College football is back, and very shortly the 2012 NFL regular season will begin. Hallelujah! I will be in Austin, Texas next Thursday and Friday, speaking at the Texas Review of Entertainment and Sports Law’s 4th Annual Symposium. Come say hi if you are in town. Anybody out there picking my Florida Gators to win […]
Sponsored Post Having clients in their 20’s, and the 20’s being a typical time for a person to marry, part of the fiduciary responsibility of agents or a financial advisers is to suggest a prenuptial agreement to the athletes they represent. No one wants to talk about the possibility of divorce even before his or […]
36 days. That is the amount of days that Jacksonville Jaguars running back Maurice Jones-Drew has been holding out from participating in team practices and preseason games. Based on a $30,000 fine for each day missed, Jones-Drew has racked up a bill of over $1 million. While it is unlikely that the Jaguars ever attempt to […]
Jason Dubin was once a Phoenix, Arizona-based baseball agent working for a respected agency, Gaylord Sports Management (Gaylord Sports was purchased by Lagardère Unlimited earlier this year), and then served as the CEO and General Counsel for a company named Athlete Advisory Group LLC. But Dubin’s world came crashing down last year when he attempted to meet […]
The following tryout information was provided by John Bryant, Assistant Coach/Head Strength & Conditioning Coach of the NBA Development League’s Bakersfield Jam. The Bakersfield Jam is affiliated with the Atlanta Hawks, Los Angeles Clippers, Phoenix Suns, and Toronto Raptors. They play their home games in Baskersfield, California. Tryouts Los Angeles Area – Saturday and Sunday, September 8 and 9: $150 pre-registration […]
This article explores Paul A. Czarnota’s newly released article, “The AFL, the joint venture defence and single economic entity theory“, which can be found in August’s edition of the Australian Journal of Competition and Consumer Law (AJCCL). The Australian Football League (AFL) is one of the most unique sporting leagues in the world. Like the […]
The following article is a contribution by Tyler Nepote. Tyler is currently a junior at Wichita State University double majoring in Finance and Management in pursuit of law school. On February 29, I had the privileged of writing a guest article on SAB titled, Agents and Advisors: An Athlete’s Perspective, wherein I interviewed four collegiate athletes all going through the […]
My second year as a professor of Sport Agency Management at Indiana University officially began this past Tuesday. I did not make the same mistake that I did last Fall of scheduling class for Monday nights (there’s some sort of program my students are interested in called “Monday Night Football”). College football approaches, as does […]
A University of Kentucky student-athlete who publishes content on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and/or MySpace (who really uses MySpace anymore?) that includes any 1 of 370 sports agent names will automatically have that post flagged and sent to his/her coach. It is a part of a new effort by the university to monitor student-athletes’ use of social […]
Yesterday, I received an email from a prominent football agent who told me that, in his opinion (he says “in the interest of objectivity”), I should disclose who I represent to my readers. Before I get into the issue, some background information is necessary. In 2007, I became a licensed athlete agent by my home state […]