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Ellsbury Drops Urbon, Signs With Boras

You knew Scott Boras wouldn’t stay down for long. His declining media status was killing his insides. So what does he do? Boras Corp signs one of the hottest young players in the MLB, who just helped his team win a World Series Championship. At the end of last week, Jacoby Ellsbury dropped agent Joe […]

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Contract Negotiation MLB Players MLB Rules

Goodbye To Select Bonus Clauses

If your baseball client wins the MVP, Cy Young, or Rookie of the Year award, he better be content with getting a piece of hardware to hang up on the wall, because MLB will no longer allow a team to compensate him with cold cash. The Baseball Writers’ Association of America recently passed a new […]

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Dynasty Athlete Representation

Mike DeVaney: Strikes Galore

Baltimore, Md. – Dec. 9, 2007, Mike DeVaney came back from what looked like an insurmountable deficit after only two frames to win the four-bowler shootout, which kicked off the final round of the Lumber Liquidators Championship at AMF Country Club Lanes. DeVaney went on to beat 4th seed, Rhino Page, easily and 3rd seed, […]

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The Primary Cut

The Primary Cut…Q School wrap-up

Eighth installment of The Primary Cut – weekly insights from the world of golf player management and other golf-related industry and player news. 1. Q School’s Over Tour veteran Frank Lickliter II opened the six-day grindfest with consecutive 62’s and never looked back, completing a wire-to-wire victory at Orange County National in Winter Garden, FL […]

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Nightmare Clients of the Week

Nightmare Clients: A Special Announcement

Special Announcement: From this point forward, SportsAgentBlog.com will be overhauling the Nightmare Clients of the Week column. The column will no longer be a weekly column that recaps the previous week’s player blunders and mishaps. The new Nightmare Client/Agent column will be a recurring column that will focus on specific instances of player or agent […]

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Sports Business Sports Law

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 […]

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Extra Large Updates

We love updates, and you should too! New sports agencies were added to the Agencies page on the header menu. Agencies were added in Wisconsin, New Jersey, California, and more. Check out the largest free web repository of sports agencies located on SportsAgentBlog.com. Check out the right column menu. If you have not noticed it, […]

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Shabbat Shalom: Friday Wrap-Up

Two finals down, two to go. Criminal Law and Torts will be out of my mind for a while. Now it is onto studying for Professional Responsibility and Constitutional Law. Oh, and it is Hanukkah! So spin those dredles and burn down the candles. Here comes some stories that I failed to cover during the […]

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New book validates Lake, implicates Bush

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 […]

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Soccer Sports Law

Should On-Field Violence Evade the Law?

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 […]