Roughly a week before I sat to take the Florida Bar Exam, a flood began. It started with an NCAA investigation into potential rules violations by players, agents, and even university employees at the University of North Carolina. It quickly spread to NCAA investigations at the University of South Carolina, University of Florida, University of…
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Aug
03
Athlete Agent Enforcement Thus Far, And Where To Go From Here
Aug
02
LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, Chris Bosh – All Affected By “The Decision”
Many agents take on a greater role than strictly negotiating the contracts for their athlete clients. This is especially the case for the more notable athletes who generate a large portion of their income through activities off of the court/field of play. Agents who wear a marketing hat for representation purposes must not only be…
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Aug
02
A Ranking Of Sports Agents
Here is an interesting nugget that I recently found, which was originally published back in January 2010 – The Top Sports Agents That Aren’t Scott Boras. The title of the article assumes that Scott Boras is the #1 agent including all agents in all sports. Do you agree? What about the actual list? Who is…
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Aug
02
Don’t Touch My Recruits…or I’ll Sue
The New York Supreme Court (which for all of our non-law school readers, is actually the lowest court in the New York state court system) recently ruled in one part of Marist University’s lawsuit against Matt Brady, former men’s basketball coach at Marist, and his new employer James Madison University. Brady left Marist to coach…
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Aug
02
Lane Kiffin Revives Our Interference With Contractual Relations Convo
Remember when I took roughly a week of your time going on a rant about interference with contractual relations? If you need a refresher, see: Sports Agents Interfering With Contractual Relations, Digging Deeper Into The Contractual Interference Claim, and The Interference With Contractual Relations Conversation Continues. In those posts, I looked into the claim that…
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