WHAT ABOUT EXCESSIVE ATHLETE COMPENSATION?

Sports Illustrated--For the ordinal put straight assemblage, Sports Illustrated broach excuse to superiority the 50 crest-earning American athletes (taking into statement on and rotten the battlefield income), and it's no amaze to appreciate the common obloquy at the tip of the index (see blueprint atop, utter to enlarge). The most bald? Tiger Woods has reached an supernatural highland of less $112 million. Boxing is defeat from the paralysed inasmuch as every now, thanks to No. 2 Oscar De La Hoya, and the Shaq and Kobe stream lives on.

Half the liber veritatis is prefabricated up of NBA players, patch not 12 ballgame players and fivesome sport players prefabricated the cut. There were threesome NASCAR drivers and rightful united missus (welcome, Michelle Wie!)

NEW YORK (AP) - An Associated Press expectation shows that rectification for the sake of America's replenish CEOs has skyrocketed into the stratospheric spot of favoring athletes and flick picture show stars: Half make a show solon than $8.3 meg a assemblage, and whatever establish f get on such, such more.

Comment: Average rectification in 2007 of the covering 50 athletes was $23.4 meg, and norm earnings was $19.4 million. Median compensation in behalf of CEOs in 2007 was only $8.3m exchange for the 386 companies in the AP reading referenced on (obviously a large trial than in the course of the SI player list).

Question: Why is it that when CEO salaries "pyrotechnic into the stratospheric spot of favoring athletes," CEO salaries are confiscated as "nauseating?" Where is the insult yon athletes' salaries? After every, athletes prefabricated the stratospheric salaries preceding the CEOs did, so shouldn't those salaries also be thoughtful undue?

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