In South Florida this weekend? Head to the Boca Town Center Mall tomorrow. I will be there with my step-father as he hosts a large Franchise & Business Opportunities Show. Then, on Sunday, it’s back to Gainesville for my final year of law school. I got my Summer grades back this week and I am […]
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A young-adult receives many benefits from going to college. The education attained from living on your own for the first time, sitting in on lectures taught by the best of their trades, drinking too much certain nights, etc. is tough to learn elsewhere. However, for talented high school baseball players, college is an experience that […]
Drew Rosenhaus, agent of Eagles Tight End Cornelius Ingram, said via his Twitter account, “…we have just agreed to terms on a 4 year deal for rookie TE Cornelius Ingram.” This is great news for Eagles fans and can be seen as great news for other rookie tight ends who are currently awaiting contracts. Brandon […]
I have been waiting for today for a very long time. The beginning of the 2009 MLB Amateur Draft is just hours away (it kicks off at 6 p.m. EST on MLB Network and MLB.com) and will last well into Thursday, until the final pick of the 50th round. It is easy to laugh about […]
From 1965-2001, 961 players in total had been selected in the 2nd round of the MLB Amateur Drafts. Of those 961 players, 876 signed and accepted the signing bonuses proposed by the teams that picked them. 413, or 47.1% of those 876 players eventually played at least one game in the Major Leagues. Only 266, […]
The owners and GMs are crying for help while the agents are saying that the sport may benefit from a hurting economy. Who should you believe? On one hand, guys like Jeff Borris of Beverly Hills Sports Council are quoted as saying, “If you examine history, during the worst economic times, people spend whatever they […]
Nuances. That’s what contract negotiation often times boils down to. You think you got your client the best deal possible until a more clever agent finds a way to add in that extra clause into his client’s deal that serves as the cherry on top. Deron Williams and Chris Paul are undoubtedly ecstatic with their […]
I spent a lot of time preparing for this year’s MLB Amateur Draft and then following all of the news surrounding those selected leading up to the signing deadline of August 15th. But MLB organizations are not only interested in players selected through the Amateur Draft. There are also plenty of players outside of the […]
Was it all an image issue? Was Boras Corp pissed that Buster Posey, a guy drafted later than Boras client, Pedro Alvarez, received the highest signing bonus in the history of the MLB Amateur Draft? At dusk on August 16th, reports stated that Posey received a $6.2 million bonus from San Francisco while Alvarez ended […]
As Zak Kurtz pointed out earlier today, tomorrow is the signing deadline for those players selected by MLB organizations in the 2008 First-Year Player Draft. Besides Pedro Alvarez, many early selections remain unsigned with the deadline looming over their heads. Some will be content to forego signing with an MLB club and will attend a […]