The Real Athlete Blog, a division of Access Athletes, is launching the Ask The Expert series in conjunction with SportsAgentBlog.com (the leading resource for sports agent news) for the purpose of educating athletes. The series will feature qualified sports professionals who will field questions from both the readers of The Real Athlete Blog and SportsAgentBlog.com. […]
O.J. Mayo‘s search for a new agent may have un-officially come to a close. Mayo cannot actually sign a new NBPA licensed advisor until fifteen days after his firing of Leon Rose and CAA. But the rumor is that the search party is over and that as soon as he is able to sign a […]
The Kansas City Royals seem to be committed to spending decent money on their 2009 draft picks. Rumor has it that the club made an offer to Aaron Crow for $3 million. And Jim Callis recently reported that the Royals signed a fourth rounder for $1.45 million. This is big news for many reasons. $1.45 […]
Yesterday, Liz Mullen of SportsBusiness Journal tweeted that O.J. Mayo, the Memphis Grizzlies guard going into his sophomore season in the NBA, has dropped both his marketing agency and contractual advisor. His representation for team contracts was Leon Rose of Creative Artists Agency. Mayo’s marketing agency was LRMR Marketing, a company that has LeBron James […]
The applicants who took the 2009 NFLPA Advisor examination this past July were notified yesterday, by email, on whether they passed or failed. Out of 246 hopefuls, 76% passed. That comes out to 186.96. Special congratulatory note to the person who counts as 96% of a whole person. I kid. I have a few friends […]
Immediately after I reported on the tweets sent out on Edwin Mejia’s Twitter account, many of the controversial tweets were deleted. Mejia is the CEO of Athletes Premier International, a brand new sports agency that sprouted up overnight, once Aroldis Chapman defected from the Cuban National Team and selected Mejia as his representative. Mejia not […]
Rookie holdouts are nothing new to the sports world. Every year we see a few or more rookies being advised by their agent/advisor to hold out of camp until a fair contract is signed. Before I jump to support any side, I’d like to present some important points-of-view. From the athlete side: Professional sports are […]
In June, I wrote an article describing the future implications of the “decade deal” as I called it, on the National Hockey League. A player typically signs a deal longer than ten years for tens of millions of dollars. There are elements of risk and reward for each side. The team gets the player signed […]
The Saints are waiting for Malcolm Jenkins to come marching in and it looks as though the 49ers will be waiting a lot longer for their first round pick to sign. The battle over next year’s crop of talent is not a two company fight between CAA and Athletes First. At least Eugene Parker wants […]
The signing deadline for players drafted in the 2009 MLB Rule 4 Draft is less than two weeks away. In fact, players and their advisors have 12 more days to come to agreement with MLB organizations. If a deal is not struck by midnight of August 17th, that player will either return to college, go […]