Friday afternoon, it was reported that former University of Alabama runningback, Mark Ingram, terminated his representation agreement with Rocky Arceneaux. Arceneaux is the President and CEO of The Alliance Management Group, which is involved in the representation of sports, music, and entertainment personalities. Its website claims that Marshall Faulk is involved with the company in some […]
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Two days ago, I wrote about football agent Steve Caric making a name for himself as a prominent figure in Las Vegas. Sometimes positive press has negative consequences, as individuals become public figures and regulatory bodies begin to scrutinize their actions. Caric, who has five NFL Draft eligible clients, including University of Washington’s Mason Foster, who is […]
I am going on a year long trip around the world and will not be posting any updates to this site until 4/1/2012. April Fools? It feels good to have baseball again. It is too bad that the headlines will continue to revolve around the NFL/NFLPA labor dispute. I picked one Final Four team correctly […]
It was suspected that with the passing of Gary Wichard, many of Pro Tect Management’s clients would be venturing to new agents and agencies. While Wichard had been suspended by the NFLPA at the time of his death, it was speculated that he was still operating for his clients behind the scenes, which is why […]
I do not buy into the notion that the football agent profession is going to go from “dirty to sewage” based on the decertification of the NFLPA. However, there is no denying that anyone can hold himself out as a football agent now, since there is no longer a body in charge of licensing sports […]
Jimmy Smith is a 6’2, 205lb cornerback from the University of Colorado Boulder. NFLDraftScout.com currently projects him as the 4th best cornerback available in the 2011 NFL Draft and believes that Smith will be taken in either the 1st or 2nd round. The Big 12 coaches voted Smith All-Big 12 First Team based on his […]
It looks like Woeful Weslye Saunders will enter the 2011 NFL Draft after all. Yesterday, ProFootballWeekly.com reported that the NFL announced that the former University of South Carolina tight end is eligible to be selected, changing its former stance of disallowing the player from being a part of the draft after he failed to file […]
While most of the chatter nowadays is about the NFL Super Bowl line found at BetUS and who will win the big game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Green Bay Packers, there’s another big debate looming: the Collective Bargaining Agreement. As it stands now, the NFL and players union have not come to terms on […]
One of the main things that I will be watching during this year’s NFL Draft is the success of Joe Flanagan and his DePere, Wisconsin based company, BTI Sports. Flanagan, a licensed attorney, is a Co-Founder of BTI Sports along with his partner, Brad Leshnock. As of the publishing of this post, Dominic Perilli predicts that […]
Yesterday, I talked to Patrick Fisher, Executive Director of SportsMeasures TestPrep. Fisher is busy promoting his service now that the college football season is over and NFL draft-eligible players might be in the market for what he has to offer. Our discussion was as follows. Darren Heitner: In five sentences or less, what is SportsMeasures […]