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NFL Players Sports Agents

Calling All NFL Agents…Diamond in the Rough

Chris Ekwueme is a very talented, but largely unknown football player. Chris is a special player with tremendous size, strength, quickness, and versatility.  He can play on either the offense or defensive line.  His talents have gone unnoticed because he played his college ball at the D-II level.  He has had limited professional exposure at the […]

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MLB Players Sports Agents

Curt Schilling And His Bully Pulpit

Curt Schilling has really picked up his posting lately.  The man loves his blog, especially now that the 2007 MLB season is over.  As I have said in the past, I am not a huge fan of Schilling, but it is my responsibility to keep track of his writings and see if he ever mentions […]

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Happy Thanksgiving!

Hopefully, if you are reading this on Thanksgiving day, it is only because you have picked your favorite seat on the couch, there is a break in one of the football games, and your house has some great wireless internet. If you are on here for some other reason, we are happy to have you […]

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Sports Agents Sports Law

Professional Responsibility And Ethics

Remember our recent, brief discussion about falsely comparing standard baseball business practices with ethics [Ethics Or Merely Business Of Baseball?]? Yeah…you probably skipped over that one. Well today, I would like to focus on one instance where ethics may actually be enforced in the sports business world. Believe it or not, attorneys now make up […]

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Endorsements NBA Players

Impossible Is Nothing

Gilbert Arenas is one of the most marketable sports personalities currently playing a professional sport in the United States. That says a lot, considering he wore the number 0 originally at Arizona because he was told that he would never get any playing time. He continues to wear the number to spite his former doubters. […]

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Coaches College Football Players Colleges Contract Negotiation Sports Agents Sports Business Sports Law

Coaching Michigan: priceless?

Despite being in the thick of the National Championship race—a #1 standing in the BCS rankings and looming showdowns with Arkansas this Friday, and either Tennessee or Georgia at the SEC Championship on December 1st—LSU head football coach Les Miles may indeed have one eye already on the Michigan job, recently vacated by Lloyd Carr. […]

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Colleges Recruiting

Sign On The Dotted Line

Last week, Sports Illustrated’s Seth Davis sparked up some conversation (albeit very little convo) about high school prospects signing letters of intent (LOI) with collegiate universities. I am sure that Will Leitch of Deadspin.com was not the only one out there wondering for a while why players give up their rights so early to sign […]

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The Wash Up

The Wash Up 12th-19th November

Some stories you may have missed last week… – IMG has beefed up it’s company by acquiring Host Communications. [IMG to acquire Host Communications] Host provides marketing services for the NCAA and many Division 1 Universities. This is a massive acquisition for IMG, and bucks the trend of large agencies shifting to individual sports. – […]

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Internships Sports Business

Any Volunteers?

All the time you hear people ask about how to break into the sports agent business, whether it be questions regarding what kind of education they need or how to go about obtaining an internship. If I can give any advice to those looking to get their start, it would be to volunteer wherever and […]

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Contract Negotiation MLB Players Sports Agents

Sell Stock In Boras Corp?

You probably missed it, but the Oregionian had a very humorous piece last week which aimed to get in the mind of Scott Boras [Deep thoughts with Scott Boras]. This was one of his generated thoughts: Indicted? Thank you, Barry. Ain’t nobody going to have the time to pile on ol’ Scott now. Indicted. Indicted. […]