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...Championship Game). The field is a veritable video game for Brady right now. He is on pace to throw 60 touchdown passes, obliterating the record 49 that Manning threw in 2004. He's always been a selfless player; a few years ago Brady took a below-market paycheck so the Pats could surround him with above-market talent. While Manning's contract is much richer - $98 million, with a whopping $34.5 million signing bonus - he restructured it this off-season to save the Colts salary cap space. Manning's work ethic is universally admired, and he makes everyone around...
...their flopitude. Before that, he was a movie star who commanded millions of dollars for movies that usually co-starred a cataclysmic threat and had names like The Sum of All Fears and Armageddon and I Lost My Memory but I Saved the World (O.K., it was called Paycheck, but you get the idea). He was the outsize personality who checked himself into rehab for alcohol abuse in 2001. He was the cocky Hollywood star who played poker and won big. Mostly, he was the guy who seemed to be squandering all the credibility he had earned for co-writing...
...rewards are rich: Billy Donovan, coach of the national-champion Florida Gators, signed a new six-year contract that will pay him about $3.5 million annually. Thad Matta, coach of runner-up Ohio State, who already has a commitment from a 10th-grader, has a $2.5 million yearly paycheck. "Look at the rising salaries, the firings, the arms race for facilities development," says Rick Boyages, an associate commissioner of the Mid-American Conference and a former college coach. "The competition and marketplace for kids is really no different from the stock market." Notes Phil Martelli, coach of St. Joseph...
...years ago to surgical complications, he has six siblings and a mother to support, so he enrolled in the Education for Employment program after graduation and promptly landed an accountant job for CCC in the U.A.E. He sends at least a third of his $1,500 monthly paycheck home, with plenty remaining to provide for the woman who recently became his bride--as well as to make the required 10% tithe to the foundation...
Aurelio Leonel Alvarez-Rosales earns about $300 a week painting houses in the sprawling suburbs north of Atlanta. He lives paycheck to paycheck and often has nothing left over at the end of each week. So on Friday nights, when Alvarez-Rosales, 21, goes to cash his check, he pulls into the parking lot at the Norcross branch of Banuestra, an alternative financial institution aimed at serving the estimated 40 million adults in the U.S. without bank accounts. For him, every dollar counts, and compared with the 24-hour Atlanta Check Cashers outlet down the road, which charges...