On this federal holiday that we honor America’s military veterans (Veterans Day), let’s take a look far overseas, where a new baseball league has been created and is in its first year of operation. Last Saturday, the Australian Baseball League (ABL) officially began play. It is not the first baseball to be played in Australia, […]
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Registration for the 4th Annual Tulane Law School National Baseball Arbitration Competition opened on September 13. The competition is on February 10-11, 2011 and is open to students from all ABA approved law schools. Since the competition is capped at 24 teams, students interested in competing should submit their registration form and entry fee as soon as possible. […]
A couple of weeks ago, everyone was wondering the following: 1) Did Alex Rodriguez really fire Scott Boras as his agent, and 2) Did A-Rod then hire Jay Reisinger to take over as his new agent of record? Papers reported that A-Rod has in fact left Boras, but he has not hired Reisinger to take […]
On September 2, all certified Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA) agents received an email concerning amended agent regulations. It was a notice that the MLBPA’s Executive Board has unanimously adopted amendments to the MLBPA’s Regulations Governing Player Agents. While I am not yet MLBPA certified (although I am happy to announce that is changing […]
I want to start this article by stressing that the point of this article has nothing to do with getting any player in trouble. The reason that I wrote this post is to once again try to point out how ludicrous the NCAA’s no-agent rule continues to be. It was struck down by a court […]
A good way of getting my attention in an email is by starting out by saying that you are an avid reader of Sports Agent Blog. Dan Hauptman, you are a smart man. But truthfully, the 3L at Loyola Law School deserves credit for being smart based on recently being published in the Loyola of […]
A week-and-a-half ago, Ben Nicholson-Smith wrote an excellent post on MLBTradeRumors.com, which happens to be a fantastic website. Titled, The Path From Indy Ball To The Majors, Nicholson-Smith talked about Daniel Nava, a player who started his career in an Independent Baseball league, yet eventually received a promotion to play at the highest level possible […]
On June 24, I talked about an MLB where draft picks could be traded. Apparently, it was not such a pipe dream. I mentioned that one major hurdle could be the Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA), which might not be interested in bringing about any significant changes to the MLB Rule 4 Draft. And […]
It is usually not until later in the year that the discussion surrounding baseball’s inequity bubbles in the minds of writers. We all know about the huge disparity between the payroll of the New York Yankees and the Florida Marlins, yet the Marlins were able to fight off Goliath in the 2003 World Series. That […]
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MLB Collective Bargaining Panel
What: Panel – Collective Bargaining in the Sports Industry in 2010 When: Thursday, May 20 (5:15 p.m.-7:00 p.m.) Where: Nationals Park, Washington D.C. (map) Discussion will be on labor law and collective bargaining, and the outlook for the national pastime as the players’ collective bargaining agreement is set to expire in 2011. Afterwards, attendees and […]