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Who Represents The 2010-11 Champion Dallas Mavericks

The following list displays the Dallas Mavericks’ 15-man roster along with each player’s agent of record. JJ Barea – Dan Fegan (Lagardere Unlimited) Rodrigue Beaubois – Bouna Ndiaye (Comsport) Corey Brewer – Happy Walters (Rogue Sports) Caron Butler – Raymond Brothers Brian Cardinal – Mark Bartelstein (Priority Sports) Tyson Chandler – Jeff Schwartz (Excel Sports) Brendan Haywood […]

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Four NFL Players Help Children In El Salvador

If you combine the weight of Aaron Kampman (Jacksonville Jaguars), Russell Allen (Jacksonville Jaguars), Craig Terrill (Seattle Seahawks), and Jordy Nelson (Green Bay Packers), you have something that weighs approximately 1,000 pounds.  Yet the enormous size of those four NFL players does not compare to the size of their hearts.  Each one of them have […]

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On To The Next One: Kris Humphries

The most important question is, did Kim Kardashian influence Kris Humphries decision at all?  The decision was to fire Dan Fegan of Lagardère Unlimited who used to be Humphries’ agent.  In Fegan’s place is Marc Cornstein of Pinnacle Management.  Cornstein is tasked with helping Humphries earn enough money to support himself in case he divorces Kardashian […]

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On To The Next One: Deron Williams

New Jersey Nets point guard Deron Williams has not yet hired a new agent (he has to wait two weeks from the time he fired his old agent), but has officially parted ways with his existing agent, Bob McLaren.  Various writers believe that once the two week window expires, Williams will be signing with Leon […]

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Jimmy Clausen Signs With David Dunn Of Athletes First

Gary Wichard, the recently deceased founder of Pro Tect Management, had an absolutely freakish 2010 NFL Draft.  He and is company represented Arrelious Benn, Everson Griffen, Taylor Mays, C.J. Spiller, and Jimmy Clausen.  That was the type of draft class that would make anybody, CAA Football included, salivate.  Out of the entire group, Wichard was […]

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DIYRS: Do It Yourself Rookie Symposium

The following is a guest contribution from Marc Isenberg.  Follow Marc on twitter @marcisenberg.  I will be publishing my review of Marc’s “Go Pro Like a Pro” (discussed in this post) in the near future.  Needless to say, it is a very informative booklet for athletes to read. “The direction in which education starts a […]

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Former CAA Baseball Agent Casey Close Joins Excel Sports Management

Casey Close represents Derek Jeter, Ryan Howard, and Derek Lee (amongst other baseball players).  He is a former Michigan baseball player who won Baseball America’s National Player of the Year award in 1986.  Close is a member of the fairly new MLBPA Player Agent Advisory Committee.  He is nothing less than one of baseball’s major power […]

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What Now? Spring Signing Time

The Portsmouth Invitational (basketball’s version of the “Senior Bowl”) just finished.  The craziness of the basketball world will be at an all time high this week. The players that we have worked over the last two weeks (Corey Stokes, Alex Tyus, and Julyan Stone) all had above average showings for their positions.  All three players chose their […]

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An NBA Lockout May Affect Early Entries And The Overseas Market

Yesterday, I was involved in a great discussion about the NFL Lockout, which I will include a link to in a future post.  I also had the opportunity to answer some questions for Marcus Shockley at Basketball Elite regarding a potential NBA Lockout and how it may affect players who are or may enter the […]

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On To The Next One: C.J. Watson

C.J. Watson was undrafted coming out of the University of Tennessee and played overseas for Bipop Carire Reggio Emilia in Italy and PAOK B.C. in Greece before coming back to the United States to play in the NBA Development League.  Watson was the 5th overall pick in the 2007 D-League draft, taken by the Rio Grande Valley Vipers.  In […]