Tony LaRussa has signed his first agent. He is now represented by Creative Artists Agency (CAA) for speaking engagements [Business is sweet]. CAA has also taken over representation for professional beach volleyball company, AVP [AVP ANNOUNCES NEW STRATEGIC RELATIONSHIP WITH CREATIVE ARTISTS AGENCY]. Tack on another 10 years for Coca-Cola to say it is the […]
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Adrian Peterson is the man. This past weekend, he put up 296 yards rushing against my Fantasy Football defense, the San Diego Chargers. Breaking the previous single-game rushing record, Peterson has raised his stock tremendously in his rookie year of play. Just how much may that single performance be worth, though? Darren Rovell to the […]
Trash the cheeseburger (you know it’s not kosher) and get ready for your Friday wrap up of links that I failed to cover during the week. Agents only have 10 minutes to sell their 1st round potential draft picks in the 2008 NFL Draft (down from 15 minutes for each team to select). Hopefully this […]
A new opportunity may become available soon for basketball players. NBA Commissioner David Stern in in talks with authorities in China to set up a ‘Second NBA’, which would be a world-class professional basketball league. [China could host ‘second NBA’] But don’t get too excited, this won’t be for a while. David Stern is in […]
The Cleveland Indians recently struck a deal with IMG to find a sponsor to claim the naming rights for Jacobs Field. CAA has been employed by the New York Yankees to procure sponsors for their future new stadium [CAA: Creative Acquisition Agency]. If the Minnesota Vikings ever decided to drop their stadium’s name, which falls […]
This past week, news broke that Dale Earnhardt, Jr. will be driving the #88 car and that the car will feature Pepsi Co’s energy drink, Amp. I personally like both moves made by Earnhardt. Junior has done his fans a service by choosing to make his car #88. People who have Dale Jr. stickers, draw […]
I’m hoping that at least half of the sports fans and future sports business players and sports agents out there are aware that the FIFA Women’s World Cup has been going on for the past couple of weeks now. If you watch Sportscenter in the morning I suppose you’ve got no choice but to be […]
As I’m sure everybody is aware by now, Greg Oden, the top draft pick of this past summer’s NBA draft will be missing out on his rookie season with the Portland Trail Blazers. Apparently, what was originally supposed to be an exploratory arthroscopic procedure ended up being microfracture surgery for Oden; which is of course, […]
It’s not every week that the Sports Business Journal has blog worthy information for us agents and agents-to-be but a particular article in this week’s issue is certainly worth mentioning. With the start of the 2007 NFL being this week (and Thursday night’s opening day blowout is an entirely separate issue) the editors over at […]
Believe it or not, it wasn’t too long ago that Roger Federer, the world’s top-ranked tennis player who this weekend will attempt to win his fourth-straight U.S. Open title, was only making about half the money in sponsorship revenue as did other marquee players. But considering that the now 26 year old Federer may indeed […]