NEW!!! Straight Cash Homie

According to Forbes Magazines, these are the 20 highest paid athletes in the world. As a result, we, at Blackathlete.com, felt it was important to re-publish this list, especially in our column called Straight Cash Homie. As always, look and see how many “athletes of color” showed up in this year’s list. Enjoy!!! And count those dollar signs.
- Floyd Mayweather Jr. (boxing): $300 million
- Manny Pacquiao (boxing): $160 million
- Cristiano Ronaldo (soccer): $79.6 million
- Lionel Messi (soccer): $73.8 million
- Roger Federer (tennis): $67 million
- LeBron James (basketball): $64.8 million
- Kevin Durant (basketball): $54.1 million
- Phil Mickelson (golf): $50.8 million
- Tiger Woods (golf): $50.6 million
- Kobe Bryant (basketball): $49.5 million
- Ben Roethlisberger (football): $48.9 million
- Rory McIlroy (golf): $48.3 million
- Novak Djokovic (tennis): $48.2 million
- Zlatan Ibrahimovic (soccer): $39.1 million
- Lewis Hamilton (racing): $39 million
- Ndamukong Suh (football): $38.6 million
- Fernando Alonso (racing): $35.5 million
- Gareth Bale (soccer): $35 million
- Jon Lester (baseball): $34.1 million
- Derrick Rose (basketball): $33.9 million