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Study Sports Law Abroad This Summer

The weather in East Lansing, MI has been around 20 degrees or under for what seems to be forever now. Every time I step outside of my house to go to the law library or to walk my dog I tell myself that spring and summer are right around the corner. And although it’s only […]

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Seton Hall 2011 Sports & Entertainment Law Symposium

What: Seton Hall Journal of Sports & Entertainment Law 2011 Sports & Entertainment Law Symposium When: February 15, 2011 (4:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.) Where: One Newark Center, Newark, NJ 07102 (map) The event will focus on the professional and ethical dilemmas confronting attorneys representing athletes and entertainers. 3 CLE credits will be awarded for full day […]

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Yo Runner, Get Out of my Face!

While in “the business” for only a short amount of time, I have become perplexed by the concept of the client recruiting process – the stories of true relationships, those that are fake, and some that end like bad marriages have given me an interest in why it is so tedious both from a compliance […]

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The NFL Should Look Into The NBA’s Conflict Of Interest Regulations

Many NFLPA certified Contract Advisors are severely conflicted between representing players and the coaches and/or front office NFL team personnel.  No agency might be more conflicted than the newly formed SportsTrust Advisors, which is the result of a merger of Jimmy Sexton’s Athletic Resource Management (ARM) and Pat Dye, Jr.’s ProFiles Sports, Inc. No issue when they are negotiating […]

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CFL Agent Mark Maren Arrested Based On Scheme To Defraud

Mark Maren is the owner of Toronto, Ontario based M Sports Management, a sports agency specializing in negotiating contracts for its players in the Canadian Football League (CFL).  On his company’s Facebook page, Maren lists his current active CFL client list, which includes over 40 players, along with some Arena Football clientele.  Maren makes multiple statements […]

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Would You Be Able To Avoid An NCAA Investigation?

We have chronicled the variety of NCAA investigations over the past year and blamed agents and players for violating NCAA rules and regulations.  Ignorance of the rules and regulations potentially jeopardize student-athletes’ eligibility to play college sports and could harm the educational institutions that the players represent. Schools have Compliance officers who are paid in-part […]

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University Of Oregon Sports & Entertainment Law Conference

*Cheerleaders may or may not be in attendance. What: University of Oregon School of Law Sports & Entertainment Law Conference 2011 Where: White Stag Building, Portland, Oregon (map) When: Friday, January 28, 2011 (8 a.m. – 6 p.m.) Schedule: 8:00am-9:00am: Registration 9:15am-10:30am: MMA: The Legal Aspects of an Emerging Sport Brad Darcy – Executive Director […]

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Arkansas Attorney General Wants To Clamp Down On Agents And Intermediaries

It has recently become a trend for state attorneys general to claim that sports agents will be prosecuted for violating their respective state athlete agent laws.  Whether there is anything behind their words remains to be seen.  The most recent attorney general to put sports agents on notice is Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel. McDaniel […]

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Virginia Tech Players Tell Their Agent/Runner Stories

An hour before the ball dropped on December 31, 2010, the Washington Post published a piece by Mark Giannotto titled, Virginia Tech football players work to avoid being distracted by agents.  Tonight, the Virginia Tech Hokies will battle the Stanford Cardinal in the Orange Bowl, but as Giannotto pointed out, the game’s actors have been […]

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Pittsburgh Sports Law Committee

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania has its fair share of influential sports lawyers.  Now they have their own hangout. Gerik Jenco, a University of Pittsburgh law student who is also the Director of Operations for Del Duca Sports, came up with the idea of creating a Sports Law Committee of the Allegheny County Bar Association.  The chair of […]