Text: And though today's top-ranking players earn six-figure incomes from their prizes and commercial endorsements, many of the great players of tomorrow may even now be benefiting from government's biggest covert subsidy of sports and the arts--unemployment insurance (and perhaps the occasional food stamp).
Entailment: They noted that the top players had large incomes along with perks from endorsements.
Contradiction: The players did not make much but they loved the game.