Professional golfers are setting the new standard for greed in a sports world gone mad | Opinion
doubled both with a reported $37.5 million per year deal to broadcast games if and when he retires.
Heck, some of us on this side of the media business see ESPN’s Adam Schefter getting a reported $9 million and start to think, “If only I had actually broken all those stories Jimmy Johnson was feeding me at the bar in 1993. I thought it was off the record!” It’s all about the Benjamins. Can it be any surprise that the best boxer of the last 20 years was known as Floyd “Money” Mayweather?
I shouldn’t say they all feigned cluelessness. When Dustin Johnson is at the mic, there is no feigning.
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