I attended a recent symposium at Manhattanville College where there was a discussion about the agent business in professional sports. One of the speakers was Art Weiss, the agent for Wayne Chrebet, Harry Carson and several other NFL players. Weiss said the grass was greener in baseball, meaning the financial rewards in baseball were far […]
Category: Sports Agents
I have not yet taken Contract Law (I still have about 1 month of freedom before I am launched into the pits of Law School hell), but I did learn some information about contracts when I took a Sports Law class while completing my undergraduate degree. I learned that there is such a thing as […]
Sports blog, SimonOnSports, believes that NBA agent Marc Cornstein must be on crack. It may not be crack, but it must be something. Cornstein, a sports agent at Pinnacle Management, represents 3 players taken in the 2007 NBA Draft: Petteri Koponen, Stanko Barac, and Milovan Rakovic [The 2007 NBA Sports Agent Draft]. None of them […]
In today’s business you see more and more people who are trying to break into the sports agent world and sign that big time athlete that can set off a career of fortune. It is too bad that the majority of agents never reach those lofty goals they set fourth. In fact, as of 2001 […]
If I asked you right after the 2007 NFL Draft who you thought would be the first player selected in the first-round to sign, you probably would not have said Greg Olsen. Not because he is a former Miami Hurricane or because he is a tight end, but because his agent is Drew Rosenhaus. Looks […]
Back on May 25th, only one day after I returned from the Holy Land (Israel), I pondered whether the Portland Trail Blazers should select Greg Oden or Kevin Durant based on more than just their playing skills [Who Will Blaze The Trail?]. At the time, I was led to believe that Greg Oden looked older […]
Watching the NBA draft Thursday made me think of this topic and how wrong it is. An ESPN reporter asked Mike Conley Sr., the agent of Greg Oden and Mike Conley Jr, why he is the best choice to be representing both of these future NBA superstars. His answer: “This business is about trust and […]
I am definitely not the first person to cover the story on sports agent, Scott Boras, lobbying the MLB to change the World Series format to a best of 9 series with the first 2 games played at a neutral site. I personally have held off on discussing the matter, because while it does include […]
Last week Elite Sports Properties secured the representation of Nothern Knights player Matthew Kreuzer. [Tonight’s loser may find white Knight] After recieving many calls, Kreuzer felt it was time to make a decision, and Elite Sports Properties, a full-service agency who manages stars including Robert Harvey, Nathan Buckley and one of Matthew’s idols (and number […]
It happens once every year. The NHL free-agency market opens, and is quickly flooded with talent that teams salivate over. Today (July 1st) is that very special day, and agents will clog their phone lines in conversation with potential managers for their clients. Look for the lines to start getting busy at 12pm, which is […]