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Ehadadi Gettin’ Grizzly

Less than two weeks ago I reported about a 7’2 Iranian who had made a big-time impression in Beijing during the Olympics. Hamed Ehadadi led the Olympics in blocks and rebounds per game and proved to scouts that he has the talent to play at a high level. Up until two weeks ago, no Iranians […]

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Contract Negotiation NFL Players NFL Teams

Restructuring Contracts For Less Guaranteed Money

Last week, a guy who used to be a key part of the Green Bay Packers offense took a pay cut with his current team, the Houston Texans.  The restructuring of Ahman Green’s contract made few papers and did not garner much discussion on the airwaves, and quite frankly, it is not something that most […]

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Dynasty Athlete Representation

9/02/08 News & Notes

Gerard Haran Washington Wild Things finish 2-1 in a three game series this weekend. Friday’s game was won 10-6; Haran had four at bats and one run. Saturday, Haran had two hits, but it wasn’t enough as the Wild things fell 5-6.  Sunday and Monday, Gerard had the day off. The Wild Things season has […]

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Soccer Sports Business

The Life Of A Soccer Agent During The Transfer Window

In my last article, I discussed the preparations that I undertook to ensure that my actions during the Transfer Window were as effective as possible.  For those of you new to soccer, the Transfer Windows are the two main periods in the year when soccer clubs can buy and sell players (players on free transfers […]

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NBA Players Recruiting Sports Agents

Running Calvin Andrews Into Trouble

Life was good for Calvin Andrews and BDA Sports.  They had locked up O.J. Mayo and were ready for another successful NBA draft.  Then came the news that O.J. Mayo had received money from Rodney Guillory, a runner for Andrews and BDA.  Calvin maintained that he stopped giving money to Mayo through runners prior to […]

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Dynasty Athlete Representation

Lara Is An All-Star

Congratulations to Dynasty client, Robert Lara, for being named to the Arizona Rookie League All-Star Team.  Robert has definitely made Padres executives very happy about selecting him in the nineteenth round.  In a post made yesterday on Paul DePodesta’s blog, he had this to say about Lara: Round 19 – Robert Lara, signed, Arizona – […]

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Friday Wrap-Up

Shabbat Shalom: Friday Wrap-Up

My first official week as a 2L is over.  Besides running around Wednesday night like a chicken with its head cut off, the week was a success.  I was going crazy Wed. night due to the fact that I hated my Child Support Enforcement Law class, dropped it, and needed to pick up something in […]

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Dynasty Athlete Representation

8/29/08 News & Notes

PBA News Team USA won its second consecutive five-player team gold medal at the 2008 World Tenpin Bowling Association Men’s World Championships in a dramatic tiebreaker Wednesday. Patrick Allen led Team USA in the finals with 249, followed by Page with 244, Barnes with 205, Jones with 201 and Bill Hoffman of Columbus, Ohio, with […]

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Sports Business

CAA Is Dominant

Earlier this week, Liz Mullen and David Broughton wrote in Street & Smith’s SportsBusiness Journal the following statement: CAA Sports, in two short years of existence, has become the dominant sports agency in the United States.  Earlier this month, Jason Belzer positioned CAA as the second strongest American agency behind Wasserman Media Group (WMG).  The […]

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The Pirates Got Boras’ed

While I was frantically trying to find a class to substitute the terrible Child Support Enforcement Law that I dropped yesterday, I received an IM from Brian Foley of TheCollegeBaseballBlog.com.  I had read headlines about Pedro Alvarez yesterday, but had not checked the full story yet.  He wanted a quote, so this is what I […]