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Sports agent

January 01, 1970

A sports agent is a legal representative (hence agent) for professional sports figures such as athletes and coaches. They procure and negotiate employment and endorsement contracts for the athlete or coach whom they represent. In addition to contract negotiations, sports agents may also help their clients with financial planning, legal issues, and marketing. They may work closely with financial advisors, lawyers, and marketing professionals on behalf of their clients.

Description edit

Because of the unique characteristics of the sports industry, sports agents are responsible for communications with team owners, managers, and other individuals. In addition to finding income sources, agents often handle public relations matters for their clients. In some large sports agencies, such as IMG, Creative Artists Agency, Roc Nation Sports and Octagon, agents deal with all aspects of a client's finances, from investment to filing taxes.

Sports agents may be relied upon by their clients for guidance in all business aspects, and sometimes even more broadly. For example, hockey agents start recruiting clients as young as 15, allowing the agent to guide the athlete's career before the NHL draft, which happens usually at 18 years of age.

Due to the length and complexity of contracts, many sports agents are lawyers or have a background in contract law. Agents are expected to be knowledgeable about finance, business management, and financial and risk analysis, as well as sports. It is important for a sports agent to follow trends in sports. Other skills an agent must possess are excellent communication and negotiation skills. Agents must be highly motivated, willing to work long hours, and capable of multitasking. It is very common for agents to be in negotiations on behalf of several clients at one time.[1]

Some agents are part of large companies, and some are on their own.[2] The number of clients an individual agent can handle and how many clients his or her employing agency can handle in total are interdependent variables.

Before the 1990s, most football players did not use agents. In some cases, they used their parents as agents. Because of most parents' naivety about the football business, these footballers were often given less-than-stellar contracts by football clubs, which yielded lower salaries than they thought they deserved.[3] In Sweden, there were only three licensed agents in 1995.[4] As of 2002, there were 33. According to FIFA, there were 5,187 licensed association football agents worldwide, with 600 agents in Italy alone.[5] Since 2001, agents have not been licensed by FIFA. Instead, agents are now licensed directly by each association.

Sports agents generally receive between 4 and 15% of the athlete's playing contract, and 10 to 20% of the athlete's endorsement contract, although these figures vary. NFL agents are not permitted to receive more than 3%, and NBA agents not more than 4%, of their client's playing contracts.

Media depictions edit

Films such as Jerry Maguire, Two for the Money, and Any Given Sunday depicted sports agents. In England, ITV's Footballers' Wives included a female agent Hazel Bailey. The television show Ballers, which started in 2015, also shows a strong depiction of sports agents.

Notable sports agents edit

American football edit

 
Football agent Drew Rosenhaus
 
Football agent Leigh Steinberg

Australian football edit

Baseball edit

 
Scott Boras

Basketball edit

 
David Falk

Cricket edit

European basketball edit

Association football edit

Golf edit

Ice hockey edit

Motorsport edit

Olympics edit

Notable former sports agents edit

Sports agency groups edit

There have been some efforts to transform the sports agency business from an individual, entrepreneurial business, to more of a corporate structure. These experiments met with varying degrees of longevity and success.

Formerly active agencies edit

Some sports agency firms were once prominent, but are now gone or reorganized:

  • Assante Corporation – Canadian public company that acquired the Steinberg, Moorad & Dunn agency, then acquired other than agencies including Dan Fegan & Associates and Maximum Sports Management in an unsuccessful effort to build multi-sport corporate agency.[46]
  • SFX Entertainment (now Live Nation, a publicly traded company) – in 1998 SFX agreed to pay up to $150 million in cash, stock, and bonuses for F.A.M.E., the sports agency run by David Falk, the agent for basketball players Michael Jordan and Patrick Ewing. SFX also acquired two other major sports agencies, Arn Tellem's agency (Tellem & Associates) and the baseball-oriented firm run by Randy Hendricks and Allan Hendricks.[47] SFX would later reverse course, and sell off the pieces of its large sports agency business.
  • Steinberg, Moorad & Dunn ("SMD") – a multi-sport agency sold in October 1999 for reported $120 million to Canadian financial firm. Defections of principals, and litigation, followed. Originally led by entrepreneurial agents Leigh Steinberg and Jeff Moorad.[48]

