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Shabbat Shalom: Friday Wrap-Up (4/9/2010)

Tomorrow, I will be headed to Flagler College in St. Augustine, Florida to speak at their third annual Student Conference, which allows Sport Management students the opportunity to expand their educational and practical experiences through the perspective of professionals who have working knowledge of the sport industry.  If you are in the area, stop by! […]

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Headline Sports Law

Yale Sports Law Panel

What: Panel – Sports and the Law: Current Issues When: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 (6:10 – 8:00 p.m.) Where: Room 120 of  Yale Law School Cost: Free, but must show a Student ID (from any school) Discussion will include compensation for ex-college athletes and retired athletes; American Needle v. NFL; new media and licensing issues; […]

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Arbitration Contract Negotiation Headline MLB Players MLB Teams

A Deep Look Into Baseball’s Salary Arbitration System

Ed Edmonds of Sports Law Blog has an good piece in the Marquette Sports Law Review titled, A most interesting part of baseball’s monetary structure – salary arbitration in its thirty-fifth year.  Since deciding that I wanted to be a sports agent, I have studied baseball’s system of final offer arbitration as much as possible.  […]

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Headline Sports Agents

Advocating Improved Agent Ethical Standards

This past weekend, I secluded myself during the days and got to reading quite a few law review articles that I had put to the side to read for some time now.  One of them was Stacey B. Evans’, Sports agents: ethical representatives or overly aggressive adversaries?, which  was published this year in the Villanova Sports […]

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Shabbat Shalom: Friday Wrap-Up (4/2/2010)

Anyone here getting an iPad tomorrow?  I’d love to hear what you think of the device if you are an early purchaser.  I never tied my hands to Apple in any of their products.  Major League Baseball’s regular season is only a couple of days away.  We still have one player in big league camp, […]

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Dynasty Athlete Representation

All Aboard The Dynasty Cruise

At Dynasty, we work hard so that we can play hard.  Why lie?  We love our jobs and we have fun performing them.  Beyond the deals we are able to broker for our clients, we thoroughly enjoy the personal relationships that are built between client(s) and agent(s).  With regular season about to start in baseball, […]

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Headline MLB Players Sports Business

Being Released Is Not The End Of The Road

For all the joy that I receive as an agent for very talented athletes, I also feel their pain when at some point in their career, they are told that there is no longer a spot for them on a given team’s roster.  My job is to do everything I can do help out players […]

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Dynasty Athlete Representation Headline MLB Players MLB Teams

Pete Parise’s Spring Training

Derrick Goold wrote a piece (subscription necessary) in BaseballAmerica.com yesterday, with the subtitle: “Parise showing Cardinals everything he has.”  The title – “Well-Traveled Reliever.” Here is a part of the article: By the end of the 2010 season, Parise will have been pitching, nearly uninterrupted, for 32 months. When he reported to his first major […]

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Friday Wrap-Up

Shabbat Shalom: Friday Wrap-Up (3/19/2010)

Back to law school in lovely Gainesville, Florida.  I had a real nice interview with BitterLawyer.com earlier this week.  Been working hard all week on getting my baseball players some good endorsement opportunities.  The Gators lost in double-OT to BYU yesterday – I really like BYU’s guard (you can tell by my tweets if you […]

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Headline MLB Players Sports Business

Casey Close To Leaving CAA

A week ago, a reader emailed me the following question: Have you heard anything about Casey Close leaving CAA to start up his own company with David Falk? Apparently, the rumor had been floating around for a month or so, but after doing some research, I had no way to confirm it.  Thus, I never ran the story. […]