Yesterday, Platinum Sports & Entertainment Management, LLC announced a sale of a minority interest to Jeff Parrish. Parrish also owns Quintessential (Q) Dining & Nightlife and Safe Lock Storage and is a part owner of a branch office of USA Mortgage. Platinum’s corporate offices are also located in St. Charles, Missouri. Platinum is the largest baseball agency in […]
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Busy weekends is the norm over at Scott Boras Corp. headquarters. This past weekend was no exception. Scott Boras has been busy playing with the media concerning Johnny Damon negotiations, but he also had a client fire him and subsequently was hired by a different professional player. Johnny Damon is not the only Scott Boras […]
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Guest contribution from current Dynasty intern, Wade Senti. In the coming week, expect a number of trade rumors, requests, and roster movements. The NBA trade deadline is February 18th. Nevertheless, it is Amare Stoudemire who is captivating bloggers and journalists alike. In his seventh NBA season, Stoudemire is averaging just over 21 points and almost […]
B.J. Upton is the 2nd player to reach an arbitration hearing this February. Corey Hart was the first, and in his case, the panel of arbitrators handed Hart the victory, and $4.8 million (compared to the Brewers’ offer of $4.15 million). Upton’s has already had his hearing yesterday, and one of the 3 panelists (Elizabeth […]
Tom Haudricourt of the Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinal just tweeted that Corey Hart has surprisingly won his arbitration hearing. If this is true, Hart will make $4.8 million in the 2010 season.
Today marks the first day of actual baseball arbitration hearings. Of the 44 players that exchanged salary figures with their organizations, 32 of them have come to an agreement, leaving 12 with the potential of going all the way to a hearing in St. Petersburg, Florida. Most of those players will likely sign for a […]
This is a guest contribution from Dynasty intern, Scott Britton. Taking a 0-28 team to a 15 win season in less than four years is an accomplishment that is pretty hard to miss. This is something Horace Broadnax was able to do with the Savannah State University men’s basketball program. Something even more compelling was […]
It is definitely symposium season. The newest information about a symposium has been brought to me courtesy of the Seton Hall Journal of Sports and Entertainment Law. What: Seton Hall 2010 Sports & Entertainment Law Symposium When: Friday, February 26, 2010 (9 a.m. – 5 p.m.) Where: One Newark Center, Newark, NJ 07102 (map) Cost: […]
Is Johnny Damon getting more press as a free agent than he did with the most popular baseball team in America (the New York Yankees)? Everyone is speculating that Damon will have to take less than the Yankees original offseason offer (speculated around 2-years, $19 million) if he hopes to play in 2010. And he […]
Even Maury Ballstein from Zoolander would say that collective bargaining discussions are so hot right now. We discussed the important collective bargaining issues for the NFL, NBA, and MLB at the 2010 UF Sports Law Symposium, but there is still a lot more that will come up before any deals are brokered between the leagues […]