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ Job Profiles.org January 9, 2010, at the Wayback Machine – description of roles of sports agent and some educational programs to prepare for the field
  2. ^ An Industry Of Conglomerates Sports Agent Blog, July 16, 2007
  3. ^ "The Big Interview: Neil Webb" Sunday Times, November 28, 2004, interview with soccer/football player
  4. ^ "Market Saturation of Agents" August 10, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, May 23, 2002, note: source can be translated into English on the website
  5. ^ [ FIFA – Players' agents list – by country]
  6. ^ Hanzus, Dan (March 4, 2013). "Joe Flacco's Ravens contract includes $52M guaranteed". Around the League. NFL.com. Retrieved March 4, 2013.
  7. ^ . AgentAA.com. Archived from the original on July 9, 2015. Retrieved July 15, 2015.
  8. ^ Meisel, Barry (April 28, 1996). "Toomer Catches Fancy of Giants". New York Daily News.
  9. ^ Butler, Steve (March 3, 2008); Show me the money, Ricky Nixon; Realfooty.com.au; Retrieved on March 14, 2009
  10. ^ "Agent says Boras' group 'stalking' his client – MLB – ESPN". Sports.espn.go.com. May 1, 2006. Retrieved October 6, 2011.
  11. ^ Nicholson, Ben (December 23, 2010). "Nationals Sign Sean Burnett To Two-Year Extension". MLBTradeRumors.com. Retrieved October 6, 2011.
  12. ^ McGrath, Ben (August 1, 2011). "Tampa Bay Ray's Late Bloomer Super Sam Fuld". The New Yorker. Retrieved October 6, 2011.
  13. ^ "Interview with Matt Sosnick" SportsAgentBlog.com.
  14. ^ Gus Lubin (November 29, 2010). "The 12 Best Sports Agents in the World". Business Insider. Retrieved January 3, 2013.
  15. ^ "Agents again at forefront of NBA labor dispute", CNN/SI, December 28, 1998, accessed June 16, 2007.
  16. ^ Migala, Dan. "Career Spotlight: David Falk", WorkInSports.com, June 4, 2001, accessed June 30, 2007.
  17. ^ Janowitz, Neil (March 9, 2012). "After Backing a Dark Horse, Lin's Agent Is Riding High". The New York Times. Retrieved March 10, 2012.
  18. ^ "#9 Rob Pelinka". Forbes.com. Retrieved November 23, 2021.
  19. ^ Megargee, Steve (June 7, 2019). "Penicheiro's new career has Hall of Famer focusing on future". Yahoo Sports. Associated Press. Retrieved June 15, 2019.
  20. ^ "HoopsHype.com Agents". Retrieved May 8, 2008.
  21. ^ Nets Star Has Deal to Play in Turkey;The New York Times, July 7, 2011
  22. ^ Perry, Michael (May 3, 1999). "Agents court Xavier star Posey". The Cincinnati Enquirer.
  23. ^ Bremer still leading the way in Europe Olean Times Herald
  24. ^ [1] ESPN. Evan Alexander Demiriel. Retrieved July 23, 2011
  25. ^ a b Belzer, Jason (September 25, 2017). "The World's Most Powerful Sports Agents 2017". Forbes. Retrieved September 27, 2017.
  26. ^ Top 10 most influential football agents – Pere Guardiola, Pini Zahavi, Jorge Mendes, Paul Stretford, Mino Riaola | Metro News
  27. ^ Derbyshiretimes: "Loyalty and trust are hard to find in football' – Chesterfield hero Kevin Davies launches new business"
  28. ^ www.gsf.agency
  29. ^ "How Tiger's Top Man is Managing the Crisis". The Wall Street Journal. December 8, 2009.
  30. ^ Reilly, Rick (June 23, 2011). "Golf's new era is here". ESPN. Retrieved June 23, 2011.
  31. ^ Tait, Alistair (October 21, 2011). "McIlroy leaves Chandler's ISM for Horizon Sports". Golfweek. Retrieved November 21, 2011.
  32. ^ NHL.com – Features[permanent dead link]
  33. ^ Michael Barnett October 10, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  34. ^ "Top 10 Sports Agents -Ask Men.com
  35. ^ "Octagon Sports – Hockey – Team Bios – Allan Walsh". Octagonhockey.com. Retrieved January 3, 2013.
  36. ^ "From The Executive Editor: The education of Peter Carlisle". Sports-agent-directory.com. Retrieved January 3, 2013.
  37. ^ . Associated Press. March 6, 2009. Archived from the original on April 14, 2020. Retrieved March 7, 2009.
  38. ^ "Mino Raiola, one of football's most powerful agents, dies aged 54". The Observer. April 30, 2022. Retrieved April 30, 2022.
  39. ^ "Serie A international rights snapped up by Infront for '€139m a year'". SportsPro Media. April 6, 2021. Retrieved April 26, 2021.
  40. ^ Harig, Bob (July 17, 2011). "Darren Clarke returns in major triumph". ESPN. Retrieved July 18, 2011.
  41. ^ "Jay-Z Launches Roc Nation Sports Teams With CAA to Co-Represent Robinson Cano". Variety. April 2, 2013. Retrieved April 2, 2013.
  42. ^ "Our Mission and Values". smwwagency.com. Retrieved December 7, 2020.
  43. ^ "Good, profitable sports". bizjournals.com. Retrieved December 7, 2020.
  44. ^ "Wasserman Acquires Tellem Business; SFX Promotes Pelinka". Sports Business Daily. January 27, 2006. Retrieved August 7, 2017.
  45. ^ The business of sports | Dhaka Tribune
  46. ^ "These Drafts Come and Go, and So Do Agents' Fortunes" The New York Times, April 28, 2003
  47. ^ "Steinberg Sells Sports Firm". The New York Times. October 28, 1999. Retrieved October 6, 2011.
  48. ^ "Crash Landing"- ESPN, by Peter Keating, article about Leigh Steinberg

