I started reading the website HardballTalk a couple of weeks ago, after a partner at the law firm I am working at told me that it is one of his favorite places to go to find baseball information. Since then, I have been hooked. I especially enjoy it when Craig Calcaterra, a former lawyer, talks […]
Category: Sports Law
Arkansas is one of the forty states that has passed the Uniform Athlete Agents Act (UAAA), which requires sports agents to become licensed in the state in order to act as an athlete agent and recruit student-athletes with aspirations of going pro. One of the main goals of the UAAA is to prevent agents from […]
Late last Friday, the NFL Players Association released an official announcement that Gary Wichard is hereby suspended from acting as an NFLPA Contract Advisor for nine months and that Teague Egan‘s NFLPA Certification was revoked. Wichard was suspended for having impermissible communication with UNC’s Marvin Austin prior to Austin being eligible for the NFL Draft. […]
With the NFL Players Association and the conglomerate of NFL owners in Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) negotiations this month, we have a window to discuss whether the expiration of the CBA will result in the loss of the 2011 season. My friends Bram A. Maravent and Jeffrey F. Levine, co-authored an article (click here) on […]
Scott Boras‘ company might have exploited Dominican Republic talented baseball players by giving them and their families loans and other payments in return for a better chance to represent the players and earn back the money paid out, and more, through the commissions received on their signing bonuses. Scott Boras and his company would stand to […]
Compliance offices take note of what Texas A&M University is doing. Texas A&M Compliance is on Facebook and Twitter, but so are many other programs. How many offices are publishing a “Guide to NCAA Rules for Those Associated with Student-Athletes?” Titled “ENTOURAGE”, the guide is distributed to individuals associated with Texas A&M Athletics and those […]
I have no idea if the United Football League (UFL) is doing well with its attendance or TV ratings, and I sure hope that the league does not lose another $30 million as it did last year. What I do know is that many agents persuade their fringe NFL clients to sign contracts with the UFL, because […]
The last thing that the University of Southern California needs is another controversy involving agents, but that is exactly what the institution has on its hands. We are not talking about Reggie Bush money here. In fact, the whole story started with an agent giving a student-athlete (Dillon Baxter) a ride on a golf cart. […]
Athletes are affected by intellectual property law. If states begin to pass new legislation to restrict athletes’ abilities to protect their Right of Publicity, it will take one potential asset out of our clients’ pockets and take away a tool for marketing agents. As advocates for their clients, agents should speak out against these proposed […]
Bernie Lee, a basketball agent who has been featured on this blog in the past, is now the defendant in a pending lawsuit. On November 15, the Complaint in the case of Ashley Merritt v. Bernie Lee was filed in a circuit court in the state of Wisconsin (full Complaint is attached at the bottom of […]