Not Quite Marriage
Between baseball players and their agents. The only form of commitment that binds a player to a Sports Agent is an “agent authorization form,” which is completed once a year by each player, but...
Showing you the money. Since 2005.
Clients on Social Networking Sites
Should you allow your client to have a profile on Facebook, Myspace, insert any other social networking site here? If you ask Scott Schafer, currently playing for the rookie level Gulf Coast Mets, he...
2 New Sports Agency Links Added
John Boggs & Associates, Inc. & Legends Management Group. They are now listed along with many other Sports Agency Sites on the “Pages & Links” tab. I have spent a ton of time compiling...
Want to be an MLS agent?
You may not after reading these facts about player salaries. btw, MLS stands for Major League Soccer, America’s attempt to create a professional soccer league in the U.S. Looking at salaries alone, it seems...
Incentive Clauses
From reader John Bristor: Scenario: Major League pitcher has a guarranted 1 yr contract with a no trade clause and performance bonuses based on number of games started. Pitcher and manager don’t get along,...
What Is A Salary Cap?
As someone interested in the sports business, it is important to know the background behind what limits the amount of money that your clients can accrue. Every American sports league besides MLB has a...
NBA Salary Cap Set
The salary cap for individual NBA teams in the 2006-2007 season has been set today at $53.135 million. The increase is $3.6 million above this past year’s cap. For a luxury tax to be...
The “Fire Letter”
Once new agents start to accumulate clients and everything seems to be perfect, novice Sports Agents often begin to see the gloomy side of the business. Right when it seems like your agency/independent practice...
Johnny Damon’s Move to New York; Was it Theo’s Ego or Boras’s Lie?
Seth Mnookin is coming out with a book tomorrow that looks to be a good read: Feeding the Monster : How Money, Smarts, and Nerve Took a Team to the Top. Today, Mr. Mnookin...
Nightmare Clients for the Week of July 2nd-July 9th
By now, who has not heard about Eddie Griffin? In March, the Minnesota Timberwolves center was arrested for causing a car accident while being intoxicated…and masturbating [Griffin served with civil suit]. Yeah, not such...