Further reading edit

  • , by Darren Heitner, 2014, ABA Book Publishing, ISBN 978-1-61438-916-3
  • The Business of Sports Agents, by Kenneth L. Shropshire, Timothy Davis, 2008, University of Pennsylvania Press, ISBN 978-0-8122-4084-9
  • License to Deal: A Season on the Run with a Maverick Baseball Agent, by Jerry Crasnick, 2005, Rodale Books, ISBN 978-1-59486-024-9
  • An Athlete's Guide to Agents: 5th Edition, by Bob Ruxin with Darren Heitner, 2009, Jones and Bartlett, ISBN 978-0-7637-7611-4
  • How To Be A Sports Agent, by Mel Stein, 2008, High Stakes Publishing, ISBN 978-1-84344-045-1
  • The Football Agent, by Knut Høibraaten, 2015, HHH Forlag, ISBN 978-8-26900-990-3

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This article may need to be rewritten to comply with Wikipedia s quality standards You can help The talk page may contain suggestions May 2018 A sports agent is a legal representative hence agent for professional sports figures such as athletes and coaches They procure and negotiate employment and endorsement contracts for the athlete or coach whom they represent In addition to contract negotiations sports agents may also help their clients with financial planning legal issues and marketing They may work closely with financial advisors lawyers and marketing professionals on behalf of their clients Contents 1 Description 2 Media depictions 3 Notable sports agents 3 1 American football 3 2 Australian football 3 3 Baseball 3 4 Basketball 3 5 Cricket 3 6 European basketball 3 7 Association football 3 8 Golf 3 9 Ice hockey 3 10 Motorsport 3 11 Olympics 4 Notable former sports agents 5 Sports agency groups 5 1 Formerly active agencies 6 See also 7 References 8 Further readingDescription editBecause of the unique characteristics of the sports industry sports agents are responsible for communications with team owners managers and other individuals In addition to finding income sources agents often handle public relations matters for their clients In some large sports agencies such as IMG Creative Artists Agency Roc Nation Sports and Octagon agents deal with all aspects of a client s finances from investment to filing taxes Sports agents may be relied upon by their clients for guidance in all business aspects and sometimes even more broadly For example hockey agents start recruiting clients as young as 15 allowing the agent to guide the athlete s career before the NHL draft which happens usually at 18 years of age Due to the length and complexity of contracts many sports agents are lawyers or have a background in contract law Agents are expected to be knowledgeable about finance business management and financial and risk analysis as well as sports It is important for a sports agent to follow trends in sports Other skills an agent must possess are excellent communication and negotiation skills Agents must be highly motivated willing to work long hours and capable of multitasking It is very common for agents to be in negotiations on behalf of several clients at one time 1 Some agents are part of large companies and some are on their own 2 The number of clients an individual agent can handle and how many clients his or her employing agency can handle in total are interdependent variables Before the 1990s most football players did not use agents In some cases they used their parents as agents Because of most parents naivety about the football business these footballers were often given less than stellar contracts by football clubs which yielded lower salaries than they thought they deserved 3 In Sweden there were only three licensed agents in 1995 4 As of 2002 there were 33 According to FIFA there were 5 187 licensed association football agents worldwide with 600 agents in Italy alone 5 Since 2001 agents have not been licensed by FIFA Instead agents are now licensed directly by each association Sports agents generally receive between 4 and 15 of the athlete s playing contract and 10 to 20 of the athlete s endorsement contract although these figures vary NFL agents are not permitted to receive more than 3 and NBA agents not more than 4 of their client s playing contracts Media depictions editFilms such as Jerry Maguire Two for the Money and Any Given Sunday depicted sports agents In England ITV