At 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 1, 2011, Sam Cabrera, a special agent for the North Carolina Secretary of State, obtained a search warrant to reach bank records from Gary Wichard’s Bank of America account located in the state. A Superior Court Judge issued the warrant, which must be executed by 4:30 p.m. today. In […]
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Shout out to all the agents currently freezing their tails off in Indianapolis. It is where the NFL Scouting Combine is held every year and happens to be the most popular annual meeting for NFL Certified Contract Advisors to attend. This year, it happens to be a mandatory meeting for all Contract Advisors. The NFLPA […]
Happy Birthday to my mom, Gloria Heitner, who has to be the most amazing woman in the world. New Orleans was a great time and Tulane put on a fantastic event. Tomorrow, I will be speaking on a panel at the Nova Southeastern University Sports & Entertainment Law Symposium titled “Family Managing an Athlete’s Career.” I […]
A few weeks ago, Rachel Baribeau of the Tuscaloosa News had a long conversation with Jimmy Sexton of newly formed SportsTrust Advisors. Baribeau got a hold of Sexton at the Senior Bowl in Mobile, Alabama. I strongly consider you to read the interview in its entirety. The Q&A that interests me the most is the […]
A rookie wage scale has been a disputed item in current Collective Bargaining Agreement negotiations between the NFL and NFLPA. The NFL would like rookie contracts to be based on a wage scale based on the thought that rookies are vastly overpaid and are taking money away from established veterans. To an extent, the NFLPA […]
The NFL has publicly stated that NFL teams may use the Franchise Tag starting February 10, 2011. NFL Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Peter Rucco, stated that teams will have a 14 day window to apply those tags starting on the aforementioned date. The following is from Rucco: “The CBA hasn’t expired and the […]
Earlier today, Dennis Curran, Senior Vice President of Labor Litigation and Policy with the National Football League, send out the following letter to all NFLPA Contract Advisors. Other than the email listing every single NFLPA Contract Advisor’s email address (yes, someone at the NFL forgot to BCC all recipients), the thing that sticks out to […]
Last year, Josh Luchs (the topic of George Dohrmann’s Sports Illustrated piece) revealed Luchs’ paying money and providing other benefits to recruits throughout his sports agent career. Luchs later lost his NFLPA Contract Advisor certification (which surprised no one), but it gave him a platform to speak about the inner workings of the pay-to-play system that many […]
One would have thought that it would only be a matter of time before at least one of Gary Wichard’s clients at Pro Tect Management decided that they wanted to distance himself from the agency whose founder was suspended from acting as an NFLPA Contract Advisor for nine months. Technically, Wichard could still operate behind […]
Many NFLPA certified Contract Advisors are severely conflicted between representing players and the coaches and/or front office NFL team personnel. No agency might be more conflicted than the newly formed SportsTrust Advisors, which is the result of a merger of Jimmy Sexton’s Athletic Resource Management (ARM) and Pat Dye, Jr.’s ProFiles Sports, Inc. No issue when they are negotiating […]