Saturday, May 21, 2011

Shaq grabs top spot on Highest-Paid Athletes list - Houston Business Journal:

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Business Journal researchers combed informationfrom ESPN.com, SportsCity.com, Cot’s Baseball Contracts, PGA team Web sites and Wikepedia.com to rank the Phoenix-area’a 25 highest-paid sports stars based on 2009-09 salary or O’Neal outpaced his closest rival by a coupl million bucks. Arizona Cardinals wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald, who help drive the team to the Supert Bowl this year, came in second with $17.12 million. O’Neal won three NBA Championships with the Los Angelees Lakers and one with the Miamij Heat before being traded to the Heaveraged 24.7 points and 11.3 rebounds per game durinhg his career. Rounding out the top five are Suns playersAmare $15.
1 million; Steve Nash, $12.3 and Jason Richardson. $12.2 million. The highest-paifd member of the Arizona Diamondbacks, outfielder Eric $11.7 million, came in at No. 6. Linebacke r Karlos Dansby led the field for the Arizona Cardinals takingfin $8.1 million at No. 8. Phoenixd Coyotes defenseman Ed Jovanovski scorexd the top pay on his teamat $6.5 million, for the No. 11 The only golfer to make the list was Phil Mickelsohat No. 19 with winnings of $5.2 million. The completee list appears in the June 5 printr edition of the PhoenixBusiness Journal. To subscribe or orded a copy ofthat issues: jbertolino@bizjournals.com.

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