We love our readers. Especially when they make comments on this blog and send e-mails with questions or compliments. Reader, Sokki Chen asks: How would the UAAA be applied to an Olympic athlete who is also a NCAA student athlete. If (s)he wants to hire an agent to negotiate deals for certain appearances prior/after the […]
Deadline for free agency is now midnight Sunday. We may see a new CBA within that time. Why else would the deadline have been extended? The NFL world is upside down right now… [tags]nfl, cba, collective bargaining, free agent[/tags]
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NFL Collective Bargaining Update
Teams have until 10PM tonight to cut players and full under the 2006 salary cap of $94.5 million. There have already been many high quality players released by a myriad of teams, but I gaurantee that you haven’t seen anything yet. After tonight, there will be a very interesting free-agent market! [tags]nfl, cba, collective bargaining, […]
Well okay, maybe a soccer player in Romania is worth 33lbs of meat…but that’s all! Nothing more! I found this great story from Darren Rovell’s blog: Trade Bait Everyone is abuzz around Bristol about this soccer player in Romania who was traded for 33 pounds of meat. As a frame of reference: In 1994, a […]
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A “Feel Good” Sports Story
If you live under a rock, or just do not watch CBS, you may have missed a great story about an autistic boy who took his school and the rest of the country by surprise this past week. Jason McElwain has been the coach’s assistant on his high school basketball team for a few years, […]
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The Fielding Bible
February 27, 2006 marks the date of John Dewan’s new book: The Fielding Bible. It is supposed to revolutionize the way we view fielding with their new plus/minus system. Perhaps it will have a major impact on baseball scouting like the OPS and Sabrmetric statistics. I also heard that Bill James made contributions to this […]
Yes, the Chinese have dubbed 2007 to be The Year of the NFL Agent…you heard it here first. But on a serious note, look out for an uncapped 2007 in the National Football League. Straight from the mouth of NFLPA executive director Gene Upshaw: March 3 will be the beginning of a new league year […]
Call me silly, but I value Baseball America’s prospect rankings over any other source. Their Top 100 list for 2006 was just released, with Tampa Bay’s Delmon Young at the top of the list. I hope this kid becomes a star, because pretty much every publication that I have read so far which discusses baseball […]
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NFL Franchise Tags
The deadline for NFL teams to secure a “Franchise Tag” on one of their best roster players is today. Once the day is over, NFL teams will have a better understanding of which players are truly on the free-agent block. Some interesting names that have not been tagged are: Drew Brees (San Diego Chargers), LeCharles […]
Being a student studying business I ask myself everyday: How is this lecture by this PhD relevant to my future life? The fact of the matter is that if you are aspiring to run your own business or manage a firm like a Sports Agency you will have to learn by doing. You can gain […]