It was reported by various agencies that Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps was holding down around $5 million in sponsorship deals going in the 2008 Summer Olympics. With his world record-shattering performance in Beijing, industry analysts i…

Resuming our countdown, we arrive at #17: Bobby Phills. He was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and attended Southern Institution. Southern is one of the most well-known historically black colleges. As a Southern Jaguar, he played alongside …