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  ESPN.com: NFL - Conversation with Leigh Steinberg
Steinberg: Well frankly, whether both sides like it or not, and I think ultimately they'll like it, Ryan would count so much money against the salary cap, probably $9 million if they traded him or waived him, that they are really stuck together in a marriage.
Steinberg: We made a conscious decision to do no endorsements the first year, because the engine that pulls the train for a rookie is his football career.
Steinberg: Well, we have a particular type of athlete we look for, someone that is going to be a role model, someone who believes in community and charity and good fundamental values, and there are plenty of those athletes to go around.
espn.go.com /nfl/s/991210steinbergupclose.html   (2082 words)

  
 Another side of Leigh Steinberg
LEIGH STEINBERG won ugly, as they say in sports, in his legal battle with former associate David Dunn, winning a $44 million settlement but seeing his reputation trashed by reports of his sordid behavior.
Leigh called to say that he agreed, and we discussed that over hamburgers at Kip's restaurant in Berkeley.
Leigh was probably never happier than when he had relatively few but big- name clients -- stars like Steve Young and Warren Moon, who stayed with him through their long careers.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2002/11/23/SP100865.DTL&type=printable   (731 words)

  
 CNN Transcript - Pinnacle: Assante Sports CEO Leigh Steinberg Handles Heavyweights of Sporting World With Heart - ...
STEINBERG: Yes, I was, because I think it humanized the whole concept of who a sports attorney or a sports agent is and what they do in their lives.
STEINBERG: In 1947 he went to Israel to try to aid in the fight for that state to be born and he was part of a doctor's convoy and they were going from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem and they were hijacked by a group of Arabs and he was shot and killed.
STEINBERG: Well, I think the secret is just coming to the realization that your children will only be this age once and that this is, if you have them and they're young, this is the one time that can't be replaced.
edition.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0010/22/pin.00.html   (3205 words)

  
 ESPN.com NFL Playoffs: 990130steinberg
Steinberg also told users his feelings about the big game and he revealed a few of the clients he has in the upcoming NFL draft.
Steinberg has focused his practice mainly on football, helping set milestones along the way such as Steve Young's $40 million USFL contract and Troy Aikman's $11 million signing bonus.
Leigh Steinberg: He is a free agent from now until Feb. 12 when the New Orlean Saints have exclusive negotiating rights.
espn.go.com /nfl/playoffs98/live/990130steinberg.html   (901 words)

  
 theplainsman.com | The Auburn Plainsman Online | Real-life Jerry Maguire creates responsible role models
Steinberg, now one of the top sports agents in the country, in charge of negotiations for almost 300 professional athletes including Troy Aikman, started out of his home with one client.
Steinberg was at law school at the University of California-Berkely where he was a dorm manager his last year.
Steinberg is in his 25th year as an agent and has seen many changes in the business throughout that time.
www.auburn.edu /student_info/plainsman/archives/102600/102600ssteinberg.html   (1270 words)

  
 ESPN.com - NFLPA steps into ring with Steinberg, Dunn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
In the statements, Steinberg is characterized as a front man who had little or nothing to do with negotiating the contracts that made him one of the NFL's most powerful ancillary figures.
Murphy called Steinberg's recruiting efforts "dysfunctional" and "limited" and refers to his former boss in general as being "disorganized." Branion also refers several times in his sworn statement to the lack of organization at SMD.
Steinberg charged that Eugene Parker, ironically another prominent agent who sold his firm to Assante, had interfered in the recruiting of the player.
sports.espn.go.com /espn/print?id=1227918&type=story   (980 words)

  
 FORWARD : FastForward   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Steinberg, whose firm, Steinberg & Moorad, represents half of starting quarterbacks, as well as other football players, basketball players and even gymnasts, is now concentrating on the lucrative frontiers of sports business, from stadium construction to the Internet.
Steinberg's baby boomer idealism has thrived in a world defined by the demand to "Show me the money." Indeed, that blunt slogan, the sports agent's mantra in "Jerry Maguire," came from a conversation between director Cameron Crowe and one of Mr.
Steinberg says that some athletes, like Michael Jordan or his client, Dallas Cowboys quarterback Troy Aikman, are "vastly underpaid, because their value to the franchise is enormous." In "Winning With Integrity," under the heading "Self-Assessment," Mr.
www.forward.com /issues/1998/98.09.04/fastforward.html   (851 words)

