Word: agent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While DAN GERKEN [right] and the varsity tennis team took a pair of victories over the weekend--6-3 against Army and 9-0 against Cornell--JIM KUBACKI [below] signed as a free agent with the New Orleans Saints. The racquetmen thus improved their league record to 6-2, with the season finale on tap this Thursday afternoon at Dartmouth. Only Yale and Princeton have been able to take the measure of Dave Fish's racquetmen, who, despite their fine showing in the latter's initial season as coach, will thus fall short in their attempt to defend last spring...
...wake of the Seitz ruling, the roles have been reversed. Upon termination of his contract, a player can renegotiate for a new pact or decide to become a free agent, potentially available to every franchise. This past year, 26 major league players became free agents, including such celebrities as Reggie Jackson, Sal Bando, and Bobby Grich. During the frenzied bidding war most major newspapers ran front page stories on the latest developments, following the bargaining sessions as closely as the Paris Peace Talks. Daily, the media announced the most lucrative contract offer ever made in the sport, only...
...July 1975, after Nixon had signed his $2 million memoirs contract, he sent his agent, Irving ("Swifty") Lazar, to talk to the TV networks in New York. When Frost found out about this he offered Nixon a flat $500,000 for four shows. NBC was also bidding, and Lazar coaxed Frost into raising the ante to $600,000, plus a reported 20% of any profits. Helping Frost land the contract was Herbert Klein, Nixon's longtime press confidant, who felt that Frost was not the kind of U.S. journalist who is "always trying to put in his own opinions." Klein...
...this day, as most days lately, the place was alive with wonder. Stevie Cauthen, the most exciting 16-year-old jockey anybody can remember, was continuing to transform elderly platers into Pegasuses. "The kid is so hot he's got three agents," said Patrick W. Lynch, a closet intellectual who is a vice president of the New York Racing Association. "Lenny Goodman gets him his mounts. Mark McCormack, who handled people like Jack Nicklaus, sets up side deals. Swifty Lazar, Nixon's agent, is arranging the book...
...Stevie is neither stoppable nor flappable. "What about the Kentucky Derby?" I asked Lenny Goodman, Cauthen's on-track agent...