Sports Business, Sports Law, Sports Negotiations, NCAA Rules
The NBA Lockout has taken its toll on a lot more people that you may think. Other than owners forfeiting earnings due to missed games and NBA players out of jobs, there are many other team employees looking for work. Scott Lauer, the subject of this interview, was one of those team employees who suddenly…
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In the past few months, the sports media (particularly those people focusing on golf) have been fawning over golf agent Andrew ‘Chubby’ Chandler. The Managing Director of International Sports Management (ISM) represents Darren Clarke, Charl Schwartzel, Louis Oosthuizen, Lee Westwood, and used to represent U.S. Open champion Rory McIlroy. The loss of McIlroy is particularly tough for Chandler considering…
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The Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics was established in 1989 as an entity dedicated to searching for ways to positively reform college athletics. Today, the commission will meet in public in Washington D.C. for the first time since its October 2009 meeting in Miami, Florida. In 2009, the commission was concerned about the escalating costs…
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Sponsored Post Small college players are continually out shined 300-to-1 by players from BIG Division 1FBS schools. The NFL National Scouting Combines invitees are almost exclusively drawn from D1 programs. Most Pro Days are held at D1 schools, where NFL scouts have the opportunity to see players that don’t make the National Scouting Combine perform…
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I am honored to be named to SportsPro Media’s inaugural 10 NEXT class, which recognizes “ten stars of the sports business industry under the age of 30 that have achieved a level of success that is truly rare at such a young age.” How about those St. Louis Cardinals? I am having a good time watching…
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The entire sports agent and sports business community mourns the death of a respected individual who was at the top of Lagardère Unlimited’s tennis division at the time of his passing. Ken Meyerson, best known for his representation of tennis stars including Andy Roddick, Justine Henin, Fernando Gonzalez, Mardy Fish, and many others, passed away late…
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Ivan Nova is not the only professional athlete who was almost on to the next one. However, Nova’s case, he actually left his agent and signed with another representative prior to returning to his original agent. A couple of weeks ago, Philadelphia Eagles runningback LeSean McCoy fired Drew Rosenhaus, seriously considered signing with Mike Vick’s agent Joel…
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Yesterday, I woke up to a few tweets explaining that the Texas vs. Nation Game (which was called The NFLPA Game in 2011) has been cancelled until 2013. The one-year hiatus is claimed to be the result of stadium construction. Besides Pro Days and the NFL Scouting Combine, college football all-star games are excellent venues for graduating…
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There is no love lost between Jim Harbaugh and Jim Schwartz after the Detroit Lions battled the San Francisco 49ers this past Sunday at Ford Field. The game was extremely physical and featured a lot of bad blood between both teams until the 49ers won it on a fourth-and-goal touchdown catch by Delanie Walker. But…
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The following is a guest contribution from Heather Brittany (@HeatherBrit). Heather is currently a law student at Loyola Law School, Los Angeles and Sports Chair of its Entertainment & Sports Law Society. “It was the same old story. An athlete or entertainer put his or her finances in the hands of a ‘trusted’ advisor who…
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