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Sports Agents

Ask Mr. Boras

In two hours, you may have the opportunity to have one of your questions answered by baseball agent, Scott Boras.  Up until 11:00 a.m. EST, USATODAY is accepting questions for Mr. Boras, and you can even remain anonymous in the process.  All you need to do is put in your hometown, hopefully a thought-provoking question, […]

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Friday Wrap-Up

Shabbat Shalom: Friday Wrap-Up

This past Saturday officially began the month of Movember.  Go follow our pals at Hugging Harold Reynolds and help fight prostate cancer.  I take the Ethics and Professional Responsibility portion of the Bar Exam tomorrow.  Don’t ask me why.  I think I am the only 2L at UF taking it.  To tell you the truth, […]

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MLB Players Sports Agents

A Scott Boras Offseason

Keeping on the theme of baseball for the day, just came across an LA Times article highlighting Scott Boras.  I find it kind of humorous, because while there are a ton of agents who do great work for their clients, it seems like Boras and Rosenhaus are the only ones that the mass media finds […]

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Contract Negotiation MLB Players MLB Teams

Baseball And Money

The owners and GMs are crying for help while the agents are saying that the sport may benefit from a hurting economy.  Who should you believe?  On one hand, guys like Jeff Borris of Beverly Hills Sports Council are quoted as saying, “If you examine history, during the worst economic times, people spend whatever they […]

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MLB Players Sports Agents

Boras May Soon Experience “Total Hell”

When Sheffield started calling out Boras back in February, I must admit that I got a little excited.  Boras was taking Sheffield to arbitration to acquire a percentage of what he believed he earned by negotiating the elimination of an $11 million option in 2004, which allowed Sheffield to negotiate his own three-year deal with […]

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Sports Agents

Peter Schaffer Lends His Two Cents

Not every player is interested in going with a mega-agency like CAA or IMG (depending on the sport).  Some are just fine with going for a smaller firm that has a proven track record.  That’s what Joe Thomas was looking for going into the 2007 NFL Draft. “One of the big things I really liked,” […]

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Sports Business

BusinessWeek’s 2008 Power 100

Around this time last year when BusinessWeek released its Power 100, documenting the 100 most influential people in the business of sports, I was interested to see various sports agent related names pop up on the list.  Tiger Woods once again tops the overall list, but how did our guys who were mentioned last year […]

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Contract Negotiation MLB Players MLB Teams

One First Rounder Left To (Maybe) Sign

Only three players in the first round did not sign with the teams that selected them in the 2008 MLB Amateur Draft.  The previous statement may not hold true if it is found that Pedro Alvarez and Eric Hosmer were signed after the deadline.  That being said, of the three players who went unsigned, Aaron […]

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Sports Agents

The King Of The Agents

From a recent 7-page piece in the New York Daily News: [Scott] Boras most definitely does not look like an agent spurned, like a man taken to the baseball woodshed. The most influential and controversial agent in Major League Baseball is still the king of the agents, still the man many players want on the […]

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Contract Negotiation MLB Players MLB Teams

Boras, A Good Guy???

Last October, agent Scott Boras and slugger Alex Rodriguez made news when Boras announced that Rodriguez would be opting out of his contract.  Boras was ridiculed for the timing of the announcement and Rodriguez was portrayed as just another greedy player wanting more money.  The majority of Yankee fans could care less if Rodriguez returned […]