A "sports agent" is a person who procures and negotiates employment and endorsement deals for an athlete. In return, the agent receives a commission that is usually between four and ten percent of the contract, although this figure varies. Endorsement can refer to: A political endorsement is where a significant individual, group, or business selects, campaigns, or contributes heavily to a political campaign. ... Look up Athlete in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... A contract is a legally binding exchange of promises or agreement between parties that the law will enforce. ...

Roles

In addition to finding incoming sources, agents often handle public relations matters for their clients. In some large sports agencies, such as IMG and Octagon, agents deal with all aspects of an athlete's finances, from investment to filing taxes. // The term Public Relations was first used by the US President Thomas Jefferson during his address to Congress in 1807. ... IMG, originally known as the International Management Group is a leading global talent agency and production company. ... Finance studies and addresses the ways in which individuals, businesses, and organizations raise, allocate, and use monetary resources over time, taking into account the risks entailed in their projects. ... Invest redirects here. ... “Taxes” redirects here. ...

Sports agents may be relied upon by their clients for guidance in all business aspects of life, 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. In economics, a business is a legally-recognized organizational entity existing within an economically free country designed to sell goods and/or services to consumers, usually in an effort to generate profit. ... NHL redirects here. ...

Some agents are part of large companies and some are on their own. The number of clients an individual agent can handle and how many his or her employing agency can handle in total are interdependent variables. For other uses, see Corporation (disambiguation). ... A consultant (from the Latin consultare meaning to discuss from which we also derive words such as consul and counsel) is a professional who provides expert advice in a particular area of expertise such as accountancy, the environment, technology, the law, human resources, marketing, medicine, finance, public affairs, communication, engineering... Bold text Not to be confused with interconnectivity. ... In computer science and mathematics, a variable (IPA pronunciation: ) (sometimes called a pronumeral) is a symbolic representation denoting a quantity or expression. ...

Famous sports agents

• Evan Morgenstein: Olympic Sports agent; American. Clients include Mark Spitz, Amanda Beard, Bruce Jenner, and many other current top Olympic athletes. Company is Premier Management Group.
• David Falk: Basketball agent; American. His clients have included Michael Jordan, Patrick Ewing, Allen Iverson, and Dikembe Mutombo. He is generally considered^{[weasel words]} the most powerful agent in NBA history.
• Pini Zahavi:^[clarify] Football (soccer) agent, widely regarded^{[weasel words]} as the most powerful and successful soccer agent ever. He is famed for his deals involving the transfers of Yakubu and Rio Ferdinand.
• Arn Tellem: American basketball agent, whose clients include Tracy McGrady, Jermaine O'Neal, Pau Gasol, and Joe Johnson. His clients' total salaries in 2007 add up to more than $210 million, or about $80 million more than Tellem's closest competitor, Mark Bartelstein.^[1] Tellem is currently the most powerful agent in the NBA by a wide margin.^{[citation needed]}
• Bill Duffy: American basketball agent whose clients include Carmelo Anthony, Yao Ming and Steve Nash
• Mark McCormack: American golf agent, and the principal originator of the modern sports agency industry.^{[citation needed]} First client was Arnold Palmer. Founded International Management Group.
• Bo McKinnis: American baseball agent, whose clients include 2007 number 1 draft pick, David Price.
• Barry Thomas: British football (soccer) agent, known for bringing hig- profile foreign players to the UK.
• Rob Pelinka: American basketball agent and former basketball player at University of Michigan, whose clients include Kobe Bryant and Carlos Boozer.
• Drew Rosenhaus: American football agent, quickly becoming notorious for signing high profile athletes and making high demands.^{[citation needed]} High-profile clients include Anquan Boldin, Plaxico Burress, Terrell Owens, Warren Sapp, and Santana Moss. Often represents players from his alma mater, the University of Miami. The real-life inspiration for the character of Bob Sugar in the film Jerry Maguire.^{[citation needed]}
• Greg Ginske:^[clarify] Represents Manny Ramirez
• Josey Rowan: Scottish football (soccer) agent, founder of Gola Football Agency, Scotland's foremost^[POV] agency.
• Matt Sosnick and Paul Cobbe: American baseball agents who are partners. Their most notable client is Dontrelle Willis. Sosnick is subject of the book Licensed to Deal by Jerry Crasnick.
• John Print: English football (soccer) agent. Director, Sports International Management
• Leigh Steinberg: American football agent and sports business pioneer.^{[citation needed]} His clients include Steve Young, Troy Aikman, Warren Moon and Ben Roethlisberger. He is the real-life inspiration for the fictitional sports agent Jerry Maguire in the film of the same name.^{[citation needed]}
• Paul Stretford: Disgraced English football (soccer) agent, formerly representing Wayne Rooney. He lied during a court case and was subsequently charged with misconduct.
• Camilo Marin:^[clarify] Jockeys' agent who represented notable riders Laffit Pincay, Jr., Braulio Baeza, Jorge Velasquez and Manuel Ycaza.
• Yves Lejeune:^[clarify] One of the first sports agents in the world,^{[citation needed]} whose clients have included Sacha Massot (top Belgian player), Ekaterina Sytnyak (top Russian player), Seimone Augustus, and Rebbekkah Brunson.
• Marlon Fleischman and Phil Korklin: British. FN Sports Management, helping to develop the careers of many youth and senior football (soccer) players in the UK.

