I love the list that Forbes put out every year, with the top 10 highest paid athletes in the world.  Their earnings are obviously made up between their salaries or winnings as well as endorsements and in the case of golf, for example, the endorsements would be probably 90% of what they win.  The leading earner in the past year was Floyd Mayweather who is a boxer and who won $105 million and he is followed by Cristiano Ronaldo, the soccer player, who earned $80 million.  A basketball player, LeBron James comes third followed by Lionel Messi, Kobe Bryant and Tiger Woods dropping down to sixth position, only having earned $61,2 million but still out-earning the top tennis player, in terms of earnings and not ratings, Roger Federer and then another golfer, Phil Mickelson who at $53 million was earning approximately $1 million a week.  What is clear is that the sports that generally have two or three players with super salaries are all American sports and generally include American Football, basketball, golf and tennis and from a European perspective the money is in soccer.