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Congratulations to Leigh Steinberg. After struggling with alcoholism, the former agent for Troy Aikman, Steve Young, Warren Moon, Ben Roethlisberger and many other prominent quarterbacks in the NFL (along with premier professionals in other sports) is three-years sober. He is an adjunct professor of Sports Law at Chapman University, a contributing writer to Yahoo!, FORBES […]
Sports Illustrated has its Oklahoma State story, Yahoo! Sports has its Southeastern Conference story. Those two beasts alone are enough to make your eyes tired. The idea of amateurism also is enough to exhaust you — don’t even try to justify the claim that it is a relevant concept in today’s day-and-age. I hope all […]
Shalom to Amar’e Stoudemire, who is participating in the Maccabiah Games as coach of the Canadian men’s basketball team and is now a part owner of a separate Israeli basketball team. Last weekend in New York was a blast. Now it is back to being in Miami and on the daily grind. I taped an […]
Leigh Steinberg has been contributing articles to Forbes.com since June 2012. His most read article since joining the Forbes team is titled, How To Be A Great Sports Agent. Based on that article’s success, Steinberg has decided to continue with additional posts on the same topic. Last week, he wrote Part Three in the series. The […]
Sports Agent Blog contributor Amanda Grant was in New Orleans, Louisiana during Super Bowl week, attending many events and parties on behalf of this website. One of the parties that she attended was the Sports Tradex Launch Party. Hosting the event was Leigh Steinberg and founder of Sports Tradex Ben Lipson who were gracious enough […]
Nationally syndicated radio show host Brian Berger recently had Leigh Steinberg on his Sports Business Radio program. They discussed Steinberg’s re-launch of his agency, player safety issues in the NFL and Steinberg’s well documented battle against bankruptcy and alcoholism. Berger was able to get Steinberg to spend the time to speak in a wide ranging, in […]
The NFL Players Association has revealed the information of 133 newly certified Contract Advisors who successfully passed the exam required for entry and paid the required dues to represent NFL players. Neil Stratton of InsideTheLeague.com published a list of the new agents, along with the companies they are affiliated with and the cities in which […]
On October 24, football agent Leigh Steinberg appeared on an episode of Forbes SportsMoney on the YES Network. Video of the segment is embedded, below. Michael Ozanian of Forbes begins the piece by engaging in a discussion with Steinberg about addiction to alcohol and how difficult it is to be successful in business with the public knowing about those […]
My second year as a professor of Sport Agency Management at Indiana University officially began this past Tuesday. I did not make the same mistake that I did last Fall of scheduling class for Monday nights (there’s some sort of program my students are interested in called “Monday Night Football”). College football approaches, as does […]
SAPP ATTACK. The title is bold and in caps, which is exactly what should be expected from a man with the physical size and generous personality of former NFL defensive tackle Warren Sapp. Currently an analyst on the NFL Network, Sapp found the time to write a book [click here for the Amazon link] that happened to […]