s Footballers Wives included a female agent Hazel Bailey The television show Ballers which started in 2015 also shows a strong depiction of sports agents Notable sports agents editAmerican football edit nbsp Football agent Drew Rosenhaus nbsp Football agent Leigh Steinberg Tom Condon co head of Creative Artists Agency CAA Football Clients include Peyton Manning retired and Tony Romo retired James Bus Cook Clients include Brett Favre retired Jay Cutler retired and Calvin Johnson retired Ben Dogra co head of CAA Football Clients include Adrian Peterson Patrick Willis and Joseph Addai Jason Fletcher former player turned agent Clients include Antonio Cromartie Jamar Fletcher Clinton Portis Fabian Washington and Darrell Bevell Bob LaMonte founder and president of Professional Sports Representation Current clients include Andy Reid Jon Gruden Sean McVay and Doug Pederson Joe Linta In 2013 negotiated the richest contract in NFL history for Joe Flacco despite the fact that he s never been picked for the Pro Bowl 6 Eugene E Parker negotiated the highest signing bonuses in NFL history for Emmitt Smith and Deion Sanders Real life inspiration for flamboyant character Rod Tidwell in the film Jerry Maguire Alessio Sundas agent and founder of Sports Man agency Drew Rosenhaus Clients include Plaxico Burress and Terrell Owens Peter Schaffer President of Authentic Athletix LLC Clients include including Joe Thomas Phil Taylor Barry Sanders Trevor Pryce Joshua Cribbs C J Anderson Mario Edwards Jr and Hakeem Nicks 7 and PGA golfers including two time PGA tour winner Jonathan Kaye and Shane Bertsch Joel Segal President of Lagardere Unlimited Football Clients include Eric Fisher Reggie Bush Santonio Holmes and Chris Johnson Jimmy Sexton Co Head of Football and Head of Coaching as a sports agent for Creative Artist Agency Clients include Sam Darnold Julio Jones Laremy Tunsil and Derrick Henry Alexa Stabler Adams Owner of Stabler Sports daughter of the late NFL quarterback Ken Stabler Currently represents JK Scott Leigh Steinberg Clients include Troy Aikman and Ben Roethlisberger Real life inspiration for fictional sports agent Jerry Maguire in the film of the same name has a cameo appearance in the movie 8 Don Yee Clients include Tom Brady and Jimmy Garoppolo Australian football edit Ricky Nixon former player who was the AFL s first full time player manager 9 Baseball edit nbsp Scott Boras Barry Axelrod Clients included Jeff Bagwell Craig Biggio Rick Sutcliffe and executive Kevin Towers Scott Boras Clients include Alex Rodriguez and Prince Fielder Boras is known to have negotiated the highest contracts in Major League Baseball history and the history of sports Casey Close Clients include Derek Jeter and Ryan Howard Greg Genske Successor in sports agency formerly run by Jeff Moorad baseball and Leigh Steinberg football Randy Hendricks Partnered with his brother Allan they sold their firm to SFX now Live Nation and bought it back again Joe Kehoskie Small agency frequently quoted by media regarding Cuban defectors and baseball in Latin America Sam amp Seth Levinson Clients include David Wright and Jon Lester Bo McKinnis Clients include David Price Jim Munsey Clients include Sam Fuld Jarrod Saltalamacchia and Sean Burnett 10 11 12 Lonnie Murray Clients include Bruce Maxwell first Black woman agent certified by the MLB Players Association Burton Rocks Clients include Kip Wells Jim Riggleman Mike Easler Robinson Cancel Dave Eiland Paul DeJong Joe Oliver Matt Sosnick Clients include Dontrelle Willis Sosnick is subject of the book License to Deal by Jerry Crasnick 13 Arn Tellem Clients have included Albert Belle Mike Mussina and Chase Utley Also a basketball agent see below Joe Urbon Clients include Jason Bay and Grady Sizemore Basketball edit nbsp David Falk Rich Paul co owner of Klutch Sports Group with LeBron James Clients include LeBron James Anthony Davis John Wall and Ben Simmons Jeff Austin is head of Octagon s basketball division and was ranked 11th in the 12 Best Sport Agents in the World in 2010 by Business Insider 14 His clients include David Robinson Moses Malone Kirk Hinrich Stephen Curry and Jimmer Fredette Doug Davis Clients include Metta World Peace and Roger Mason Jr Bill Duffy Clients include Rajon Rondo Joakim Noah Greg