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 […]
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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 […]
I Want to be a Sports Agent recommends that you buy Marc Isenberg’s new book: Money Players. Three athletic departments have purchased 10+ copies. One prominent sports agent purchased 50 copies for his clients. 1 copy: $25 per 2 copies: $20 per 10 copies, $15 per 50 copies, $10 per Currently free shipping on purchases.. […]
I blogged last week that Lloyd Lake, co-founder of the now defunct New Era Sports & Entertainment along with partner Michael Michaels, was scheduled to meet Friday with NCAA investigators and allegedly supply them with documents and receipts, including a deposit slip, showing that Lake had placed hundreds of dollars into Reggie Bush’s personal bank […]
As expected, attorneys for Lloyd Lake—co-founder along with Michael Michaels of the now defunct New Era Sports & Entertainment—filed a civil suit on Tuesday in San Diego County Court against Former USC and Heisman Trophy-winning running back (and now in his second season with the New Orleans Saints), Reggie Bush and his family. The suit […]
According to Dana White, President of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), Randy “The Natural” Couture “definitely belongs to me…he’s under contract to me. No doubt about it.” Couture is the 44-year old former UFC heavyweight champion (there are five divisions by weight) who abruptly retired from the mixed martial arts (MMA) organization earlier this week, […]
My buddy Nate Jones, a fellow 1L at the University of California Los Angeles and owner of JONES ON THE NBA, asked me to pass this along: UCLA School of Law seeks sports agents (particularly MLB, NBA, NFL) to participate in a panel slated for Thurs., Nov. 13th. The topic will center around the paternalistic […]
Officially my fourth appearance on Adam Taxin’s radio show, which is broadcast on 1540 AM WNWR in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The entire segment is devoted to a discussion about Reggie Bush and his involvement with Michael Michaels and Lloyd Lake of New Era Sports & Entertainment while enrolled at the University of Southern California. For the […]
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99 Problems…Is The NFLPA One?
Jeffrey Standen, also known as The Sports Law Professor, strongly believes that the cause of NFLPA agent problems (he gives examples of Carl Poston and Tank Blank) stems from the players association itself. As always, I encourage you to check out the article in its entirety, but if you are too lazy or crunched for […]