Leigh Steinberg

team owner, Jeff Moorad. Both these men did a lot for the profession although Jeff Moorad did something special. Jeff Moorad revolutionized the sports agent business by creating a more personal relationship between player and agent. This was a gateway for how the relationships between players and agent is today. It was no longer the boring employee and employer relationship. The relationship he created between the agents and the players became a lot more personal where the agent would be the player’s guy for anything he needed. The movie, Jerry Maguire, is based on the true story of Jeff Moorad and his partner Leigh Steinberg and these changes that they pioneered. The story of these two men's successes were not only told in this movie but also was the story line for an Academy Award winning movie. Overall, aside from the huge change brought forth by Moorad and Steinberg, the business has not changed much over that last couple…

life. It is even more rare for that person to battle personal demons, loss, and betrayal, only to return with a vengeance. Leigh Steinberg did just that. Sitting in a quaint office overlooking the water in cushy Newport Beach, Los Angeles-born sports agent Leigh Steinberg spoke candidly on a few topics near and dear to him while providing insight into his many layers. He is a man that reached the pinnacle of success in his field. Furthermore, unlike various other in his cutthroat profession,…

An Agent of Competency As children, many young boys and girls watch sports on television with the hopes of one day being the one who is scoring the game winning touchdown, or shooting the game winning shot at the buzzer, or landing the perfect 10 to bring home the gold. Upon growing up, many of these same children realize only a select few will achieve that goal and must look for other ways to earn a living. One career path that can be taken that allows one to be part of the sport they love is…

get her mind off of the death of her dear husband, that she blames herself for. Knowing this you can see that Blanche is an extremely troubled character. Blanche’s character is so complex and to carry out her full potential for an actress is one of the most difficult things to put together. “ Actresses talk of losing their voice, suffering bouts of depression or having anxiety attacks while playing the part.” (Blanche Dubois: Chasing Magic,Fleeing the Dark). An actress that experienced these…

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and Frankenstein by Mary Shelley are two novels in which the themes of equality and inequality are explored extensively. The texts are both written by women in 1847 and 1818 respectively and both deal with gender inequality. Jane Eyre is also a social commentary on the injustices and inequalities of the classist Victorian hierarchy whereas Shelley’s novel focuses on the human rejection of unconventionality and the inequalities faced by societies ‘outcasts. The…

The play A Streetcar Named Desire explores brutality vs. tenderness displayed through the personalities of Stanley Kowalski and Blanche DuBois. Marlon Brando's charismatic portrayal of Stanley Kowalski in Elia Kazan's film version of A Streetcar Named Desire undermines the validity of Blanche's struggle. The contrast between Vivien Leigh's Blanche and Brando's Stanley emphasizes the most negative aspects of Blanche's character while supporting and validating the most positive of Stanley's,…

angle caused what it was looking down on to appear small and vulnerable. An example of this was when detective Arbogast (Martin Balsam) entered into the house. “We see Arbogast coming up the stairs. And now we see, too, the door of the mother 's room, opening, carefully and slowly.As Arbogast reaches the landing, the door opens and the mother steps out, her hand raises high, the blade of an enormous knife flashing”(Citation/script). This causes Arbogast to look like prey. This foreshadows that…

In 1960, Alfred Hitchcock had made the film “Psycho”. He was also the best known film director in the world. Psycho is mixed with a little bit of horror, mystery, and thriller. The first film ever published was in black and white. In 1930, William Faulkner published “A Rose for Emily”. A Rose for Emily is more of a southern gothic genre. There isn’t too many similarities besides that there are two psycho people. Hitchcock and Faulkner are both well-known people. In psycho there was one main…

I have no aspiration but to serve my country. Today it is me, tomorrow it will be Admiral Merino, then General Leigh, and so on. As soon as the country recuperates, the junta will turn over the government to whomever people desire” (Constable, Valenzuela 65). However, Pinochet seized this moment to take the control of the government. He swiftly had a new presidential sash made and had an “army aide call the president of the supreme court and ask him to preside” (64). An official presidential…

You in the life's or events of whatever the documentaries about. The viewers of the film when involved in with a documentary are forced to be involved with them or forced to be incorporated with them because the film/documentary is about them and nothing else. The film involves me in the beginning when Marion and Sam are in the room together I thought perhaps this film would involve me in their lives and what happens and what will happen. My expectations were different from the my thoughts of…