The game of golf brings with it many beauties: sprawling greens, precise mechanics, a deep-rooted history, and dramatic finales. In a country where team sports like baseball, basketball, and football dominate fans’ mindshare, golf is one of few solo games with an avid fan base and lucrative corporate sponsorships. In […]
Month: July 2013
Insuring Highly Paid Athletes
The insurance business is interwoven into much of our society, from where we live and what we drive to how we pay for our health needs. It protects our families’ lifestyles upon death and allows us to handle hefty hospital bills for our newborns. Insurance transfers risk to a secondary […]
Surveying the Sports Agency Landscape
The importance of an agent in sports is secondary only to athletes, coaches, owners, front-office management, and corporate sponsors. Agents sit on the near outskirts of this association of power players, heavily impacting the money that flows amongst them. Due to contract language complexity and on-field time commitments, few players […]