Oden Yao Ming Klay Thompson and Steve Nash David Falk Currently semi retired Past clients included Michael Jordan Patrick Ewing Allen Iverson and Dikembe Mutombo In the 1990s was generally considered the most influential player agent in the NBA 15 16 Dan Fegan Noted for creating several nuances in the most recently expired NBA Collective Bargaining Agreement Clients include John Wall Dwight Howard and Ricky Rubio Aaron Goodwin Terminated by LeBron James Dwight Howard Al Horford and Jamal Crawford Goodwin now represents over 20 NBA players Roger Montgomery Works for Jay Z and his company Roc Nation Managed Desmond Mason Maurice Evans and Jeremy Lin 17 Rob Pelinka Former basketball player at the University of Michigan and graduate of their law school worked as an agent before becoming general manager of the Los Angeles Lakers Past clients include Kobe Bryant and Carlos Boozer 18 Ticha Penicheiro 2019 inductee of the Women s Basketball Hall of Fame as a player currently an agent with about 30 clients among them Kayla McBride and Courtney Vandersloot 19 Leon Rose Former agent of LeBron James Arn Tellem Clients include Tracy McGrady Jermaine O Neal Pau Gasol and Joe Johnson His clients total salaries in 2007 08 season added up to more than 210 million 20 Tellum left the agent business to become President of the Detroit Pistons Cricket edit Neil Fairbrother Former England cricket player now Director of Cricket at International Sports Management Clients include Andrew Flintoff Marcus Trescothick Steve Harmison European basketball edit Misko Raznatovic Serbian agent Through his agency BeoBasket he mostly represents European basketball players and coaches as well as American players playing in Europe He represents many highest paid European basketball stars in Euroleague His notable clients include Nikola Pekovic Mirza Teletovic coach Dusan Ivkovic Vassilis Spanoulis Nenad Krstic Dario Saric DeMarcus Nelson Joffrey Lauvergne Dusko Savanovic Pero Antic Aleksandar Capin Marko Keselj Nihad Đedovic Novica Velickovic Milenko Tepic Aleksandar Rasic Rasko Katic Ilkan Karaman Emir Preldzic Marko Simonovic Andrija Zizic etc Raznatovic was additionally involved in the Deron Williams transfer to Besiktas during the 2011 NBA lockout 21 and owns a basketball club KK Mega Vizura that competes in the Basketball League of Serbia Craig McKenzie American basketball agent Worked for Eugene E Parker on Deion Sanders At 27 was one of youngest agents ever to have lottery pick in Bonzi Wells 22 Clients included three sport athlete Charlie Ward and American International Basketball stars Marcus Brown JR Bremer 23 Demond Mallet and Mire Chatman some of the highest paid players in Europe at one time 24 Zoran Savic Serbian agent Through his agency Invictus Sports Group Barcelona based Savic represents coach Xavi Pascual Milan Macvan coach Zan Tabak Dalibor Bagaric Ivan Opacak etc Association football edit Rafaela Pimenta Brazilian female agent Has represented Erling Haaland and Paul Pogba Jorge Mendes Portuguese agent Founder of GestiFute Clients include Cristiano Ronaldo Radamel Falcao David de Gea Diego Costa Renato Sanches Ricardo Quaresma Deco Nani Angel Di Maria and managers Jose Mourinho Aitor Karanka and Luiz Felipe Scolari 25 Pini Zahavi Israeli agent Handled deals involving the transfers of Carlos Tevez Yakubu and Rio Ferdinand Bila Kanza English based French Sports Agent and founder of LKI Lonrisk International Management Jon Smith English agent who one represented Diego Maradona Paul Stretford English agent Clients include Wayne Rooney Set up Triple S Sports Entertainment Group in 2009 after leaving Proactive Sports which he originally established Constantin Dumitrascu French based Romanian agent His agency Mondial Sports Management include Edinson Cavani Alexandre Pato Hatem Ben Arfa Fernandinho Nemanja Matic Douglas Costa and Philippe Coutinho 25 Milan Calasan Serbian agent His agency Mondialvas represented Christian Karembeu manager Arsene Wenger and Nikola Zigic Claes Elefalk Swedish agent Clients include Freddie Ljungberg Pontus Farnerud and Nils Eric Johansson plus several NHL ice hockey players Roger Ljung Former Swedish international player owns his own agency Roger Ljung Promotion AB Represented Freddie Ljungberg until 