Wednesday, June 26,
2002
Tiger finally meets
his challenge – Britney Spears
By DOUG FERGUSON
AP Golf Writer
Tiger Woods might
be the No. 1 player in golf, the only man to have won four professional
majors in a row and the first player in 30 years to have won the
Masters and the U.S. Open in the same year.
But he's no Britney
Spears.
Woods finished second
to the pop singer in Forbes magazine's Celebrity 100, a list of
top athletes and entertainers based on such factors as 12-month
earnings, feature articles, cover stories and Web hits.
Forbes listed Woods'
earnings at $69 million, dwarfing the $39.2 million for Spears.
Woods also had 50,650 press clippings, nearly double the amount
for Spears. In fact, the only celebrity on the list with more
press clippings than Woods over the last year was former President
Bill Clinton (65,372).
Spears made up ground
with 997,000 hits on Web sites; Woods had only 378,000, according
to the magazine.
Woods and Michael
Jordan (No. 9) were the only athletes in the top 10. Still, sports
figures outnumbered other big-name moneymakers in the Celebrity
100 list published in the July 8 issue of the magazine.
The only other golfer
on the list is Arnold Palmer, at No. 65.
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