Nba Agent Exam – Flashcards
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What is the only sports league to ban corporate ownership?
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NFL
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In professional sports, the Commissioner has discretionary power in all the following except?
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Rule making
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Strikes are much more disruptive in pro sports than in mainstream business because:
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Players have unique talents and cannot be replaced with temporary replacement workers
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As a general rule, league revenues include which of the following?
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Revenue from national television, and radio contracts, league-wide licensing, and league-wide sponsorship programs
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The response to an impasse in labor negotiations is usually:
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A lockout or strike
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A collective bargaining agreement covers:
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wages, hours, terms and conditions of employment
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What percentage of NBA television revenues and merchandise sales come from foreign markets?
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40%
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In 2005 how many international players declared themselves eligible for the NBA draft?
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What league has made the most strives in the global market?
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National Basketball League
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Many individuals in the management of professional sports leagues are not fans of salary caps because they:
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A. routinely force teams to cut veteran players earning higher salaries to get under the ceiling of the cap. B. routinely provide teams with spending floors so low-revenue teams are prevented from cutting salaries in order to stay competitive. C. often have so many exceptions that they have inevitably created a number of loopholes for those agents and general managers who are creative negotiators and thus, the cap is not creating the parity it was intended to create.
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According to Much and Gotto (1997), what are the two most important factors in determining a franchise's value?
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The degree of league revenue sharing and the stability of a league's labor situation
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Although the NFL bans public ownership, it has made an exception for what team?
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The Green Bay Packers
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What league first adopted the Commissioner to govern the best interests of the sport?
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NBA
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League think is the concept
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introduced by Pete Rozelle that owners needed to do what was best for the league as opposed to their individual franchise.
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The NFL Trust is responsible for which of the following activities?
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What is the current going rate for a franchise in the NFL?
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Which of the following is not a revenue that is shared under league revenue sharing systems?
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Cross-ownership is
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Ownership of more than one sport franchise
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Professional golfers must earn a right to compete on the PGA Tour annually. How do professional golfers qualify for the PGA Tour?
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According to the textbook, which of the following is a true statement regarding diversity in professional sports?
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In 2003, the NBA and MLB welcomed their first minority owners.
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After the 1996 Olympics, a few women's professional sports leagues emerged. What women's sport was not among those to become a professional sport league?
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While the NFL bans corporate ownership it has made one exception. For what team was its exception?
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San Francisco 49ers
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Who was the first Commissioner hired in all of professional sports?
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Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis of Major League Baseball
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The NBA has the broadest representation of foreign players on its rosters. In the 2005-2006 season, for example, your textbook notes that opening night rosters included ___ players from ____ different countries and territories.
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As of 2007, how many professional Women's football teams existed in North America?
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For what NFL owners was the cross-ownership ban in the NFL eased?
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What league operated for a number of years without a permanent commissioner?
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The privileges granted to owners that come with team ownership are called __________.
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franchise rights
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________________ has emerged as a method for leagues to establish themselves in a manner that avoids antitrust liability and creates centralized fiscal control.
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The labor exemption
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John Montgomery Ward founded the first baseball players union in 1890 to fight what practice(s) by baseball team owners?
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A. Salary caps B. Baseball's reserve system C. Baseball's practice of selling players without the players receiving a share of profits
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Professional leagues have organized themselves in a manner consistent with a corporate model.
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True?
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The term used to describe a team's ability to relocate
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Franchise Free Agency
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Leagues derive the bulk of their revenues from gate receipts. T/F
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False
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In 1876 North America's first professional league, the National League was organized. T/F
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True
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Professional sports was born in the United States in 1869 with the first professional baseball team. T/F
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True
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The National Hockey League has retained the greatest number of family or individual owners due to its high degree of revenue sharing.T/F
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False?
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The PGA Tour currently implements a drug testing program in accordance with WADA policies.
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False?
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In 2005, the largest number of foreign basketball players (39) hailing from the following countries (23) declared themselves eligible for the NBA draft.T/F
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The WNBA league and teams are primarily female operated organizations.
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The Women's National Basketball Players Association were established under the guidance of the National Basketball Players Association and National Football League Players Association, respectively. T/F
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The single entity structure is a term used to describe a manner in which a team may organize itself in order to maintain fiscal control. T/F
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The practice of charging spectators at golf events began at fundraisers by top male and female golfers to benefit the Red Cross during World War I. T/F
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The PGA operates as two divisions: one that governs the club professionals who serve amateur players and another that governs the tour professionals. T/F
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Currently professional athletes are unionized in only the four major leagues.
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When it was formed in 1952, the Major League Baseball Players Association was professional baseball players' fifth attempt to unionize.
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Commissioners have lost some of their power over time. List the six areas that the commissioner continues to retain discretionary power.
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List the North American professional sport leagues that have unionized players?
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What franchise rights are granted with ownership of a professional team?
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What criteria does a league, such as Major League Baseball examine as eligibility criteria for team ownership?
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What actions did Marvin Miller, the successful Executive Director of the Major League Baseball Players Association take to organize the players and develop the first strong union in professional sports?
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Approximately how many athletes are in the four (4) major sports leagues?
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4300
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In the four major sports leagues how many agents are registered or certified with the respective players associations
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1600-1800
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Who is often called the first sports agent:
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B.C.C. Pyle
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The two players who staged a joint holdout for a higher salary were?
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Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale
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One of the first agents to represent individual athletes and a pioneer of the sport marketing industry is:
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Mark McCormack
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The first players association to negotiate the right for players to be represented by agents was the:
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Major League Baseball Players Association
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A collective bargaining agreement is:
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A contract for all players in the league
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The reserve system in Major League Baseball was:
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A rule that limited a free and open market for players
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Which one of the following companies is not currently one of the three (3) largest sport management companies?
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ProServ
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The three models for a sport agency business does not include
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A players association and a sport management firm
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Which one does not describe the ways that Players associations support players?
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Which of the following does not describe the functions performed by a sport agent?
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Which of the below factors that influences an athletes market value is the least significant?
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The Professional Golf Association (PGA) restricts individual golfers from entering into endorsement unless they are:
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In good taste
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Five key problems in the sport agency profession do not include
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The agents lack of understand of the rules of the game
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The most devastating problem that an athlete may have with his agent is probably:
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Income mismanagement
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Tank Black is:
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A football agent who was sentenced to five (5) years in prison for swindling NFL players he represented
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A conflict of interest occurs most probably if:
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an agent's own interests are furthered over that of the athlete's interests
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What is the most likely unethical behavior to occur by agents in college athletics?
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Overly aggressive client recruitment
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How many agents has the NFLPA disciplined in recent years?
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130
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How many states regulate agents?
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44
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What is SPARTA?
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A federal law signed by President George W. Bush regulating the conduct of sport agents
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What is UAAA?
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Uniform agent regulation law
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The MLBPA limits agent's fees to what percentage of the player's income?
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One of the significant factors in the growth of sports agencies was:
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Who was the "endorsement king of the pre- Michael Jordan era?"
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All of the following are objectives of person-centered branding EXCEPT
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