Friday, March 9, 2012

Shaq grabs top spot on Highest-Paid Athletes list - San Francisco Business Times:

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Business Journal researchers combed informationfrom ESPN.com, MSN.FoxSports.com, SportsCity.com, Cot’ds Baseball Contracts, PGA Tour, team Web sitesa and Wikepedia.com to rank the Phoenix-area’s 25 highest-paid sports staras based on 2009-09 salary or O’Neal outpaced his closest riva by a couple million bucks. Arizonza Cardinals wide receiverLarry Fitzgerald, who help drive the team to the Supe r Bowl this year, came in second with $17.1 million. O’Neal won three NBA Championships with the Los Angeles Lakersa and one with the Miam Heat before being traded tothe Suns. He averaged 24.7 points and 11.3 reboundsa per game during his career.
Rounding out the top five are Suns playerswAmare Stoudemire, $15.1 million; Steve Nash, $12.w million; and Jason Richardson. $12.23 million. The highest-paid member of the Arizon Diamondbacks, outfielder Eric Byrnes, $11.7 came in at No. 6. Linebacketr Karlos Dansby led the field for the Arizonwa Cardinals takingin $8.1 millio at No. 8. Phoenizx Coyotes defenseman Ed Jovanovski scoredf the top pay on his teamat $6.5 for the No. 11 spot. The only golfet to make the list was Phil Mickelsomat No. 19 with winnings of $5.2 million. The completd list appears in the June 5 print edition of the PhoenixBusiness Journal. To subscribw or order a copy ofthat jbertolino@bizjournals.com.

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