On October 9, I suggested that we bring back ARPA, an organization that once served some worthy purposes in strengthening the sports agent profession. ARPA stands for Association of Representatives of Professional Athletes, and was created in 1978 as a vehicle to introduce self-regulation into the profession. After publishing the post, I received tons of […]
The New York Times is also taking note of Lonnie Cooper‘s unfortunate start to the 2008/09 NBA season. As I previously mentioned, all six NBA coaches fired so far this year are Career Sports & Entertainment clients. Not exactly something you want to deal with around the Holidays, but Lonnie knows that this business cares […]
Guest contribution by Kelly Kilpatrick, who writes on the subject of sports management college. She invites your feedback at [email protected]. With the NFL Draft and the NFL post-season upon us, sports fans are all buzzing in speculation about who will be the next big thing for the 2009 season. Sports agents will be out in […]
It is an agent’s biggest fear. You invest a ton of time, money, and your heart into a solid player who is a great role player, but not yet a super star. He gets his chance in his respective league, gets better and better by the year, and eventually gets elected to represent his conference […]
Guest contribution from Ryan Ballard, President of the Sports and Entertainment Law Society at Thomas M. Cooley Law School. NHL player agents haven’t had it easy this year. First, David Frost was banned from Phoenix. More recently, NHL agent Tobin Wright was banned from the Excel Energy Center– the home of the Minnesota Wild. There […]
Thus far, six NBA coaches have been fired in this young 2008-09 season. Every single one of them is a client of Career Sports & Entertainment, the company I interned for prior to starting Dynasty Athlete Representation. CS&E has a solid golf and baseball client base, but the company is regarded as one of the […]
I received some interesting feedback on my last article from family, friends, business associates and people who I had never met before. They can broadly be placed into two categories – the supportive and the questioning. The supportive feedback does not need to be examined here as it is trite at this stage; I would […]
What if I told you that the most powerful agent in baseball lost a client to one of, if not the, most powerful agencies in all of sports? Scott Boras, busy working the media and GMs at the 2008 Winter Meetings, now has one less player to worry about. Jeremy Guthrie dropped Boras for Casey […]
Perry Rogers of Alliance Sports Management Co. represented Andre Agassi during his years of greatness and claims to have concurrently represented his wife, Steffi Graf. Rogers says that he is owed more than $50k in commissions from Graf. The interesting point is that with endorsement deals, agents are notoriously paid directly from the marketers, take […]
As of yesterday, baseball executives and MLBPA agents had crawled up into the Ritz and glitz of Las Vegas, but this trip is not to enjoy the blackjack tables, luxurious pool decks, and clubs that stay open all hours of the night. The agents and executives are in Vegas for one of the most important […]