Lynn Lashbrook (born October 11, 1948) is an

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sports agent and

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. He is currently an NFL certified contract advisor who has represented over 150 NFL football players throughout his career – including

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Quarterback Matt Moore . A former college athletic director and sports agent, Lashbrook is founder and president of

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, a sports agency and an international, online sports career training school with over 20,000 graduates from more than 162 countries.

Career

Lashbrook was athletic director at both Southern Illinois-Edwardsville and

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, and assistant athletic director at the

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and University of Alaska-Fairbanks (from 1988 to 1993). He was president of the National Association of Academic Advisors for Athletics in 1986. Lashbrook worked as an assistant professor at

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and an adjunct professor at

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in Portland and Concordia University Chicago. As an adjunct professor at the

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he was named Professor of the Year in the Distant Learning Program in 2000. In 1993, Lashbrook joined Jim Steiner and

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, leaving in 1998 to start sports-management.com which became

. Lashbrook was chosen for

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's Alumni Achievement Award in 2009. The award is the highest recognition of its graduates, honoring graduates who have made outstanding and unselfish contributions in service to their community, state, nation, in chosen career fields, or through philanthropic work.

Oregon Baseball Campaign

In 1997, Lashbrook joined an effort to bring

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to Portland, Oregon. This group eventually became known as the Oregon Stadium Campaign, a private entity that led Portland's drive for an MLB franchise during the league's relocation of the Montreal Expos. In 2003, he led the lobbying efforts that resulted in a $150 million construction bill for a new baseball stadium in Portland. Under his leadership, the group secured legislative action to subsidize a new stadium with ballplayers' payroll taxes. Due to this campaign, a 25,000-seat stadium in the heart of the city was revitalized rather than torn down and is now home to the Major League Soccer team,

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. Lashbrook is still working on bringing MLB to PDX through the websit
MustLoveBaseball.com

References

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