Vice TV is following up tonight’s “Vice Versa: Chyna” documentary with next week’s installment, “Vice Versa: Fear of a Black Quarterback,” TheWrap has learned. We can also exclusively debut the trailer for the June 24 premiere.
“Fear of a Black Quarterback” features former NFL QBs Donovan McNabb, Warren Moon, Akili Smith, Vince Young, Shaun King, Quincy Carter and Marlin Briscoe, as well as ex-ESPN personality Jemele Hill and super agent Leigh Steinberg. The film “provides an inside look into McNabb’s NFL experiences and the hardships and discrimination Black players in this position have faced,” in Vice TV’s own words.
McNabb was one of three Black quarterbacks selected in the first round of the 1999 NFL Draft in what seemed like a turning point for a league where white players predominantly held the quarterback position. Unfortunately, the path to equity has been arduous, the logline continues, requiring McNabb...
“Fear of a Black Quarterback” features former NFL QBs Donovan McNabb, Warren Moon, Akili Smith, Vince Young, Shaun King, Quincy Carter and Marlin Briscoe, as well as ex-ESPN personality Jemele Hill and super agent Leigh Steinberg. The film “provides an inside look into McNabb’s NFL experiences and the hardships and discrimination Black players in this position have faced,” in Vice TV’s own words.
McNabb was one of three Black quarterbacks selected in the first round of the 1999 NFL Draft in what seemed like a turning point for a league where white players predominantly held the quarterback position. Unfortunately, the path to equity has been arduous, the logline continues, requiring McNabb...
- 6/17/2021
- by Tony Maglio
- The Wrap
Ron Burkle’s Yucaipa Companies has taken a significant equity stake in Steinberg Sports and Entertainment, the athlete representation and marketing firm headed by superagents Leigh Steinberg and Chris Cabott.
Steinberg Sports intends to use the resources from Yucaipa to expand the scope of its content production as well as its marketing operations and business development initiatives. The goal is for Steinberg Sports to tap into Yucaipa’s network of companies to fuel additional growth. Steinberg and Cabott will remain chairman and CEO, respectively, of Steinberg Sports.
Burkle will join Steinberg Sports as a partner. He has bought out the stakes of the private equity shareholders who helped Steinberg relaunch the business about 10 years ago. At present the primary owners of Steinberg Sports and Entertainment are Steinberg, Cabott and Burkle.
Yucaipa in recent years has set investment partnerships with entertainment-related firms, including touring powerhouse Artist Group International, Rick Yorn’s Lbi Entertainment,...
Steinberg Sports intends to use the resources from Yucaipa to expand the scope of its content production as well as its marketing operations and business development initiatives. The goal is for Steinberg Sports to tap into Yucaipa’s network of companies to fuel additional growth. Steinberg and Cabott will remain chairman and CEO, respectively, of Steinberg Sports.
Burkle will join Steinberg Sports as a partner. He has bought out the stakes of the private equity shareholders who helped Steinberg relaunch the business about 10 years ago. At present the primary owners of Steinberg Sports and Entertainment are Steinberg, Cabott and Burkle.
Yucaipa in recent years has set investment partnerships with entertainment-related firms, including touring powerhouse Artist Group International, Rick Yorn’s Lbi Entertainment,...
- 2/17/2021
- by Cynthia Littleton
- Variety Film + TV
Here’s one way to spin it: Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes just got a lot more relatable, reports Variety‘s sister site Sportico. Mahomes made football look easy during his first three years as a starter, becoming the youngest player to win Mvp and Super Bowl Mvp honors last year before making another big game this year.
Then, football — and the best quarterback to ever play the game, to be specific — pushed back, as Mahomes’ Chiefs were silenced by Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sunday, 31-9.
Nobody had seen this before. Mahomes hadn’t lost by more than eight points in his NFL career. Kansas City had scored at least 10 points in every one of his starts. With 40 seconds left, CBS showed one more shot of a baffled Mahomes before a familiar sight: Brady holding court atop the championship podium, surrounded by confetti. Brady lifted...
