Website of the Week Award  3/11/05

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Here's one for you "boneheads" who are thinking of gliding into college on an athletic scholarship...

                     The answer to the eternal question...
"Is it better to be
a jock or a nerd?"

Michael Jordan makes over $300,000 a game.
  That's $10,000 a minute
at an average 30 minutes per game.

          With $40 million in endorsements,
            he makes $178,100 a day, working or not.

 If he sleeps 7 hours a night, he makes $52,000 every night while visions of sugarplums dance in his head.

If he goes to see a movie, it'll cost him $7.00,
    but he'll make $18,550 while he is there.

If he decides to have a 5 minute egg,
 he'll make $618 while boiling it.

 He makes $7,415/hr more than minimum wage.

He'll make $3,710 while watching each episode of Friends.

If he wanted to save up for a new Acura NSX ($90,000)
it would take him a whole 12 hours.

If someone were to hand him his salary and endorsement money,
                                 they would have to do it at the rate of $2.00 every second.

He'll probably pay $200 for a nice round of golf,
                                                        but will be reimbursed $33,390 for that round.

Assuming he puts the federal maximum of 15% of his income into a tax deferred account (401k),  he will hit the federal cap of $9,500 at 8:30 AM on January 1st.

                               If you were given a penny for every $10 dollars he made,
                          you'd be living comfortably at $65,000 a year.

He'll make about $1,960 while watching the hundred meter dash in the Olympics.

He'll make about $15,600 during the Boston Marathon.

 While the common person is spending about $20
for a meal at his trendy Chicago restaurant,      he'll pull in about $5,600.

            This year he'll make more than twice as much as
                 all the US past presidents for all their terms combined.  Amazing isn't it.

 However, if Jordan saves 100% of his income for the next 250 years,

he'll still have less than Bill Gates of MICROSOFT has today.

Game over. Nerd wins.

Here's the reality gang...   there's no more Athletic Scholarships for Division II & III schools.  The only Athletic Scholarship money is in Division I schools.  Now, if your grades are good enough for academic assistance, you might be able to get a Division II or III coach to "go to bat" for you in the admissions department.  If you're Division I material, they may look at you.  But, if you don't have the grades, you're going to find yourself pulled for a "pinch hitter".

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