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UCLA Law Call For Sports Agents

My buddy Nate Jones, a fellow 1L at the University of California Los Angeles and owner of JONES ON THE NBA, asked me to pass this along: UCLA School of Law seeks sports agents (particularly MLB, NBA, NFL) to participate in a panel slated for Thurs., Nov. 13th. The topic will center around the paternalistic […]

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Adam Taxin Show #4

Officially my fourth appearance on Adam Taxin’s radio show, which is broadcast on 1540 AM WNWR in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The entire segment is devoted to a discussion about Reggie Bush and his involvement with Michael Michaels and Lloyd Lake of New Era Sports & Entertainment while enrolled at the University of Southern California. For the […]

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99 Problems…Is The NFLPA One?

Jeffrey Standen, also known as The Sports Law Professor, strongly believes that the cause of NFLPA agent problems (he gives examples of Carl Poston and Tank Blank) stems from the players association itself. As always, I encourage you to check out the article in its entirety, but if you are too lazy or crunched for […]

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The Mitchell Report

Okay, so by now you’ve probably heard and read the story relating to Senator George Mitchell’s investigation into Major League Baseball’s steroid and human growth hormone (HGH) scandal, which started some 18 months ago. To reiterate, there was a league-wide conference call mid-day Friday, whereby League and team officials alike learned that the forthcoming Mitchell […]

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Give it up, Reggie

It was April 15th when I last blogged on the Reggie Bush fiasco (see Yahoo! timeline) and wrote that “Bush may be able to evade tacklers, but the increasingly intricate web cast by the growing group of arguably unsavory characters with whom he’s aligned himself may prove tougher.” At the time, Bush had just settled […]

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Interview With Michael McCann

Michael McCann is an Assistant Professor of Law at Mississippi College School of Law, a columnist for Sports Illustrated.com (SI.com), Co-Founder of The Harvard Law School Project on Law and Mind Sciences, Chair-Elect of the Association of American Law Schools’ Section on Sports and the Law, and the man behind Sports Law Blog. What does […]

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The Door Has Been Shut On Andruw Jones

Contributor Paul Schackman predicted it. On August 1st, he wrote that Andruw Jones would have the door closed on him this off season after the Braves acquired Mark Teixeira [Thumbs up or down for Boras ?]. Jones made $13.5 million this past year, and the Braves were just not interested in Boras’ demand for approximately […]

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WVU College Of Law Sports Symposium

What: The West Virginia University College of Law will be hosting a 2-day sports symposium called: Reversing Field: Examining Issues of Commercialization, Labor, and Race in 21st Century Sports Law. When: October 5th and 6th. Where: The Lugar Courtroom at the Law Center on the WVU campus. Who: Associate Professor of Law and Sports Law […]

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50 State Regulations In 50 Days

Joshua Golka of Athlete Agent / Sports Agent Regulation Blog announced yesterday that he will be covering athlete agent regulations in each state of the U.S., one state at a time. I believe that this is an excellent idea and encourage you to learn not only about the regulations in the state that you reside, […]

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World Wide Sports Screw-Up

Dunyasha M. Yetts was once the big man on campus at The Ohio State University. He was the Big Ten wrestling champion of his weight class in 1994 and made it to the semifinal round of the NCAA Championship in wrestling that year. His passion in the ring was transfered in the sports agent industry. […]