Become A Sports Agent!

Sports Management Worldwide (SMWW) offers the worlds only accredited course, called the Athlete Management Course, to teach those who are interested in becoming a sports agent the ins and outs of the business. From the history of the agent business, to current NCAA rules and regulations governing the industry, SMWW's course is the most comprehensive program in the world.

Sports Management Worldwide is committed to teaching the ethical approach to recruiting and representing professional athletes. Athlete Management 400 provides an opportunity to get involved in an industry is otherwise very difficult to break into. The online course includes live interactive audio chats each week with students from around the world as well as long time sports agent Dr. Lynn Lashbrook.

The education is only the beginning, after completion of the course the staff at Sports Management Worldwide provides continued mentoring in recruiting and representing athletes in their agent advisor program. From the research of an athletes draft potential to the steps in getting a free agent signed with a team, Sports Management Worldwide will be there supporting a new agent every step of the way. There is no other agency in the world that is teaching people to be supports agent and allowing them to come to work as an agent following the training. It's the first step to an exciting career as a sports agent! For more information, please follow this link.

Sports Management Worldwide would also like to announce the launch of its new basketball website to showcase its clients.

Please visit our site and see our tremendous growth in basketball:

www.smwwbasketball.com

To learn more about our sports agent course, follow this link

Sports Management Worldwide would like to welcome aboard some new agent advisors. We look forward to working with them in recruiting and signing athletes.

Kirk Layne
Ehaab Bayoumi
Eugene Clay
Ferdinand Pereira
Chauncey Penn

So, you want to work in the sports industry?!?!

You think you want to do this for the rest of your life but you don't know where to get started.

Accordingly to Mark Washo, Vice President of Ticket Sales for the Metro Stars of Major League Soccer, deciding where to get started is not a tough decision.

"You have to conclude starting in ticket sales is the way to do it," he said recently. "The most entry-level opportunities come through ticket sales. The easist way to move up in the industry is through ticket sales. Even the people at the top of the corporate ladder will tell you the skills you learn in ticket sales are easily the most transferrable to everything else that is done within the organization."

It is Washo's contention there are not enough people with the proper skills and proper attitude who are ready to take advantage of these opportunities and that the industry in lacking in the area of on-the-job training. He says it's a subject that comes up in every meeting. People who demonstrate those skills and an understanding of how to use them have huge advantages when it comes to getting an opportunity and moving up in the industry once they find their niche.

"It's not just true on the entry level but remains true throughout your career," he asserts. "Ninety per cent of the people I know in the industry began in ticket sales and it's probably closer to 100% when you break it down further to those I know who are successful. There is a fellow working in the Public Relations Department for the New York Yankees right now who began with us in ticket sales. It was this experience that gave him an advantage when he applied for that position. You know there had to be all kinds of people with experience with media relations who wanted to work for the Yankees but they chose the guy with experience in ticket sales."

There are precisely the concepts and skills Dr. Lynn Lashbrook and Tom Leip teach in Sports Revenue Management. Coupled with a class project with a local team (we'll assist in placing you with a team for this project), you will also begin to build your own network within the industry. Several SRM students are already working full time in the industry as a result of Sports Management Worldwide's training program and our relationships with teams.

Congratulations to Amy Noble who was recently hired by the Trenton Thunder, the New York Yankees AA affiliate, and Michael Spiciarich, hired by the Aberdeen Ironbirds owned by Cal Ripken Jr. and a Baltimore Orioles affiliate apart of the New York Penn League.

For more information, call Chris Rounds today at 877-SMWW-NOW Ext. 102 or follow this link to our website

Have you always dreamed of Working for the Big Leagues?

The SMWW Baseball GM and Scouting Training Course is a stepping stone to a great career in the Major Leagues:

This training course is an online and offers cutting edge theories on how to develop a career in professional and collegiate baseball. The Baseball General Manager and Scouting Course will cover issues including player personnel, sabermetrics, major league scouting and other essential tools of modern general managers of professional and collegiate baseball organizations.

Taught by ESPN Senior Baseball Analyst Rob Neyer. Rob writes at least four times a week for ESPN.com, and he's also authored or co-authored roughly a dozen books, including his latest, The Neyer/James Guide to Pitchers. Rob's extensive knowledge and experiences allow him to offer perspectives from both "inside" and "outside," resulting in a nuanced view that is rare among those connected to the game. Rob appears regularly on ESPN radio and is a weekly baseball analyst on ESPN News.
The course's main objective is to develop a new era in the game of baseball by creating synergies between the new school of thought in sabermetrics and traditional baseball scouting.

What you will learn while taking the Baseball General Manager Course:

• Work with ESPN's Rob Neyer (www.robneyer.com)
• Learn sabermetrics and how it impacts baseball
• Learn how to blend traditional scouting methods with new cutting edge theories
• Overview of collegiate baseball
• Collegiate baseball recruiting
• Methods of ranking high-school and college baseball prospects
• Learn to evaluate player talent from a scouts perspective
• Responsibilities of a Baseball General Manager
• Baseball contracts and negotiation

The Baseball General Manager course is an eight week on-line course starting on January 17th 2005. (3 college credits!) The course includes our unique on-line chats so you can begin talking with Rob Neyer, the course facilitator (link to www.robneyer.com) and 2 Major League Baseball Scouts immediately.

