Last week, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that longtime football agent Jim Steiner retired from being a sports agent. Steiner had amassed a total of thirty-five years representing mostly football players, but also dabbled in the representation of baseball and basketball players early in his career. He had somewhere between 300 and 500 clients throughout […]
While a little over a handful of arbitration eligible baseball players remain unsigned, most players who were eligible for arbitration have either gone to hearing or settled with their respective teams on single or multi-year deals. The unsigned player who is garnering the most attention is David Ortiz, who has requested $16.5 million, while the […]
Since leaving SportsTrust Advisors to join Tom Condon and Ben Dogra at Creative Artists Agency (CAA), Jimmy Sexton has been busy building his football player client list. For many years, Sexton was widely known for representing many of the best coaches in college and professional football. While that statement still holds true today, it would be hard to dispute […]
Robert Griffin III’s statement that he signed with Ben Dogra of Creative Artists Agency (CAA) was anticipated. His decision to wear Barney socks at the press conference where he made his representation announcement, less so. RG III joins a CAA NFL Draft class that is known year-in-and-out to be among, if not the best in the country. Joining […]
A league source has stated that former University of Florida cornerback Janoris Jenkins is now a client of Ben Dogra and Creative Artists Agency (CAA). Jenkins was a first-team All-SEC selection. He was named to College Football News and Sporting News Freshman All-American team. Rivals.com ranked Jenkins as the 6th best cornerback of his class coming out of high school, […]
Dontari Poe was viewed as the shining star on an under-performing University of Memphis football team. The squad went 2-10 (1-7 in conference play) this past season, fired its head coach (Larry Porter) after only two seasons leading the team, and hired Justin Fuente to fill the void left by Porter’s firing. Understandably, the talented Poe wanted to […]
Late last night, Neil Stratton of InsideTheLeague.com broke a story that certainly kept me awake for a while. The headline alone, which reads, “A super-agency goes supernova and in its place arises an even bigger agency,” made me anxious to click on the link and consume Stratton’s content. I was not disappointed with the result. […]
London Fletcher’s change of agents is a power move. Per a report on SportsBusiness Journal, the linebacker for the Washington Redskins left the mighty Drew Rosenhaus of Rosenhaus Sports Representation for Creative Artists Agency (CAA). While many On To The Next One posts are about a client switching from one agent to Rosenhaus, Fletcher took the opposite path, leaving Rosenhaus […]