As Marc Isenberg correctly pointed out on this website not too long ago, Sports Agents = The Issue de Jour. But for much of the past few months, the focus of the media and the NCAA Agent, Gambling and Amateurism division has been on sports agents’ relationships with football student-athletes. The University of North Carolina-Chapel […]
Category: College Basketball Players
Roughly a week before I sat to take the Florida Bar Exam, a flood began. It started with an NCAA investigation into potential rules violations by players, agents, and even university employees at the University of North Carolina. It quickly spread to NCAA investigations at the University of South Carolina, University of Florida, University of […]
We all do it, right? It’s the end of your team’s season, they have either been eliminated from playoff contention or been eliminated in a less than thrilling fashion in the playoffs, by for example, waking three sleeping giants in Celtics jerseys. July 1st seems to be the date that begins the changing of the NBA […]
Now that the deadline has passed for early entries who were testing the waters to either remain in the draft or go back to school, I like to go through the early entry list and look for agent names that surprise me near the top of the list. I already wrote a post about my […]
Today is the deadline for all NCAA basketball players to either withdraw their name from NBA draft, or go through with the decision and continue to see where their stock lands them. With the NBA playoffs starting to finally matter, the fourteen teams that were not invited to the party have been playing the “Whom […]
Since the end of this past college basketball season, the biggest draft question did not focus on whether someone would keep his name in the draft pool. Instead, it was on who the future #1 overall pick, John Wall, would select as his representation leading up to the draft. That person will pick up the […]
Yesterday, I discussed a phrase that is regularly used around this time every single year – testing the waters. But testing the waters is not right for everyone. In fact, college basketball players who know that they definitely will not be returning to school should not test the waters. It only delays the inevitable, and […]
With the end of the college basketball season every year comes a rush of student-athletes declaring that they are going to test the waters regarding entering their names in the NBA Draft. This year is special, as many people believe that it could be the last season before the NBA owners lockout, jeopardizing at least […]
In the recent week since the downfall of the Kentucky Wildcats in the NCAA Tourney, speculation has arisen about the status of John Wall, the Kentucky point guard, who by most analysts is expected to be the number one overall pick in the 2010 NBA Draft. There are reports that Wall is having second thoughts […]
March Madness may be just a few weeks away, but for the Purdue Boilermakers, the excitement may have ended February 24th with the loss of Robbie Hummel. While it’s a given that Purdue will be in the Tournament, the question is, how far will they go? The answer lies in a simple equation: Team – […]