Sports Business, Sports Law, Sports Negotiations, NCAA Rules
In the 1980s, it was Wayne Gretzky and Mike Bossy. In the 1990s, it was Scott Stevens and Eric Lindros. In the 2000s, the most heated rivalry easily belongs to Alexander Ovechkin and Sidney Crosby. Their battle is possibly the most competitive one in the history of the NHL because they are so close in age and talent. Since coming into…
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Sarah Lieberman of Fashion and Football has passed along a note about her company’s 3rd annual event, to be held in New York on April 20. It is presented by Just Dance (the multi0million dollar selling video game by Ubisoft for the Nintendo Wii) and Coors Light (the beer you may drink). Here are the…
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The National Football League Players Association (NFLPA) requires that its contract advisors maintain professional liability insurance. The NFLPA even has a preffered company to handle such matters. The Canadian Football League Players Association (CFLPA) may soon be doing the same thing. The players’ association has sent out a survey to its licensed contract advisors to…
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Ed Edmonds of Sports Law Blog has an good piece in the Marquette Sports Law Review titled, A most interesting part of baseball’s monetary structure – salary arbitration in its thirty-fifth year. Since deciding that I wanted to be a sports agent, I have studied baseball’s system of final offer arbitration as much as possible. …
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Yesterday something clicked and made me renounce my title as sports agent. Since starting in this business, I was never too fond of the phrase. What exactly is a ‘sports agent’ anyway? After taking Business Organizations Law as a 2L in law school, I could give you a 5 page definition of ‘agent’. Instead, I’ll…
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Since the 1993 NFL season, the league has had been fortunate enough to maintain stable and successful labor relations, extending the CBA five consecutive times and avoiding a work stoppage since 1987, but will that streak end this year? NFL owners appear willing to lock out their players in 2011 if an impasse is reached…
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“Natural talent only determines the limits of your athletic potential. It’s dedication and a willingness to discipline your life that makes you great.” — Billie Jean King, Founder of the Women’s Sports Foundation Tyra Grant is a 5”11 guard for the Penn State Lady Lions. Tyra is definitely a “lioness” on the basketball court. She is the…
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Sponsored Post: There are still a few people who cannot wait to wake up, get a cup of coffee and sit in front of a newspaper to read the sports news of the previous day. It won’t be long until even those select few who have yet to give up recycled paper end up ditching…
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The Giving Back Fund is a national nonprofit organization that was established in 1997 to provide professional philanthropic management, consulting, and mentoring to athletes, entertainers and others. The organization will be holding its annual Summit in at the Omni Hotel & Resorts in San Diego, CA on April 21st and 22nd, featuring presentations and panels…
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This past weekend, I secluded myself during the days and got to reading quite a few law review articles that I had put to the side to read for some time now. One of them was Stacey B. Evans’, Sports agents: ethical representatives or overly aggressive adversaries?, which was published this year in the Villanova Sports…
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