Today’s sports headlines were filled with lots of numbers. Not scoring averages, number of homeruns hit at the Homerun Derby or NASCAR points, but dollar amounts.

$100 million 5-year potential extension for Ichiro with the Seattle Mariners.
$43.5 million 5-year extension earned by Sidney Crosby from the Pittsburg Penguins.(He’s a hockey player in case you didn’t know)
$55.63 million is now the NBA salary cap, up $2.5 million from last year.
$250 million in 5 years is what David Beckham will earn with the LA Galaxy soccer team this year. That’s approximately 1 million a week!
That is a lot of zeros…a lot

It’s interesting when you look at it.
Crosby will earn almost 9 million a year... that's $110,000 a game!
In the same amount of time (one year) Beckham will earn more than twice as much as Ichiro. And in my lifetime I will never earn as much as any of them!

It really does Pay to Play! So what do you think, do these athletes really deserve that kind of money? Does their talent match their paycheck?

It really does pay to play!

Christi