I don’t know how I missed this story that was posted almost five months ago, but Forbes.com put together a piece on what they believe to be Baseball’s Best Agents. The eight agent entities (both individual and team efforts) that are highlighted account for 41% of the $2.5 billion in salaries being paid out by […]
Month: November 2007
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The Wash Up 29th October-4th November
Apologies for the delay in The Wash Up this week, Melbourne Cup fever has taken over my town. – Rory Sabbatini is getting paid US$200,000 to appear at the Coolum Masters in Australia later this year, and local golfers aren’t too happy. In fact, Robert Allenby has pulled out but denies this issue is the […]
Paul Solotaroff recently wrote an interesting article for Men’s Journal titled “Casualties of the NFL,” detailing the horrendous strain professional football players put on their bodies (by choice), and the ramifications down the road of the injuries they often play through (often with the aid of copious pain medication). But what’s waiting at the end […]
I Want to be a Sports Agent recommends that you buy Marc Isenberg’s new book: Money Players. Three athletic departments have purchased 10+ copies. One prominent sports agent purchased 50 copies for his clients. 1 copy: $25 per 2 copies: $20 per 10 copies, $15 per 50 copies, $10 per Currently free shipping on purchases.. […]
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Sports Business Carnival #4
Head over to Take a Peck and check out the newest edition of Sports Business Carnival. [Sports Business Carnival #4]. I Want to be a Sports Agent made it into the carnival with our recent post arguing that you do not have to be “old” in order to be successful in the sports business industry […]
I blogged last week that Lloyd Lake, co-founder of the now defunct New Era Sports & Entertainment along with partner Michael Michaels, was scheduled to meet Friday with NCAA investigators and allegedly supply them with documents and receipts, including a deposit slip, showing that Lake had placed hundreds of dollars into Reggie Bush’s personal bank […]
Marketing and endorsements are huge components of many sports agencies. For one, agents often take a much larger cut on marketing and endorsement deals (normally 15-25%) than on contractual deals with professional teams (normally 3-4% depending on sport). Also, for many professional athletes, an agent is not needed to negotiate with teams because…there are no […]
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Seattle’s RoY
As early as it is into the 2007-2008 NBA season I’m going to ‘go out on a limb’ and make my pick for this season’s Rookie of the Year. I know the title of this post sort of gives things away; and while I’d love to be controversial and say that Jeff Green would edge […]
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The Primary Cut
Third installment of The Primary Cut – weekly insights from the world of golf player management and other golf-related industry and player news. “The Jake” enters the player management fray Always one of golf’s most colorful personalities and most liked individuals, Champions Tour player Peter Jacobsen, much like Greg Norman, Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus, […]
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Dad’s Corner: The Year Of Boston
I finally was right. I said Boston Red Sox from the get go. As far as college football is concerned, the days of the college dynasty are over. Miami in the 80’s through the 90’s almost always was in the top ten. Consecutive championship games are a thing of the past. Miami once had six […]