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Friday Wrap-Up

Shabbat Shalom: Friday Wrap-Up (5/8/09)

I am back home in Hollywood, FL. enjoying a little time off from school and working hard as ever on existing and new business opportunities.  If you trust me to read one article, read this one.  It is amazingly inspiring and a terrific piece.  So, I own stock in Blackberry (RIMM).  It has received a […]

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NFL Draft Day Reading

A No. 1 N.F.L. draft pick may be one of the most overvalued assets in our society? [Is the Top N.F.L. Draft Pick a Penalty?] Andre Smith’s move from Alvin Keels to Priority Sports makes Smith a lock to be a top 10 pick? [Diner News: Questions that bother me before the draft] The rules, […]

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Friday Wrap-Up

Shabbat Shalom: Friday Wrap-Up (4/24/09)

The University of Florida is the #4 party school according to Playboy’s 2009 rankings.  The University of Miami is #1.  2L classes have finally come to a close.  I turned in my Legal Drafting final yesterday and just completed a 24-hour take home exam in International Human Rights Law.  I am mentally and physically drained.  […]

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Social Networking Sports Agents

Twitter Continues To Gain Strength In The Sports Industry

Twitter has taken over the United States.  Athletes, celebrities, and even Oprah are spending their days tweeting.  I just reached 1,000 followers and I am truly starting to enjoy this whole Twitter experience.  Many in the sports industry have begun to tweet.  So someone had to create a list of sports personalities on the service.  […]

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Sports Business

Jason Peck Reports On Day 1 Of The CSRI 2009 Conference

Jason Peck, an enterpreneur, internet marketer, consultant, sports business blogger, and friend of mine, read about the College Sport Research Institute 2009 Conference on SportsAgentBlog.com, and decided that he would attend the event due to his close proximity to Chapel Hill and its excellent schedule of events.  He wrote up a report from the first […]

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Social Networking Sports Business

Should You Hire A Social Media Consultant?

As more and more athletes and their agents begin to accept social media devices, professional leagues are also gaining a strong presence on the social networking sites.  However, whereas the athletes are publicly posting information that is widely disseminated to a large audience of followers, the various leagues have decided to create much different identities […]

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Endorsements NBA Players Social Networking Sports Business

Shaq Tweets New Endorsement Deal

Stay tuned-prepare for SHAQ to “enlyten” you!!! 4:19 PM Mar 26th from TwitterBerry Just like that, Phoenix Suns big man and social networking all-star Shaquille O’Neal made sports marketing history. By using Twitter, Shaq bypassed traditional media outlets to let his 500,000-plus followers know directly about his new endorsement deal with Enlyten, a maker of […]