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Report: WNBA union increases All-Star prize moneyWNBA players earned a financial windfall thanks to their new collective bargaining agreement with the league, and a select few individuals are set to earn even more extra dough this weekend.,The WNBAPA is set to provide an additional $170,000 in prize money to the standouts at this weekend's 3-point...

Retired Derek Carr: Didn't want to 'just take the Saints money'Derek Carr announced his retirement last month, a decision that saw him forgo $30 million by opting against shoulder surgery.,Had he gone under the knife, the veteran quarterback still would have been paid by the New Orleans Saints despite being sidelined for the duration of the 2025 season.,"That p...

PGA Championship increases purse to $19MThe PGA of America announced Saturday that the purse for the PGA Championship has been raised to a record $19 million.,Last year's purse stood at $18.5 million, with champion Xander Schauffele taking home $3.33 million for the winner's share.,Whoever wins Sunday at Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte wil...

At Princeton, a turnaround one man saw coming

“I was born delusional,” said Chris Ayres, Princeton’s head wrestling coach, earlier this year. “But I think — I really do — that delusion is a good thing.” He just proved his point. At Tulsa, Oklahoma’s NCAA wrestling tournament last month, Ayres pulled off one of the least likely turnarounds colle...

The SEC almost made $800 million last year — don’t tell us there isn’t enough to pay the players

The amount of money made off college athletes in this country is insane. ...

Mark Cuban finds it hilarious that financial giants are taking an L to Reddit

Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks, has big money. According to Forbes’ real-time billionaires tracker (which is just so gross), he’s worth $4.2 billion. I feel like it deserves to be written with the zeroes for perspective. That’s $4,200,000,000. Cuban, however, is on the side of the little ...

The GameStop revolution <i>probably</i> won’t sink Steve Cohen and the Mets, but

The hope for the little guy, which all of us are, is that one day hell would come to breakfast for the hedge-fund tools that are pretty close to ruining baseball, the country, and the globe. And at that point, through some inexplicable force that could only be karma, they would all have to work at W...

Here are the NBA ballers who made the most money this year

It’s no secret that the players in the NBA rack up bands during their careers. So, we decided to take a look at which players in the league have been stacking the most cash this year. Here are the top ten, as calculated by players’ 2019-20 salaries and endorsement pay....