Sports Agent Interview: with Matthew Vuckovich Mark Steinberg is a 39 year-old sports agent and is the director of Global Golf Business at one of the largest agencies in the industry, IMG (http://www.imgworld.com). Mr. Steinberg represents two of the best golfers in their respective fields, PGA golfer Tiger Woods and LPGA golfer Annika Sorenstam. He […]
Year: 2007
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NRL in trouble
One of the biggest issues facing the NRL is the defection of players to Rugby Union. The latest player to defect is Timana Tahu, who has agreed to join the NSW Waratahs from Parramatta at the end of the season. There are two mains reasons why a player would switch from League to Union. Firstly, […]
Grab your phone, open up a new e-mail message, scream at the top of your lungs, and spread the word that tomorrow, SportsAgentBlog.com – I Want to be a Sports Agent will feature an interview with Mark Steinberg. In case you did not know, he is IMG’s managing director of golf for North America. Today, […]
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IMG’s IMaGe
CAA may be the new IMG as it has gained the latter’s best agents and team-players. For many years, IMG has been the staple of the Sports Agent world. It has represented some of the best football players (Peyton Manning), baseball players (Derek Jeter), etc. When Ted Forstmann bought the company for $750 million, Peter […]
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Hoops Are Not Always Earrings
This is a piece for a Pro Dunk Hoops Contest: As I was growing up, a large part of my after-school recreation consisted of shooting hoops into my water-stabilized miniature basketball stand, which forever stood in my driveway. My mother would often watch, feigning interest in the sport, because she usually thought I was a […]
Bears linebacker Lance Briggs may soon be a Washington Redskin. Remember when everyone was going nuts about the Lance Briggs situation? Briggs was mad that the Bears Franchise Tagged him, he loathed the Bears organization, and wanted out of the city [The End Of The Franchise?]. But the major thing that I pointed out here […]
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Making Par With Endorsements
With no true contract negotiation in golf, agents look to endorsement deals to make a living. If you want to be a golf agent, you will not be banking on the success of your clients. Well at least that is the case on the greens. As one of my hometown papers (the Sun-Sentinel) reports, golf […]
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Frosty The Fraud Man
David Frost gets arrested again; he uses former client’s credit card to purchase gas. Remember David Frost? Yeah…this guy. It looks like the former NHL agent was never phased by the fact that his former client, Mike Danton (previously named Mike Jefferson), tried to kill him. Because just when you thought that David Frost might […]
1. Joey Porter, now of the Miami Dolphins, and Levi Jones of the Cincinnati Bengals got into a fist fight in Las Vegas and Porter could get a year in jail (doubtful) stemming from a battery charge [Dolphins’ Porter cited for battery in Vegas casino]. 2. Khalif Barnes of the Jacksonville Jaguars proclaims his distaste […]
Some believe that soccer will become a major American sport and kick the NHL out of U.S. homes. One thing that I try to do here at SportsAgentBlog.com – I Want to be a Sports Agent is talk about rising sports and items that may be classified as sports (video gaming) as possible arenas for […]