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Sports Business

Acquisition Spree In The Football Agency Arena

Vanguard Sports Group Adds Veteran Agents. Las Vegas, Atlanta, and Raleigh-based Vanguard Sports Group has added to its football division by bringing in veteran NFLPA Contract Advisors Tony Paige and Chitta Malik, who had co-founded agency Dream Point Sports. Those two agents will assist with the football operations at Vanguard and add many NFL clients […]

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Internships

Internship Opportunity: Vanguard Sports Group

Vanguard Sports Group has opened their internship application for the Spring of 2022 semester (January – May). Internships are available in Football Operations, Brand Operations, Social and Digital Media, and Legal. A description of the internship can be found below: Football Operations: Interns may assist individual agents and/or Director of Operations with day-to-day operations, including […]

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College Football Players Sports Agents

Amon-Ra St. Brown Signs With GSE Worldwide For Off-Field Endeavors

GSE Worldwide has signed USC wide receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown for representation in all marketing and sponsorship deals heading into the 2021 NFL Draft. St. Brown signed with Vanguard Sports for on-the-field representation, where he will be represented by Joby Branion and Aaron Henderson. He will be joining current NFL clients (Alvin Kamara, Jarvis Landry, […]

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Interview With The Agent NBA Players

Interview With The Executive: Anthony Fields

Anthony Fields is the Vice President of Basketball Operations at Vanguard Sports Group, a sports agency founded in 2014 by Joby Branion. Fields is a former college point guard who began his college career at Wake Forest University. He transferred from the Demon Deacons and earned a Sports Communication degree at Bradley University and an […]

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Friday Wrap-Up

Shabbat Shalom: Friday Wrap-up (1/19/2018)

Sorry for the absence the past couple of weeks, but I was busy exploring South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Namibia and Botswana with my newly minted wife as we thoroughly enjoyed our honeymoon. It was a trip full of animal viewing (we got to see the “Big Five” — lion, elephant, rhino, buffalo and leopard — […]

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Sports Agents Sports Business

K Sports & Entertainment Merges Into Vanguard Sports Group

According to Liz Mullen, NFL agents Kristen Kuliga and Joby Branion are joining forces. Kuliga’s company, K Sports & Entertainment, will be folded into the three year old agency founded by Branion. While Kuliga has made a name for herself representing NFL players such as former quarterback Doug Flutie (and his $33 million deal with […]

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Friday Wrap-Up

Shabbat Shalom: Friday Wrap-up (11/11/2016)

President Trump. You all ready to say that yet? It comes as a shocker to many, but not my mother, who bet all-you-can-eat lobster on the Election. I’ll be paying up shortly. How about the Miami Dolphins? I certainly did not expect the team to make it back to .500 on the season. Unfortunately, my […]

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College Football Players Headline Sports Agents

Michigan State OT Jack Conklin Signs With Vanguard Sports Group

Per a Tweet by Liz Mullen, Michigan State offensive tackle Jack Conklin has signed with Vanguard Sports Group for his representation in the 2016 NFL Draft. He will be represented by NFL agents Sean Howard and Joby Branion. The 6’6″, 325-pound redshirt junior played in 39 games after walking onto the football team at Michigan […]