May
18

Michael Irvin Is Coming Back To Cable TV Tonight

4th and long

I have been waiting for tonight for a long time.  I am a die-hard 24 fan and cannot wait for the two-hour season finale starting at 8 p.m.  Then, this morning, I received an email that 4th and Long will be premiering tonight on SPIKE.  Show title does not ring a bell?  On January 28th,…
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May
18

Josh Faiola Has Some Assistance

josh faiola

Minor League players and Independent ball players barely make enough money to survive.  For those players who have wives and even kids, the very low salary makes it extremely difficult for any type of extended stay in the Minors.  Some have hung-up their cleats for this reason alone. When the team is not on the…
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May
18

A Sports Agent Finding The Time To Run Marathons

doug eldridge

One of my good friends in law school always calls me Broseph.  I’m not sure why.  My name is not Joseph.  Anyway, everyone says “bro” now-a-days, including yours truly from time to time.  Thus, I was not surprised to see that a site like BroBible.com exists.  Recently, the web site did a piece on sports…
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May
18

The Gunderson Trade Keeps Looking Better For The Marlins

It was not that long ago that the Washington Nationals traded away Kyle Gunderson to the Florida Marlins for Logan Kensing.  The trade was understandable for both sides.  The Marlins had given Kensing a chance on their active roster and were not pleased with the results.  The Nationals needed help with its Major League bullpen…
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May
16

Dynasty Baseball Grows By Two

mcpherson

Yesterday was a huge day for Dynasty Baseball.  The division added two new clients, which means that Dynasty now represents 9 players spread out between 6 MLB organizations.  The best part of the two signed players is that neither of them were recruited by Dynasty.  Instead, one was referred by a current client, the other,…
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May
15

Shabbat Shalom: Friday Wrap-Up (5/15/09)

aaron brooks

The video above is quite humorous.  The video under this text and before the links is not intended to give you a laugh, but still is pretty damn good in my book.  It has been a relaxing week.  I finished my last finals of my second year of law school, and had a lot of…
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May
15

Coaches Can Talk To Athletes On Twitter/FB. What About Agents?

The NCAA has formally approved the use of Twitter for recruiting purposes.  This is definitely big news for college coaches, who will use Twitter to sent direct messages to high school recruits.  But what about agents?  Agents are bound by strict NCAA regulations that prohibit contact with a student athletes until a certain point of…
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May
14

Florida Coastal’s Journal of NCAA Compliance

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Unless you live in the state of Florida, you might have never heard of Florida Coastal School of Law.  However, Rick Karcher and others at the institution are doing their best to change that.  Florida Coastal is quickly becoming known nationwide as a law school that offers a rich sports law program.  In fact, it…
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May
14

Why Not Let Andre Smith Speak For Himself?

andre smith

24 hours later, and I have figured out who wants to be Andre Smith’s agent.  The only problem, is that I have no clue who he wants to be the person in charge of his contractual negotiations. Yesterday, I reported that Andre Smith dropped his third agent (Rick Smith of Priority Sports) and rumor had…
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May
13

MLB Investigating Role Of Agents With PEDs

What took them so long?  As sports agents, we have a fiduciary duty to act in our clients’ best interests at all times.  That includes informing them of the ramifications of abusing an illegal substance.  It also means that we can’t be pushing or selling performance enhancing drugs to our clients.  All of us would…
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