Sports Business, Sports Law, Sports Negotiations, NCAA Rules
This is a guest post by Neil Stratton. Neil is President of Inside the League. He was the Executive Director of the 2008 Hula Bowl and Personnel Director of the 2007 Inta Juice North-South All-Star Classic. By now, if you’re a regular reader of Sports Agent Blog, you’ve also read Josh Luchs’ piece published by…
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Yesterday I had the pleasure of being featured on the popular mens site, Guyism, in a response of sorts to the Sports Illustrated article published earlier this week. The title of the piece is Sports agent talks ethics in response to SI article. I have also been featured on a few radio shows as of…
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Our coverage of Josh Luchs is not quite over yet. When Luchs started in the business, he learned that a good tactic for gaining a solid stable of clients was to pick a school and become “the agent” at that institution. Rosenhaus has the University of Miami. Luchs had UCLA. One of the UCLA Bruins…
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Two days ago, the NFLPA announced that Marlon Sullivan will have his license suspended for six months. Additionally, Sullivan will have to pay a $10,000 fine. The penalty is based on Sullivan’s supervision of a runner who provided money to a former student-athlete. Sullivan also did not sign a disclosure form, which the NFLPA requires…
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Prior to the article, Confessions of an Agent, being released, Richard Deitsch of Sports Illustrated interviewed George Dohrmann on Deitsch’s Inside Sports Illustrated Podcast. You should be able to listen to the interview in its entirety by clicking here. Dohrmann explains how he gained access to the information and reveals his goals and what he thinks…
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In November 2005, Josh Luchs and Steve Feldman, both working on behalf of The Gersh Agency, traveled out to Columbus, Ohio to talk to Ohio State’s Santonio Holmes. Luchs says that Holmes said the following: “Listen, I want to save you the time. We don’t need to meet. I’ve been taking money from [an agent]…
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Two weeks ago, when I had first heard that Gary Wichard hired Howard Silber as his attorney, a friend of mine suggested I talk to Josh Luchs. My inquiry at the time was regarding Silber’s representation of Wichard and Kentwan Balmer, who is a Wichard football client. I never reached out to Luchs. But, after…
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Yesterday, George Dohrmann of Sports Illustrated posted the sports business story of the year, at least if you are judging by the number of tweets for a single article on the web. Dohrmann, the last sportswriter to win the Pulitzer Prize, highlighted a sports agent named Josh Luchs, who admitted to paying money and providing…
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Team Name: Miami Heat This Year’s Predicted Record: 64-18 Last Year’s Record: 47-35 Key Losses: Quentin Richardson, Jermaine O’Neal, Michael Beasley, Dorell Wright, Daequan Cook Key Additions: LeBron James, Chris Bosh, Zydrunas Ilgauskas, Juwan Howard, Mike Miller, Eddie House 1. What significant moves were made during the off-season? The real question is, what significant moves…
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Our Miami Heat Preview will be posted tomorrow morning. In the meantime, enjoy the previews for the Northwest Division, which have been brought to you by some of the best basketball blogs on the web. I think that the Thunder is easily the sexy team to pick, but what happens if the Blazers talent actually…
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