Here’s to hoping that the UFL turns out to be a successful venture. Less than a year ago, I was sitting at a table outside of a panel at the 2008 Princeton Sports Law Symposium when someone yelled that the AFL was going to be suspending its 2009 season. After quickly verifying that rumor, I […]
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Marc Isenberg, author of Money Players (a fantastic read), wrote a piece last week that discussed summer basketball tournament organizers’ power over NCAA basketball coaches. The organizers not only make nice profits from the tournaments they host, but also from selling contact information of players who enroll to play. Contact information is valuable information, especially […]
Blake Baratz is a young guy (only 29-years-old), but already has a good amount of experience as an NFLPA certified advisor. Since becoming certified with the union, Baratz has worked at Impact Sports, a representation firm with its principal office in Boca Raton, FL. Baratz was working on behalf of Impact Sports from across the […]
Bernie Lee is the President of Lee Basketball Services Ltd, a full-service basketball agency that specializes in representing basketball players overseas. Bernie is certified by the NBPA and bases his agency out of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. In a world with tools like Skype, text messaging, and Google Wave (coming soon), distance between an agent and […]
The time has come. I have read article after article and received tweet after tweet about a couple of high profile lawsuits against the NCAA and Collegiate Licensing Company (one also includes Electronic Arts as a defendant), so it’s time to stop collecting tabs on my Firefox browser and address some of the issues involved […]
Big decisions loom for 16 year old elite hockey players. I’m not talking about the typical issues for teenagers like “what should I wear to the homecoming dance,” “how am I going to pass my driving test,” or “what should I do this weekend?” Instead, many elite hockey players at that age have to decide […]
Taxes. Nobody likes paying them, but without them we wouldn’t survive. Drawing on the recent post by Darren in regards to the levels of US state taxes and the effect on player income [ “A Taxing Discussion”], I thought I would look at the tax rates and how they factor into soccer contracts on a […]
After reading the article I wrote yesterday on CAA’s acquisition of CSMG’s President, Henry Thomas, and all of his clients, I realized that I did not spend enough time talking about the implications of this move on the sports agent industry as a whole. CSMG wis probably gone for good, but what exactly does it […]
What do Dwyane Wade, Chris Bosh, Devin Harris, Udonis Haslem, Dee Brown, Anthony Parker, Ronnie Brewer, Michael Finley, Shaun Livingston, Quinton Ross, Denham Brown, Marcus Taylor, Loukas Mavrokefalidis, and Marcellus Sommerville all have in common? Their primary agent is Henry Thomas, formerly of CSMG. This weekend, it was reported (via Twitter) that Thomas will be […]
Initially, I was not accurate on the name of Orlando Hudson‘s agent, but I was right on giving his agent praise for the structuring of Hudson’s 2009 contract. As a reminder, this was the deal that Hudson signed with the Dodgers in the offseason: $380,000 signing bonus, deferred without interest to a time not designated […]