Armand Hammer said when I work fourteen hours a day, seven days a week, I get lucky. The answer must be Tiger Woods.

Alonzo Mourning

Sidney Crosby

Allan Houston. I'm much more qualified to not play basketball than he is, but he's getting like $14 million a year for it!

Stephon Marbury.

The man is getting $20 million dollars this year and next year to hang out with his boys, play video games, have sex in his truck, and not play basketball.

Now that is the luckiest man in sports.

Chris Webber. Chris is the recipient of Don Nelson's attempt to bury the past. He can no longer move, shoot or pass, but he can pocket the million plus the Warriors are giving him.

Chris Webber. Chris is the recipient of Don Nelson's attempt to bury the past. He can no longer move, shoot or pass, but he can pocket the million plus the Warriors are giving him.

Chris Webber. Chris is the recipient of Don Nelson's attempt to bury the past. He can no longer move, shoot or pass, but he can pocket the million plus the Warriors are giving him.

Charlie Weis.

If his name was Marcus Weis, or Lamar Weis, he'd in the unemployment line.

He may be calabasian, note the lack of the luck of the irish, but he surely is the luckiest! 4 rounds of golf a weekend, 1 million+ pay check, and look at the wife he comes home to all tired and worn out....

Stevie Williams, Tiger Woods's caddie is the luckiest person in sports and probably has the best job in the world -- except maybe that guy doing the Verizon ads who says nothing more than, "Can you hear me now?" How do you get jobs like that?

Marko Jaric. Dude's banging Adriana Lima...

All pro athletes are lucky. They were all born with athletic ability above and beyond the rest of us. They get paid to play games.

Michael Jordan.

If Len Bias didn't die, Jordan would have had a worthy opponent. Jordan wouldn't have dominated as much nor would he have as many titles or MVPs as he does. Can you imagine how much Magic would have dominated if there was no Bird, or how much Bird would have dominated if there was no Magic? Jordan really did not have an opponent on his level.

Stephon Marbury

He is not playing right now, complains and still gets a check in the mail.

Tiger Woods. Don't get me wrong - he's amazing. But the guy gets all the breaks. Players fold to him just because he's Tiger Woods. When someone actually beats him, its "Woods didn't have his A game," not "Player X played great." He's a jerk on the course - cursing up a storm in front of kids who wear his Nike hats and drink his gatorade. He then repays them by never signing autographs. He's lucky because he does whatever he wants without any repercussions. He could commit murder and the media would give him a pass.

Tom Brady,

Dates super models and actresses and makes millions for playing a game 4 months out of they year.

Rulon Gardner. The man can't die!

Kwame Brown. Done!

Keith Van Horn. The $4 million man. Without a doubt.

By far Bill Walton a big man with average skills and broken feet--lucked out being part of a UCLA team that won the national championship. He was self proclaimed as the catalyst for Portland's championship run; there were a laundry list of player who had his back and made him look good. He also, lucked out and roded the bench on a Boston Celtic team that won the NBA title and now he's an NBA commentator who critizes every basketball player that is/was better than him during his most productive years. Finally, how did he ever get named to the 50 greatest players list? Talk about lucky--he's a right place at the right time kind of guy.

For never meeting a person who had a gun with them when he raged or who was as nuts as he was----the luckiest athlete has to be Mike Tyson.

Robert Horry of the San Antonio Spurs...This guy has six championship rings,i think about the same as Jordan Bulls..That's what i call being a very lucky guy..u can give me his career over Ewing,Barkley,and Malone and other HOF's without a championship anyday of the week...And he might get amother ring this year..

Matt Cassell. He gets to be a career backup (both in college and in the NFL) and still win numerous championships. I'm sure hanging out with Leinert and Brady has its advantages when it comes to getting the ladies too.

Frank Catalanotto

Brandon Lloyd, this blog is done!

Kevin Elliott - Lucky and blessed!!

huh?

Jerry Yang, winner of the Main Event at the 2007 World Series of Poker

The Chosen One - Lebron James. Though he wins playoff games with no-call travels, he is the most prodigious athlete in sports.

Keith Van Horn luckiest this year.

Theo Epstein luckiest in 21st century

Sparky Anderson luckiest of all time

brandon loydd...has made millions for producing absolutely nothing!!!

Joe Torrie - because he doesn't have to sit in the NY Yankee dougout anymore and watch as his team spends more money on baseball players then the US spends on Education...

Lebron James. He can take as many steps as he wants to go for a dunk without dribbling the ball, he wont get called for traveling. He can run anyone over and wont get called for charge.

Very smart & very talented but also smug, conceited and very lucky to be on a team that very likely benefited from several egregious calls (highlighted by "the tuck rule" lucky bounces, the easiest division and cheating from his coaching staff en route to 3 SB's.

David Beckham. Making 50 plus Million to kick passes to his teammates and take free kicks after his teammates just got clobered as well as play in the Spring to Early fall in the US where the players and media scrutiny in Soccer is weak at best.

Damon Jones. Gets to stay on a basketball team every year because he the other guys think he is funny and comes in the game for ten seconds to hit the game winning shot.

that hockey player who had his throat slit on the ice the other week

Keith Morris you are an ass. Bill Walton might have been the most dominant NCAA player ever. How many of his UCLA teammates made a mark in the NBA? But not for very bad luck, we might be talking about the Bill Walton era in the NBA. Go back and take another look at the '77 finals against Philadelphia. Average skills? And the question asked about active athletes, so you're an idiot in more ways than one.

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