Sports agent Leigh Steinberg, back in the pocket! VIDEO INTERVIEW - Mr. Media Interviews by Bob Ande

Today's Guest: Sports agent Leigh Steinberg, author of The Agent: My 40-Year Career Making Deals and Changing the Game and host of "The Leigh Steinberg Show" on Yahoo Sports Radio.
 

Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with sports agent Leigh Steinberg, author of The Agent: My 40-Year Career Making Deals and Changing the Game and host of "The Leigh Steinberg Show" on Yahoo Sports Radio, by clicking on the video player above!

Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience of fans who blame everything wrong with sports today on the agents, instead of the real culprits, sports writers … in the NEW new media capital of the world… St. Petersburg, Florida!
LEIGH STEINBERG podcast excerpt: "Domestic violence is a terrible thing. In Ray Rice's first press conference, he was not taking a whole ton of responsibility, first. Second, he used some words of violence. I don't think NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell came off well in that."

It’s official: Every 20 years, I plan to interview sports agent Leigh Steinberg.

So go ahead, mark your calendars now for 2034.

Our crack research team here at Mr. Media dug into the print morgue and found that it was 20 years ago that I last spoke with the man who inspired Tom Cruise’s character in the movie Jerry Maguire. That was for a three-part story in Gallery magazine titled “Sports Agents: The Art of the Deal.”
LEIGH STEINBERG podcast excerpt: "I've always thought that traditional agentry was not done correctly because all it emphasizes is a player's economic figure. Really, the job is to look at a player holistically, to get into their heart and mind, to force them to prioritize their values. And then to build a life-long plan."
You can LISTEN to this interview with sports agent LEIGH STEINBERG, host of THE LEIGH STEINBERG SHOW and author of THE AGENT, by clicking the audio player above!

Rather than quote myself on Steinberg – I think that is called journalistic incest