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
The fact that one plane crashed is tragic, and my heart goes out to those who are affected. But automobiles crash every day.
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.
The first issue that needs solving is club vs. club. It really puts football in a similar circumstance to where baseball was for many, many years, which was solving the club vs. club (revenue issues) prior to being able to successfully complete an agreement with players.
The cost is minimal compared to the human cost and the enormous investments that these teams make in training and in contractual commitments to contemporary NFL players,
They are not getting hurt in some frivolous hobby. They are hurt applying themselves to the exact task they've been hired to do. This is a risk that ought to be shared in a fairer way.
It's so much the cherry on top of compensation. It's the kind of thing that someone writes into a contract as the least-likely thing to happen.
I am not prepared to comment because it is a confidential matter. Any league officials who are sources for this ought to be fired. Ricky Williams has been in the best behavioral mode I have ever seen him in. I think it's important that no one rushes to judgment or jumps the gun on any reactions.
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.
It's too irrational not to keep negotiating and conclude in an agreement. Football is too smart not to realize that madness lies in emulating the self-destructiveness of professional baseball, basketball and hockey.
No one wants to be the butcher that kills the golden goose; it's simply too irrational not to solve this.
That night was a very special time to him.
I don't know what happened, but I know Ricky didn't test positive for anything. Someone made a mistake.
Its like 'Star Wars' with hundreds of recruits and media from across the country.
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.