I finally got around to watching the Crack Baby Athletic Association South Park episode over the weekend. It was funny in so many ways, but also so sad whenever you actually think to yourself, “this sort of reminds me of the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s practices.” But that’s the power of parody. The parody also […]
Category: Sports Business
Last Friday, Marc Isenberg contributed a great piece to Sports Agent Blog concerning his Do It Yourself Rookie Symposium. Based on the fact that the NFL rookie symposium is cancelled this year, Isenberg has offered to provide a free copy of his Go Pro Like a Pro booklet to any NFL draftee, undrafted free agent, […]
Since reviewing his book, Money Players, on August 15, 2007, I have become very good friends with Marc Isenberg. I have invited him to speak multiple times at the University of Florida Levin College of Law, engaged in great sports business discussions with him, and have been able to count on him for advice whenever […]
The following is a guest contribution from Marc Isenberg. Follow Marc on twitter @marcisenberg. I will be publishing my review of Marc’s “Go Pro Like a Pro” (discussed in this post) in the near future. Needless to say, it is a very informative booklet for athletes to read. “The direction in which education starts a […]
Yesterday, Darren Rovell of CNBC broke the news that Tiger Woods’ agent Mark Steinberg is no longer an employee of IMG (his contract expires in June 2011), where at one point in time he was director of Global Golf Business. At IMG, Steinberg was responsible for the representation of Woods and LPGA golfer Annika Sorenstam, […]
While Priority Sports & Entertainment was one of the more successful agencies in the 2011 NFL Draft (representing a total of 13 Draft picks), the company also has a strong and growing Basketball division run by Mark Bartelstein, Brad Ames, Aaron Mintz, and Reggie Brown. Priority Sports’ recent move to partner with Hoops Internacional will […]
Arian Foster is coming off the best year of production in his short NFL career. Foster, who went undrafted in 2009, has become the starting runningback for the Houston Texans, and just last season set the rushing record in the entire NFL with 1,616 yards on the ground. He also led all rushers in touchdowns […]
Friday, April 15th, 2011 is known as Black Friday for online poker players. It was the day that the United States Department of Justice (DoJ) charged a group of online poker owners, including the founders of Full Tilt, Poker Stars, and Absolute Poker with conspiracy to commit bank fraud, illegal gambling offenses, and money laundering. While […]
Agents feel as though all of their information is proprietary. They are always fearful that others will use their information against them. That is one reason why many agencies refuse to put their client information on the websites. They believe that putting names out there will allow rivals an opportunity to view the list and […]
Hello everyone. I am glad to see the interest that my last post drew. It has been over three weeks since my last post and it is safe to say that I have been working on and updating this post during that entire time. Every day I have worked since then, I have had a […]