Sports Business, Sports Law, Sports Negotiations, NCAA Rules
Over the weekend, Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! Sports Tweeted the following: Wojnarowski Tweeted that statement after Arn Tellem of Wasserman Media Group, Mark Bartelstein of Priority Sports, and many other prominent basketball agents met with National Basketball Players Association (NBPA) Executive Director Billy Hunter on Friday to talk about the NBA lockout (which began on…
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Tony Dutt is the President of Dutt Sports Services, Inc. (DSSI), a basketball agency based in The Woodland, Texas. DSSI’s website’s catchy phrase states, “With Dutt, it’s a done deal.” Dutt has negotiated deals for many NBA players, including Marcus Camby, Rashard Lewis, Raymond Felton, and Brandon Bass. Throughout his career, Dutt has secured hundreds…
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So what do you think of our new layout? Not only are we flashing a new design, but we switched servers, which should mean no more downtime (until we start hitting ESPN type page views). I have officially had my Twitter name switched from @Darren_Heitner to @DarrenHeitner. Can’t say that I am shocked that there…
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Before 31 NFL team owners approved (1 owner, Al David of the Oakland Raiders, abstained in the vote) what they called a comprehensive agreement, there were a lot of rumblings on Twitter regarding sources telling reporters that the new deal will include a reduction of the ceiling for NFL agent fees on negotiated rookie contracts.…
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An agent makes up only one part of what should be a comprehensive athlete business team. There may be many other components to that team, including public relations specialists, accountants, and financial advisors. Recently, my friend Jared Zwerling of ESPN.com interviewed Mark Doman, who is the financial advisor for Landry Fields of the New York Knicks. Doman…
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In the past couple of days, many football players have been informed that training camp for the United Football League (UFL) will be suspended for 30 days. While training camp will be shortened, the UFL had originally stated that the move will not affect the UFL season schedule, including the number of games played by each of the…
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Last week, Georgia Tech lost its 2009 ACC Conference Championship, was told that it has to pay a $100,000 fine, and is on 4-years of probation all because the NCAA found out that a friend of an employee of an Atlanta, Georgia sports agency provided impermissible benefits to a football player on that 2009 football team. Actually,…
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There are a lot of exciting sports agencies to follow as of late. There is Excel Sports Management, which has added a baseball division under the guidance of former Creative Artists Agency (CAA) baseball agent Casey Close and former Career Sports & Entertainment baseball agent Victor Menocal, along with a brand new golf division headed by former IMG golf agent Mark…
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When I first heard that Francisco (K-Rod) Rodriguez was switching agents from Paul Kinzer of Wasserman Media Group to Scott Boras of Boras Corp., I praised Kinzer for a job well done in his representation of the former New York Mets closer. After all, Kinzer helped Rodriguez negotiate a 3-year, $37 million deal, which included a very impressive $17.5…
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The following is a guest contribution from Heather Brittany (@HeatherBrit). Heather is currently a law student at Loyola Law School and Sports Chair of its Entertainment & Sports Law Society. Thursday, July 14, Variety and Sports Video Group (SVG) hosted their inaugural Sports Entertainment Summit, held at the Sofitel Hotel, in Beverly Hills, California. The…
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