For the 6th consecutive year, Sports Illustrated has released their "Fortunate 50" list of the top earning athletes.

View the list here.

Lynn Merritt, who leads Nike's Basketball division and is the person responsible for signing NBA superstar LeBron James to a contract with Nike tells me that the upcoming documentary about LeBron entitled "More than a Game" is going to blow us all away.

My favorite show of the past decade is "Curb Your Enthusiasm". Larry David is brilliant. My big complaint is that the show goes on 2-3 year breaks.

Great news for Curb fans like me though. The show returns to HBO this fall.

In September of 2007 I followed Kobe Bryant around for the day while he was in China. I saw first hand the love the Chinese people have for him.

Kobe is returning the love with some pretty admirable charitable efforts in China.

Whether I'm assisting athletes and coaches with their media skills or interviewing someone for my show, I've seen a press conference or two in my day.

This very clever video is a hip compilation of some of the most memorable press conferences from the world of sports. Enjoy.

Here's the new :60 second spot from Nike and Lance Armstrong that will run from now until the end of July. Lance addresses his critics head on in the spot:

If you missed this past weekend's edition of Sports Business Radio, the show is now available on iTunes or here for download. We recapped the NBA Draft and discussed the big trades of the past week (Shaq, Vince, RJefferson) and also discussed the marketability of US Open champ Lucas Glover amongst other things.

With the NBA Draft one day away, teams are jockeying for draft position. Seems there are several profiles for teams this year:

Its US Open weekend and we're going with a golf theme on this weekend's edition of SBR. We'll re-air interviews with Mark Steinberg, the VP of Golf for IMG - and better known as the agent for Tiger Woods. If you want to go inside the business of Tiger Woods (the highest grossing athlete on the planet), you'll enjoy my conversation with Mark Steinberg.

Despite the fact that LeBron didn't make it to this year's NBA Finals for the much anticipated showdown with Kobe Bryant, Nike continues to run the MVPuppet spots.

I have to say that this one is pretty funny. But I wonder how LeBron feels about Nike continuing to make these spots and portray him as "second fiddle" to Kobe. And I wonder if LeBron really eats Fruity Pebbles.