Tomorrow (Friday, October 6, 2006), the National Sports Law Institute will kick off its conference to cover Individual Performer Sports: Current Legal and Business Issues. The entire conference will be held at Marquette University in Alumni Memorial Union, #36. Attendance counts for 8 Continuing Legal Education (CLE) credits hours. You only need to worry about […]
Would you be scared if every current/former student and corporation had access to your personal information, photos, etc? How about if you someone never even had to go to school or be an employee of Apple/EA Sports/etc to access your information. Would that make you feel a little uneasy? Last week, Facebook decided to go […]
Henry Abbott, through his basketball blog True Hoop, is on a mission to provide more knowledge about basketball agent/client relations to the common man/woman. On October 3rd, Abbott announced the creation of the first publicly available online list of NBA players and their agents. The website is named TrueHoopWiki, and will attempt to cover other […]
“Sports GMs are really like stock traders. They get profits by identifying the players that will bring the biggest returns on the field.” – Mike Kerns, CEO of PROTRADE. PROTRADE was founded in 2004 in an effort to allow its users to trade professional athletes like stocks. With a ticker always running on the bottom […]
It has been rather quiet on the nightmare client front for the past 2 weeks. That definitely changed this week… 1. Odell Thurman of the Cincinnati Bengals has become the 6th Bengal arrested this year after getting pulled over for a DUI. Tack a year-long suspension on top of his current 4 game suspension for […]