IMG Grows Overseas 

Posted on Jan 25 in Sports Agentsby Darren HeitnerPrint Share

Just last week, IMG acquired CSI Sports. CSI Sports was previously a part of Octagon. In addition to having TV rights for Wimbledon and the Rugby Cup, IMG will now hold the rights for the Football Association, Wales Cricket Board, and other groups [IMG deal makes TV sports rights hot properties again].

It looks like IMG is not going to just sit back and watch as CAA tries to use its entertainment clout to buy the sports representation business.

-Darren Heitner 

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6 Comments

• WBRS Sports Blog says:

  January 26, 2007 at 1:52 am

  I have a question…which agency does Drew Rosenhaus run?

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• Darren says:

  January 26, 2007 at 3:25 am

  Rosenhaus Sports – http://www.rosenhaussports.com/ – which just recently acquired a website. I will add it to the links section ASAP.

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• Chris Lesley says:

  January 26, 2007 at 9:00 am

  It seems weird that CAA doesn’t have a website…

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• Darren says:

  January 26, 2007 at 11:22 am

  CAA – http://www.caa.com/ – actually just changed their website. Believe it or not, there is more information on the site now than there was in the past.

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• Nicholas says:

  January 26, 2007 at 3:57 pm

  What an extremely informative CAA site! But seeing how my knowledge of JAVA/HTML code is typing into this comment box, I am not one to talk.

  I heard rumors about Octagon potentially selling off CSI this summer. Not sure who this deal benefits. Octagon leaves TV, IMG becomes more aggressive in TV. IMG leaves team sports, Octagon becomes more aggressive in team sports. My biased opinion tends to think the Execs at Octagon made the right choice. When Chris Guiness was taken off the Octagon site, I figured something was going to happen. Octagon, (even though they have musical groups and the dutchess of York) still refuses to go fully into entertainment with actors,etc…

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• 2007 Sports Recap (as told by 100 posts by the best sports bloggers) | Sports Business Digest says:

  December 22, 2007 at 8:03 pm

  [...] 6. IMG gets bigger. What gift do you get for the worlds biggest (arguably) sports agency? In January of this year, IMG acquired CSI Sports, giving them TV rights for the Football Association and the England & Wales Cricket Board. (via Sports Agent Blog) [...]

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