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Being A Sports Agent

            
             Being a sports agent is a vigorous job, one that never stops. To be a successful agent you must be fully committed to your clients and be reachable 24 hours a day seven days a week. A career as a sports agent is a growing trend and is one of the most competitive cut-throat businesses today. Many sports agents are ruthless in their negotiations and stop at nothing to provide the absolute best for the professional athletes they represent. Trust is one of the biggest characteristics a sports agent must possess. For an athlete to trust a man with all of his millions of dollars that athlete must fully trust the agent. There are many aspects of being a sports agent. Most agents work for an agency that carries many clients. These agents are selling the company to the athlete as well as selling themselves and making a personal connection and forming a close bond.
             Financial success is one of the things that draw people into this profession. Although, there is money to be made, in the business to really make it worth your while you must dedicate your life to the business. In representing professional athletes you must play the role of friend but also as confidant. Many players need legal advice and help with their taxes; this is all part of the job. Over the past few years, sports agents have increased in the professional sports market, so sports agents are in high demand. The increased growth of athletics, sport participation by all segments of society, and sport-related businesses has created a need for individuals trained in sport management (Wuest 511). Sports agents usually rely on scouting reports that are published throughout the nation to begin their recruiting process (Sports Agent 1). Some sports agents such as .
             Leigh Steinberg insist his athletes plug some of their dollars into charities in meaningful ways; Steve Young and Drew Bledsoe of the NFL have funneled more than 2 million .


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1. Sports and Media

... it a very effective way to sell the idea to consumers that, "without sports their wouldn"t be anything to wear". Another example is the various sports videogames being produced and out in the market now. In EA Sports' NBA Live 2003, players and teams are exhibited in videogame format which ... also includes a compact disk of the soundtrack of the game which features various rap songs by popular rappers like Snoop Dog, Angie Martinez and Fabolous. Also, in another game produced by EA Sports ... can be very helpful and influential by reaching out to the people in need. Some detrimental eff...

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2. Ethical Values and Sports

... to offer some sort of incentive to Bush so that he would sign with them. Some key players in this battle for Bush were marketing agent Mike Ornstein and two members of an up and coming sport agency, Michael Michaels and Lloyd Lake. Ornstein provided Bush plane tickets so his family ... come to mind are respect and honesty. These two values correlate back to the original dilemma of whether an athlete should be able accept benefits without being punished. Respect is a value in play because it can be debated whether or not Bush respects the game of collegiate football. He knew the ... a r...

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3. Gender Identity in Adolescence

... young males to conduct themselves in a certain manner (cited in Van Krieken et al, 2013). When looking at the sports most commonly played by males, rugby union, soccer and rugby league where very common (see figure 4). These sports are associated with being rough and requiring strength and stamina, main attribute connected with a masculine identity. In supporting Connell's theory, 58.3% ... of male individuals identified their fathers being the greatest influence to play these sports. This suggests that in a modern day society fathers are conforming to social expectations set for males a...

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4. College Athletes and Financial Compensation

... one presents itself, the student athlete is punished by having to sit out a year if he transfers to another school. Lingering questions remain- will the amateur aspect of collegiate sports be compromised with compensation? Will athletes take on an equivalent persona similar to their professional counterparts? Would smaller programs have to drop sport programs due to inability to compete financially ... of directors would make efforts to host optional seminars from industries professionals to provide insight as to the various players unions, collective bargaining agreements, and how to cho...

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5. Gambling

... with intent to influence such participant not to give such participant's best efforts in a sports contest (Black's Law Dictionary, 1999). According to Bill Saum, Director of Agent and Gambling Activities for the NCAA, sports bribery works like this: "student athletes who have begun gambling on sports incur losses beyond their means to repay and, as a result, become vulnerable to point shaving ... be the so-called mastermind of baseball's worst gambling disgrace. Rothstein may well have been the most influential criminal of his era embarking on ideas of a national crime syndicate and bei...

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6. "Ten"

... when you were 10. But these days many kids at that age give up sports altogether or arrive at a crossroads, forced to choose among sports in order to excel at one. In 1978 a real-estate agent showed Colman McCarthy a brick house overlooking Friendship Playground, an Elysium of baseball diamonds ... popular group to coach. If I want to get my batteries recharged, I go hit fungoes to the 10-year-olds." There's a crossroads quality to being 10. The hormone-fired moods of adolescence are still a ways off, but innocence is yielding to budding sophistication. Ten-year-olds know how babies are ....

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7. Negotiation

... an extent, because of the growing disparity between "rich" and "poor" among team owners. Let me explain. An ongoing problem in baseball (and some other popular sports) is that some teams are "richer" (in both money and talent) than other teams. This can be a result of the deep pockets of one team ... said. Griffey, who has veto power over any deal because he is a 10-year veteran who has played five years with his current team, and his agent, Brian Goldberg, met Monday in Orlando, Fla., with Mariners chairman Howard Lincoln, president Chuck Armstrong and new general manager Pat Gillick. L...

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8. Negotiation

... an extent, because of the growing disparity between "rich" and "poor" among team owners. Let me explain. An ongoing problem in baseball (and some other popular sports) is that some teams are "richer" (in both money and talent) than other teams. This can be a result of the deep pockets of one team ... said. Griffey, who has veto power over any deal because he is a 10-year veteran who has played five years with his current team, and his agent, Brian Goldberg, met Monday in Orlando, Fla., with Mariners chairman Howard Lincoln, president Chuck Armstrong and new general manager Pat Gillick. L...

  • Word Count: 3204
  • Approx Pages: 13
  • Grade Level: High School

9. Negotiation

... an extent, because of the growing disparity between "rich" and "poor" among team owners. Let me explain. An ongoing problem in baseball (and some other popular sports) is that some teams are "richer" (in both money and talent) than other teams. This can be a result of the deep pockets of one team ... said. Griffey, who has veto power over any deal because he is a 10-year veteran who has played five years with his current team, and his agent, Brian Goldberg, met Monday in Orlando, Fla., with Mariners chairman Howard Lincoln, president Chuck Armstrong and new general manager Pat Gillick. L...

  • Word Count: 3204
  • Approx Pages: 13
  • Grade Level: High School

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