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Law & Order: Reggie Bush

The saying is “come hard, or don’t come at all.” Reggie Bush—he comes strapped. Well, at least his bodyguard does. The latest bizarre turn of events in the once intriguing and now implausible Bush fiasco has former Blood-turned sports marketing agent Lloyd Lake walking out before his schedule deposition in relation to his lawsuit filed […]

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What Makes an Athlete an Entertainer?

At one time, sport figures and entertainment figures occupied different social worlds but now these individuals jump from one world to the next and have blurred the lines. Successful (sometimes not so successful) athletes tend to become entertainment figures during and after their competitive careers. One of the major issues that sport and entertainment lawyers […]

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Sports Law

Review of Attorneys As Athlete-Agents by Mark Doman

In Fall 2003, Mark Doman wrote a piece in the Texas Review Of Entertainment & Sports Law titled, Attorneys As Athlete-Agents: Reconciling the ABA Rules of Professional Conduct with the Practice of Athlete Representation. I have not been able to find a free version of the article, but if you have access to LexisNexis or […]

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Sports Agents Sports Law

UF Sports Symposium: “From the Locker Room to the Board Room”

In case you did not already know, I am a 1st year law student at the University of Florida. As a 1L, I have taken the opportunity to get involved and was elected onto the Executive Board of the Entertainment, Arts and Sports Law Society (EASLS) as the Director of Public Relations. This is great […]

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The RichRod Saga

Details about Rich Rodriguez’s agent Mike Brown’s negotiated deal with the University of Michigan recently came out, when the school’s AD Bruce Madej reported that the newly hired Rodriguez had signed a general offer sheet back in December for a six-year contract worth $2.5 million annually. Rodriguez’s base salary will be $300,000, and the rest […]

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Reggie weighs in from Sundance

Tarnished Heisman, published by Simon & Schuster and written by Don Yaeger and Jim Henry, is officially out, and not surprisingly it has already received a vast array of critical response. But Reggie Bush, speaking from the recent Sundance Film Festival, which he attended with girlfriend Kim Kardashian (below), eschewed making any book reviews and […]

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Contract Negotiation Sports Business Sports Law

The Most Important Factor for Successful Negotiations

“Negotiating is, for most, an uncomfortable attempt at impromptu haggling. For the [skilled negotiator], it is a planned sequence of predictable objections and responses that can be orchestrated to produce the desired outcome. It’s like planning three or four moves ahead in chess, forcing an opponent to put themselves in checkmate.” – Timothy Ferris A […]

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Sponsorship – A Necessary Evil?

The purpose of this article is to identify some of the positives and negatives that can arise from sponsorship in sport, and invite your own views of this sometimes contentious topic. Sponsors purchase the right to align their product(s) with sport through a variety of mediums such as events, venues, teams and individual sportsmen and […]

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Contract Law: Meet Rich Rodriguez

Apologies to those who are just a few weeks removed from their contract law final. Feel free to stop reading now. By now you probably know that West Virginia University’s Board of Governors is suing former football coach Rich Rodriguez (inset) in order to collect a $4 million buyout of his contract with the school. […]

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Can The Rocket Sue For Libel?

Mass Media law in the United States includes the tort of defamation (libel and slander) and is a surprisingly thorny subject matter. In fact, there are lawyers who devote their entire professional careers just to this subject. One question that immediately popped into my mind when I heard months ago that former U.S. Senator George […]