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 […]
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 […]
One recurring question in our Interview With The Agent column is: At what age do you feel an agent will hit his prime/glory years? I personally believe that there really is no true answer to that question. I am a firm believer that age is merely a word and that we are purely bound by […]
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 […]
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, […]
Okay, so by now you’ve probably heard and read the story relating to Senator George Mitchell’s investigation into Major League Baseball’s steroid and human growth hormone (HGH) scandal, which started some 18 months ago. To reiterate, there was a league-wide conference call mid-day Friday, whereby League and team officials alike learned that the forthcoming Mitchell […]
It was April 15th when I last blogged on the Reggie Bush fiasco (see Yahoo! timeline) and wrote that “Bush may be able to evade tacklers, but the increasingly intricate web cast by the growing group of arguably unsavory characters with whom he’s aligned himself may prove tougher.” At the time, Bush had just settled […]
When Lee Melchionni was not busy getting some man love from former teammate, Sheldon Williams, Melchionni played the power forward position for the Duke Blue Devils. Then came the day that he was not looking forward to: graduation. After leaving Duke, Melchionni was left with the option of playing for Cimberio Novara in the Italian […]
I always keep my eye on the big conglomerates. That being said, it definitely caught my attention when I saw this headline yesterday: New York Yankees Select Creative Artists Agency for Global Partnership and to Market Unprecedented Sponsorship Opportunities for New Yankee Stadium. Should this be surprising? CAA has already broken ground in a variety […]
As of this week, I will be writing a new weekly column. I often see many stories which have an impact on the industry but are never strong enough to warrant an in depth article. So every week I will be writing “The Wash Up”, which will include a brief critique about several stories that […]