Special Reports

The desire to control fate or to simply have a way of sticking with a winning method, superstitions have been around professional sports for a long time.

If any group has a reason to be superstitious, it’s professional athletes.

Your livelihood relies on your ability to consistently replicate physical motions. It’s hardly surprising that you don’t [...]

With all of the security issues surrounding today’s pro athletes it is always disturbing to see the personal life of a pro athlete made public by members of the media.

The media has become so consumed with personal lives of pro athletes and other celebrities, that no personal item or incident is out of bounds. [...]

Much is said, but very little generally understood, about players having or not having “guaranteed contracts” in professional team sports. Sportswriters will write as if they know all about them, and will often generalize that one sport (e.g. baseball or basketball) has them and another (e.g. football) does not. And if the sport is considered [...]

Identity theft is not professional sports newest problem….but it’s one of it’s biggest. As a pro athlete - younger, richer, and more renowned than the average citizen, you are a perfect mark. After you are legions of scam artists hustling for credit card digits, Social Security numbers, and mothers’ maiden names—information that’s easy to obtain [...]

There is an argument to be made that for most NCAA players, no decision is more important when deciding to turn professional than the agent selection process. Agents play an absolutely essential role in helping steer their clients through the often very complicated draft process. Starting with knowing the timing of when to declare for [...]