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NBA Players

To My Jewish People

Enjoy this YouTube clip that features Hannukah greetings from NBA players (mostly from Miami Heat players) [YouTube – NBA stars Hannukah greetings]. Kapono loves the Jews, Kobe wants them to stay up, and Ricky Davis wants to keep them torched (the candles that is). I’m confused. Enjoy. -Darren Heitner

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Contract Negotiation Sports Agents

No More Commissions

I just got home from a week long vacation in Beech Mountain, NC, and boy do I have a lot of catching up to do! Before I begin reading over the myriad of blogs that I have missed over the past week, I want to post about something I read in Rick Karcher’s Willamette Law […]

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Greetings From Beech Mountain, NC

Sorry about the absence of posts for the past week. I forgot to mention that I would be vacationing in North Carolina until December 29th. Have no fear, this site is still up and stronger than ever. I will be introducing a new column led by contributor Matthew Vuckovich very shortly, which should be an […]

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Show MLB The Money

In 2005, the average salary in baseball was $2,476,589. In 2006, that figure jumped up to $2,699,292 [Average MLB salary rose 9 percent in ’06]. The average MLB salary should break $3 million in the near future, which is a promising sign for athletes and agents. Here is an interesting breakdown by position: Third basemen […]

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Sports Law

Self-Identified Sports Law Professors @ The Top 50 Law Schools

So I have been taking it easy for a while now and not posting as much, but I have not gone completely AWOL. On December 6th, I posted a list of self-identified Sports Law Professors at law schools across the United States [Sports Law Professors @ Law Schools]. I thought that this list would be […]

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Arena Football

Tony Kornheiser Loves Him Some Arena Football

Football players no longer have to be in college or in the NFL to be showcased on ESPN and ABC. After becoming a minority owner in the AFL yesterday, ESPN plans to add Arena Football games to its Monday night lineup (starting after the NFL season is over, of course). At least 26 AFL games […]

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Contract Negotiation MLB Players MLB Teams Sports Agents

Boston Globe Reporting At Its Finest

Great story in The Boston Globe detailing the entire contract negotiations between the Boston Red Sox and Daisuke Matsuzaka [Wooing of pitcher was wowing]. Who knows, maybe you can be as lucky as Scott Boras in a negotiation, and be given the gift of time (a clock) from upper management. By the way, if you […]

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Nightmare Clients for the Week of December 3rd-December 17th

Special 2 week edition of Nightmare Clients after not having access to a computer last Sunday. Here we go… 1) Marcus Vick of the Miami Dolphins may have had sexual relations with a 15-year old girl while he was playing for Virginia Tech and he is being accused of sexual battery on a minor, fraud, […]

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My Other Job is an Athlete

Interesting article in the Herald Sun last week which announced the Top 10 highest-earning Australian athletes. No surprise to see that golfer Greg Norman remains number 1, earning $20 million for the year. However, Greg doesn’t play much golf these days, and relies on his endorsements to amass his earnings. In fact, he made only […]

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NBA Players Performance Analysis Sports Agents

David Stern Wants To Create More Answers

And I am not referring to the creation of Allen Iverson robots. According to the New York Times, David Stern is interested in creating an NBA Academy that is similar to IMG’s Academies [The N.B.A.’s Push for Reform Leads to Talk of an Academy]. This move could potentially take a bargaining chip away from IMG […]