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Dikembe Mutombo Mpolondo Mukamba Jean-Jacques Wamutombo, more commonly known as Dikembe Mutombo (born June 25, 1966), is a basketball player in the NBA, playing at the position of center for the Houston Rockets. ... Pinhas Pini Zahavi (born October 22 1955 in Ness Ziona, Israel)[1][2] is a football agent who has been involved in some of the most expensive (and controversial) transfer episodes of the last decade. ... A player (wearing the red kit) has penetrated the defence (in the white kit) and is taking a shot at goal. ... Aiyegbeni Yakubu is a Nigerian football (soccer) player, born in 1982. ... Rio Gavin Ferdinand (born 7 November 1978 in Peckham, London) is an English footballer of mixed St Lucian, Dominican and Anglo-Irish descent. ... 71. ... Tracy Lamar McGrady, Jr. ... Jermaine L. ONeal (born October 13, 1978, in Columbia, South Carolina) is an American National Basketball Association player who currently plays for the Indiana Pacers. ... 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Steven John Nash, OBC (born February 7, 1974),[1] is a Canadian professional basketball player who plays point guard for the Phoenix Suns of the National Basketball Association (NBA). ... Mark Hume McCormack, (November 6, 1930 - May 16, 2003), was Founder and Chairman of IMG, an international management organization that handles the commercial affairs for sports figures and celebrities. ... This article is about the sport. ... This article is about the golfer. ... IMG, originally known as the International Management Group is a leading global talent agency and production company. ... Bo McKinnis is a Major League Baseball sports agent. ... David Price (Born August 26, 1985) is an amateur pitcher drafted #1 overall in the 2007 Major League Baseball Draft by the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. ... Rob Pelinka is an American lawyer, sports agent and former college basketball player. ... The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (U of M, UM or simply Michigan) is a coeducational public research university in the state of Michigan, and one of the foremost universities in the United States. ... Kobe Bryant (born August 23, 1978) is an American All-Star shooting guard in the National Basketball Association who plays for the Los Angeles Lakers. ... Carlos Austin Boozer, Jr. ... Drew Rosenhaus (born 1965) is among the best known American football sports agents. ... United States simply as football, is a competitive team sport that is both fast-paced and strategic. ... Anquan Kenmile Boldin The Quan (born October 3, 1980 in Pahokee, Florida) is an American football player for the NFL Arizona Cardinals. ... Plaxico Burress (born August 12, 1977 in Norfolk, Virginia) is an American Football wide receiver for the National Football League New York Giants. ... Terrell Eldorado Owens (born December 7, 1973), is an American football wide receiver for the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League. ... Warren Carlos Sapp (born December 19, 1972 in Orlando, Florida) is a professional football player for the NFLs Oakland Raiders. ... Santana Terrell Moss (born June 1, 1979 in Miami, Florida) is an American football player who currently plays wide receiver for the Washington Redskins of the NFL. // Moss played high school football at Miami Carol City Senior High and then at the University of Miami, where he broke the school... This article is about the university in Coral Gables, Florida. ... Manuel Arístides (Manny) Ramírez Onelcida [ra-MEE-res] (born May 30, 1972) is an outfielder in Major League Baseball who has played for the Boston Red Sox since 2001. ... Josey (Joseph) Rowan, born 1971 in Coatbridge, Scotland is the Party Leader of the Scottish Independence Party. ... This article is about the Scottish as an ethnic group. ... 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Camilo Marin (January 6, 1913 - December 1, 1988) was a Cuban-born jockeys agent who is widely regarded as one of horse racings most successful agents. ... Laffit Alejandro Pincay, Jr. ... Braulio Baeza (born March 26, 1940 in Panama City, Panama) is an American Thoroughbred horse racing Hall of Fame jockey. ... Jorge Velasquez (born December 28, 1946 in Chepo, Panama) is an American thoroughbred horse racing Hall of Fame jockey. ... Manuel Ycaza (born Carlos Manuel Deycaza on February 1, 1938 in Panama) is a retired United States Racing Hall of Fame jockey who led the way for Latin American jockeys in the United States. ... Seimone Augustus Seimone Augustus (born April 30, 1984 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana) is an American professional basketball player in the WNBA, currently playing for the Minnesota Lynx. ...

In popular culture

The role of the sports agent has become somewhat glamorized in recent times, especially with the release of the film Jerry Maguire, with the result that the industry has seen a sharp increase in the number of aspiring agents. Jerry Maguire is a 1996 American comedy-drama film starring Tom Cruise, Cuba Gooding, Jr. ...

Fictional sports agents

• Arliss Michaels: Title character of the HBO series Arliss.
• Jerry Maguire: Title character of the film Jerry Maguire
• Bob Sugar: Jerry's former employee and rival in Jerry Maguire
• Myron Bolitar: Central character in many "Harlan Coben" novels.
• Ari Gold: Character in HBO series Entourage

For other uses, see HBO (disambiguation). ... Arliss (rendered in its logo as Arli$$) was an American situation comedy on HBO about a sports agent and his group of associates. ... Jerry Maguire is a 1996 American comedy-drama film starring Tom Cruise, Cuba Gooding, Jr. ... Harlan Coben, 2006 Harlan Coben (born January 4, 1962) is an American, Jewish author of mystery novels. ... Look up Entourage on Wiktionary, the free dictionary Entourage can mean: Microsoft Entourage, an email client Entourage, the topology term Entourage, the television series This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...

See also

• Category:Sports agents

References