What: Symposium: Resiting the Recession: Growth Opportunities for Sports in an Economic Downturn.. Where: Harvard Law School. See map. When: Friday, March 13, 2009 – 4:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. and Saturday, March 14, 2009 – 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Schedule: March 13: 4:00-5:00 pm: Keynote Speech by Andrew Zimbalist 5:00-6:30 pm: Panel on […]
Day: February 26, 2009
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This Is Family Business
When I reported that Mark Sanchez selected his brother Nick to be his NFLPA certified representative in contractual negotiations, there was a great follow-up discussion in the comments section regarding whether or not it should be a concern that Mark picked a family member to serve as his agent. Commentator, Tony, had this to offer: […]
National Sports Agency got a lot of solid press for winning Spike TV’s reality show, Super Agent. Harold Lewis and his company beat out nine other agents to win the right to represent Detroit Lions DT, Shaun Cody. Harold also received some solid press from his interview at SportsAgentBlog.com. But the biggest news for his […]
While the economy has taken its toll on the Continental Basketball Association (CBA), forcing a shortened 2008/09 season and causing many involved in the league to worry about its future, the National Basketball Developmental League (NBDL) seems to be doing just fine. Many leagues are firing executives and freezing salaries. The NBDL is expanding. Portland, […]
I am a big fan of Orlando Hudson. In a baseball world where analysts sweat over “prospects” who often never bring back any return on the huge investments teams pump into attaining them, it is nice to see a player make it who was selected in the 43rd round of the draft. Tony Jackson of […]