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Jimmy Sexton, Fletcher Smith, And Rick Smith Amongst Leaders Looking To Fix Football Agent Issues

There might not be a solution to the problem of sports agents providing money and other benefits to student-athletes, but that does not mean that those with power in the business of sports are going to sit on the sidelines and just allow it to continue.  Instead, a group of influential people from the NFL, […]

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Report: Josh Luchs Will Have His NFLPA Certification Revoked

According to Liz Mullen of SportsBusiness Journal, Josh Luchs will be losing his NFL Players Associations Contract Advisor license.  Luchs recently had his story of paying college athletes throughout his career revealed by Sports Illustrated writer, George Dohrmann.  The piece called out 30 former college football players who alleged had taken money or another kind […]

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Confessions About The NFLPA

Yesterday, George Dohrmann of Sports Illustrated posted the sports business story of the year, at least if you are judging by the number of tweets for a single article on the web.  Dohrmann, the last sportswriter to win the Pulitzer Prize, highlighted a sports agent named Josh Luchs, who admitted to paying money and providing […]

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Asking Too Much Of The NFLPA?

At this year’s SEC Media Days, Alabama football head coach, Nick Saban, said that the NFL Players Association (NFLPA) needs to do more to protect student-athletes from unscrupulous agents who do not have the student-athletes’ best interests in mind when offering anything of value to them.  Saban’s statement immediately gave people a place to point […]

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Winner/Loser Predictions Re: NFL CBA Negotiations

NFL players and owners aren’t exactly seeing eye to eye (more specifically wallet to wallet) when it comes to the league’s new labor agreement that will need to be negotiated before a possible lockout ensues in 2011.  NFL Players Association executive director DeMaurice Smith explained that players wish to extend the league’s current collective bargaining […]

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Labor Relations in the NFL: The Impact of the Uncapped Year

Since the 1993 NFL season, the league has had been fortunate enough to maintain stable and successful labor relations, extending the CBA five consecutive times and avoiding a work stoppage since 1987, but will that streak end this year?  NFL owners appear willing to lock out their players in 2011 if an impasse is reached […]

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Tumultuous Times for the NFL Players Association

A federal jury awarded over 2000 NFL retirees more than $28 million in damages last week after a three week trial in San Francisco in a class action lawsuit against the NFL Players Association (NFLPA). The lawsuit, filed by hall of fame cornerback Herb Adderley, claimed that the NFLPA actively excluded retired players from lucrative […]

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Agent Talk Leading Up To The NFL Draft

We are just an hour away from the beginning of the 2008 NFL Draft. Here are some good reads to check out before the show kicks off. Choosing an agent, players say, can be difficult because, as former CU guard Brian Daniels of the Minnesota Vikings warned, “They’re all going to tell you what you […]