Question: If someone were looking to become and agent, or look to work on management’s side of the table, what are the key things they should focus on? Should they focus on contract law? Going over the Uniform Player Contract, what have you? Smith: I frankly don’t think it’s that much of a legal exercise. […]
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A great piece on MLB option rules
The BP Guide to Transaction Rules. It is a little long, but these types of rules are good to understand if you are interested in being a knowledgable baseball Sports Agent. [tags]baseball, option[/tags]
Thanks to Compson Snopes for linking me to this two-part article on agents in the Hardball Times: http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/article/lets-talk-a-look-at-player-agents-part-1-legends/ http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/article/lets-talk-player-agents-part-2-perspectives/ Looks like there’s some good stuff in those articles. I will take a look at them later and may make some comments on them in this blog. [tags]Sports agents, baseball, hardball times[/tags]
One of the readers of this blog posed an excellent question in an e-mail. It is a question that there is no definite answer to, but one in which I have wanted to tackle for a while now. The question is: I’ve been going over some things recently (plus I’m taking some business classes right […]
#1 pick of the 2005 MLB Draft, Justin Upton, has just obtained the largest 1st signing bonus in the history of baseball. He will receive $6.1 million over 5 years (that is just the signing bonus). His agent is Larry Reynolds, brother of Harold Reynolds. More about this may be read here [tags]upton, baseball, mlb, […]
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Want to be an NFL agent? Part II
So I got a lot of e-mails from people who have been reading this blog since day one saying how suprised they were about the myriad of rules that the NFL has for aspiring Sports Agents. But the rules don’t end when you finally become a registered Agent… If you pass the written exam, you […]
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The Sports Agent’s Constitution
The UAAA, otherwise known as the Uniform Athlete Agents Act is a document that you should become familiar with if you have not already become accustomed to it. Created in 2000, it has been adopted by 33 states, Washington D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands as of July 20, 2005. Those states can be seen […]
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Want to be an NFL agent?
To become an NFL Sports Agent, the NFLPA (players association) requires you to go through a longer process than the other 2 main American sports. The current specifications are as follows: A non-refundable application fee of $1,650.00 Undergraduate AND post graduate degree (Master’s or Law) from an accredited college/university. Mandatory attendance at a 2006 (if […]
Well if Reggie Bush gets a sweepstakes, I figure Vincent Young deserves a raffle. With a 22 point Nielson-index rating (35.6 million of the 130 million American TV households watched), the entire country was able to see just how much Vincent Young meant to his undefeated Texas Longhorn team. But if he declares himself eligible […]
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State of the Blog (Union?)
I can now confidently say that this experiment (blog) is on its feet and will only grow from here. In only its 5th day of existence and 4th day of counting visitors, this site has obtained over 300 visitors and 560 page views. I have been lucky enough to have great visitors so far, with […]