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1 For the Record Extra [i] (1992)

handle is hein.blasports/frecext0001 and id is 1 raw text is: For The Record dk. A 4 4 4 Natiornal 1103 West Wisconsin AvenueW4 Sports Law Milwaukee, WI 53233 1 Institute MAROUETTE UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL For More Information, Call (414) 288-5815 A Monthly Update Service About Current Topics In Sports Law and Sports Business January 1992 Edition NSLI SPORTS DEPARTMENT SURVEY IS COMPLETED The National Sports Law Institute invited sports editors, sports copy editors and sports writers across the country to complete an anonymous survey. The responses represent newspapers from each geographic area in the country, including one survey each from Alaska and Hawaii. Circulation totals range from 4,000 papers per day to 500,000 on Sunday. The majority of the responses came from midwestern newspapers. There were two sections to the survey. One survey asked sports editors to detail the makeup of their sports department. We found: of 302 sports department employees, 273 were males and 29 were females. Of those, 26 were minorities. Of 133 full-time sports writers: 124 were men, nine were women. Fifteen were minorities. Of 70 full-time copy editors: 65 were males and five were females. Six were minorities. More than 97 percent full-time employees had four-year college degrees. The next survey asked sports editors, sports copy editors and sports writers a series of sports law questions. It also asked for opinions on several different categories. One question asked respondents to name three sports related trials. Nearly 29 percent were unable to do so. The trial listed on most surveys was the Pete Rose v. Major League Baseball in Cincinnati. It was on 31 percent of the surveys. On the subject of lawsuits, we asked our respondents if they have had legal trouble with published work. Fourteen of the 77 said they had been threatened with a lawsuit. Of those, ten said it was merely a verbal threat and no action was taken. Two said action is still pending. One writer went to court but did not list the outcome. Another had to write a retraction and publish a new story. Of the sports stories published each day, many give us dollar figures, terms, conditions, clauses, etc. of players contracts. Interestingly, only eight of the 77 have ever seen an actual players contract. Working on those contracts are agents. Therefore, we asked respondents to name three sports agents. Mentioned on most surveys was Bob Woolf, who was listed on 40 percent of the ballots. Leigh Steinberg was listed 34 percent of the time. Dennis Gilbert was third, being named on 23 percent of the surveys. Twenty-six percent were unable to list three sports agents. The rest of our survey was strictly a popularity contest. Testing the judgement of writers who analyze the sporting industry a little closer than most, we asked them to rank their favorites in four categories. (NSLI survey story continued on back of this page)

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