Honestly, I thought that I could post on the topic once and be over with it [Are You Ready For Your Yankees Fix?]. I was obviously wrong. While the Boston Red Sox have just overcome a 3-1 margin to beat the Cleveland Indians to make the World Series and while the Colorado Rockies have won […]
Month: October 2007
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Miami Heat Season Preview
The Miami Heat won the NBA Finals only two years ago. If you were not alive at the time and somehow developed enough brains to understand the NBA at the age of two, you would barely believe that this team made the playoffs. Anyway, here are your Key Losses that trump the Additions followed by […]
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The Wash Up 15th-21st October
– It happens every year (unless the Yankees win) but predominantly the teams competing in the MLB World Series have some of the lowest paid rosters. Of last weeks four finalists, only the Boston Red Sox were ranked in the top 10 (No. 2). The three other teams ranked at 23 (Cleveland), 25 (Colorado) and […]
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Sports Business Carnival # 3
I got into this whole “Carnival” thing with Carnival of the NBA #44 back on June 6, 2007. Since then, I Want to be a Sports Agent has been featured on many other Carnivals of the NBA. Here is a little recap on the concept behind “Carnivals”: All posts included in a Carnival are pertain […]
Sports Agent Interview: with Paul Schackman Harold Lewis was a scholarship baseball player at the University of Tampa (a close neighbor to BCS hopeful, South Florida). He was a free agent signee by the New York Mets in 1979. Since 1982, he has been the President of National Sports Agency. Paul Schackman: How did you […]
1. I normally don’t post incidents with players/coaches that don’t require the services of an agent, but this was just too funny to pass up: Waco police issued a misdemeanor citation charging disorderly conduct-indecent exposure to Baylor assistant football coach Eric Schnupp early Sunday morning after an incident in which a man urinated on a […]
According to Dana White, President of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), Randy “The Natural” Couture “definitely belongs to me…he’s under contract to me. No doubt about it.” Couture is the 44-year old former UFC heavyweight champion (there are five divisions by weight) who abruptly retired from the mixed martial arts (MMA) organization earlier this week, […]
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NBA: Northwest Division Previews
I am participating in a big collaborative effort by some of the top bloggers across the web to provide previews to the 2008 NBA season. As always, I have been designated as a representative for the Miami Heat. The assigned date for my post is October 23rd (it is coming up!). Until then (and after […]
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Review of PMbuzz.com
Sponsored Post: I Want to be a Sports Agent is a sports site, and more specifically covers one main niche in the industry of sports. Thus, you may be wondering why I am covering an entertainment-based social networking site called PMbuzz.com. For one thing, sports and entertainment are becoming closer aligned every day. Take a […]
A new opportunity may become available soon for basketball players. NBA Commissioner David Stern in in talks with authorities in China to set up a ‘Second NBA’, which would be a world-class professional basketball league. [China could host ‘second NBA’] But don’t get too excited, this won’t be for a while. David Stern is in […]