Despite the impressive 51 years in the sports industry that represents the Crème de la Crimme of the athletes, Leigh Steinberg's career as agent and philanthropist is far from finishing.
The Steinberg approach for athlete management, which includes negotiations for first -level athletes, such as 64 Draft selections of the first round NFL in just the first eight years of their career, Elite MLB players and Olympic athletes, have remained strategic both in decades and in the heart for decades.
The inspiration for “Jerry Maguire” signs athletes who dream of arriving at the state of the Hall of Fame and incorporating philanthropy into the minds of their loyal fans.
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Kordell Stewart, on the left, and Troy Aikman, on the right, photographed here with the sports agent Leigh Steinberg, are two of the old NFL Steinberg athletes represented. (Eugene Gologursky/Getty Images for Leigh Steinberg)
“Whether establishing a charity fund in its high school, something similar in its universities, beneficial foundations at the professional level in which some problems they would like to address and establish a base,” Steinberg told Fox News Digital, “all with the concept of athlete as a model to follow.”
Steinberg highlighted the initiative of the NFL superstar and the client Patrick Mahomes, 15 years old and the Mahomies Foundation, as an example of what is possible when elite athletes use their names to create awareness and funds for a cause.
The Mahomes Foundation, established in 2019, is dedicated to improving the lives of young people at risk and disregarded. More recently, the Foundation revealed the expansion of scholarships in early childhood education and reported in 2024 that young volunteers contributed $ 2.6 million in hours of service through the organization.
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Patrick Mahomes and his wife, Brittany Mohomes, are photographed with Leigh Steinberg, Mohamses agent. (Cindy Ord/Getty images for Leigh Steinberg)
“I have been very involved with the reestima of an agent's responsibility,” Steinberg said. “I think part of this is taking care of a player's health.”
Beyond working with athletes to choose a fundamental approach, Steinberg records time daily as president of the Leigh Steinberg Foundation, whose objective is to educate and raise information on the risks of brain commotions and the prophylactic treatment of brain shocks and the healing of the shielded brain.
“In a sport like football, which is a traffic accident in each play and brain shock is an ugly spectrum, I have tried to be proactive over the years,” Steinberg told Fox News Digital. “I had a crisis of consciousness in the 1980s because I was representing half of the fields of the headlines in the NFL. They were still beaten in the head, and we would go to the doctors and asked how many are too many? When should they contemplate retirement? And they had no answers, so I began to support the conferences of the concussion in 1994.” “
Since its inception, Steinberg said the Foundation has worked with the IQMIND and Nestre treatment clinics to identify two new innovative technologies, transcranial magnetic stimulation and neurofeedback, which heal a brain shocked through the theory of neuroplasticity.
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Leigh Steinberg was the inspiration for the popular 1996 Hollywood film “Jerry Maguire”, starring Tom Cruise. (Michael Tran/Getty images)
“We also try to provide treatment to unattended communities that do not necessarily have a way of dealing with brain health,” Steinberg said. “So we will seek to bring treatment to several people who would not have it otherwise.”
In just one week, Steinberg says that the Foundation raised $ 500,000, which, in part, will be assigned to organize seminars and disseminate consciousness to parents with children in athletics.
Among the voices behind the public service announcement of the Foundation and educational campaigns are former NFL field marshal Warren Moon, former defensive wing Bruce Smith and former supporter Ray Lewis. Steinberg hopes to welcome football players to the messenger team in the future.
“There is hope and people need to know that they can receive treatment,” Steinberg said.
