1.   Clubs are now businesses and their star players are earning small fortunes.

2.   Professional basketball players can earn huge sums of money.

3.   Professional basketball players can earn millions of dollars.

4.   Some players earn obscene amounts of money.

5.   The player earned his laurels from years of hard work.

6.   Based on how they perform in playoff games, hockey players will earn NHL.com points.

7.   A baseball team wants a player to earn his multimillion-dollar paycheck?

8.   A player should earn the privilege of wearing the heavy ice.

9.   A Scrabble-like game that uses tiles to build words, but lets players earn points by stacking tiles to form other words.

10.   But most of them are amateurs who earn only several hundred dollars a day compared with the thousands of dollars or more that the players earn.