Last updated: April 24, 2009 (Also check out Thorn’s Big Board) Round 1 1. Detroit – QB Matthew Stafford ~ Georgia = If the Lions feel that Stafford is the best player in the draft then they need to do everything they can to get a deal done and draft the kid. I’ve said it […]
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Baseball Worth $18.35 million per year? [Selig’s pay climbs past $18 million]. Hopefully the $36 million will serve as an incentive to hit the strike zone more often [Sources: Perez to return to Mets]. Versatile, powerful, fairly inexpensive…will he put up another .285 BA? [Reports: Orioles snag versatile infielder] No one wants to sign you? […]
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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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BEST Becomes Better
In Jason Belzer’s recent Sports Agency Rankings, he put Blue Entertainment Sports Television (BEST) at number three, behind WMG and CAA. Many people have never even heard of BEST before, so how could it be ranked higher than a juggernaut known as IMG (International Management Group)? IMG is much older than BEST, but in a […]
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Sport Agency Power Rankings
Now that the drafts for the major professional sports leagues have passed, and we continue our mid-summer grind toward the start of the NFL, NBA, and NCAA seasons, I felt it was a good time to release the first edition of the Sports Agency Power Rankings. As more and more agencies merge into larger conglomerates […]
Jonathan Blue is Chairman and Managing Director of a little company called, Blue Equity, LLC. It’s some small private equity firm in Louisville, Kentucky that basically dominates every industry from real estate to financial planning, and more recently, sports & entertainment. I hope you noted my earlier sarcasm by now. Blue is a true business […]