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Rich Paul Wants Nerlens Noel Case Pushed To Private Arbitration

New York Knicks big man Nerlens Noel blasted NBA agent Rich Paul through a Complaint filed in court, which stated that Paul lost interest in Noel as a client, failed to try to secure contracts on Noel’s behalf and that it was Paul’s fault that Noel lost $58 million when Noel passed up an offer […]

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College Basketball Players Sports Agents Sports Business

Chet Holmgren Signs With WME Sports For NIL Representation

WME Sports has signed freshman, Chet Holmgren, from Gonzaga University for name, image, and likeness representation and will be represented by Carlos Fleming. Holmgren is projected to be a top pick in the 2022 NBA Draft. He will be joining Dallas Mavericks Luka Doncic who recently signed with WME Sports for all areas off-court. The […]

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Soccer Sports Agents Sports Business

Unique Sports Management and International Sports Management Join Forces To Form Unique Sports Group

United Kingdom football agency Unique Sports Management has announced that it has joined forces with German football agency International Sports Management and they will be known as Unique Sports Group with immediate effect. With this formation, Unique Sports Group is now one of the top five global football agencies with a combined client market value […]

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Excel Sports Management Hires Parker Cain As Full-Time NIL Marketing Agent

Parker Cain, former Vice President of Marketing at ISE, has joined Excel Sports management as a Marketing Agent for Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) representation clients. He will be leading talent recruitment and marketing endorsement efforts for Excel’s NIL representation roster. He will be working out of Excel’s Los Angeles offices. Cain will be joining […]

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NFL Players Sports Agents Sports Business

Z-Axis Sports Tilts to NFL Representation

Current NFL player agent, Kristin Spencer, has officially joined the Z-Axis team as they introduce their new NFL division. CEO, Alexander Zapata, welcomed the new team member earlier this week. “We are excited to expand to a sport dominated by a few Goliath…. Excited to bring our proven model of keeping it simple and honest […]

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Internships

Internship Opportunity: Vanguard Sports Group

Vanguard Sports Group has opened their internship application for the Spring of 2022 semester (January – May). Internships are available in Football Operations, Brand Operations, Social and Digital Media, and Legal. A description of the internship can be found below: Football Operations: Interns may assist individual agents and/or Director of Operations with day-to-day operations, including […]

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Sports Law

Judge Explains Why Mitchell Robinson’s Former Agent Has Been Left Empty-Handed

Mitchell Robinson’s former NBA agent David Lee fought hard to keep his poaching lawsuit against Raymond Brothers alive, but the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York was not having it. The case that was premised on Brothers inducing Robinson to change agents was dismissed in full and the judge overseeing the […]

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Sports Agents Sports Business

Jill Miller Joins Excel Sports Management

Jill Miller, former Head of People + Culture at H+K Strategies, has formally agreed to join Excel Sports Management as their new Senior Vice President of Human Resources. Miller’s story begins with humble beginnings, graduating with a BA in accounting from George Washington University. From there, she bounced from analytics job to landing her first […]

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Arbitration Sports Agents Sports Business Sports Law

Excel Withdraws Lawsuit Against Endeavor And Files Claim With MLBPA

Excel Sports Management has withdrawn its lawsuit against Endeavor from the New York State Supreme Court and will instead bring the case to be adjudicated under the MLBPA arbitral system. In the initial lawsuit, Excel sought injunctive relief and damages from Endeavor for inducing two baseball agents (James Murray IV and Michale Stival) to breach […]

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Athletes First Hires Veteran Agent

Athletes First has hired veteran football agent Sean Kiernan and his colleague, Olivia Green as first announced by Athlete First’s Chief Executive Officer Brian Murphy. Before Kiernan begins his 2nd stint at Athletes First (intern in 2002) he spent the last 7 years at Select Sports Group, representing 100+ high profile NFL players, including First […]