Money Players: A Guide to Succeed in Sports, Business & Life for Current and Future Pro Athletes

By Marc Isenberg

Book Overview

"Money Players" is a comprehensive playbook to help current and prospective professional athletes maximize their financial opportunities, retire wealthy, and avoid mistakes that shorten or terminate careers. Includes information on NCAA rules, preparing for the draft, selecting the right agent, players associations, savings and investment basics, dealing with the media and fans, and preparing for post-playing opportunities. With powerful messages from pro athletes, business executives and sports media. Sporting News senior writer Mike DeCourcy says of "Money Players": "There is so much wisdom in this book it should be handed to every major college basketball or football player in exchange for signing a letter of intent. It is direct, honest and beautifully organized. There is sound advice about how to handle money, how to recognize trouble and how to avoid relying on people who place their own interests first'??and it does not just come from Marc Isenberg, but from sports veterans on all sides of the table."

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0966676416
• ISBN13: 9780966676419
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Ingram
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 8.5" x 11.0"