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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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. […]
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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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 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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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 […]
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. […]
A quick and dirty Nightmares this Week: I would typically make this more in-depth, but I am on my way down to Orlando to watch my undefeated Celtics move to 9-0! Readers, what do you think of the Bonds indictment? How do you think this will reflect on baseball? 1. Stephon Marbury grinned as he […]
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Dad’s Corner: Any Given Saturday
There should be a new movie out soon called “Any Given Saturday”. Never in my memory have I seen teams ranked 1 & 2 in college rankings go down like this year. So who will be in the championship game? Send your predictions in and I will post what the majority thinks next week. Heeeeeeeees […]
We enjoyed Champaign, Illinois last week. Nothing like being in a town when its team unpredictably knocks off the #1 team in the nation. Unfortunately this week’s Friday Wrap-Up comes to you back from Gainesville, FL, where I am beginning to fret about first semester Law School finals. Dwyane Wade has signed with William Morris […]