Prior coverage of MLB Draft (advisor/player) relationships: 2012| 2011 Keep up with Sports Agent Blog on Twitter | Facebook | RSS First Round + Competitive Balance A Highlights Frontline Sports Management with 5 clients selected – 12.82% Excel Sports Management with 5 clients selected – 12.82% Scott Boras with 4 clients selected – 10.26% Jet Sports Management with 4 clients selected – 10.26% Sosnick Cobbe with 3 […]
Michael Carter-Williams will be a first round selection in the 2013 NBA Draft. In fact, it is very likely that he is selected with a team’s lottery pick. The sophomore point guard from Syracuse is listed somewhere between 6’5 and 6’6, which gives him a good amount of length and height for his position. But […]
The easiest agent-player projection concerning players who are sure to be selected in the 2013 NBA Draft (pending their decision to leave school early) involves Indiana’s Cody Zeller. Zeller, a 20-year old center, is currently a top 10 pick on DraftExpress.com’s and NBADraft.net’s Mock Drafts. He is only a sophomore, but based on his very […]
Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw has long been represented by agent J.D. Smart. Smart was an agent at Hendricks Sports Management until recently leaving to join Excel Sports Management, which has a baseball division run by industry veteran Casey Close. Jon Heyman of CBSSports.com has reported that Kershaw will remain a Smart client and […]
Two days ago, Excel Sports Management announced, via its Twitter account, that it signed top-ranked golfer Patrick Cantlay. [blackbirdpie url=”https://twitter.com/excelsm/status/215077909482831872″] Cantlay is leaving his school (UCLA) to compete professionally on the PGA Tour. He had two years of eligibility remaining, which he will now forfeit. Cantlay has placed his trust in Mark Steinberg of Excel Sports to assist him […]
In October 2011, PGA Tour golfer Matt Kuchar became Mark Steinberg’s first big client (not named Tiger Woods) since Steinberg moved from IMG to join basketball agent Jeff Schwartz and baseball agents Casey Close and Victor Menocal at Excel Sports Management. Expect Steinberg to gain many more golfer clients as he begins to settle in with his new company. Recently, Steinberg signed Gary Woodland, who just became […]
Michael Beasley of the Minnesota Timberwolves is currently a client of Jeff Schwartz at Excel Sports Management, but that was not always the case. Prior to hiring Schwartz, Beasley had been represented for team contract negotiations and off-court marketing deals by Joel Bell of Bell Sports, Inc. When Beasley left Bell Sports, Inc., the company filed a lawsuit […]
With a full slate of NFL and NCAA football, it is easy to forget that any other sports exist. However, the NBA is coming off of a fantastic season with its highest NBA Finals television ratings since 2004 (and I contend that there were much less competing TV options six years prior). Yet, as each […]
Just yesterday, Mark Steinberg officially decided his new agency destination after leaving IMG roughly a month-and-a-half ago. Steinberg had been the Director of IMG’s Global Golf Business and was responsible for the representation of Tiger Woods, Annika Sorenstam, and other golfers. I had speculated for quite some time that Steinberg would seriously consider joining up […]
On June 9, 2011, I wrote that New Jersey Nets point guard Deron Williams officially parted ways with agent Bob McLaren. At the time, many people believed that Williams would sign with Leon Rose of Creative Artists Agency (CAA). However, later that day I heard that Williams was also considering Jeff Schwartz of Excel Sports […]