On August 18, we announced that we will be running a new segment titled, Ask The Expert, in conjunction with AccessAthletes. The first speaker of the series was Emery B. Sheer of Berenfeld LLP. Sheer is a CPA who enjoys managing the accounts for many athletes and actors. The questions and answers were superb, and […]
Month: September 2009
Yesterday, while waiting on his flight to board for Albuquerque to take on the Isotopes in the Pacific Coast League playoffs, Pete Parise took the time to talk with Scout.com writer, Brian Walton. The result was that TheCardinalNation.com, the St. Louis Cardinals website on Scout.com, penned two pieces contraining titles plush with alliteration. In To […]
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Getting Paid To Practice
Saturday, September 5, 2009. It was a day that many NFLPA Certified Advisors would like to forget. They wanted to keep their cell phones on silent throughout the day, but knew that it was not a possibility. Saturday marked the day that NFL teams would make their final cuts, minimizing their rosters to 53 players […]
I originally tweeted about this story, expecting to throw it up on our weekly Shabbat Shalom: Friday Wrap-Up column. But then I realized that the post titled Sports and Social Media: Where Opportunity and Fear Collide, deserved to be discussed instead of merely linked. Particularly, this part of the first paragraph caught my attention: the […]
When I come across a young man making big moves in this industry that has very high barriers to entry, I have to give him props. Yesterday, Darren Rovell tweeted, Sam Duvall, a 26-year old agent who has never felt so many vibrations from his Blackberry in his life, is the Vice President of Tennis […]
The 2009 NFL regular season has not yet started, and already, people can’t help but to wonder what the NFL will look like in 2010, when there will be no salary cap. The absence of a salary cap will only occur if league owners and the NFLPA cannot come to an agreement on a new […]
The NCAA’s agenda in certain situations involving schools and athletes is certainly questionable. Grassroots basketball enthusiast Sonny Vaccaro made some interesting points recently in an interview with Henry Abbot here. On the topic of Derrick Rose and the wins vacated from Memphis, it is possible the NCAA came down hard on the Tigers because the […]
While he may have political ambitions, Dan Leatherman is quite happy to be a Senator…a Harrisburg Senator. I recently covered our three Washington Nationals organization clients in this post. Here was the blurb on Leatherman: One class below Ata [Atahualpa Severino], and a former teammate of Severino, Dan Leatherman has been the staple of the […]
I have to start by quickly thanking Mizuno for a huge shipment of spikes and training shoes, and Swenson Baseball for sending some high quality gloves to a few of Dynasty’s baseball clients. Our boys are enjoying the equipment and showing it off as they put an end to their successful professional seasons. Is everybody […]
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Bobby Lu’s New Deal
Roberto Luongo is the latest National Hockey League player to join the “decade deal” club. This Wednesday, Luongo agreed to a 12 year, $64 million contract extension with the Vancouver Canucks. Luongo is arguably the top goaltender in the NHL at the moment. Luongo will make $7.5 million during the upcoming season, the last of […]