Just curious, how did you know this? I thought many of the "big name" professors have their "public" emails screened by the assistants while having separate personal email accounts. By the way, I am not questioning your assertion, just wondering where you got the information.
If he is Yao's agent, shouldn't he get a cut from any of Yao's deal? Isn't this how agent makes money? Maybe I misunderstood the meaning of "Yao's representative/agent" here? Plus, how is it going to harm Rockets fans' reputation? Now, we don't know for sure if Reebok really has screwed up or not - only Yao knows. We just want to make sure that if Reebok did screw up (or being less than proactive), he should help Yao's case with Reebok, that's all.
OK I take that back ... chinadaily crediting sina.com for the photo is funnier than both of those. http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/sports/2006-10/08/content_702925.htm
On the bright side (maybe), just think of all of the China Daily readers who will come to Clutchfans thanks to the watermark!
By now I am sure you all had read this latest news on Yao's toe problem. http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/sports/bk/bkn/4246526.html And this: http://www.nba.com/rockets/news/Notes_Yao_will_miss_710_days-191270-34.html?rss=true Quoted here: "He doesn't remember getting stepped on and I don't think that was the case," Rockets trainer Keith Jones said. "I think it was just that the toe ran into the end of the shoe repetively." So, isn't it clear now that the shoes cause this? You can say maybe his toe is too long, but that's the point, Reebok needs to give him shoes that are customized and customized correctly to his feet. Unbelieavable how bad Reebok is doing its job!
Again, it's really hard to understand why Yao didn't not put anything over his toe? Many people's wear toe sleaves to protect the toe from injury. Seems odd to me.
Yeah, agents just work out deals out of the goodness of their heart. Since you don't seem to understand I'll explain, Agents as representation of an athlete recieve compensation from negotiations on the behalf of the athletes they represent (somewhere in the neighborhood of 10% I imagine). This includes all deals namely team salary and endorsements. Since Yao has a contract with Reebok that means his agent has a vested interest in Yao completing (maintaining) his contract with Reebok. Thus he directly benefits from this relationship. When someone who has something to gain from a situation tries to get involved in order to affect the outcome this is referred to as a conflict of interest. I'm sure as a professor Mr. Huizinga understands this and thus is trying to defend said interest, but this is wrong because he should be looking out for Yao's golden toe not Reeboks image. Are you this guys boyfriend or something that your getting all worked up about someone questioning his ethics?