  
 Crown | Winning with Integrity
His name is Leigh Steinberg, and he's been cultivating a choirboy image for twenty years.
Steinberg's philosophy of ethical dealings and responsibility is well known in the sports world--and well known to moviegoers as well, because Steinberg's way of doing business was a model for Cameron Crowe's wildly successful film Jerry Maguire and the "manifesto" of business ethics that was the premise of the film.
Steinberg has always believed that negotiation is about more than the bottom line: the most successful business dealings are not always the ones that pay the most; they are about balance, perspective, objectivity, and values.
www.randomhouse.com /crown/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780812932430   (558 words)

  
 ESPN.com - Superagent has blueprint to rebuild empire
Williams hired Steinberg after he left No Limit Sports, which was owned by rapper/agent Master P. Steinberg has since helped restructure Williams' contract after the running back was traded from the New Orleans Saints to the Dolphins during the offseason.
Steinberg now hopes to convince recruits that he has maintained relationships with the front-office officials of NFL teams over the years and that he can still help them land top dollar on their contracts.
Though Steinberg's firm was hit hard with losses of its NFL clientele, Steinberg's other partner, Jeff Moorad, manages a strong roster of some of the biggest names in baseball.
sports.espn.go.com /espn/print?id=1461472&type=story   (1619 words)

  
 NewStandard: 11/16/96   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Steinberg, agent to several top quarterbacks, said he plans to have a "long talk" with Young when the season ends to "make an assessment of the risk to his long-term health" by continuing to play football.
Steinberg said Young considers the risk of continued play "within acceptable limits," but said the quarterback tended to brush off injuries during the early part of his career.
Agent Leigh Steinberg is pushing for Steve Young to consider retiring after the season.
www.s-t.com /daily/11-96/11-16-96/c04sp146.htm   (289 words)

  
 SignOnSanDiego.com > Sports -- Agent predicts NFL to push to get franchise in L.A. soon
Sports agent Leigh Steinberg expects the NFL to appoint someone to unite the factions interested in an NFL franchise in Los Angeles.
Steinberg said he thinks the NFL wants to have plans for a return to Los Angeles in place when it negotiates a new TV contract.
Steinberg said how the league adjudges Williams' behavior in connection with its drug-abuse policy is going to determine his status.
www.signonsandiego.com /sports/nfl/20041027-9999-1s27steinbrg.html   (458 words)

  
 Superagent Leigh Steinberg to Speak at College of Law   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Leigh Steinberg will speak at the College of law on Oct. 4th, 5:30pm in the Great Hall.
Steinberg is a founding partner in the law firm of Steinberg and Moorad.
Steinberg served as a technical advisor on the film "Jerry Maguire"; Cuba Gooding's famous "show me the money" line was reportedly taken from Steinberg client Tim McDonald, and suggested for the movie by Steinberg.
www.law.asu.edu /default.aspx?id=8973   (257 words)

  
 Winning with Integrity by Leigh Steinberg Book Tour: Online Pressroom by Schwartzman & Associates Public Relations
Steinberg, the real-life "Jerry Maguire" and a consultant for the popular movie, turned out to deserve his own book.
For Leigh Steinberg, a University of California law student working part time as a dorm counselor, striking up a friendship with a freshman quarterback named Steve Bartkowski proved a life-changing experience.
KEVIN NEWMAN, Host: Leigh Steinberg is a name you may or may not know, and he may like it that way, because he's an agent.
www.schwartzmanpr.com /agency/leighsteinberg.asp   (1287 words)

  
 Leigh Steinberg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He was a consultant on the film "Jerry Maguire" and the TV series "Arli$$"
Steinberg was admitted to the California State Bar in 1974 after earning his J.D. from Boalt Hall in 1973.
Steinberg is often credited as the real life inspiration of the sports agent from the film "Jerry Macguire."
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Leigh_Steinberg   (150 words)

