The purpose of this article is to identify some of the positives and negatives that can arise from sponsorship in sport, and invite your own views of this sometimes contentious topic. Sponsors purchase the right to align their product(s) with sport through a variety of mediums such as events, venues, teams and individual sportsmen and […]
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Here at SportsAgentBlog.com – I Want to be a Sports Agent, we have covered many non-traditional ways that an interested person can break into the sports agent industry. Some categories discussed include representing video gamers, bowlers, and bull riders. After reading a recent New York Times article on sportswriters, I am beginning to think that […]
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Building Dreams
Top agencies are spending big coin on extravagant new office spaces in order to woo clients. Your average sports agency is not going to go over the top when it comes to architectural design of its office space. However, I can tell you from personal experience, that while I was at CS&E interning a few […]
Here at I Want to be a Sports Agent, we try and provide you with key issues that impact the industry. Whether it be current or future agents, this issue will no doubt pop up sometime. Indian cricketer Yuvraj Singh has recently signed with new representation, leaving Percept Management. However, under his previous management contract, […]
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Aussie Millions
Once again, BRW have released their Top 50 Australian Sports Earners for the year. [BRW highest sports earners] No points for guessing who is number 1, yet again. Greg Norman. The Shark amassed the same as he did last year, pocketing $20 million. Shark doesn’t get out on the course much anymore…only $500,000 was from […]
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Review of AnyLawsuits.com
Sponsored Post: Lawsuits suck…unless you are the Plaintiff in a civil matter and win your case. Lawsuits can especially be a very unfriendly burden on a professional athlete, taking his/her mind off of that one thing he/she should be worried about: excelling on the field of play. The fine people at AnyLawsuits.com want to make […]
It’s not in time for Christmas, but a new book due out next month will still seem like a lump of coal in Reggie Bush’s stocking this holiday. Roughly one month after Lloyd Lake, a partner along with San Diego businessman Michael Michaels in the failed sports marketing agency New Era Sports & Entertainment, played […]
This coming Friday would be a good day to just happen to be walking the grounds of Princeton University. That is because Princeton University will be hosting a half-day sports symposium, featuring an amazing list of speakers. The event begins at 1PM, December 7 and will take place at Robertson Hall. Brett D. Yormark, president […]
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Sports Business Carnival #5
Head over to Take a Peck and check out the newest edition of Sports Business Carnival. [Sports Business Carnival #5]. I Want to be a Sports Agent made it into the carnival with our recent post arguing that athletes should continue to have full-time agents and that an hourly fee based relationship should only be […]
Hopefully it is clear to you by now that the public gets its image of the sports agent industry from a few events per year which involve the “big name” agents in the business. In the past, people viewed agents as Tom Cruise’s character in Jerry Maguire. Then they were left with the image of […]