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Sports Agents
Comparison Essay # 13794
Sports Agents
Examines economics, ethics, functions, competitiveness of agents, comparing reality with film [Jerry Maguire] & focusing on pro football.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages) |
4 sources |
1999
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" This research examines the profession of being a sports agent in the National Football League. How to start a business of being a sports agent will be discussed, along with popular myths and the hard realities of the profession.There is a moment in the Tom Cruise movie, Jerry Maguire, where Cruise's rival, a predatory sports agent with the ethical code of a stepped-on scorpion, glibly assures a promising young athlete that there is nothing he is not prepared to do to make the boy happy. "I will kill, maim, rape and pillage for you," the agent solemnly swears.
Which is close to the public's perception of agents, slick-talking wheeler-dealers who make their living off the sweat of their celebrated but fiscally hapless proteges. "Sharks in suits" is how the eponymous Cruise character describes the profession in.."
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Sports Agents (2012, January 15). Retrieved February 11, 2012, from http://www.academon.com/Comparison-Essay-Sports-Agents/13794
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"Sports Agents" 15 January 2012. Web. 11 Feb. 2012. <http://www.academon.com/Comparison-Essay-Sports-Agents/13794>
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