  
 Steinberg discusses athletes' social role - News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Leigh Steinberg, the famed sports attorney who the film "Jerry Maguire" was loosely based on, spoke to a crowd of nearly 200 people in the Annenberg Auditorium Tuesday about the social resonsibilites of professional athletes and the powerful economic relationship between sports and the media.
Steinberg said he challenges the players represented by his firm, Steinberg Enterprises, to find something in their own lives that interests them and use that intrigue to foster positive social change.
Steinberg encouraged the students in the class to do as the athletes he represents and invoke social change.
www.dailytrojan.com /news/2004/10/06/News/Steinberg.Discusses.Athletes.Social.Role-743393.shtml   (687 words)

  
 Honolulu Star-Bulletin Sports
Steinberg's company signed a consulting deal with UH in April for $100,000, plus half of anything generated beyond $700,000.
Steinberg has said the financial benefits of the three-year Reebok deal would be around $300,000.
Steinberg, who was introduced to the Honolulu media in eight separate interviews yesterday, has been here scores of times, for the Pro Bowl and annual vacations.
starbulletin.com /2000/06/23/sports/story1.html   (949 words)

  
 The Christian Science Monitor | csmonitor.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
And to his credit, Steinberg, the quasi-inspiration for the film "Jerry Maguire," does try to maintain some semblance of balance and real life even though he and his athletes are standing neck-deep in cash.
What Steinberg does is insist his athletes plug some of their dollars into charities in meaningful ways.
Steinberg is properly proud he made a $28.2 million deal for Buffalo's Bruce Smith sealed only by a handshake.
www.csmonitor.com /cgi-bin/durableRedirect.pl?/durable/1998/09/17/f-p53s1.shtml   (742 words)

  
 Winning with Integrity Review
Leigh Steinberg is one of the top sports agents in the country responsible for negotiating very large sums for the professional athletes he represents, such notable players as Drew Beldsoe, Troy Aikman, Steve Young and Warren Moon.
If you are not that into sports, it doesn't effect the primary value of the book, which is that it gives you a chance to be coached in the process of negotiation by someone who has had over twenty-four years of experience in some very heated and high profile deals.
Leigh Steinberg is not advocating an approach to deal making that simply chalks up conquests.
www.llamagraphics.com /Meadow/Books/bookWinning.html   (273 words)

  
 CNNSI.com - Pro Football - Steinberg wins $44.6 million in suit against ex-partner - Sunday November 17, 2002 12:55 PM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Neither Steinberg nor Dunn was in the courtroom when the verdicts were read.
Of the clients Steinberg lost in the war of the "super agents," Cornwell said they were manipulated.
Steinberg, whose clout helped inspire Tom Cruise's flamboyant character in the movie Jerry Maguire, heads an agency that helped land huge contracts for athletes like Drew Bledsoe.
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /football/news/2002/11/15/agents_lawsuit_ap   (550 words)

  
 The Daily Californian   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Steinberg also encourages his clients to donate to their communities and try to be decent human beings.
Steinberg met Bartkowski when the future All-American was a freshman in the dorms and Steinberg was a dorm counselor.
Steinberg is also sensitive to college athletes who have gripes with the money schools make off them.
www.dailycal.org /particle.php?id=6802   (597 words)

  
 Leigh Steinberg Denied More Money in Sports Agents' Battle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
On Friday, judge Ronald S.W. Lew rejected a request by Steinberg's lawyers for a permanent injunction against Dunn and a ruling of damages for "unjust enrichment," beyond the jury's award of compensatory and punitive damages.
Dunn was a partner in Steinberg, Moorad and Dunn until he set up a rival agency that attracted major athletes.
Steinberg sued, contending Dunn breached his contract less than two years after he signed a five-year employment agreement worth $7 million.
www.prosportsgroup.com /SportsAgentNews/Jan2003/News/steinberg.htm   (261 words)

  
 Honolulu Star-Bulletin Sports
Yesterday it was announced that agent Leigh Steinberg and the UH athletic department had agreed to sever their marketing partnership after three years of record-setting revenues.
Steinberg, whose offices are in Newport Beach, Calif., has three full-time employees working at UH.
Note: Steinberg said that negotiations for Jones' contract "were going well, but we're not finished with the discussions," he said.
starbulletin.com /2003/06/05/sports/story1.html   (909 words)

