Over the weekend, Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! Sports Tweeted the following: [blackbirdpie url=”http://www.twitter.com/WojYahooNBA/status/94530707271061504″] Wojnarowski Tweeted that statement after Arn Tellem of Wasserman Media Group, Mark Bartelstein of Priority Sports, and many other prominent basketball agents met with National Basketball Players Association (NBPA) Executive Director Billy Hunter on Friday to talk about the NBA lockout (which […]
Last week, Georgia Tech lost its 2009 ACC Conference Championship, was told that it has to pay a $100,000 fine, and is on 4-years of probation all because the NCAA found out that a friend of an employee of an Atlanta, Georgia sports agency provided impermissible benefits to a football player on that 2009 football team. Actually, […]
Sometimes Deion Sanders says things that sound responsible, such as talking to young NFL players prior to the start of the lockout and making them understand that there is “going to be a famine” (in his words). The demand of lockout loans and agent switching is proof that Sanders was correct in his statement. Other times, Sanders […]
In my Shabbat Shalom: Friday Wrap-Up from February 11, 2011, I wrote that agents should make sure to get Basketball Arbitral Tribunal (BAT) clauses it in their international players’ contracts. If inserted in a player’s contract, the clause allows either the team or player to have the Basketball Arbitral Tribunal oversee a legal proceeding and resolve a […]
The National Sports & Entertainment Law Society (NSELS) is a low-profit, limited-liability company created by law students that focuses on organizing and centralizing sports and entertainment law societies; providing a resource for both emerging and established sports and entertainment law societies; connecting students who want to pursue a legal career in the industries; and educating […]
On July 1, 2011, Michael McAdoo filed a Complaint in North Carolina against the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill along with its Chancellor, H. Holden Thorp, and the NCAA. McAdoo was a football player at UNC until the NCAA ruled that he was permanently ineligible to perform in intercollegiate athletics based on McAdoo’s alleged receipt of $110 in improper […]
The Athlete Agent Reform Act of 2011, a new sports agent law in Tennessee, took effect four days ago on July 1, 2011. With the new law in place, Tennessee becomes the most recent state to strengthen penalties with regards to illegal activities by sports agents. As with other states, there is no indication that the […]
In the past couple of years, we have covered three former basketball agents making the jump from representing players to being one of the key figures with regards to managing basketball operations of an NBA franchise. Most recently, former Wasserman Media Group agent Bob Myers signed contract to become the Assistant General Manager of the […]
What: Santa Clara Law 2011 Sports Law Symposium When: September 8, 2011 (9 a.m. – 5 p.m.) Where: Locatelli Center, Santa Clara University (map) Topics: Concussions (Keynote: DeMaurice Smith, Executive Director, NFLPA), Steroids (Keynote: Mark Fainaru-Wada, ESPN Investigative Reporter), Labor Strife (Keynote: William B. Gould, IV, former Chairman of the National Labor Relations Board), and the Use of Player Images […]
The Entertainment, Arts and Sports Law Section of the New York State Bar Association is seeking authors for an upcoming book focusing on issues and topics in Sports Law. Individual chapters within the book will focus on the following subjects: NCAA and college/university athletic rules Arena football Right of publicity and privacy of athletes Doping […]