Leigh Steinberg
Leigh Steinberg
Leigh William Steinbergis an American sports agent. During his 41-year career, Steinberg has represented over 300 professional athletes in football, baseball, basketball, boxing, and Olympic sports. He has represented the No. 1 overall pick in the NFL draft a record eight times, a milestone unmatched within the sports industry. Steinberg is later credited as the real life inspiration of the sports agent from Cameron Crowe's film Jerry Maguire in 1996...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth27 March 1949
CountryUnited States of America
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New Orleans is a classic city with a wonderful heritage, which I am sure will rebuild. The Saints are a team with some pretty terrific offensive weapons. If New Orleans is interested in Matt, then I am sure Matt will be interested in them.
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Obviously Mark's been a starter since 1995 and is confident of his ability to lead a team. But he looks forward to the ability to compete for a starting job in training camp.
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Nobody wants to kill this golden goose. I don't like the salary-cap system. There's nothing I like about it except that it's a system that both sides have been able to agree upon. But that has meant that football's been able to concentrate its energies and efforts at the union and management level on developing new revenue sources and promoting the brand with the general public.
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Ricky has been in the best behavioral mode of his life. He didn't work this hard to get back only to let that happen.
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No one knows how quickly the extension to the CBA will happen. It will be really interesting to see how the issues get resolved, because the peace and harmony that has helped to make the NFL so popular is very much on tenuous ground. The clock is definitely ticking.
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Early on last season, a love affair was struck between Ben and Pittsburgh. His blue-collar roots, his Midwest values meshed perfectly with that city.
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Duce was a Steelers fan growing up, so this represents the fulfillment of a childhood dream, ... At the end we did go back to Philly as he promised he would, but his re-involvement in their backfield rotation was a disincentive to re-signing there.
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The rookie would be free to negotiate contracts without reference to the salary cap. They'd be able to command much larger compensation packages structured in different ways than currently occurs. More up-front money. Straight salaries. Fewer option clauses.
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Five minutes later, he would turn, with a look of total sincerity, and ask the same questions, as if we had never discussed them. It was frightening to see how delicate was the boundary between rational consciousness and confusion.
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This is a most unusual situation. It's hard to remember three more colorful or marketable figures coming out of college football.
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They used their college track coaches, the weight room on campus.
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There was no doubt who was running the show. Reggie was asking the questions, taking the notes, using the laptop. He was in control of the situation.
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That one city is absolutely incredible in terms of the voracious nature of their appetite for anything associated with the Steelers in general and Ben specifically. There is a love affair going on with Ben and that city. He has a blue-collar work ethic with a touch of charisma.
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That night was a very special time to him.