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Check out Sports Illustrated’s Highest Paid Athletes! Is the slumping economy finally affecting America's premier athletes? For the sixth consecutive year, Sports Illustrated has compiled a list of the 50 top-earning American athletes in salary, winnings, endorsements and appearance fees. And for the first time, the average earnings of those on the list fell -- down $1.5 million per athlete to $23.6 million......

Data, info, and more from the New York Times: For the last 150 years, The New York Times has maintained one of the most authoritative news vocabularies ever developed and in 2009 began to publish this vocabulary as linked open data.