Imagine signing a talented young girl, literally weeks after her college graduation ceremony, and then less than three weeks later watching her charge to the top of the leader board after three rounds of the biggest tournament in her sport (and her first as a professional). Jeff Chilcoat, President of the Columbus, OH based Sterling […]
Everyone is anticipating a Lorena Ochoa (pictured)-Annika Sorenstam duel (numbers one and two in the world, respectively; click here for the current women’s world rankings) this weekend at the U.S. Women’s Open at Interlachen Country Club in Minnesota, but as Tiger and Phil show us time and time again, rarely do these much-hyped #1-2 scenarios […]
Gear up for this week’s U.S. Open with some preview coverage. Doug Ferguson breaks down the story behind the mega-pairing (a full list of pairings is available here) for Thursday-Friday (Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, Adam Scott (pictured)). Ed Sherman gives kudos to the USGA for putting this dream threesome together. In my opinion, golf needs […]
In a recent piece on Lindsay Kagawa (“Sports agent no devil, but wears Prada”), head of the newly created Women’s Elite Division for Bill Duffy’s BDA Sports, columnist Marcus Thompson II seems to fawn, just a little: “Kagawa, an Albany native, is what they call a postmodern businesswoman, the smoothie you’d get by mixing Ellen […]
While attending Oklahoma University as a law student in 1997, the now 34-year old Kelli Masters (left) entered the Miss Oklahoma pageant and won, allowing her to advance to the Miss America competition. A former baton-twirling champion (she was a member of the 1990 and 1993 U.S. Twirling Teams) while an undergraduate along with her […]
While Darren continues to schlep around Israel, I’ll continue his Friday wrap-up tradition even in his absence. The following are some headlines that we neglected to cover during the week. The Academy for Athletes, founded by former NFL running back Paul Miles, offers instruction in finance, health, law, public relations and social awareness. It also […]
The 34th annual Sports Lawyers Association (SLA) conference begins this afternoon in San Francisco, with top legal executives of the four major leagues and the heads of the four players unions on the agenda of the three-day meeting. The SLA conference will conclude on Saturday after one panel featuring MLBPA Executive Director Donald Fehr, the […]
When Bob McClaren crossed over in 2002 from being the Houston Astros’ President of Business Operations to becoming a sports agent (he founded McClaren Sports, along with partner, old-college roommate and respected former Texas high school basketball coach Tommy Thomas, in May 2005) he was met with a rather ominous forecast. “You’re going to the […]
“The key to this business,” Dicky Fox told Jerry Maguire, “is personal relationships.” But when do said relationships start? And what do they entail? For Louis Johnson and Rodney Guillory, “runners” for Bill Duffy Associates Sports Management (BDA), a “relationship” with then USC-freshman O.J. Mayo meant a regularly BDA-subsidized Citibank account and over $200,000 total […]
Last week Darren wrote about the AAFL, which is temporarily on hiatus and will soon be embroiled in a class action lawsuit on behalf of the players against League founder/chairman Marcus Katz. Now more news from yet another budding league in last Friday’s SportsBusiness Daily (subscription required): “Upstart United National Football League (UNFL) Founder & […]