When the United Football League (UFL) was just beginning at the tail end of 2007, Michael Huyghue was asked to become the new league’s Commissioner. Huyghue’s résumé spoke for itself. He was Senior Vice President of Football Operations for the Jacksonville Jaguars prior to becoming the President and CEO of a successful Jacksonville, Florida based sports agency titled, Axcess Sports […]
Back in 2009 I reviewed Tank Black’s book titled, Tanked! The Tank Black Story. Black wrote the book roughly a year post-release from prison. He found his way behind bars in July 2000 after being accused of stealing money from clients and illegally paying money to college players to induce them to sign with his company, along with […]
I have covered baseball agent Barry Meister of Meister Sports Management on this website multiple times in the past, but never had the opportunity to speak to him. The circumstance surrounding my first communication with Meister is an unfortunate one (the passing of one of his colleagues), but I am thankful that Meister reached out to me […]
In a December 2010 Shabbat Shalom: Friday Wrap-Up post, I linked to a St. Louis Post-Dispatch article that discussed sports agent Harold Lewis’ purchase of a $27 million mansion for a relative bargain price of $4.75 million. At the time of purchase, Lewis said, “We look at it as turning lemon into lemonade.” Months later, it looks […]
University of Michigan baseball assistant coach Matt White has announced that he is leaving the Michigan baseball program to join up with super agency Boras Corp. led by agent Scott Boras. White was only at Michigan for a little over a year. While in Ann Arbor, White assisted the Wolverines as the team’s pitching coach. Prior to joining […]
NFL football is back! The Middle East could become an even more volatile region if the United Nations general assembly approves a resolution recognizing the state of Palestine with a capital of East Jerusalem. Michael Crowley of TIME believes that Palestinian statehood could become a big campaign issue. Former Israeli envoy Gabriela Shalev thinks that […]
Earlier this week, Bloomberg aired a fantastic profile of baseball super-agent Scott Boras. Bloomberg highlighted everything from Boras’ early days growing up on a farm and listening to baseball on the radio up to negotiating some of the biggest contracts in the MLB. Great stories include Boras’ own negotiation with the St. Louis Cardinals when […]
A couple of days ago, Cincinnati Bengals website editor Geoff Hobson wrote, [Andrew] Whitworth has recently signed estimable veteran agent Pat Dye, now a partner with the powerhouse firm of Jimmy Sexton. The name of that firm is SportsTrust Advisors, which was created by the merger of Sexton’s Athletic Resource Management and Dye’s ProFiles Sports. In […]
Yesterday, allegiant athletic agency (a3) announced via Twitter that the company has signed Denver Broncos offensive lineman Chris Clark. He started his career in the NFL with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2008 after not being selected in that year’s NFL Draft. Thereafter, he played for the Minnesota Vikings for a couple of years prior to […]
As the NFL finally resolved its lockout, another national football league is heading towards one. The Australian Football League’s (AFL) Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) is due to end after the current season, and the sides are still stuck on a few important points, one of them being the same problem the NFL faced – Distribution […]