When news broke in July 2009 that Michael Johnson, the 3rd round pick of the Cincinnati Bengals, had signed before the team was about to report to camp, Richard Kopelman‘s name was listed as Johnson’s agent. He negotiated a $863,000 guaranteed (with a total maximum value of $3.47 million) contract for his client. Kopelman was also there […]
Category: Sports Agents
It is tough to find anybody in the sports agent profession who has not talked about Howard Beck’s New York Times story titled, Tampering Leads to Rare Penalty Against Agent. It is not such a hot topic because someone was actually convinced that an agent knowingly recruited another agent’s client. It was newsworthy because an […]
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 […]
Who is Chris Hawkins? He says he is not an agent, but the NCAA, which suspended University of Georgia stand-out wide receiver A.J. Green for four games because he sold his jersey to Hawkins for $1,000, has no problem labeling Hawkins as an agent. Is he a financial advisor? A memorabilia collector? If he just […]
As of July 1, 2002, the State of Florida no longer required people who wished to become licensed athlete agents in the state to take an examination or obtain a $15,000 surety bond. In discussions regarding athlete agent laws, very few people bring up the idea of requiring people to pass any sort of examination […]
It cannot just be me who thinks that something is being hidden in this entire A.J. Green situation. Admittedly, as much as I have gleaned over the past few months regarding student-athletes, agents, runners, and even coaches all in bed with each other, people kept asking me if I had heard anything about Green, and […]
Last Friday, Jerry Crasnick of ESPN tweeted the following: Have you ever been in a supermarket where the groceries actually jump off the shelves and into your cart without any action on your part? Me neither. But after that tweet was sent, I bet quite a few agents started pondering how they could become in […]
Tuesday August 31st, 2010 10:07am CST: After finishing some last minute legal work for a few clients that came up last minute, I’m finally on the road. I’d hoped that I’d been out the door a few hours earlier, seeing as how MapQuest estimated my travel time to be just over twelve hours. Unfortunately life […]
On September 2, all certified Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA) agents received an email concerning amended agent regulations. It was a notice that the MLBPA’s Executive Board has unanimously adopted amendments to the MLBPA’s Regulations Governing Player Agents. While I am not yet MLBPA certified (although I am happy to announce that is changing […]
The following is a guest post from a good friend and extremely intelligent sports business professional, Marc Isenberg (@marcisenberg). He wrote a great book titled, Money Players, and continues to help student-athletes manage their careers as a part of a new company, INsight Group. College sports has a handful of core problems: “One and done,” […]