2006 Clients include Marcus Allback Daniel Andersson Patrik Andersson Erik Edman Andreas Isaksson Kim Kallstrom Marcus Lantz and Teddy Lucic Martin Dahlin Former Swedish international player works for Roger Ljung Promotion AB Dirk Hebel Former German footballer owns his own agency Fussballmarkt Has represented Mario Gotze Sunday Oliseh Goran Sablic and Patrick Weiser Abdilgafar Fali Ramadani Macedonia born Germany based Albanian agent His agency LIAN Sports that he co owns with Nikola Damjanac represents players either from or with family ties to former Yugoslavia such as Stevan Jovetic Lazar Markovic Adem Ljajic Zvjezdan Misimovic Haris Seferovic and Marko Marin Barry Silkman English agent Clients include David Villa Demba Ba and Ravel Morrison 26 Zoran Stojadinovic Serbian agent Paschalis Tountouris International agent of Greek origin and founder of Prosport Clients include Giorgos Karagounis Dimitris Kolovos Fiorin Durmishaj Knowledge Musona Kostas Tsimikas youngs stars Marios Vrousai Anastasios Chatzigiovanis and manager Yannis Anastasiou Walter Palombo Swiss based Italian sports advisor and the founder of Palombo Consulting His notable clients are Andy Carroll Jack Wilshere Jermaine Pennant and Jermain Defoe amp Julian Dicks in the Premier League Genaro Gattuso in Serie A amp Christian Karembeu Kevin Davies Former English international player owns his own agency KCD Management 27 Rhydian Thomas Wales based sports agent Founder and owner of GSF Agency which he set up in 2015 having previously founded Complete Sports Management CSM which ran from 2001 managing international rugby union players GSF agency covers South Wales and the West Country identifying the best academy talent in the region Notable clients include Sam Pearson GSF Agency Web 28 Golf edit Mark Steinberg Clients include Tiger Woods former head of golf division at IMG 29 Andrew Chandler Former European Tour golfer Clients include golfers Lee Westwood Ernie Els Darren Clarke Louis Oosthuizen Charl Schwartzel and Christina Kim 30 Rory McIlroy was a client of Chandler until October 2011 when he left for Dublin based Horizon Sports Management 31 Ice hockey edit Mike Barnett former agent of Wayne Gretzky Brett Hull Paul Coffey Jaromir Jagr Joe Thornton Lanny McDonald Sergei Fedorov Alexander Mogilny Owen Nolan Mats Sundin and Dany Heatley 32 33 Ritch Winter over 70 clients Gilles Lupien former NHL defenceman current Canadian ice hockey agent Clients include Roberto Luongo Don Meehan president of Newport Sports Management Over 100 clients in the NHL including Jarome Iginla Steven Stamkos P K Subban and Chris Pronger Tatiana Ovechkina two time basketball gold medalist is her son Alexander Ovechkin s agent She brokered a 13 year 124 million contract 34 Allan Walsh in 2004 merged his hockey representation with Octagon Hockey His clients include Marc Andre Fleury Patrik Elias Martin Havlat and Milan Michalek 35 Pat Brisson agent of Sidney Crosby among others Motorsport edit Alan Miller Jimmie Johnson Keke Rosberg JJ Lehto and Mika Hakkinen also managed son Nico Rosberg between 2006 and 2008 Nicolas Todt Felipe Massa Willi Weber Primarily Michael Schumacher Olympics edit Peter Carlisle Clients include Michael Phelps Natalie Coughlin Apolo Ohno Seth Wescott and Chris Klug 36 Notable former sports agents editThis section needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources in this section Unsourced material may be challenged and removed September 2017 Learn how and when to remove this message Colleen Howe deceased ice hockey late president of Power Play International and Power Play Publications managing hockey careers and business interests of her husband Gordie Howe and their sons Marty and Mark Howe 37 Camilo Marin deceased Cuban born horse racing agent Clients included Laffit Pincay Jr Braulio Baeza Jorge Velasquez and Manuel Ycaza Mark McCormack deceased American golf agent and principal originator of modern sports agency industry citation needed First client was Arnold Palmer Founded IMG originally International Management Group Jeff Moorad Former baseball agent and former partner of Leigh Steinberg now baseball executive and part owner of San Diego Padres Rob Pelinka Former basketball player at the University of Michigan Clients