For American basketball players who cannot quite cut it in the NBA, the option of going overseas to play is very tempting. If the player is good enough, he can get a chance playing for an NBDL team, but unless he truly believes that the NBDL will serve as a platform for him to break […]
Bernie Lee is the President of Lee Basketball Services Ltd, a full-service basketball agency that specializes in representing basketball players overseas. Bernie is certified by the NBPA and bases his agency out of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. In a world with tools like Skype, text messaging, and Google Wave (coming soon), distance between an agent and […]
Gary Amato did not deserve to be cut by the Pittsburgh Pirates. But life is not fair, and when Amato was cut earlier this year, he did not cry or throw a fit. He asked us, who he had signed as his agents only two days prior of being cut, what we could do for […]
Off to Tallahassee for the weekend (it is the capital of Florida for you non-Geography majors) and then back to Gainesville to move into a new residence for my final year of law school. I sent out the initial batch of invitations to potential moderators and panelists for the 2010 UF Sports Law Symposium. In […]
The time has come. I have read article after article and received tweet after tweet about a couple of high profile lawsuits against the NCAA and Collegiate Licensing Company (one also includes Electronic Arts as a defendant), so it’s time to stop collecting tabs on my Firefox browser and address some of the issues involved […]
Real Madrid Summer Purchases Ronaldo – £80 million Kaka – £56 million Benzema – £30 million Albiol – £12 million Manchester City Summer Purchases Santa-Cruz – £18 million Tevez- £25 million Adebayor – £25 million Barry – £12 million These are the transfers that have knocked the wind out of the summer transfer window in […]
Big decisions loom for 16 year old elite hockey players. I’m not talking about the typical issues for teenagers like “what should I wear to the homecoming dance,” “how am I going to pass my driving test,” or “what should I do this weekend?” Instead, many elite hockey players at that age have to decide […]
Taxes. Nobody likes paying them, but without them we wouldn’t survive. Drawing on the recent post by Darren in regards to the levels of US state taxes and the effect on player income [ “A Taxing Discussion”], I thought I would look at the tax rates and how they factor into soccer contracts on a […]
The Major League Soccer Players Union released salary information for each player in the league. Considered a second tier professional soccer league, the MLS has received substantial amounts of criticism and scrutiny in the media, particularly due to the quality of play. There is not a phrase more fitting than, “you get what you pay […]
Jayson Stark of ESPN received inside information on Pedro Martinez‘s new contract with the Philadelphia Phillies. The contract is full of incentives and looks as though it will force Pedro to work in order to get paid more money. Here is the low-down: The deal has a prorated $2 million base salary SP and reliever […]