  
 Leigh Steinberg / About Leigh Steinberg Enterprises and Leigh Steinberg himself
His firm, Leigh Steinberg Enterprises, maintains a client roster that is highlighted by some of the most high profile names in sport.
Steinberg insists that every contract negotiated for his players include clauses that require the athlete to give back to their hometown, high school, university or national charities and foundations.
Steinberg also served as Co-Chairman of the "Save the Rams" committee in its unsuccessful attempt to keep the franchise from leaving Southern California and has been active in pursuits to attract a new football franchise to locate in Los Angeles.
www.sportsbusinesssims.com /2005.nfl.draft.leigh.steinberg.enterprises.leigh.steinberg.htm   (1006 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Winning With Integrity: Getting What You Want Without Selling Your Soul: Books: Leigh Steinberg,Michael ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Steinberg analyzes the entire negotiating process--from preparation and positioning through the actual negotiation and celebratory handshake.
Leigh Steinberg has negotiated more than 1 billion dollars in contracts for the athletes he represents famous athletes such as, Troy Aikman and Kordell Stewart he also spent 24 years as a sports agent living by his own strict moral rules.
Steinberg actually lives down the street from me (although I don't know him), and he does wonderful things for the local community, that seem to come from the heart, rather than from a chance to be seen publicly as a benefactor, and pat himself on the back.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0812932439?v=glance   (1625 words)

  
 Sports Hollywood - Ten Questions with Leigh Steinberg
In fact, Steinberg is frequently sought out as an actor and as a consultant on entertainment projects such as Kevin Costner's, For Love Of The Game, Oliver Stone's feature, Any Given Sunday, and the HBO original series, Arli$$.
Steinberg's book, Winning With Integrity, provides readers with insight on how to improve their life through non-confrontational negotiating.
Leigh and the woman who completes him -- his wife, Lucy -- reside in Newport Beach along with their three children.
www.sportshollywood.com /asksteinberg.html   (2851 words)

  
 BW Online | November 25, 2002 | Superagent Leigh Steinberg: Pro Football's Real Wild Man
Other former Steinberg associates also charged that behind the clean-living facade, the superagent was a sloppy drinker who seldom serviced clients and whose erratic behavior embarrassed them.
In any case, Steinberg's allies contend, his frailties pale in comparison with the transgressions of Dunn & Co.: wooing dozens of Steinberg's clients, then dishing dirt to justify their treachery (table).
Leigh has done deals." Besides, in the blood-and-guts NFL, being known as a party animal is not the worst thing that could happen to a sports agent.
www.businessweek.com /magazine/content/02_47/b3809126.htm   (915 words)

  
 California Jaycees - Leadership Through Community Service   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Steinberg has revolutionized the practice of sports management, and pioneered the convergence of the sports and entertainment industries.  He has negotiated over two billion dollars in deals for his clients.
Leigh was a founding partner of Steinberg & Moorad, a law firm that represented more than 150 clients, including Troy Aikman, Steve Young, Drew Bledsoe, Kordell Stewart, Warren Moon, and practically every major professional athlete in the world.
Steinberg sold his firm to Assante Corp., a multi-billion dollar wealth management firm with clients like Tom Cruise (the other Jerry Maguire) and David Letterman.
www.cajaycees.org /calendar_event.asp?eid=925   (241 words)

  
 Steelers, Steinberg continue to haggle - PittsburghLIVE.com
At another time, under a different set of circumstances, Steelers president Art Rooney II and player agent Leigh Steinberg might have been colleagues on the floor of the U.S. Senate.
Steinberg said he is engaged in daily conversations with Steelers' chief negotiator Omar Khan, who reports to Rooney two or three times a day on the progress of those talks.
Steinberg said Roethlisberger is home in Findlay, Ohio, after spending much of the summer working out with Steelers teammates in Atlanta.
www.pittsburghlive.com /x/tribune-review/sports/steelerslive/s_205459.html   (577 words)

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