When he is not busy recruiting potential clients for Dynasty, reading up on the NFL Collective Bargaining agreement, or taking his recently engaged fiance to dinner (CONGRATULATIONS!), Matthew Watkins likes to write posts over at the Dynasty Newswire. His most recent piece is definitely a good weekend read. It discusses the NFLPA’s Committee on Agent Regulation and […]
Mid-day yesterday, Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! Sports broke the news that Michael Beasley dropped his agent, Joel Bell, and his advisor, D.C. Assault director Curtis Malone. Talk about some fun distractions for a rookie with a somewhat muddy past that should be focusing on meshing with his new teammates and learning how to play at the […]
From a recent 7-page piece in the New York Daily News: [Scott] Boras most definitely does not look like an agent spurned, like a man taken to the baseball woodshed. The most influential and controversial agent in Major League Baseball is still the king of the agents, still the man many players want on the […]
Barring an agent from a training camp may come off as extreme, but not when the agent in consideration is one who once quit the profession after becoming the target in a murder-for-hire plot involving one of his clients (Mike Danton) and is still awaiting trial on sexual exploitation charges. I am talking about the same guy who a […]
Not knowing whether the brochure you hand out to a player is too specific and thus considered to be personally tailored towards an athlete is one thing. But all of us agents know when we are clearly breaking the NCAA rule, which strictly prohibits the disbursement of any type of monetary benefit to a student-athlete. […]
Life was good for Calvin Andrews and BDA Sports. They had locked up O.J. Mayo and were ready for another successful NBA draft. Then came the news that O.J. Mayo had received money from Rodney Guillory, a runner for Andrews and BDA. Calvin maintained that he stopped giving money to Mayo through runners prior to […]
Last Friday, I participated on a Tele-press Conference featuring C. Lamont Smith of All Pro Sports & Entertainment. C. Lamont Smith represents guys like Derrick Mason and Rudi Johnson, and was recently mentioned in a SportsAgentBlog.com piece which discussed Lito Sheppard dropping All Pro Sports & Entertainment for Rosenhaus. Anyway, the teleconference’s mission had absolutely […]
Jeff Borris, the agent of record for Barry Bonds, is nothing short of persistent. Even though Bonds has not received a Major League deal from any teams, Borris continues to put his client’s name in the paper and has no problem expressing his displeasure in the lack of interest in Bonds. Borris most recently attempted […]
Remember Entourage? You know, that small time show on HBO that comes back this September after a long (and I mean long) hiatus? Really though, Entourage gives a look into one of the subjects of this sports agent world, the real life Ari Gold. Ari Emanuel founded Endeavor in 1995 after he left acclaimed agency, […]
Listed under Other Presidential Candidates on in the Edmonton Journal (what’s a Canadian paper doing writing about America’s offshoot party candidates, anyway?) is a man named Charles Jay. He is forty-eight years old and is a candidate for the Boston Tea Party. Not only is Jay from my hometown of Hollywood, FL, he is also […]