There is a new Vice President of Golf at William Morris Agency. Former employee of Nike Golf, Greg Nared will take over for Ross Berlin at WMA and will be in charge of managing Michelle Wie’s career [Golf Phenom Michelle Wie Switches Agents]. Ross Berlin will rejoin the PGA Tour, where he was once in […]
Last week I wrote a post titled, Will The Yankees Success Hurt Agents?. The post received a lot of hits and I received a lot of personal e-mails to further discuss the matter. Within the article, I mentioned SBR’s note on how the Yankees’ team may be the worst Return on Investment in the history […]
Since the beginning of the Steinbrenner era, the Yankees have been notorious for purchasing high-priced and sometimes overvalued free-agents. George Steinbrenner’s willingness to spend an exorbitant amount of money on his team has made Sports Agents eager to have their clients signed by the New York Yankees (for recent story, see: Johnny Damon). But when […]
Ask any Sports Agent, you most likely need to have some money before you can start making any. Clients may cost you a lot of money prior to you receiving any sort of profit on your investment. A chance is being taken on a man named Sun Ming Ming by Charles Bonsignore. A graduate of […]
Henry Abbott, through his basketball blog True Hoop, is on a mission to provide more knowledge about basketball agent/client relations to the common man/woman. On October 3rd, Abbott announced the creation of the first publicly available online list of NBA players and their agents. The website is named TrueHoopWiki, and will attempt to cover other […]
“Sports GMs are really like stock traders. They get profits by identifying the players that will bring the biggest returns on the field.” – Mike Kerns, CEO of PROTRADE. PROTRADE was founded in 2004 in an effort to allow its users to trade professional athletes like stocks. With a ticker always running on the bottom […]
Adam Morrison of the Charlotte Bobcats is probably not the best looking guy in the world, but don’t tell that to his marketing agent. Morrison already has endorsement deals with Adidas, Topps, and EA Sports. Most recently, he has signed with Johnson & Johnson’s Lifescan subsidiary to be the face for their blood sugar monitors. […]
In March of this year, IMG signed Bernard Tomic, a 13-year-old tennis player from Australia. After only being alive for 13 years, Tomic is already listed as one of the top 200 players in the world [Bernard Tomic, 13-Year-Old Tennis Star, Signs With IMG]. He will join other tennis greats Roger Federer, Maria Sharapova, Lindsay […]
This week, the Sports Economist reported that the BBC has film of Sports Agents who represent players in English soccer saying that they have paid certain managers in the past to have teams hire their clients [Bungs, Taps, and sporting crime]. Apparently there is a term for the payment that the manager receives from an […]
Gene Upshaw, exec. director of the NFLPA, has recently stated his desire to change the rules on agents recruiting of college football players. Currently, agents are not able to sign a player or give a player anything of monetary value without that player losing his/her NCAA eligibility, but there are no rules against an agent […]