include Kobe Bryant Carlos Boozer and Buddy Hield Pelinka stepped down from being an agent to be run the Los Angeles Lakers in March 2017 Charles C Pyle deceased American football clients included Red Grange and Wildcat Wilson founder of first American Football League 1926 Mino Raiola deceased Dutch based Italian association football agent His notable clients included Paul Pogba Zlatan Ibrahimovic Mario Balotelli and Pavel Nedved 38 Gary Wichard deceased American football three dozen clients the inspiration for the movie Jerry Maguire Sports agency groups editThere have been some efforts to transform the sports agency business from an individual entrepreneurial business to more of a corporate structure These experiments met with varying degrees of longevity and success Allegiant Athletic Agency representing NBA and NFL players Creative Artists Agency CAA acquired various pieces of the sports agency business of SFX see below starting with football IMG International Management Group corporate agency established by entrepreneur Mark McCormack originally with a specialization in golf and tennis After the death of McCormack the company was acquired by private equity group Forstmann Little Infront international sports rights vendor representing Serie A FIFA and others 39 International Sports Management British sports agency run by former European Tour golfer Andrew Chubby Chandler 40 Priority Sports and Entertainment Agency representing the most NBA players run by Mark Bartelstein Roc Nation Sports sports agency founded in 2013 by Shawn Carter better known as Jay Z Currently in partnership with CAA first client signed was Robinson Cano 41 Rosenhaus Sports sports agency run by Drew Rosenhaus Sportfive formerly Lagardere Sports and Entertainment international sports agency sports consulting and event management active in the football tennis and golf markets Sports Management Worldwide international sports agency 42 and private for profit sports management training institution 43 founded and run by Lynn Lashbrook Wasserman Media Group WME acquired Arn Tellem s basketball agency from SFX and usually represents the most players in NBA lottery draft each year 44 Imago Sports Management Imago Sports Management is a Bangladeshi talent and sports based agency 45 Formerly active agencies edit Some sports agency firms were once prominent but are now gone or reorganized Assante Corporation Canadian public company that acquired the Steinberg Moorad amp Dunn agency then acquired other than agencies including Dan Fegan amp Associates and Maximum Sports Management in an unsuccessful effort to build multi sport corporate agency 46 SFX Entertainment now Live Nation a publicly traded company in 1998 SFX agreed to pay up to 150 million in cash stock and bonuses for F A M E the sports agency run by David Falk the agent for basketball players Michael Jordan and Patrick Ewing SFX also acquired two other major sports agencies Arn Tellem s agency Tellem amp Associates and the baseball oriented firm run by Randy Hendricks and Allan Hendricks 47 SFX would later reverse course and sell off the pieces of its large sports agency business Steinberg Moorad amp Dunn SMD a multi sport agency sold in October 1999 for reported 120 million to Canadian financial firm Defections of principals and litigation followed Originally led by entrepreneurial agents Leigh Steinberg and Jeff Moorad 48 See also editEntertainment law Talent agent The discussion of the agents that represent entertainment talent and may also participate in sports agency References edit Job Profiles org Archived January 9 2010 at the Wayback Machine description of roles of sports agent and some educational programs to prepare for the field An Industry Of Conglomerates Sports Agent Blog July 16 2007 The Big Interview Neil Webb Sunday Times November 28 2004 interview with soccer football player Market Saturation of Agents Archived August 10 2011 at the Wayback Machine May 23 2002 note source can be translated into English on the website FIFA Players agents list by country Hanzus Dan March 4 2013 Joe Flacco s Ravens contract includes 52M guaranteed Around the League NFL com Retrieved March 4 2013 Authentic Athletix Clients AgentAA com Archived from the original on July 9 2015 Retrieved