bagman
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His experience demonstrates that far from ridding sports of backroom deals and bagman boosters, the deluge of legal NIL money incentivizes and gives cover to the illicit market.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025
Their first mission, which is to track a bagman with a suitcase in the Madrid airport is a nifty sequence, which gets the film off to a good start.
From Salon ● Mar. 3, 2023
Braun singled out Chiang, an admitted bagman, as especially untrustworthy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 2023
The bagman, who was at Bubba Watson's side for his two Masters wins, knew he was onto a good thing when Scheffler took him on.
From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2022
The missionary may say that he has no "call" to reform existing conditions in his own country, just as the bagman may disclaim responsibility for his firm's slackness; but such excuses book no orders.
From Pan-Islam by G. Wyman (George Wyman) Bury
Huizar’s lawyers called Esparza and Kim, the alleged bagmen in the transaction, “admitted liars” who are “attempting to obtain leniency for their own crimes by cooperating with the government.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2021
Going into the pro caddie profession: It was a rough year for player-caddie breakups – I’m still not over the Phil-Bones split – but a recent trend doesn’t seem to bode well for professional bagmen.
From Golf Digest ● Dec. 12, 2017
But these are merely the movers of the money, the bagmen, the middle men.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 22, 2017
Two-time champion Ben Crenshaw's long-time Masters caddie Carl Jackson is one of the remaining old school Augusta bagmen, who began working at the course aged 14 in 1961.
From BBC ● Apr. 9, 2014
Our tastes are imposed on us by our tradesmen, under which respectable title I include newspaper owners, booksellers' touts, book-stall keepers, music-hall kings, opera syndicates, picture-dealers, and honest bagmen.
From Since Cézanne by Clive Bell