Then, football — and the best quarterback to ever play the game, to be specific — pushed back, as Mahomes’ Chiefs were silenced by Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sunday, 31-9.
Nobody had seen this before. Mahomes hadn’t lost by more than eight points in his NFL career. Kansas City had scored at least 10 points in every one of his starts. With 40 seconds left, CBS showed one more shot of a baffled Mahomes before a familiar sight: Brady holding court atop the championship podium, surrounded by confetti. Brady lifted...
- 2/8/2021
- by Jacob Feldman
- Variety Film + TV
While 2020 has been a year to forget for just about everybody else, Patrick Mahomes begs to differ. The Kansas City Chiefs quarterback won the Super Bowl in February, and today he signed the richest contract in NFL history.
The 24-year-old Texas Tech alum inked a 10-year extension worth $503 million — with $477 million guaranteed — that will keep him with the Afc club until 2032. The deal negotiated by uber-agent Leigh Steinberg, which includes a no-trade clause, eclipses the 12-year, $426.5 million contact Angels outfielder Mike Trout signed last year as the biggest ever in American team sports.
We have signed Qb Patrick Mahomes to a 10 year extension. Mahomes secured with Chiefs for the next 12 seasons. pic.twitter.com/ZsADdVkvxZ
— Kansas City Chiefs (@Chiefs) July 6, 2020
In two full seasons plus one game with the Chiefs, Mahomes has thrown for 76 touchdowns and more than 9,400 yards. He was named the Mvp of Super Bowl Liv, leading the...
The 24-year-old Texas Tech alum inked a 10-year extension worth $503 million — with $477 million guaranteed — that will keep him with the Afc club until 2032. The deal negotiated by uber-agent Leigh Steinberg, which includes a no-trade clause, eclipses the 12-year, $426.5 million contact Angels outfielder Mike Trout signed last year as the biggest ever in American team sports.
We have signed Qb Patrick Mahomes to a 10 year extension. Mahomes secured with Chiefs for the next 12 seasons. pic.twitter.com/ZsADdVkvxZ
— Kansas City Chiefs (@Chiefs) July 6, 2020
In two full seasons plus one game with the Chiefs, Mahomes has thrown for 76 touchdowns and more than 9,400 yards. He was named the Mvp of Super Bowl Liv, leading the...
- 7/7/2020
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
The NFL's Mvp through the first 3 weeks ain't cashing in on his early season success ... 'cause Patrick Mahomes' agent tells TMZ Sports -- No Big Deals Until The Offseason!! Leigh Steinberg -- the super agent who represents the Chiefs' Qb -- says it's all part of a plan to make sure Patrick keeps a level head throughout his first year as a starter. "We're being very, very careful to allow this season to...
- 9/26/2018
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
Vince Young is officially a professional football player again ... signing a standard one-year deal with the Cfl's Saskatchewan Roughriders. The 33-year-old ex-Texas Longhorns star -- who hasn't stepped foot on a football field as a player since 2011 -- vowed to return to the gridiron earlier this year, hiring big-time sports agent Leigh Steinberg. No word on whether Young's being brought in to compete for the starting job ... but the Riders look to be giving the guy a real shot.
- 3/9/2017
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
Vince Young just took a Huge step in his possible return to football -- he's "finalizing his contract" with the Saskatchewan Roughriders and is currently flying to Canada to close the deal. Young announced his intentions to return to the game back in February and even signed with agent Leigh Steinberg in the hopes of getting with a team. Now, sources familiar with the situation tell us Young and the Cfl team are rounding 3rd...
- 3/8/2017
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
Et has the latest on what some of your favorite celebs have been up to recently that you might have missed.
