The NFL Draft is tomorrow. Excited yet? If not, tune to ESPN. They’ll be sure to get you jacked up with their hour counter creeping on the side of the screen. But you need more. Here is a clip from NFL Network, highlighting sports agent, Jimmy Sexton. Can’t beat the line, “Hollywood gave you Jerry […]
You have been playing baseball your entire life. Join the club of millions upon millions of other people who think that they have the skills that it takes to go pro in America’s Pastime. For some reason, people think it is not that hard to step up the plate and hit a 95 mph fastball […]
“The sports agent business has become so corrupt — I would not encourage anyone to try to become an agent right now.” — Legendary NBA agent David Falk (WSJ.com, 4/22). Is Falk jealous of the new crop of agents’ successes? Or does he present a realistic view of the current climate of athlete representation?
Spend any amount of time reading the sports section these days and you’re sure to find another star athlete embroiled in some sort of performance enhancing drug related allegation. Track? Baseball? Football? Nascar? Pick your poison. The issue has so permeated the sporting world that not only has Congress felt the need to get involved, […]
It took a good fight, but eventually, blacks were welcome to play alongside whites in American professional baseball. Exactly a week ago, on April 15th (the day that Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier many years prior), the University of Central Florida’s Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport told the press that the percentage […]
I was on my way to the library half an hour ago when I get a text from one of my buddies saying, “U da man.” I figured he was just pumping me up for my Civil Procedure Final Exam that is scheduled to begin in an hour. I gave him a call just to […]
This is Mock Draft 4 of 4. The Grand Finale. To view Schackman’s last mock draft click here. 1. Miami Dolphins-Jake Long (OT- Michigan) Long is their guy. Which Long? We shall see. I am going to go with Jake in the week of the draft. The Fins have done some nice things with the […]
In case you did not catch my short mention of it on the Shabbat Shalom: Friday Wrap-Up, I suffered a minor concussion last week after taking a fall and hitting my head. No real need to get into more details than that, but after spending the entire weekend in the ER (mostly in the waiting […]
Current MBA/J.D. student and avid reader of SportsAgentBlog.com, Jared March, decided to write a guest contribution after Kenji’s Love On Ice post and its controversial comments: This year, the NHL enjoyed its most successful season compared to any other year in the past decade. In America. Attendance figures represents the league’s ability to actually get […]
I have briefly touched on AFL and free agency in the past, but a story came to light this week that has brought it back on the agenda. Player Agent Ricky Nixon has said that over the past couple of years, players that he has represented have been severely affected by the lack of free […]