The last thing that the University of Southern California needs is another controversy involving agents, but that is exactly what the institution has on its hands. We are not talking about Reggie Bush money here. In fact, the whole story started with an agent giving a student-athlete (Dillon Baxter) a ride on a golf cart. […]
Month: November 2010
If possible, I always like to break big news on a Monday. A lot of people are scouring the news at the beginning of the week, and it gives people the entire week to share it with others. That’s why I feel that the news of the Athletic Resource Management (ARM) and ProFiles Sports, Inc. […]
Let’s call it a wrap on the Florida Gators football season. It’s too bad we can’t call it a wrap on this Cameron Newton mess. It’s like Brett Favre coverage, but with something that actually matters. At some point, though, enough is enough. Today is the deadline for MLB teams to set their 40 Man […]
Athletes are affected by intellectual property law. If states begin to pass new legislation to restrict athletes’ abilities to protect their Right of Publicity, it will take one potential asset out of our clients’ pockets and take away a tool for marketing agents. As advocates for their clients, agents should speak out against these proposed […]
Bernie Lee, a basketball agent who has been featured on this blog in the past, is now the defendant in a pending lawsuit. On November 15, the Complaint in the case of Ashley Merritt v. Bernie Lee was filed in a circuit court in the state of Wisconsin (full Complaint is attached at the bottom of […]
Cameron Newton. Here’s the tie to the sports agent world – The Spotlight On Kenny Rodgers Cannot Help Ian Greengross – surprising how few people are talking about that mess. But for a while, the rest of the sports community can take their focus away from us agents, and start talking about some other common figures […]
The NCAA requires that a player selected in the Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft pay his advisor at his or her normal rate for such services if the player hopes to maintain his eligibility at an NCAA school. Thus, if Troy Caradonna of SFX was to follow that rule, which many people say goes ignored […]
Friday, November 19, is the deadline for Major League Baseball teams to finalize their 40 Man Rosters leading up to the Baseball Winter Meetings and the Rule 5 Draft. Many players will be “protected” on their organization’s 40 Man Roster in the final hour leading up to the deadline, as a preventative measure, so that […]
The Memphis Grizzlies finally ended up coming to terms with its first-round selections, Xavier Henry and Greivis Vasquez. It is still too early in the season to call their rookie campaigns a success or bust, but we can already call Memphis’ hard-line stance on tying the first round picks’ rookie contract to performance bonuses. The […]
I promised two book reviews last week, but I only delivered on one. The other book that I planned on reviewing is titled, Bigger than the Game – Bo, Boz, the Punky QB, and How the ’80s Created the Modern Athlete. It was a much longer read than Sports Junkies Rejoice, but it was also […]