Dad-to-be George Clooney was spotted in his home state of Kentucky on Super Bowl Sunday. The Oscar winner watched the Patriots take home the Lombardi Trophy at the Augusta Irish Pub in Augusta, Kentucky. The Kentucky native was seen holding a bottle of his own brand of Casamigos tequila, which he owns with Rande Gerber, his friend and Cindy Crawford’s husband.
On Wednesday, Shaquille O'Neal threw down a hands-free Oreo cookie dunk to launch the Oreo Dunk Challenge in New York City. Later that same day, Tinashe was also in the Big Apple, serving up John Frieda Hair Care's newest campaign #HairTalks.
Craig Barritt/Getty ImagesMichael Simon
Former Bachelorette Kaitlyn Bristowe hosted a Divas Galentine's Day party with celebrity wedding planner Mindy Weiss and Wedding Paper Divas in Los Angeles on Wednesday.
Dennis Kwan
Chef Chris Santos...
Dad-to-be George Clooney was spotted in his home state of Kentucky on Super Bowl Sunday. The Oscar winner watched the Patriots take home the Lombardi Trophy at the Augusta Irish Pub in Augusta, Kentucky. The Kentucky native was seen holding a bottle of his own brand of Casamigos tequila, which he owns with Rande Gerber, his friend and Cindy Crawford’s husband.
On Wednesday, Shaquille O'Neal threw down a hands-free Oreo cookie dunk to launch the Oreo Dunk Challenge in New York City. Later that same day, Tinashe was also in the Big Apple, serving up John Frieda Hair Care's newest campaign #HairTalks.
Craig Barritt/Getty ImagesMichael Simon
Former Bachelorette Kaitlyn Bristowe hosted a Divas Galentine's Day party with celebrity wedding planner Mindy Weiss and Wedding Paper Divas in Los Angeles on Wednesday.
Dennis Kwan
Chef Chris Santos...
- 2/11/2017
- Entertainment Tonight
The NFL's crisis of star players allegedly — and admittedly — committing domestic abuse has created a window of opportunity for the country's most popular sports league. The NFL must step up and lead a larger campaign combating violence against women and children, super-agent Leigh Steinberg said. “Clearly, the NFL reacted way too slowly to recognize the specter of domestic violence and the critical role it could play in making an impact on the problem,” Steinberg told TheWrap on Thursday. “In a larger sense, though, it just reflected society. (Commissioner) Roger Goodell didn't create the issue of domestic violence, and...
- 9/18/2014
- by Jordan Zakarin
- The Wrap
Jon Stewart returned to the Ray Rice-nfl fiasco on Wednesday night, running down a complete history of the incident of domestic violence that has snowballed into outrage and an alleged cover-up this week. “Here's my main question: Back in July, the NFL felt this crime was only worthy of a two-game suspension, and now suddenly, it's a lifetime of exile. So what changed?” Also read: NFL Appoints Former FBI Director to Investigate Ray Rice Situation That's obviously what everyone else wants to know; as super agent Leigh Steinberg told TheWrap earlier this week, it should not have required full video evidence to more.
- 9/11/2014
- by Jordan Zakarin
- The Wrap
It took months of criticism and, more significantly, the publication of a tape depicting the assault he committed against his then-fianceé, to get football star Ray Rice suspended indefinitely by the NFL and cut by the Baltimore Ravens. The NFL claims league officials hadn't seen the video when commissioner Roger Goodell gave Rice a two-game suspension, a relatively short punishment that earned the league so much flak that it had to re-write its bylaws. Whether Goodell really was ignorant of the tape, super agent Leigh Steinberg, whose life inspired the film “Jerry Maguire,” thinks the league knew more than enough to issue Rice a.
