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NBA Players Sports Agents

Why Did Jason Thompson Pick Andre Buck?

Want to know what it takes to land a professional athlete client?  I am not the person you should be asking.  The best practices for recruiting professional athletes can be found straight from the mouths of those who have made that very tough decision…the decision of picking a sports agent for representation.  No one knows […]

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College Basketball Players Sports Agents

NBA Draft Signing Update

The deadline for underclassmen to pull their names out of the NBA Draft is one week from yesterday (June 15).  Those that have committed to an agent no longer have an option of returning to school if they decide that they do not want to enter the draft pool. This year’s draft class has seen […]

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NFL Players Recruiting Sports Agents

Jack Bechta Hates Fax Machines

Jack Bechta is the head honcho at JB Sports (Jack Bechta and Associates).  Jack has been negotiating deals for professional football players since the early 1990s, and still boasts a respectable client roster to this day.  In his time as an NFLPA Certified Advisor, Jack has negotiated over 200 contracts for his players.  The man […]

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Sports Agents

Matthew Vuckovich Interviews With Jimmy Scott

Those of you who have been following this site for a while know that we have gone through various contributors during the existence of SportsAgentBlog.com.  One of our original contributors was a man named Matthew Vuckovich.  He was one in charge of our expanding Interview with the Agent section and was so passionate about breaking […]

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Headline Sports Agents

2009 NFLPA Contract Advisor Applicants, Start Your Engines

If you are one of the lucky people to have applied this past January for NFLPA Contract Advisor certification, you most probably received an email recently that states whether your application has been approved or denied.  If approved, step one (the easy step) is out of the way.  Now you will have to attend the […]

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Headline Hockey Sports Agents

Your Client and His Brain

We all know that keeping in touch with our clients is vastly important for many different reasons.  But we can add another reason to that list: uncovering unexpected/unknown injuries.  In April, TSN reported that Ron Salcer accused the Minnesota Wild medical staff of negligence for failing to diagnose that his client, Bret Burns, had a […]

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NBA Players NBA Teams Sports Agents

Basketball Agency Puts Together Its Own Workout

Recently, I discussed the three main workouts that NBA teams are putting on for the top prospects in this year’s draft class.  Teams are joining up on these workouts to cut the cost of doing them individually, which include the fixed costs of hosting the event itself, flying the players out to the workout, putting […]

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NFL Players Sports Agents

Rosenhaus Fired, Hired, And Busy

Yesterday was an eventful day for one Drew Rosenhaus.  He was fired by a client, re-signed a client who had fired him in the past, and negotiated a contract extension for one of his current clients…all in one day.  But such is a normal day for Rosenhaus (minus the firing). The man who fired Rosenhaus […]

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Sports Agents

Excited About The New ABA Expansion Teams?

The Arena Football League canceled its 2009 season.  NFL Europe was scrapped a few years ago.  The Continental Basketball Association wrapped up its season well before it was supposed to.  The UNGL never got off the ground.  The AAFL did not have enough funding to have its inaugural season.  There are many other examples of […]

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NBA Players Sports Agents

David Falk Is Happy With Representing One Player In This Year’s Draft

Jonathan Givony of DraftExpress.com recently sat down with basketball agent, David Falk, following Givony’s review of David’s new book, The Bald Truth.  Givony first probed Falk to answer questions regarding his book: what motivated Falk to write The Bald Truth, whether he took peoples sensitivities into consideration when writing it, feedback since publishing, etc.  He […]