69 underclassmen declared for the 2011 NBA Draft. Players had until May 8 that year to “test the waters” and determine whether they would keep their names in the draft pool, or withdraw their names and return to their respective universities. Around the cutoff date for players to make a decision as to whether they […]
Andrew Bogut knows that he isn’t going to play basketball forever. He understands that he’s going to need a post-basketball career and has already started the process of figuring out what he wants to do. Last year Bogut bought into the management company of his agent Bruce Kaider – One Management Group and Consulting. Having […]
Over the weekend, Mike Florio of ProFootballTalk.com published two questions and answers from the 2012 NFL Scouting Combine that he believed to be particularly humorous. The following is the second Q&A that caught Florio’s attention: “Another player was asked why he didn’t sign with one specific agent, with a representative from the NFL team mentioning […]
It feels like every week, I am publishing a Shabbat Shalom: Friday Wrap-Up from a new location. This week it is from Boston, Massachusetts, where I am speaking on the NBA Collective Bargaining Panel at the Harvard Law School 2012 Sports Law Symposium. Crazy week of NFL stories. The NFL handed down stern penalties on those […]
What: Ninth Annual Sports*Events*Marketing Experience (SEME) Conference Where: Nationals Park in Washington D.C. When: March 30-31, 2012 The following schedule and panelists are subject to change up until the day of the event. FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 2012 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM: PNC Diamond Club – Registration and Breakfast 8:50 AM – 9:00 AM: PNC Diamond Club – Welcome and […]
Late last week the Australian Football League (AFL) released the list of players that will be Free Agents at the end of the upcoming 2012 season. A total of 81 players (62 unrestricted and 19 restricted) will have the opportunity to switch clubs free of having to follow the draft system. St Kilda has the […]
College football can be quite the dirty business, but you do not need former NFLPA certified Contract Advisor Josh Luchs to tell you that. Since being featured in an extremely popular Sports Illustrated article written by Pulitzer Prize-winner George Dohrmann titled, Confessions of an Agent, Luchs has been on a country-wide tour of sorts, speaking […]
Former Major League Baseball pitcher Braden Looper had a very solid career. The reliever from Wichita State University played for four different MLB teams in his 11 year stint. Throughout those 11 years, Looper was represented by Randy Hendricks and Alan Hendricks of Hendricks Sports Management. While Looper has officially hung up his cleats, he […]
On February 21, 2012, I wrote that Oklahoma City’s Kevin Durant became the latest NBA all-star to leave basketball agent Aaron Goodwin and his company Goodwin Sports Management (GSM). Along with Durant, Jason Kidd, Paul Pierce, LeBron James, Jamal Crawford, Rodney Stuckey, Al Horford, and Dwight Howard have all once been represented by Goodwin, but moved on to another agent later […]
New York Giants wide receiver Victor Cruz had the type of year that athletes dream about. It was not a story that many surrounding the business of football could have ever imagined. Cruz, undrafted in 2010 after graduating from the University of Massachusetts, broke the former New York Giants single-season receiving yards record, racking up […]