- 9/9/2014
- by Jordan Zakarin
- The Wrap
St. Martin's Press has acquired North American print and electronic rights to a memoir by Leigh Steinberg, the sports agent who is credited as the inspiration for Tom Cruise's titular character in the 1996 film Jerry Maguire. Photos: 11 Biggest Book-to-Big Screen Adaptations of the Last 25 Years The book, which will be co-written by author Michael Arkush, is tentatively scheduled to be released by St. Martin's Press' Thomas Dunne Books imprint in winter 2014. Steinberg was once a top sports agent, representing the likes of NFL stars Steve Young, Warren Moon and Troy Aikman before his
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- 6/25/2012
- by Daniel Miller
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The sports agent who inspired Tom Cruise's Jerry Maguire character has revealed all about his alcohol hell.
Leigh Steinberg admits he was "in denial" about his out-of-control boozing for years and it took the loss of his fortune and his livelihood to force him to make a big change.
And now, as he plans to get back in the game as an agent, he's hoping to help others struggling with alcoholism.
He tells Access Hollywood, "The world I lived in was the Disneyland of drinking, so it was very easy to be like everyone else, except that alcohol affected me more adversely.
"If I can help one person who is out there struggling to avoid the family devastation, the economic devastation, the loss of soul that comes with this then it's worth being out there."
Opening up about his self-destruction, Steinberg recalls, "After 2000, I sold my business for an ungodly amount of money... but there were a series of reverses that occurred - we lost a house because of mold, my father died, we had two kids that got very sick, I lost a fair amount of money in the Internet and then in 2006 I got divorced.
"All I ever wanted to do was be a great father... but I felt like Gulliver, tethered down with all these adversities coming... and the Lilliputians were sticking forks in me."
So he started drinking heavily and admits there were days when he would completely black out: "I wasn't reliable for a period of times and I ultimately lost my certification as an Nflpa (football) agent. Extraordinary amounts of money were going out and not much was coming back."
But he's now on his way back: "I have reapplied for my certification... I've got this bankruptcy to go through for a couple of months and then we're gonna go back."...
Leigh Steinberg admits he was "in denial" about his out-of-control boozing for years and it took the loss of his fortune and his livelihood to force him to make a big change.
And now, as he plans to get back in the game as an agent, he's hoping to help others struggling with alcoholism.
He tells Access Hollywood, "The world I lived in was the Disneyland of drinking, so it was very easy to be like everyone else, except that alcohol affected me more adversely.
"If I can help one person who is out there struggling to avoid the family devastation, the economic devastation, the loss of soul that comes with this then it's worth being out there."
Opening up about his self-destruction, Steinberg recalls, "After 2000, I sold my business for an ungodly amount of money... but there were a series of reverses that occurred - we lost a house because of mold, my father died, we had two kids that got very sick, I lost a fair amount of money in the Internet and then in 2006 I got divorced.
"All I ever wanted to do was be a great father... but I felt like Gulliver, tethered down with all these adversities coming... and the Lilliputians were sticking forks in me."
So he started drinking heavily and admits there were days when he would completely black out: "I wasn't reliable for a period of times and I ultimately lost my certification as an Nflpa (football) agent. Extraordinary amounts of money were going out and not much was coming back."
But he's now on his way back: "I have reapplied for my certification... I've got this bankruptcy to go through for a couple of months and then we're gonna go back."...
- 3/1/2012
- WENN
Show us the money! Leigh Steinberg, the powerful sports agent whom director Cameron Crowe used as the source of inspiration for Jerry Maguire, filed for Chapter 7 protection in U.S. Bankruptcy Court on Wednesday. Then in a signature move reminiscent of the manifesto Tom Cruise's titular character blasted out in the 1996 movie, Steinberg sent a pride-swallowing email to friends, colleagues and the Orange County Register revealing he has been battling alcoholism "for a number of years." In his prime, Steinberg, now 62, once sported a client list including such Super Bowl MVPs as Troy Aikman and Steve Young as well as boxing champ Oscar De La Hoya. But years spent struggling with his...
