{"id":5848,"date":"2009-09-20T20:33:07","date_gmt":"2009-09-20T20:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2009\/09\/pro-athletes-and-financial-rui.html"},"modified":"2009-09-20T20:33:07","modified_gmt":"2009-09-20T20:33:07","slug":"pro-athletes-and-financial-rui","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2009\/09\/pro-athletes-and-financial-rui.html","title":{"rendered":"Pro Athletes and Financial Ruin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/10-ways-sports-stars-destroy-their-finances-2009-9\"><i>Rich professional athletes squandering<\/i><\/a><i> their millions has become a sad clich?.<\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em;margin-right: 0px;margin-bottom: 15px;margin-left: 0px;padding-top: 0px;padding-right: 0px;padding-bottom: 0px;padding-left: 0px\">\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em;margin-right: 0px;margin-bottom: 15px;margin-left: 0px;padding-top: 0px;padding-right: 0px;padding-bottom: 0px;padding-left: 30px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/10-ways-sports-stars-destroy-their-finances-2009-9\/#put-cash-in-a-ponzi-scheme-1\"><strong><i>The 10 ways sports pros blow their cash<\/i><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em;margin-right: 0px;margin-bottom: 15px;margin-left: 0px;padding-top: 0px;padding-right: 0px;padding-bottom: 0px;padding-left: 0px\"><i>A&nbsp;<\/i><span style=\"font-weight: normal\"><i>Sports Illustrated&nbsp;<\/i><\/span><i>article this year showed&nbsp;<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/vault\/article\/magazine\/MAG1153364\/1\/index.htm\"><i>how shockingly common financial ruin is<\/i><\/a><i>:<\/i><\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 1em;margin-right: 0px;margin-bottom: 0px;margin-left: 0px;padding-top: 0px;padding-right: 0px;padding-bottom: 0px;padding-left: 16px;line-height: 1.5em\">\n<li><i>By the time they have been retired for two years, 78% of former NFL players have gone&nbsp;<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/10-ways-sports-stars-destroy-their-finances-2009-9#\" class=\"kLink\" target=\"undefined\" id=\"KonaLink0\"><font color=\"#1d637d\"><span class=\"kLink\"><i>bankrupt<\/i><\/span><\/font><\/a><i>&nbsp;or are under financial stress because of joblessness or divorce.<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>Within five years of retirement, an estimated 60% of former NBA players are broke.<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>Numerous retired MLB players have been similarly ruined.<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rich professional athletes squandering their millions has become a sad clich?. The 10 ways sports pros blow their cash A&nbsp;Sports Illustrated&nbsp;article this year showed&nbsp;how shockingly common financial ruin is: By the time they have been retired for two years, 78% of former NFL players have gone&nbsp;bankrupt&nbsp;or are under financial stress because of joblessness or divorce.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gospel"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Pro Athletes and Financial Ruin - Jesus Creed<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2009\/09\/pro-athletes-and-financial-rui.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pro Athletes and Financial Ruin - Jesus Creed\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Rich professional athletes squandering their millions has become a sad clich?. 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