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#4 Joe Smith

This past Saturday, the NY Jets released back-up punter Joe Smith, who wears jersey number 4.  Brett Favre also signed his papers to be reinstated into the NFL on Tuesday.  Could this be an omen for the emergence of Brett Favre to the city of bright lights and big buildings?  As if that is not enough fuel to fuel Jets […]

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Contract Negotiation International Basketball NBA Players NBA Teams

Agents Using Overseas Option As Leverage

Honestly, agents would be silly if they did not use this opportunity that has presented itself to inflate their clients’ salary figures.  When Josh Childress, a restricted free agent unhappy with his role with the Hawks receives an offer that is higher than what any NBA team was offering him and will additionally allow him […]

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Olympics Performance Analysis

$220,000 For A Gold Medal

According to an official, the government of the Philippines and some private donors are offering any Olympic athlete that wins a Gold medal for the Philippines in the upcoming Olympics $220,000 dollars.  The Philippines is seeking its first Gold Medal in over 80 years and has thus created this incentive for its Olympic athletes.  The […]

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Dynasty Athlete Representation

7/30/08 News & Notes

Gerard Haran Gerard Haran did not play in the Tuesday game against the York Revolution.  Without Gerard’s help, the Bears lost the game 12-8. Robert Lara The AZL Padres made a late 9th inning comeback, scoring 2 runs but still coming just short of getting the win.  Robert Lara finished the game at 1 for […]

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Sports Agents

Think You Are Not Disposable? Think Again

As an agent in a professional sport, you must count your blessings every night and hope that your current clients do not ditch you for the hundreds of hungry agents working while you sleep.  There are more agents out there than potential clients (at least ones that will make you any money), and most players […]

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Dynasty Athlete Representation

Matthew Watkins Takes The NFLPA Exam

Dynasty Athlete Representation NFLPA agent hopeful, Matthew Watkins, just completed the journey that many readers of this site hope to one day experience.  Matthew recently returned from Washington D.C., where he joined 300+ other potential NFLPA advisors at the organization’s yearly seminar and took the NFLPA certification examination.  Watkins has not had an easy schedule […]

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Olympics

Olympics Updates Round The Clock

I will admit it.  I’m an Olympics junkie.  I am extremely stoked for 8/8/08 to arrive and will undoubtedly be attached to the tube, cheering on the red, white, and blue to take medal after medal.  My one deviation from rooting for the U.S. is when former SportsAgentBlog.com contributor, Samyr Laine, runs the track for […]

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Brett The Jet

As always, SportsAgentBlog.com attempts to follow up on all previous posts and information that we have passed on. On that note, here is the latest from the Brett Favre saga in Green Bay. A source has told Chris Mortensen that the New York Jets have officially received permission to talk to retired Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre. […]

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Colleges

UF Named #1 Party School

If the Princeton Review says so, then I buy it.  Are you surprised?  When there is only one major highway that goes through your city and the largest attraction nearby is Cafe Risque, what else are you going to do other than party?  Not to mention, UF has beautiful girls like Dynasty models, Lauren Stevens […]

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Contract Negotiation MLB Players MLB Teams

Who Wouldn’t Want To Be CC Sabathia’s Agent?

Instead of waiting until the team came home to meet his new teammates, Sabathia and his agent, Brian Peters of Legacy Sports, decided he should meet the Brewers on the road and hang out with them in the dugout. That initial meeting must have gone great, as CC has now helped lead the Brew Crew […]