Epidemic. Plus his advice for Richard Sherman. He twerked his way into the national consciousness, taking a page out of miley cyruss book. When you started off the term super agent didnt exist. If you think about it player representation didnt exist as it does today. How did you start that, and why . The reality is there was no right of representation when i began. I remember calling up mike brown of the bengals to represent a player, and he said, we dont deal with agents click. That was that. Mostly players had their parents tore did it themselves. The roll of an agent is to serve as a buffer. Years ago i asked Steve Bartkowski in the first negotiation whether he wanted to hear every fact that went on between me and the general managers. And he said, sure, its my life, i want to hear it. I said steve, theyll say no so complimentary things about you. No, ill be fine. We get into the negotiation and the gm says, not so fast, his back is a little bad. This wasnt a strong craft in quarter
The reality is there was no right of representation when i began. I remember calling up mike brown of the bengals to represent a player, and he said, we dont deal with agents click. That was that. Mostly players had their parents tore did it themselves. The roll of an agent is to serve as a buffer. Years ago i asked Steve Bartkowski in the first negotiation whether he wanted to hear every fact that went on between me and the general managers. And he said, sure, its my life, i want to hear it. I said steve, theyll say no so complimentary things about you. No, ill be fine. We get into the negotiation and the gm says, not so fast, his back is a little bad. This wasnt a strong craft in quarterbacks, but he was the best there was. I conveyed that to steve to which he said, get me traded. Part of my job is to get into the heart and mind of a young athlete, to ask him to rate his values, whether its short term, families or the ability to start. Men do not share, so its a question of peeling b
Extraordinary work that goes on around the world are from people the public doesnt know much about. Politicians and society tends to be cynical about journalism. I see great courage going on for people servicing what the public needs to know b. Journalists go towards danger when others move away. Journalist have to get involved with all sides of the conflict to get the story. It takes a fearless journalist to kept up and say, you know what, im determined to continue my profession, even though i might have to spend the rest of my life looking over my shoulder. I came here in 2003. I came to cover the u. S. Led invasion. I got here about three weeks before the Bombing Campaign started, and i stayed for the next couple of years, working on and off. I came because i thought the war would be covered heavily in the western media from the position of embedded journalist. You know, if i was going to take any risk at all, i would rather take the risk of telling a story that wasnt being told, an
A bill heads to congress a controversial combination of farm subsidies and food stamps. We start in kiev. Thousands packed Independence Square calling for Viktor Yanukovych to step down. They called for constitutional changes. The announcement that Viktor Yanukovych will be back comes amid an activist Dmytro Bulatov claiming he was beaten. Heading to the runway, Dmytro Bulatov free at last from torrmentors and arrest. He said his kidnappers nailed him to a door, mutilated him with knives for days. Hell receive treatment in lithuania, safely inside the european union. Translation i think we just saved his life. After what they wanted to do to m, arrest him, put him in prison i think we saved his life. We will not leave anybody without our attention. This may seem like a concession by Viktor Yanukovych yet another one. In a Police Station investigation was launched it might reveal too much about shadowy organizations. Earlier in the day in kievs Independence Square, tens of thousands of
Another staffer quits in the wake of the bridge scandal. Ukraines president says he will be back tomorrow, although thousands tonight would like to see him stay away for good. Protestors held one of their largest rallies, 30,000 people demanding Victor Yanukovych step down. He took a short sick leave last week sparking his future. Limits to the president s power. Also tonight ukrainian activist who says he was beaten and tortured has arrived for further treatment. Heading onto the runway at kievs airport, the protestor dmprotestordimitri bolotov, wile treatment for his wounds in lithuania. I think we have just saved his life. I think what they have wanted to do with him, his life was in great danger and we wouldnt have had a single chance to investigate the torture that he was subjected to so i think one life was saved today and we will be doing that to anyone arrested. We wont leave anybody without our attention. Reporter this may seem like a significant concession by president yanuko