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New Masters Degree and
Doctorate Degree programs now available:
Sports Management Worldwide is
proud to announce that it is partnering with
Northcentral University (NCU) for a Master of
Education, Ph.D. in Education or Ed.D. with a specialization
in Sports Management and Leadership.
This
comprehensive curriculum delivered by sports professionals and
educators is a unique, integrative educational blending of
best practices in the fields of management, leadership and
education. The specialization appeals to individuals who
strive to be competent athletic administrators and leaders
committed to using the power of sport to improve life in our
society.
Dr. Lynn Lashbrook provides live,
weekly interactive forums on issues and strategies that is
open to Learners enrolled in NCU's Sports Management and
Leadership specialization. Sports leaders will be
invited throughout the year to participate in audio chats,
giving the students the opportunity to learn firsthand about
the real world of sports.
Some
reasons why Sports Management Worldwide partnered
NCU:
• NCU is a regionally accredited online
university that chooses NOT to require residency or travel of
any nature affiliated with pursuing the degree. All course
work is completed through the Internet!
• NCU
provides you with a dynamic support team from enrollment
through graduation. You are the center of the Teaching and
Learning Experience.
To
learn more about our program, follow this link.
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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
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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
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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 a fully accredited, all
done 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, fully accredited for college
credit, 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
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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.
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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.
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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
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