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Corporate Sponsors NFL Players

A Costly Media Day

Brian Urlacher has been fined $100,000 for promoting a company that is not an official sponsor of the NFL. Sports Agents, it is time to brush up on your professional sport corporate sponsors! Because if your client sports a brand that is a rival of an exclusive sponsor of that particular sport, he or she […]

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Agent Spotlights Corporate Sponsors

Agent Profile: Brian Balsbaugh (poker agent)

by Jason Wulterkens One agent’s career change is a lesson for all would-be sports agents: don’t be afraid of risk. Some would call it an epiphany. For Brian Balsbaugh, it was the greatest risk he had ever taken. Balsbaugh, a graduate of the Indiana University School of Law in Bloomington and now 34, found himself […]

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Corporate Sponsors Endorsements Golf Sports Agents

Els To Callaway Raises Eyebrows?

“The Big Easy” is the newest client of Callaway Golf Company. Loyal reader of SportsAgentBlog.com and avid golf fan, Jason Wulterkens, has decided to hand over his first contribution to this site (besides his insightful comments). His post is a great read: South African professional golfer Ernie Els, nicknamed “The Big Easy” and also a […]

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Corporate Sponsors Endorsements Sports Business

The Sports Market Review – Issue 6

Sportcal.com has come out with its newest version of The Sports Market Review. It is produced 4 times a year and is completely free to download.  The publication covers media rights content, sponsorship, and events on a global scale (mostly looking at areas overseas). A lot of the information in the publication could come in […]

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Corporate Sponsors Endorsements Golf Motor Sports Tennis

My Other Job is an Athlete

Interesting article in the Herald Sun last week which announced the Top 10 highest-earning Australian athletes. No surprise to see that golfer Greg Norman remains number 1, earning $20 million for the year. However, Greg doesn’t play much golf these days, and relies on his endorsements to amass his earnings. In fact, he made only […]

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Corporate Sponsors

T-Mobile Is Looking for Bikers

After losing two big names in the world of biking (not exactly a large world), T-Mobile is looking to reappear on the jersey of some of biking’s best. The first biker to replace Jan Ullrich and Andreas Kloden as official T-Mobile riders is Mark Cavendish from the Isle of Man [Mark Cavendish Scores a Deal […]

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Corporate Sponsors Sports Agents

Is The Best Yet to Come?

Mark Steinberg of IMG believes that Tiger Woods can still become a bigger star. He started working with Tiger Woods in 1998 (2 years into his professional career). Sports Business Radio did an interview with Tiger’s agent on August 26th, and here are some highlights of the conversation: What makes Tiger so marketable? He plays […]

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Colleges Corporate Sponsors

Newsflash: College Sports are a money machine

Money is everywhere in college sports.  It was recently reported that the Big 12 has spent nearly $1.6 billion dollars on facility projects since its formation in 1996.  Below lists the top 5 universities by operating profit in 2005 (since total 2006 dollars have yet to be reported).   University of Georgia  $23.9 million University […]

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Corporate Sponsors

The “All American Series”

American Airlines, AA.com, is taking advantage of their monopoly of the 2006 NBA Finals by claiming its “Home Court Advantage.” If you have not figured it out yet, or you just think that the Miami Heat still play in the Miami Arena, both Miami’s new arena that they currently play in and the arena that […]