USD Magazine, Summer 1992

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The life of a sports agent isn't all fun, games

and seven-figure contracts-or it shouldn't be.

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!Ti -nee childhood, D avid Morway '85 (J.D.) has spent several hours each day poring over the newspaper sports pages. H e still does that, but it's not for fun any– more; it's part of his job. Morway is one of the managing directors of Professional Excellence in Sports, a La Jolla-based sports agency that represents about 45 pro– fessional athletes. H e and co– founders John Adler '74 (J.D.), an adjunct professor of labor law at U SD, and William McClelland, an engineer at General Dynamics Con– vair Division, started the company in 198 7. N ow when Morway scrutinizes the newspaper ~ports sec tion, he's checking the statistics of athletes he and his partners represent. In some cases, he has to look pretty hard. The list of clients does not exactly make an all-star lineup. Sure, there are some names recognizable to sports fans: San Diego Padres right– hander Greg Harris; San D iego Chargers Joe Phillips, Burt Gross– man, Junior Sean and Floyd Fields;

The founders of Pro-

Dianne

fessional Excellence

Ludlam

in Sports talk about

negotiations, educa-

tion, counseling,

friends hip and

ethics-especially

ethics.

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