Shabbat Shalom: Friday Wrap-Up (8/14/09)

In South Florida this weekend?  Head to the Boca Town Center Mall tomorrow.  I will be there with my step-father as he hosts a large Franchise & Business Opportunities Show.  Then, on Sunday, it’s back to Gainesville for my final year of law school.  I got my Summer grades back this week and I am very happy with my scores.  It’s nice to be able to juggle everything that I am doing while maintaining a strong GPA in law school.  I am finished contributing to a new book authored by Bob Ruxin that will be coming out in December: An Athlete’s Guide to Agents 5th Edition.  Get pumped.  Yesterday, SI quoted me in a good article.  Here are some stories I missed over the past week:

Sports Agents

• Bill Duffy gets on the Honorable Mention list [The top 25 Bay Area sports power players].

Baseball

• Interestingly structured contracts [Diamondbacks To Pay Bernard Gilkey Until 2017].
• Upper Deck can’t use team logos…going to be tricky to get around that [Topps Gets Exclusive Deal With Baseball, Landing a Blow to Upper Deck].
• 22nd rounder gets $990,000 signing bonus [Coffey Gets Unprecedented Deal].

Football

• Darren Rovell is not a fan of how Vick has treated the media post-jail time [Michael Vick’s Next Mistake: His Media Plan].
• Jerome Stanley is pissed [Agent points to Mangini for WR’s injury].
• What problem would IMG have with the contract? [CAA and IMG squabble keeping Eli Manning from signing Giants contract].

Basketball

• Last year, 18 of the 60 NBA draftees spent time in the NBA D-League [Rookie Transition].