Vegas casinos

Broncos wide receiver Kenny McKinley had significant gambling debts and had warned at least three friends he was thinking of killing himself before he committed suicide in September, an investigative report says. McKinley, 23, shot himself with a .45-caliber semi-automatic handgun — a weapon he purchased from Broncos teammate Jabar Gaffney in April — in his home in Aurora on Sept. 20, four weeks after having season-ending knee surgery. Former Broncos quarterback Tom Brandstater loaned McKinley $65,000 in May to cover debts including $40,000 owed to Las Vegas casinos, according to the 121-page report from the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office. Brandstater, who was a sixth-round draft pick in 2009 and is on the practice squad of the Miami Dolphins, emptied his bank account to help his close friend. “Kenny went to Vegas a lot. Sometimes he won, but mostly he lost lots of money,” Brandstater told investigators in September. “Kenny took out a line of credit in Vegas, and they are trying to collect from him.” A girlfriend told investigators that McKinley liked to play blackjack. — Denver Post

Three MLBers into $200M club

Fund that three current players have earned more than $200 million in their careers, and 20 have earned more than $100 million. It was no surprise that Alex Rodriguez topped the list at a staggering $264,416,252. Jeter is second at $205,430,000, and Manny Ramirez third at $204,807,769 (though some is deferred). After the $200 Million Club comes Chipper Jones with $141,552,133, Jim Thome with $138,461,667, Todd Helton at $131,315,000, Jason Giambi at $130,808,996, Mariano Rivera at $129,530,125, Andy Pettitte at $125,332,416, and Mike Hampton at $124,550,270. Nos. 11 through 20 are Magglio Ordonez ($123,470,746), Pudge Rodriguez ($119,573,932), Vladimir Guerrero ($117,930,000), Carlos Beltran ($115,627,346), Ichiro Suzuki ($111,131,483), Bobby Abreu ($106,379,666), Johnny Damon ($105,189,000), Jorge Posada ($104,358,500), Andruw Jones ($103,433,410), and Scott Rolen ($102,418,639). Most of these players have played a long time, have “earned’’ their money, and are nearing the end of their careers. But not all of them. — Boston Globe

Pro Boxer has $2 million watch

Pro boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. showed off his jewlery collection to Media Take Out. Mayweather has a $2 million watch. He wears a $100k belt buckle. To carry around all his cash, he has a wallet worth $50,000. — Media Take Out

Yanks player who makes $93,750 dollars per day, missing Texas series

Mark Teixeira will miss the Yankees’ two-game series against the Rangers, having stayed back home in Connecticut while his wife, Leigh, gave birth to the couple’s third child. The Teixeiras welcomed their second son, William Charles, Tuesday morning, although Joe Girardi said the first baseman wouldn’t rejoin the team until “sometime in Kansas City,” where the Yankees kick off a four-game set against the Royals Thursday night. “We want to make sure everything is okay,” said Girardi, who added that everything went well with the birth. “I think it will be sometime in Kansas City.” — NY Daily News

* Mark Teixeira makes $93,750 dollars per day, $11,718 dollars 75 cents per hour, $195 dollars 31 cents per minute, or $3 dollars 25 cents per SECOND.

Former NFL star still hasn’t found charity’s $864,000

Four weeks after saying he would search for the financial records detailing what happened to $864,645 once held by his now-dormant charity, ex-Chicago Bear Chris Zorich says he still has not found them. “I haven’t found the statement yet. When I do, I’ll let you know,” he wrote in an e-mail to the Tribune. In an article published in June, the Tribune reported that Zorich’s foundation was in disarray and that Zorich didn’t know the location of the assets listed on its 2002 tax return, apparently the last one filed with the Internal Revenue Service. The article also chronicled how the IRS filed a $10,000 lien in April against the Chris Zorich Charitable Foundation. The Illinois attorney general’s office canceled the charity’s registration in 2004, rendering it ineligible to solicit, receive or hold onto funds in Illinois. In an e-mail exchange this week with the newspaper, Zorich did not directly address questions about where the money is located and how much remains. Instead, he offered the following response: “I’m in the process of hiring an accounting firm to help me sort through all of the information. The attorney general’s office has contacted me. Other than that, that’s all the progress that has been made.” – Chicago Tribune

Heat’s LeBron James will save as much as $1.1 million next season

LeBron James new destination is an easy winner by these standards, thanks largely to Florida’s lack of a state income tax, which could save him as much as $1.01 million next year compared with the other cities according to Florida-based law firm Gunster. Of the six categories we detailed, the Miami area was the most-luxurious in four—state income taxes, top golf courses according to Zagat and most-ostentatious cars, with a combined 22 Lamborghini, Ferrari, Bentley, Rolls-Royce and Maybach dealerships. Miami also tied New York City in our top-nightclub category according to the “Nightclub & Bar” publication (we’d bet Mr. James is salivating at the thought of partying at LIV, the Miami Beach club ranked No. 6 on the list). New York City was second, leaning on its 53 luxurious hotels (according to Five Star Alliance) and boasting 344 restaurants with a Zagat food-quality rating of 24 or higher. But the steep state income tax weighs it down. Chicago is solid in every category, but it doesn’t stand out anywhere, ranking second or third in every group. Then there’s Cleveland, in Mr. James’s home state. We know he has got ties there, but the city is last in five of our six categories, including the night-life and restaurant supply. – Wall Street Journal

Report: Average NBA franchise lost $13 mil last season

Twenty-five of the 30 NBA teams lost money last season, according to two people with access to the league’s accounting, and NBA Commissioner David Stern has publicly claimed the league would sustain $380 million to $400 million in losses in 2009-10. With the average NBA franchise ending last season $13 million in the red, according to the league’s figures, many owners are gambling, perhaps foolishly, that the expensive addition of a star player from a historically talented free agent class will generate interest in their franchises and ignite a significant payoff in the box office. – Washington Post

NBA ticket receipts down $100 million from last year

Many NBA owners or ownership groups are burdened by the high cost of paying off debt from recently built arenas or recently purchased franchises; by next year 15 teams will have gotten new arenas and around a dozen will have experienced ownership changes since 1999. Meantime, gate receipts were down about $100 million from last year, a drop of about 8 percent, according to two people with access to the figures. The drop came largely because teams cut ticket prices in the wake of the recession; attendance fell just over 2 percent. – Washington Post