The latest “agent warning letter” is brought to you by the Office of General Counsel at NC State University and delivered via mail to individuals registered as Athlete Agents with the North Carolina Secretary of State’s Office. The letter informs agents that NC State has formed a Professional Sports Counseling Panel and requests that if agents […]
The following guest post is by Allain Roy, CMG Sports President & CEO Any experienced coach will tell you that the most difficult area to navigate in coaching youth sports is the parents. Having been a part of the hockey world for almost 39 of my 43 years, I can attest to that quote. Most […]
Late Friday afternoon, many football agents received an email from Emily Garr, a Compliance Assistant at the University of Louisville Athletics. The unexpected email contained two attachments: (1) a letter from Garr and Jody Sykes, Associate Athletic Director at Louisville; and (2) a University of Louisville Agent Registration form. The letter was copied and pasted in the […]
Montaous Walton. It is very unlikely that you have ever heard the name, unless you happened to read a recent long-form article written by Brandon Sneed for SBNation.com. And if you have not read the article, it is highly recommended that you do. Montaous was a boy with a dream of playing baseball. He so […]
A couple of days ago, the following Tweet by NFLPA Contract Advisor Blake Baratz caught my attention: [blackbirdpie url=”https://twitter.com/blakebaratz/status/339557588339400705″] Later that day, I spoke to Josh Luchs, author of Illegal Procedure: A Sports Agent Comes Clean On The Dirty Business Of College Football, who once said to me, “this new runner rule isn’t difficult to enforce, it’s […]
The creation of Roc Nation Sports has brought increased attention to the sports agency industry. And rightfully so. Attaching Jay-Z’s name to a sports agency is bold; athletes will be intrigued and competing agents will be concerned (whether they wish to admit it on the record or not). I have been covering Jay-Z’s efforts on […]
It is just about the heart of signing season for basketball agents looking to represent players leaving their respective universities. Minus those players on teams slated to play in the Final Four, all players who are fully committed to playing at the next level and understand that signing with an agent will force them to […]
“This stuff is so good u can’t make this stuff up.” That’s what a football agent wrote to me in an email sent four days ago, including a forwarded message from Paul Pogge, Associate Athletic Director at the University of North Carolina. The message’s subject was “UNC Agent and Advisor Program,” and the body of […]
How do you know a Compliance Office really takes pride in its agent policy? It begins its announcement of its new policy with: **NEW** Brigham Young University (BYU) sent an email out last week to all NFLPA certified Contract Advisors to notify them of changes to the university’s Football Agent Policy. The email included the revised […]
The following is a guest contribution from Heather Brittany (@HeatherBrit). Heather is currently a law student at Loyola Law School, Los Angeles and alum at the University of Southern California. National Signing Day is only a week away, and the Internet is overflowing with articles analyzing the increase of attention the day now receives. National […]