>>> our friend, len berman is here to take us on a wacky, wonderful world of sports.ts stories? let's go spanning the world. >> unbelievable! >> all right. >> gabrielle carey makes the save at lafayette indiana. she saves it for three points. >> and why be all that subtle. >> no! >> yeah! >> great half court shot to win the prize at gonzaga. >> little short. >> world jumping championships and nobody got hurt. >> rules questions. can the ref -- you dribble once then you stop. okay. let's dribble a second time. and it counts? what? double dribble in the nba. you fake it, then a 360 fake. how about the soccer defense? can the peruvian goalie make it back in time to make the save? no, i don't think. effort, how about that? hey, the new technology, world's largest golf club. unfortunate our star of the month, the new jersey devils during nhl lockout, decides to take up figure skating. >> nice. >> that's great. >> call this a double klutz. >> some deer got on the racetrack. >> and bambi has the lead. >> racing rudolph. >> bailey the dog singing hail to the washington redski

len berman. >> you didn't seau wrote that book. that's a big deal, it's a best seller. >> you rock. shall we? >> good friend, right, hoda woman? all right, from indiana, how much did a ticket to the first super bowl cost, and what is the average cost for a ticket this year. is it $12 before, now that. $15, now that. $20, now that, or $25 back then and now $1,000, what is it? >> i'm going to say $25 and now $1,000. >> no, but you're going to adore hoda's book. >> the correct answer here is $12 back then and $3,020 now, that's face value, huh? >> here's the thing, the game will sell out this time. when it was $12, super bowl i, wasn't a sellout. far from it. >> can't believe it costs that much. back across. >> sweet lady from columbia, maryland. out of the san francisco 49ers' five super bowl appearances thus far, how many have they won? >> three. >> good day for hoda woman. >> oh, baby. all right, the correct answer is they've won every, all five. >> they are the only undefeated super bowl team that's won more than one. no 2-0, 3-0. baltimore wins, they'll be 2-0. >> what do you thin

the man you're talking about is professor len berman of syracuse university.mplaining about phil mickleson wanting to leave, he mocked him. he said you're just lucky. >> professors are good at that. >> air just lucky. of course not, of course not. >> he can hit a ball with a stick, it's amazing. >> i'm kidding, no, i'm not-- >> and tearing this guy down. >> no, i don't agree with the pre-apology-apology. >> and this is the same for new york, new jersey, all the liberal states and people are leaving in droves. we had a major tax increase, obama wins over the fiscal cliff deal. that's not enough. listen to chuck schumer we've got to have more revenue, more, more, more, going to take the gold out of your treat when they're done. watch this. >> we need a budget, but second, it's going to be a great opportunity for us 'cause in our budget that we will pass, we'll have tax reform which many of my republican colleagues like, but it's going to include revenues, it's a great opportunity to get us some more revenues. >> the next tax increase is going to be called tax re

take a look at this quote from syracuse university professor len berman in an op-ed in forbes magazine living playing and selling golf clubs. 9 99.99 of people would never have that option no matter how hard they worked on their swing. pay up and shut up. and some people try it get rid of their state taxes to entihav people like michelson, and seven states already have no income taxes. perhaps michelson is the american version of gerard depardieu driven out of his birthplace by massive taxation. and more on phil this hour, and he will be the subject of my take. and we'll ask one of our stock pickers if apple is a screaming buy around $500 with the report that it may put out three iphones this year and why he's selling google, google a sell? first, the second term is going to start like the last one ended, more taxes especially on the rich and even stevie wonder sang about it. ♪ this is for the middle class ♪ ♪ make a little money, share that money, help everybody ♪ >> ♪ [ male announcer ] how do you make 70,000 trades a second... ♪ reach one customer at a time? ♪ or help doctors turn b

listen to len berman. a professor at syracuse university, writing in "forbes" magazine.says that mickelson should stop whining and give thanks that he makes a lot of money. and basically, mickelson is lucky to be making all of this money. so that is the backdrop here. the government takes 63 cents on the dollar what you make and you may not complain, and if you do complain, you will have to apologize for the complaint later. extraordinary situation. martha: it is an extraordinary situation. i think a lot of folks on the other side feel phil mickelson should not have to apologize for anything. >> yes. martha: he is talking about his tax rate. he is raising the question. he pays millions and millions of dollars in taxes. at what point, certainly he has the right to live wherever he wants. >> yes he does. let me give you an example of this. last year the "san francisco chronicle" reports that phil mickelson earned $60 million. the extra tax that he would pay on that income, just from the increase in the california state income tax level, that extra, $1.8 million. he has hig

i'll give you the example of professor len berman, a university professor in syracuse, he says that micklesonp whining and give thanks he's making this money. in other words, no reward for talent, drive, hard work and ambition. no, no, the government is going to take 2/3 of it if you're successful. >> alisyn: isn't it interesting, during the presidential election you heard about the 39%, the highest wage earners, their taxes going up to 39% and that was repeated over and over and phil mickleson proves it's much higher than 39%. and we have a graph, we know the taxes that he will be paying, federal tax, because president obama is reelected about go up to 39.6%, his state tax, california, up to 13.3%. his city and local tax outside of san diego, 8%, we don't know whether he pays in social security or in property tax, but imagine that it's very high and his sales tax, 7.25% in california for everything he buys and on and on and you understand why he thinks he's paying 62 or 63% of his income. >> well, he is, that's exactly what he's doing. and this is 63%, 63 cents on the dollar of his income. t