Hello everyone. I am glad to see the interest that my last post drew. It has been over three weeks since my last post and it is safe to say that I have been working on and updating this post during that entire time. Every day I have worked since then, I have had a […]
Year: 2011
Over the weekend, Mike Florio of ProFootballTalk.com wrote about NFL agent Brian Ayrault’s (@BrianAyrault) Tweets concerning his belief that there should not be an NFL Draft. Here are some of Ayrault’s Tweets from the weekend. Feel free to leave your comments based on what he stated. [blackbirdpie url=”http://twitter.com/#!/BrianAyrault/status/61617542661292032″] [blackbirdpie url=”http://twitter.com/#!/BrianAyrault/status/61622060404838400″] [blackbirdpie url=”http://twitter.com/#!/BrianAyrault/status/61622937916157952″] [blackbirdpie url=”http://twitter.com/#!/BrianAyrault/status/61625599545970688″] [blackbirdpie […]
Derrick Williams just finished his Sophomore season at the University of Arizona. During the NCAA Tournament, quite a few people said that Williams was one of, if not the, best college players in America. On March 24, 2011, I looked at which agents and agencies have signed talented Arizona basketball players over the past few […]
The NFL Lockout is enjoined…for the moment. But let’s live in the moment and take a look at the opinion handed down yesterday by Judge Susan Richard Nelson in the United States District Court District of Minnesota. The dry and dirty: The motion for a preliminary injunction on the NFL Lockout was granted. If you […]
What: NFL Players Association Lockout Session at New York Law School When: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 (3:30 pm -5:30 pm) Where: New York Law School (185 W. Broadway New York, NY 10013 – Auditorium, A014) George Atallah, NFLPA Assistant Executive Director of External Affairs will be speaking along with an undisclosed NFL player. The discussion will […]
In 2010, Alex Rodriguez fired Scott Boras. Boras had been Rodriguez’s MLBPA certified agent; his responsibility was to help Rodriguez choose the teams he would play for and negotiate the terms of his contracts with MLB teams. However, Rodriguez has always had many other “agents” helping him out off of the field. In 2007, Rodriguez […]
The Oakland Raiders certainly want to keep free agent tight end Zach Miller on the team’s roster whenever NFL games resume, and many people believe the tight end is not going to be leaving the silver and black. However, the Raiders will have to pay him good second contract money, from which Creative Artists Agency […]
The 2011 NFL Draft kicks off less than a week from today. In the meantime, be sure to check out the hard work Brandon Thorn has put into his mock draft, big board, and top 5 at each position. This past week, I was published in NYU’s IP and Entertainment Law Ledger. The article is […]
On April 20, 2011, Daniel Kaplan of SportsBusiness Journal broke news that a breakaway group of as many as 70 NFL players have committed to a law firm to intervene in the Brady v. NFL case. According to Kaplan, the group is upset that talks in Washington D.C. broke off, and wants a seat at […]
Many people would say that in a perfect world, athletes do not select their agents based on how much money an agent gives or promises a player. In the real world, that is certainly not always the case. However, many athletes do see through these gifts and/or promises and realize what they are all about […]