Barcelona superstar Lionel Messi has been named the world’s highest-paid athlete for the first time, earning $US127 million ($182 million) in the past year. Basketball and football dominated Forbes’s top 100 list of the highest-paying sports, and there was a wide variety of nationalities amongst the top athletes. Forbes calculates the athletes’ earnings by adding up … Continue reading Lionel Messi beats Cristiano Ronaldo to top Forbes 2019 list of highest-paid athletes