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Thread: OT: How Athletes Go Broke
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10-28-2009, 02:57 PM #1Senior Member
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OT: How Athletes Go Broke
i always find these sorts of stories interesting:
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vau...3364/index.htm
add antoine walker as the newest member:
http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/blog/bal...urn=nba,198509
rudy.
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10-28-2009, 02:59 PM #2Senior Member
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Re: OT: How Athletes Go Broke
woops. here's the real link for the antoine walker story:
http://www.boston.com/sports/basketb...hes/?page=full
rudy.
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10-28-2009, 03:03 PM #3Senior Member
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Re: OT: How Athletes Go Broke
If he could have just given me 1 mil of the 110 m contract
. I'd be living like a king, well, maybe not like a king, but financially worry free, long after he went broke.
I don't get it
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10-28-2009, 03:18 PM #4Senior Member
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Re: OT: How Athletes Go Broke
Awhile back I saw a story on ESPN or Fox that gave a number of 80% of NFL players are broke either 5 or 10 years after their careers end. Can't remember the exact number of years. Anyhow, a lot of it was due to bad investments and probably trying to live a lifestyle that's not possible like it was when they were playing. Either way that's pretty sad if the number is that high.
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10-28-2009, 03:24 PM #5Senior Member
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Re: OT: How Athletes Go Broke
This investment cracks me up. Torri Hunter you had to know better than fall for this idea....
About five years ago, Hunter says, he invested almost $70,000 in an invention: an inflatable raft that would sit under furniture. The pitch was that when high-rainfall areas were flooded, consumers could pump up the device, allowing a sofa to float and remain dry. "The guy I invested with came back and wanted me to put in more, about $500,000," Hunter says. "Then I met [Butowsky], who just said, Hell no! I wound up never seeing that guy—or any of my money—again."
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10-28-2009, 03:44 PM #6Senior Member
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Re: OT: How Athletes Go Broke
Just don't pay!
http://apps.detnews.com/apps/blogs/t...php?blogid=188Greg
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10-28-2009, 03:47 PM #7Senior Member
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Re: OT: How Athletes Go Broke
not to mention the amount of kids some of these guys end up making:
NFL, Ray Lewis (six kids by four women)
NBA, Larry Johnson (five children by four women)
NBA, Latrell Sprewell (three kids by three women before his 21st birthday)
NFL, Darren McFadden (three illegitimate kids in four years of high school and college)
Boxing, Evander Holyfield (9 illegitimate kids)
NBA, Jason Caffey (eight illegitimate kids by seven women)
NFL, Marshall Faulk (six kids by three women)
NFL, Charles Rogers: (five illegitimate kids)
NFL, Santonio Holmes (three kids while in college)
NBA, Stephon Marbury, (two illegitimate children)
NBA, Juwan Howard (three kids by three different mothers)
NBA, Shawn Kemp (twelve children from different mothers)
NFL, Derrick Thomas (seven kids by different women)
NFL, Willis McGahee (three children out of wedlock in two years)
MLB, Vlad Guerrero (four kids by four women)
NBA, Mike Bibby (two children while in college)
NFL, Shannon Sharpe (three children out of wedlock)
NFL, Chad Johnson (three children out of wedlock)
NFL, Ricky Williams (three children out of wedlock)
NBA, Willie Anderson (nine kids out of wedlock)
NBA, Calvin Murphy (nine women, 14 children)
ON THE COURT, IN THE COURT
*MLB, Pete Rose (paternity suit)
*NBA, Larry Bird (paternity suit)
*Boxing, Oscar de la Hoya (paternity suit)
*NHL, Mark Messier (paternity suit)
*NBA, Patrick Ewing (paternity suit)
*MLB, Jim Palmer (paternity suit)
*MLB, Juan Gonzalez (paternity suit)
*MLB, Steve Garvey(paternity suit)
*NBA, Hakeem Olajuwon (paternity suit)
*NBA, Gary Payton (paternity suit)
*NBA, Scottie Pippen (paternity suit)
*NBA, Isiah Thomas (paternity suit)
*NBA, Allen Iverson(paternity suit)
rudy.
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10-28-2009, 04:04 PM #8Banned
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Re: OT: How Athletes Go Broke
Originally Posted by kingjammy24
Wow. Unbelieveable!! Mostly all NFL and NBA. No white guys.....interesting.
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10-28-2009, 04:15 PM #9Senior Member
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10-28-2009, 04:28 PM #10Senior Member
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Re: OT: How Athletes Go Broke
Pete is pretty white..... Originally Posted by whatupyos
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