On Friday, I received a forwarded email that was originally sent to a group of football players by a lawyer named Billy Conaty, who works for a multi-state law firm named Montgomery McCracken. Conaty introduced himself as a former NFL player, briefly described the pending concussion-based lawsuits pending against the NFL, and offered his […]
Kevin Durant has dropped Seattle-based Aaron Goodwin of Goodwin Sports Management (GSM) as his NBA agent. It appears that Jason Whitlock was the first to report on the rumor of Durant’s decision to leave Goodwin, and followed up with a Tweet that Candace Parker may be the next high-profile athlete to leave the firm that […]
NFL wide receiver Brandon Lloyd was instrumental in my fantasy football team winning the regular season and championship game in the 2010/11 season. Lloyd (31-years-old) did an outstanding job of taking his mediocre career to new heights playing 16 games with 77 receptions, 11 touchdowns, and 1,448 receiving yards with the Denver Broncos that year. […]
Last week, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that longtime football agent Jim Steiner retired from being a sports agent. Steiner had amassed a total of thirty-five years representing mostly football players, but also dabbled in the representation of baseball and basketball players early in his career. He had somewhere between 300 and 500 clients throughout […]
Impact Sports, a football agency established in 1987 and operating out of Boca Raton, Florida and Los Angeles, California, currently represents over fifty NFL athletes as their NFLPA Contract Advisors. The Contract Advisors on staff at Impact Sports are Mitch Frankel, Tony Fleming, and Sean Kiernan. Together, the three have recruited and signed six football […]
Linsanity is here to stay. Jeremy Lin’s play has grabbed the attention of not only New York, but the entire nation, with his inspiring play that has contributed to the New York Knicks’ surge in the Eastern Conference. I recently came across a Fox Business video clip of my former mentor, Molly Fletcher, making a […]
Tomorrow is my mother’s birthday. Happy Birthday to the best mom in the world. I had a great time in New Orleans last week hanging with some baseball industry veterans, judging excellent baseball arbitration oral arguments by well researched law students, and maybe having a hand grenade or two on Bourbon Street. I recently booked […]
A couple of days ago, Jeffrey Dobin, Esq., co-founder of Athlete Advocates, wrote a thorough op-ed titled, The NFL Scouting Combine Marks The Start Of Football. Today, I am going to tell you a little bit about his company. If the name “Athlete Advocates” sounds familiar, there is a good reason why. In April 2010, I declared that […]
Jeff Fannell of Jeff Fannell & Associates, LLC used to be an Assistant General Counsel with the Major League Baseball Players Association. Fannell worked with Robert Guerra, Bob Lenaghan, Matt Nussbaum, and Doyle Pryor as Assistant GCs at the MLBPA. He established his own consulting firm located in Bordentown, New Jersey in November 2010. Fannell currently advises baseball […]
A couple of weeks ago, I linked to the official press release that documented the merging of a baseball agency (Legacy Sports Group – principals: Greg Genske, Scott Parker and Brian Peters) and a marketing agency (The Agency Sports Management – principals: Jordan Bazant, Kevin Canning, Peter Raskin, Russ Spielman, Andrew Witlieb) to form a […]