David Carr knows the peak of the agent business. The former NFL number one overall draft pick from 2002 had almost every agent seeking his business when he came out of Fresno State. He has stuck with one agent his entire career (Mike Sullivan), but also hired a business manager. Carr was able to pick […]
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We have covered the Mike Danton/David Frost story quite extensively at SportsAgentBlog.com, but just in case you do not know the history behind their relationship, here is a quick rundown: Mike Danton considered his agent, David Frost, as a father figure. Danton was placed in jail for hiring a hitman to kill David Frost. Frost […]
Welcome to a new column titled, Rookie Duties. In this column, Scott Deady will give you a glimpse into the day-to-day life of an agent breaking into the industry. Today there are almost 7 billion people in the world. When I was a kid, there were 5 billion. It’s hard to keep up. In Windsor, […]
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Want To Be A UFL Agent?
Want to be a registered agent in the newly formed United Football League (UFL)? In the past, there was a simple single sheet questionnaire to fill out, but many potential agents complained about never hearing back from the UFL about their status. Things have changed. If you want to be a registered UFL agent, you […]
I originally tweeted about this story, expecting to throw it up on our weekly Shabbat Shalom: Friday Wrap-Up column. But then I realized that the post titled Sports and Social Media: Where Opportunity and Fear Collide, deserved to be discussed instead of merely linked. Particularly, this part of the first paragraph caught my attention: the […]
When I come across a young man making big moves in this industry that has very high barriers to entry, I have to give him props. Yesterday, Darren Rovell tweeted, Sam Duvall, a 26-year old agent who has never felt so many vibrations from his Blackberry in his life, is the Vice President of Tennis […]
Jack Bechta is an NFLPA Certified Advisor who is not afraid to speak his mind. He has been in the business of representing professional football players for almost two decades and his engine has not experienced any wear. Jack is the owner of JB Sports Inc, which has a valuable list of clients and a […]
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An Agent’s Guide To Athletes
This morning, I published a new piece on SportsNetworker.com: An Agent’s Guide To Athletes. The post discusses some of the things an agent looks for in his selection of athlete clients. We are often so caught up in worrying about how to market ourselves to athletes that we forget to make sure we want to […]
Is Eugene Parker so busy fielding questions from the media and having discussions with the 49ers front office, that he is not paying enough attention to his veteran clients? 49ers faithful are getting crabby with the agent, and it looks like SportsAgentBlog.com readers are not to thrilled with the Crabtree holdout, either. Whether or not […]
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The Influencers Of Basketball
The website, Hoopsworld, is on a mission to list the top 55 most influential people/groups in the sport of basketball. Yesterday, the site began the rankings by revealing #36-55. Seven agents are listed in that group; however, the site does put Leon Rose and Henry Thomas in the same slot. Here are the agents who […]