The following is a guest contribution from Heather Brittany (@HeatherBrit). Heather is currently a law student at Loyola Law School, Los Angeles and Sports Chair of its Entertainment & Sports Law Society. Renegade. Athlete’s rights advocate. Evangelist for the Olympics. Difficult. Exacting. Argumentative. Brash. Insane. Hyper-Active. These are all slogans and adjectives that sports agent, Evan Morgenstein, […]
Not many sports agents are also high-profile defense attorneys. Because of that, Joe Tacopina (the subject of today’s interview) easily separates himself from the crowd. Recently Tacopina garnered an acquittal for two New York Police Department officers in a high profile case. But certainly his competitors will spin Tacopina’s excellence in the court against him […]
On Monday, we posted our 2011 Super Bowl Party/Event Primer, listing many of the popular parties and events taking place in Dallas, Texas surrounding this Sunday’s Super Bowl between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Green Bay Packers. While I have not left the friendly confines of the South Florida 75 degree weather, Sports Agent Blog […]
James A. Cook, better known as Bus Cook, has the duty, chore, obligation, privilege to represent Brett Favre as his Contract Advisor. Cook also represents 23 other active NFL players including, Peria Jerry, Michael Turner, Jay Cutler, Calvin Johnson, and Mercedes Lewis (who had a big game this past weekend, which will be important for future contract […]
Last week, Nima Zarrabi of SLAM Magazine published a question and answer session he had with David Falk when he bumped into the well known basketball agent at Evan Turner‘s first commercial shoot as a professional basketball player. It was an unexpected meeting, but Zarrabi was able to ask Falk quite a few questions. Zarrabi broke up […]
Prior to the article, Confessions of an Agent, being released, Richard Deitsch of Sports Illustrated interviewed George Dohrmann on Deitsch’s Inside Sports Illustrated Podcast. You should be able to listen to the interview in its entirety by clicking here. Dohrmann explains how he gained access to the information and reveals his goals and what he thinks […]
Sometimes kids ask the most interesting questions. In my Interviews with the Agent, I doubt I would ever ask an agent what his/her favorite subject in school was, but that is exactly what Matthew Pearlman of TeensOnSports.com asked David Dunn in an interview, and Dunn’s answer was pretty good. If you take a look at […]
Since starting this website and my company, Dynasty Athlete Representation, I have tried to answer almost every email that contains a question from an interested reader or future agent. While I have had the great fortune of being published in respectable journals and newspapers, the most joy comes out of helping college/high school students learn […]
When more people refer to you by your nickname than your real name, you know you deserve to use that nickname when referring to yourself. And when that nickname is “Big Daddy”, you are sure to be remembered by practically all who meet you. While participating in a few meetings in New York City last […]
After a long hiatus, Interview with the Agent is back. And boy do we have an interesting subject. Odell McCants is a new entrant into the sports agent profession, and he plans to make quite a splash with the representation of his first client: Patrick Patterson. With the NBA Draft only 3 days away, you […]