- 1/12/2012
- E! Online
Leigh Steinberg -- the sports agent who's repped Ben Roethlisberger, Troy Aikman and Steve Young -- is a wanted man for skipping a court hearing involving an alleged $1.4 million in unpaid rent.The bench warrant was issued today in Orange County because Steinberg missed his court date last week. According to documents, the super agent inspiration for "Jerry Maguire" owes a real estate company more than a mil for office space in Newport Beach, CA.
- 12/23/2011
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
Gregory Allen Howard, who penned inspirational football movie "Remember the Titans," is hitting the field again, coming on board to write a screenplay based on the life of quarterback Marlin "The Magician" Briscoe.
Briscoe is acknowledged to be the first black starting Qb and earned the nickname of "The Magician." The biopic is tentatively using that moniker as its title and will trace his rise as well as his fall into addiction and, naturally, his path to redemption.
Briscoe broke the color barrier in professional football, playing for the Denver Broncos in the American Football League and then for the Buffalo Bills. When the Afl merged in the NFL, he played for the Miami Dolphins. When he left the league, Briscoe became addicted to drugs, which saw him lose his home and auction off his Super Bowl rings. He also served time in jail. He rebounded by becoming a mentor...
Briscoe is acknowledged to be the first black starting Qb and earned the nickname of "The Magician." The biopic is tentatively using that moniker as its title and will trace his rise as well as his fall into addiction and, naturally, his path to redemption.
Briscoe broke the color barrier in professional football, playing for the Denver Broncos in the American Football League and then for the Buffalo Bills. When the Afl merged in the NFL, he played for the Miami Dolphins. When he left the league, Briscoe became addicted to drugs, which saw him lose his home and auction off his Super Bowl rings. He also served time in jail. He rebounded by becoming a mentor...
- 2/25/2010
- by By Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Holly Madison is hosting the Holly Bowl in Las Vegas and then heading to Miami to host the Leather and Laces Super Bowl Party with Kim Kardashian and Roselyn Sanchez!
Check out the Super Bowl parties and festivities going in New York City, Las Vegas and, of course, Miami!
Super Bowl Xliv HappeningsHolly Bowl Pre-Game Party
Holly Madison hosts the Holly Bowl Pre-Game Party with DJ Reach at Lavo at the Palazzo.
When: February 6
Click here for more info.
Check out the Super Bowl parties and festivities going in New York City, Las Vegas and, of course, Miami!
Super Bowl Xliv HappeningsHolly Bowl Pre-Game Party
Holly Madison hosts the Holly Bowl Pre-Game Party with DJ Reach at Lavo at the Palazzo.
When: February 6
Click here for more info.
- 2/4/2010
- Extra
Twitter is one application of a broader category called microblogging. You've seen it on The View, you've watched it creep into night time dramas, you've heard it in the news, you've seen Larry King take on Ashton Kutcher with their one million follower challenge. Ashton Kutcher got over one million followers and beat Larry King / CNN. Ashton had 1,230,000+ and CNN had 980,000+ where the match actually bought malaria nets for children in Africa. Isn't this a great application of social media; helping kids?
Then of course, that led to the Ding-Dong Ditch where Ashton Kutcher "punked" Ted Turner the owner of CNN. If you're not familiar with the Ding-Dong Ditch; you ring someone's doorbell, then when answered, you begin throwing Ding-Dongs, literally. CNN lost, so they bombed his house with Ding-Dongs. I learned that even Demi was Ding Donging with the rest of them.
Back to discussing Twitter though. Twitter is text messaging on steroids.
Then of course, that led to the Ding-Dong Ditch where Ashton Kutcher "punked" Ted Turner the owner of CNN. If you're not familiar with the Ding-Dong Ditch; you ring someone's doorbell, then when answered, you begin throwing Ding-Dongs, literally. CNN lost, so they bombed his house with Ding-Dongs. I learned that even Demi was Ding Donging with the rest of them.
Back to discussing Twitter though. Twitter is text messaging on steroids.
- 6/13/2009
- by Lon Safko
- Fast Company
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