Agent Spotlight: Lindsay Kagawa

In a recent piece on Lindsay Kagawa ("Sports agent no devil, but wears Prada"), head of the newly created Women's Elite Division for Bill Duffy's BDA Sports, columnist Marcus Thompson II seems to fawn, just a little: "Kagawa, an Albany native, is what they call a postmodern businesswoman, the smoothie you'd get by mixing Ellen DeGeneres and Victoria Beckham in a blender with some "Colbert Report" and a little bit of 'Sex and the City.' She stands out among this boys club's nuclear levels of testosterone by embracing sexy and flaunting smarts. She complements tireless hustle with rebellious thinking and progressive motives, allowing her humor and Gen-X flair to serve as the chaser." It was around this point when Marcus began to drool. Yet perhaps he is on to something. Kagawa wasn't given the keys to her own BDA division, so to speak, by accident. True, she spent five years as Duffy's executive assistant, the Lloyd t...