Current student and Major League Scout for the San Francisco Giants Michael Hemenway had this to say about the course:

"The Sports Management Worldwide General Manager/Scouting course has given me the opportunity to examine the latest trends in baseball management and player evaluations. As a recent graduate of the Major League Scouting Bureau's Scout Development Program it allows me to reanalyze and reinforce traditional scouting methods. Along with an introduction to Sabermetrics and how the two diciplines can work together in the difficult task of finding a prospect to compete in Major League Baseball."

Students will be introduced to the everyday operations of major league scouts and the baseball front office. As a coach the course can teach you how to evaluate player talent from a scouts perspective and learn the scouting language thus helping your players and program succeed.

As a baseball enthusiast your knowledge andexpertise will grow tremedously and the game willnever look the same.

"How can the A's continually turn over their roster and still succeed?" Learn from Rob Neyer, one of baseball's most respected writers and analysts, get into the sabermetrics world of Bill James and Billy Beane, learn to blend traditional scouting practice with the new method of sabermetrics, advance your current career in baseball.

Student Troy Steffy of Pro Baseball Training (probaseballtraining.com) summed up his thoughts on the course in this way:

"And for the record, I LOVE THIS COURSE!"

To learn more about our course, follow this link

High School Athletic Director Course

Are you a High School Athletic Director looking for Solutions or a more efficient way to run your program?

Are you a High School Athletic Director who needs new ways to handle old problems?

Are interested in working in a sports deparment as an Athletic Director?

High School Athletic Directors can't rely on over worked parents to run fundraisers.

High School Athletic Directors can create new revenue streams by out-sourcing concession stands, selling new age corporate sponsorships and selling tickets with permission based "e" marketing campaigns.

High School Athletic Directors can sell out games, surpass budget demands, hire more coaches, be a catalyst of community pride, while still producing outstanding student athletes!

SMWW offers The New Era High School Athletic Director Course to assist existing High School Athletic Directors in finding solutions to nationwide challenges. This ONLINE course's main objective is to develop a new generation of Athletic Directors by creating programs that are unique to High School Athletics.

Students can receive graduate credit and network with top High School AD's all over the country. Whether you are a current AD or someone who would like to work as an AD, this course can provide you the skills to revolutionize an athletic department.

A note from a current student:

"I have found this course to be very beneficial to me. As a veteran athletic administrator, I am always looking for new ideas that can help my program excel. I have enjoyed the exchange of ideas and the communication with other students (who are nationwide) - right from my own home. "

"We are all dealing with budget issues, but this course has introduced some cutting edge technology to help generate funds and improve public relations within the community. Whether you are a new or a veteran athletic administrator, this would be a great course to take!"

- Margaret M. Conaty, CAA at
Mansfield High School

High school sports programs will soon need to be run like those in college, and directors must find ways to enhance revenues while maintaining cost controls and keeping a full menu of offerings for student athletes. Let us show you how to do it!

For more information on how you can become a NEW ERA HSAD apply here today.

2005 SMWW Annual Conference

For those interested in learning more about the sports agent business, SMWW's annual conference is something you don't want to miss. From personnel at professional teams to experienced agents in a variety of sports, the conference is packed with experienced individuals in the world of sports. The conference is centered around the NFL's Pre-Draft Combine that features college football's top 300 prospects working out for NFL teams.

This year's conference features Fred Schreyer, former Director of Sports Marketing for Nike, who is best known for doing Lebron James' $90 Million shoe deal and KC Callero, a veteran basketball agent living Spain who has negotiated contracts in over 10 European countries. The conference is a great way to network and learn a lot about the career of a successful sports agent so don't miss this year's conference!

To learn more about the conference or to sign up now, follow this link.

BCS Busters.com

With the college football season finished this year, the flaws of the BCS system are ever present again this year. Auburn was the first team in a major conference to go 13-0 and not win the National Championship. Utah also proved it was a very talented and well coached team with its route of Pittsburgh to complete a perfect season. While USC won convincingly against Oklahoma, we will never know if they truly are the best team in the country and that is tragic. While you may not be a fan of Auburn football, you can surely sympathize with their players who played tremendous football all season only to not be able to compete for the highest honor in football.

One day we will all look back and wonder what would have happened if Auburn had played USC? It's time that we stop wondering and start settling it on the field. Sports Management Worldwide created a website where fans, students and alumni can make their voices heard and speak out against a system that has computers deciding who is worthy of the crown. Visit our website today and contact your school administrators to let them know that you're not interested in having your team have a great season and be left out of the chance to compete for a national championship.

To visit BCSBusters.com, follow this link