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Alex Rodriguez Goes With Gaylord For Marketing

In 2010, Alex Rodriguez fired Scott Boras.  Boras had been Rodriguez’s MLBPA certified agent; his responsibility was to help Rodriguez choose the teams he would play for and negotiate the terms of his contracts with MLB teams.  However, Rodriguez has always had many other “agents” helping him out off of the field. In 2007, Rodriguez […]

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Bob Myers To Become Golden State Warriors Assistant General Manager

Late last night, it was reported that the Golden State Warriors is going to hire Bob Myers of Wasserman Media Group as the Warriors assistant general manager.  Myers would not be the first basketball agent to switch to the team side of the business.  Jason Levien went from representing Kevin Martin, Luol Deng, and Courtney […]

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Former CAA Baseball Agent Casey Close Joins Excel Sports Management

Casey Close represents Derek Jeter, Ryan Howard, and Derek Lee (amongst other baseball players).  He is a former Michigan baseball player who won Baseball America’s National Player of the Year award in 1986.  Close is a member of the fairly new MLBPA Player Agent Advisory Committee.  He is nothing less than one of baseball’s major power […]

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United Football League Player Contract Update

Update (7:18 a.m. 4/14/2011): Very late last night, the UFL scrapped the reserve list idea.  However, teams had spent the last 2 days putting together such lists under the assumption that they would become effective today.  In any case, it will not become a reality…at least for the meantime. Update (5:17 p.m. 4/14/2011): The UFL […]

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What Now? Spring Signing Time

The Portsmouth Invitational (basketball’s version of the “Senior Bowl”) just finished.  The craziness of the basketball world will be at an all time high this week. The players that we have worked over the last two weeks (Corey Stokes, Alex Tyus, and Julyan Stone) all had above average showings for their positions.  All three players chose their […]

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2011 College Sport Research Institute (CSRI) Conference

What: 2011 College Sport Research Institute (CSRI) Conference When: April 20-22, 2011 Where: William C. Friday Center for Continuing Education at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (map) April 20 Panels 8:30am – 9:45am: Show Me The Manual! NCAA Regulations, Agents, and Amateurism Jason Belzer — President of Global Athlete Management Enterprises, Inc. (GAME, Inc.) and current […]

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2011 Ivy Sports Symposium Fellowship Program

The Ivy Sports Symposium is a major international sports symposium hosted by the universities that make up the Ivy League.  It was originally called the Princeton Sports Symposium for four years (starting in 2006) and was run strictly by students at Princeton University.  In 2010, it officially changed to the Ivy Sports Symposium (take a […]

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Archived Audio From The 4/6/2011 NFL Lockout Discussion

Sticking to the lockout discussion, if you missed yesterday’s roundtable teleconference at Focus.com, you can still hear what Jessica B. Horewitz and I had to say about various facets of the NFL Lockout.  First, a little bit of background on Jessica B. Horewitz, Ph.D., who joined me in the event. Jessica B. Horewitz, Ph.D., wrote her […]

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The NFL Lockout: Where Are We Now and What It Means for Business

Join me in a roundtable teleconference on Wednesday, April 6th, 2011 at 2pmPT/5pm ET as we address the legal and economic consequences of the NFL lockout. Our panel will discuss specific topics such as: The real story on the lockout such as what both sides really want, how far apart they are and who the powers are […]

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Knocking on Heaven’s Door

Yes, the post title is the name of a great song and a great book about a husband-wife baseball agent duo, but it also describes my professional journey very accurately. My idea of a living Heaven is having a career as a sports agent and in order to put myself in a better position to […]