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International Basketball Performance Analysis

When In Rome, Do As Brandon Jennings Does

After reading many articles including ESPN The Magazine’s Chris Broussard’s on Brandon Jennings‘ progress in Rome, along with checking out Jennings’ blog, When In Rome, you can certainly see why Jennings will be a lottery pick in 2009.  He has clearly matured as a player already and will only get better until he makes him […]

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International Basketball NBA Players Recruiting

NBA = National Basketball…Australia?

Although the NBA Draft is still a fair way off, there are already players who are being highlighted as potential draftees. Thousands of players go through the rigors of balancing school and sport to try and make it on the biggest stage in Basketball, but at the end of the day there are only 60 […]

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NFL Players Sports Law

Rosenhaus Picks Up Plax’s Fumble, Sort Of

At halftime of the Monday Night Football game between the Texans and the Jaguars three weeks ago, Drew Rosenhaus was given the opportunity to speak live about his client, Plaxico Burress‘ most recent legal situation.  Rosenhaus did his usual clean up job, answering only the questions that he seemed to feel would help his client, […]

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Dynasty Athlete Representation

12/22/08 News & Notes

12/19/08 Marquette (Scott Monarch) (9-2) vs. Western Carolina If Lazar Hayward keeps this up, Marquette’s reputation as a guard-oriented team might suddenly be up for debate. Hayward scored a career-high 27 points and the Golden Eagles (9-2) beat Western Carolina 94-77 Friday night. The junior forward is Marquette’s leading rebounder, but often has taken a […]

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Headline MLB Players MLB Teams

Losing Some Pals Over Furcal

The biggest sports agent related news of last week had to be the battle of words between the executives of the Atlanta Braves vs. the agents at Wasserman Media Group.  And it was all over Rafael Furcal.  At the beginning of last week, I remember reading a headline in one paper that read something along […]

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Motor Sports

Motocross Jumps into the 21st Century

Motocross can trace its roots back to loosely organized off-road motorcycle races called Scrambles held in Great Britain back in the mid 1920’s. The bikes used in those original races were heavy and rigid street machines merely modified slightly for off-road riding, and the events initially drew sparse attention. The sport has obviously evolved dramatically […]

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Entertainment NBA Players Sports Business

“King” LeBron Extends Presence in Hollywood

Guest contribution by loyal reader and current Q2 intern, Michael Goldman. Since entering the NBA, LeBron James has excelled both on and off the court, molding himself into a successful entrepreneur and mogul in the sports & entertainment industry.  His first venture, LRMR Marketing, has made several moves in the past few years.  The company’s […]

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Friday Wrap-Up

Shabbat Shalom: Friday Wrap-Up

My first semester 2nd year law school finals are OVER!  Let me give future law students a recommendation: Even if you really like three particular classes, do not take all of them in the same semester if it means that your Final Exams for those classes will be scheduled back-to-back-to-back.  Especially on the three last […]

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Dynasty Athlete Representation

12/19/08 News & Notes

12/17/08 UIC (Tracy Dildy) vs. Lewis Guard Josh Mayo scored 21 points to lead Illinois-Chicago to an 80-57 rout of Lewis on Wednesday night. Center Scott Vandermeer added 19 points and 10 rebounds for the Flames, who improved to 7-2 on the season, while Tori Boyd contributed 13 points. Illinois-Chicago led 34-29 at halftime, and […]

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Coaches Contract Negotiation

Joe Pa Stays at PSU

Legendary Penn State University football coach Joe Paterno has received a 3-year contract extension which will carry him through the 2011 season. The 84-year old is the winningest coach in in college football history. Paterno just had hip replacement surgery which prompted many to speculate that he may not return for the 2009 season. There […]