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Contract Negotiation Headline MLB Players MLB Teams

Where We Sit With The First Round Picks

The signing deadline for players drafted in the 2009 MLB Rule 4 Draft is less than two weeks away.  In fact, players and their advisors have 12 more days to come to agreement with MLB organizations.  If a deal is not struck by midnight of August 17th, that player will either return to college, go […]

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Arena Football League Bankrupt And Disbanding

Here’s to hoping that the UFL turns out to be a successful venture.  Less than a year ago, I was sitting at a table outside of a panel at the 2008 Princeton Sports Law Symposium when someone yelled that the AFL was going to be suspending its 2009 season.  After quickly verifying that rumor, I […]

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Dynasty Athlete Representation

Jack Adams Is Ready For Some Royal Treatment

As Dynasty continues to grow in number of clients, we never stop working hard for each individual client.  In fact, we recently brought on additional agents to help with the increase in the workload.  Our external connections continue to grow and our relationships with industry leaders are making our clients happy on a daily basis.  […]

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Contract Negotiation NFL Players NFL Teams

When Will Jenkins Come Marching In?

First round NFL deals are moving along slower than a snail’s pace.  We saw this coming, though.  That said, New Orleans Saints fans are not happy that their first round pick, Malcolm Jenkins, continues to sit out of camp.  Their unhappiness is amplified by the fact that Brian Orakpo (picked before Jenkins) and Brian Cushing […]

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Contract Negotiation NFL Players NFL Teams

Sand Cassels Full Of Cash

When Matt Cassel signed with the Kansas City Chiefs this offseason, Dominic Perilli noticed that Cassel, a college backup to USC starting quarterback, Matt Leinart, will make more money on this contract than Leinart will make on his current contract, which has a length of one year more than Cassel’s contract.  To be fair to […]

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Headline Recruiting Sports Business

Name, Address, And Number, Please

Marc Isenberg, author of Money Players (a fantastic read), wrote a piece last week that discussed summer basketball tournament organizers’ power over NCAA basketball coaches.  The organizers not only make nice profits from the tournaments they host, but also from selling contact information of players who enroll to play.  Contact information is valuable information, especially […]

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Dynasty Athlete Representation

Parise Saves The Day

Pete Parise is having the time of his life with the AAA Memphis Redbirds.  Just one level away from the Major League St. Louis Cardinals, Parise has found himself as one of the main relievers in the farm system, with former Memphis closer, Jess Todd, being the Player-To-Be-Named-Later in the Mark DeRosa trade and Clayton […]