While I am definitely not pursuing the addition of new contributors to SportsAgentBlog.com – I Want to be a Sports Agent, occasionally, a perfect fit falls into my lap and I am unable to say no. While I am happy to be introducing a new contributor, I will unfortunately at the same time be saying […]
Aspiring soccer agents take note: the Washington, D.C. (they also have an office in Laguna Niguel, CA)-based Proactive Sports Management USA represented each of the first five players selected in the MLS draft last month: the No. 1 pick Chance Myers (pictured), selected by the Kansas City Wizards; No. 2 pick Brek Shea, chosen by […]
Diamond Dollars by Vince Gennaro is as good as it gets when it comes to the business of baseball. The uniqueness of Diamond Dollars is its provocative way of putting numbers to the real concepts that have been talked about by baseball insiders for years, such as the payoff from winning, the dollar value of […]
Ryan Howard’s agent, Larry Reynolds Casey Close, is spending hours each day (or delegating that responsibility to someone else) preparing a case to prove that Howard deserves $10 million instead of the $7 million that the Phillies want to compensate him for his efforts. The system is called arbitration, but why is it used and […]
A little over a year ago, Ryan Howard dropped his agent Larry Reynolds of Reynolds Sports Management in favor of Casey Close, who works for CAA. Howard was coming off of an MVP year and was hoping for another stellar season so that he could go to arbitration with Close and get a monumental deal. […]
Fifteenth installment of The Primary Cut – weekly insights from the world of golf player management and other golf-related industry and player news. 1. Mickelson taking ex-sponsor to court In every rotten economy there is collateral damage. In Phil Mickelson’s case, the ill-effects have gone beyond his equity portfolio. The recent bear market has lead […]
Splitting the difference is a time-honored and often successful negotiation strategy. But, according to Roger Dawson, author of Secrets of Power Negotiating, the real rule is that one never offer to split the difference oneself, but should always encourage the other person to offer to split the difference. “Don’t fall into the trap of thinking […]
There was a stage in my life while I was growing from a boy into a young man, that I was a die hard Redskins fan. For some reason, I forgot my allegiances to the Dolphins, followed by the Giants, and started cheering for the red, white, and yellow. My two favorite players during that […]
It looks like a 40-year-old, 17 year NFL veteran has finally called it quits. Jeff George was the #1 overall pick in 1990 who then managed to make his way onto 8 different team rosters before his recent retirement. Disclaimer: Vinny Testaverde recently came back to the league and finished the 2007 NFL season at […]
This edition of Friday Wrap-Up is coming to you from Hollywood, FL, where it is still a sunny 80 degrees in the middle of winter. It pains me to think that I will be back in the 30s upon my return to Gainesville. Anyway, it is time to pop the champagne bottles, because for the […]