Here at I Want to be a Sports Agent, we try and provide you with key issues that impact the industry. Whether it be current or future agents, this issue will no doubt pop up sometime. Indian cricketer Yuvraj Singh has recently signed with new representation, leaving Percept Management. However, under his previous management contract, […]
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Model Rule 1.5 – Fees
Today is my Professional Responsibility and Ethics Final Exam. In its honor, I bring you a post on the topic: Sports agents often find themselves to be the topic of conversation whenever the media harps on a big contract negotiation. This is rightfully so; agents are the men and women behind the scenes that get […]
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Review of AnyLawsuits.com
Sponsored Post: Lawsuits suck…unless you are the Plaintiff in a civil matter and win your case. Lawsuits can especially be a very unfriendly burden on a professional athlete, taking his/her mind off of that one thing he/she should be worried about: excelling on the field of play. The fine people at AnyLawsuits.com want to make […]
It’s not in time for Christmas, but a new book due out next month will still seem like a lump of coal in Reggie Bush’s stocking this holiday. Roughly one month after Lloyd Lake, a partner along with San Diego businessman Michael Michaels in the failed sports marketing agency New Era Sports & Entertainment, played […]
I have chosen to write about a topic that is of interest to me personally, and in the hope that you, our reader, will give your opinion on the matter too. There is a principle in soccer that the referee, in his/her role as both umpire and representative of a country’s football association, is the […]
This coming Friday would be a good day to just happen to be walking the grounds of Princeton University. That is because Princeton University will be hosting a half-day sports symposium, featuring an amazing list of speakers. The event begins at 1PM, December 7 and will take place at Robertson Hall. Brett D. Yormark, president […]
Greetings from London, England. I am not going to go into great detail about myself as that information is available in the ‘About’ section. I would, however, like to thank Darren once again for welcoming me to the team. In my first article I have decided to give my opinion on a topic that has […]
Remember our recent, brief discussion about falsely comparing standard baseball business practices with ethics [Ethics Or Merely Business Of Baseball?]? Yeah…you probably skipped over that one. Well today, I would like to focus on one instance where ethics may actually be enforced in the sports business world. Believe it or not, attorneys now make up […]
Despite being in the thick of the National Championship race—a #1 standing in the BCS rankings and looming showdowns with Arkansas this Friday, and either Tennessee or Georgia at the SEC Championship on December 1st—LSU head football coach Les Miles may indeed have one eye already on the Michigan job, recently vacated by Lloyd Carr. […]
So MLBPA executive director Donald Fehr doesn’t seem too concerned about the possible fallout from Former Senator George Mitchell’s impending steroid report. But he is upset over rumors that came out of the recent general managers’ meetings relating to the sharing of information between clubs as to their plans regarding players. Baseball’s labor contract says […]