July 15 2015 Meisel Barry April 28 1996 Toomer Catches Fancy of Giants New York Daily News Butler Steve March 3 2008 Show me the money Ricky Nixon Realfooty com au Retrieved on March 14 2009 Agent says Boras group stalking his client MLB ESPN Sports espn go com May 1 2006 Retrieved October 6 2011 Nicholson Ben December 23 2010 Nationals Sign Sean Burnett To Two Year Extension MLBTradeRumors com Retrieved October 6 2011 McGrath Ben August 1 2011 Tampa Bay Ray s Late Bloomer Super Sam Fuld The New Yorker Retrieved October 6 2011 Interview with Matt Sosnick SportsAgentBlog com Gus Lubin November 29 2010 The 12 Best Sports Agents in the World Business Insider Retrieved January 3 2013 Agents again at forefront of NBA labor dispute CNN SI December 28 1998 accessed June 16 2007 Migala Dan Career Spotlight David Falk WorkInSports com June 4 2001 accessed June 30 2007 Janowitz Neil March 9 2012 After Backing a Dark Horse Lin s Agent Is Riding High The New York Times Retrieved March 10 2012 9 Rob Pelinka Forbes com Retrieved November 23 2021 Megargee Steve June 7 2019 Penicheiro s new career has Hall of Famer focusing on future Yahoo Sports Associated Press Retrieved June 15 2019 HoopsHype com Agents Retrieved May 8 2008 Nets Star Has Deal to Play in Turkey The New York Times July 7 2011 Perry Michael May 3 1999 Agents court Xavier star Posey The Cincinnati Enquirer Bremer still leading the way in Europe Olean Times Herald 1 ESPN Evan Alexander Demiriel Retrieved July 23 2011 a b Belzer Jason September 25 2017 The World s Most Powerful Sports Agents 2017 Forbes Retrieved September 27 2017 Top 10 most influential football agents Pere Guardiola Pini Zahavi Jorge Mendes Paul Stretford Mino Riaola Metro News Derbyshiretimes Loyalty and trust are hard to find in football Chesterfield hero Kevin Davies launches new business www gsf agency How Tiger s Top Man is Managing the Crisis The Wall Street Journal December 8 2009 Reilly Rick June 23 2011 Golf s new era is here ESPN Retrieved June 23 2011 Tait Alistair October 21 2011 McIlroy leaves Chandler s ISM for Horizon Sports Golfweek Retrieved November 21 2011 NHL com Features permanent dead link Michael Barnett Archived October 10 2007 at the Wayback Machine Top 10 Sports Agents Ask Men com Octagon Sports Hockey Team Bios Allan Walsh Octagonhockey com Retrieved January 3 2013 From The Executive Editor The education of Peter Carlisle Sports agent directory com Retrieved January 3 2013 Colleen Howe Mrs Hockey dies at 76 Associated Press March 6 2009 Archived from the original on April 14 2020 Retrieved March 7 2009 Mino Raiola one of football s most powerful agents dies aged 54 The Observer April 30 2022 Retrieved April 30 2022 Serie A international rights snapped up by Infront for 139m a year SportsPro Media April 6 2021 Retrieved April 26 2021 Harig Bob July 17 2011 Darren Clarke returns in major triumph ESPN Retrieved July 18 2011 Jay Z Launches Roc Nation Sports Teams With CAA to Co Represent Robinson Cano Variety April 2 2013 Retrieved April 2 2013 Our Mission and Values smwwagency com Retrieved December 7 2020 Good profitable sports bizjournals com Retrieved December 7 2020 Wasserman Acquires Tellem Business SFX Promotes Pelinka Sports Business Daily January 27 2006 Retrieved August 7 2017 The business of sports Dhaka Tribune These Drafts Come and Go and So Do Agents Fortunes The New York Times April 28 2003 Steinberg Sells Sports Firm The New York Times October 28 1999 Retrieved October 6 2011 Crash Landing ESPN by Peter Keating article about Leigh SteinbergFurther reading editHow to Play the Game What Every Sports Attorney Needs to Know by Darren Heitner 2014 ABA Book Publishing ISBN 978 1 61438 916 3 The Business of Sports Agents by Kenneth L Shropshire Timothy Davis 2008 University of Pennsylvania Press ISBN 978 0 8122 4084 9 License to Deal A Season on the Run with a Maverick Baseball Agent by Jerry Crasnick 2005 Rodale Books ISBN 978 1 59486 024 9 An Athlete s Guide to Agents 5th Edition by Bob Ruxin with Darren Heitner 2009 Jones and Bartlett ISBN 978 0 7637 7611 4 How To Be A Sports Agent by Mel Stein 2008 High Stakes Publishing ISBN 978 1 84344 045 1 The Football Agent by Knut Hoibraaten 2015 HHH Forlag ISBN 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