What: National Football League Players Association Chicago, Illinois Seminar When: September 30, 2011 (9:00 a.m. – 5 p.m.). Registration begins at 7:45 a.m. Where: Hyatt Regency Chicago (website) The Chicago, Illinois seminar is not mandatory, since the NFLPA does not currently regulate agents. Further, the players association realizes that the seminar was created on short notice (but […]
The State of Oklahoma now has a special sports agent prosecution team, which was announced by Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt last Friday. The prosecution team is led by an attorney within the Attorney General’s office, and will include investigators who will be hired to investigate situations as they become apparent. On the surface, it is a […]
The NFL is back in business, college football season is quickly approaching (Go Gators!), and the NBA looks like it is going to go through a much more painful process than the NFL just experienced. I start teaching a brand new class called Sport Agency Management at Indiana University Bloomington near the end of the month. […]
Carl Carey, Jr. and his company, Champion Proconsulting Group, Inc. filed a Complaint against former University of North Carolina defensive end Robert Quinn, Quinn’s Business Manager, Impact Sports Football, LLC, and two of Impact Sports’ agents. Carey, Jr. wants to make sure that the first $300,000 Quinn receives from his contract with the St. Louis Rams […]
Before 31 NFL team owners approved (1 owner, Al David of the Oakland Raiders, abstained in the vote) what they called a comprehensive agreement, there were a lot of rumblings on Twitter regarding sources telling reporters that the new deal will include a reduction of the ceiling for NFL agent fees on negotiated rookie contracts. […]
Really tough loss for the Miami Heat last night. Chris Bosh is not living up to his role as part of “The Big Three” thus far in the 2011 NBA Finals. Let’s see if the Heat are able to take at least one away from the Mavericks in Dallas. The 2011 MLB Draft starts in […]
No preseason or regular season NFL games have been cancelled due to the NFL Lockout to date, but the Lockout has its first couple of victims: the rookie symposium and the joint NFL/NFLPA player education programs held annually at Ivy League universities. Every year, all players selected in the NFL Draft are invited to the […]
The biggest fallout from the NFL Lockout thus far is not the opening of some sports agent Wild Wild West, where agents are prying clients from one another’s grasp at any chance they get. If anything, that sort of atmosphere already existed and did not change much with the decertification of the NFL Players Association […]
Have unions (other than the Major League Baseball Players Association) outlived their purpose? It is a question that super-agent Arn Tellem of Wasserman Media Group posed in a recent New York Times article. While I have not yet had the opportunity to meet Tellem in person, he is certainly very respected amongst the agent community […]
The NFL Lockout is enjoined…for the moment. But let’s live in the moment and take a look at the opinion handed down yesterday by Judge Susan Richard Nelson in the United States District Court District of Minnesota. The dry and dirty: The motion for a preliminary injunction on the NFL Lockout was granted. If you […]