Go Figure
Mark Beech
March 12, 2001
$59 millionEarnings last year of Formula One driver Michael Schumacher, placing him atop Forbes's list of the highest-paid athletes, $6 million ahead of second-ranked Tiger Woods.
$59 million
Earnings last year of Formula One driver Michael Schumacher, placing him atop Forbes's list of the highest-paid athletes, $6 million ahead of second-ranked Tiger Woods.
130,000
Height in feet from which former Australian commando Rodd Millner plans to skydive out of a high-altitude balloon next March.
0
E-mails Capitals owner Ted Leonsis got from fans of the team on Feb. 11, the first day since he bought the club in June 1999 that his in-box didn't contain at least one fan's note.
$3.5 million
Amount 76ers center Dikembe Mutombo is donating toward the construction of a 300-bed hospital in his hometown of Kinshasa, Congo, the first new medical facility in the country's capital in 40 years.
$2
Amount Mark McGwire will receive for every fan the Cardinals draw above 2.8 million in '02 and '03.