Sports Business, Sports Law, Sports Negotiations, NCAA Rules
I am looking forward to seeing my friend Warren Zola at the New York Law School Sports Law Symposium coming up on November 4, 2011, and I was thrilled to see the positive press that he recently received in an article titled, At some schools, advisers help navigate going pro, which was picked up by newspapers across…
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On July 29, 2011, North Carolina’s Secretary of State Elaine Marshall issued a subpoena, which asked for documents and records from the NCAA regarding findings from the NCAA’s investigation of past NFLPA agent activity on the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill’s campus. The NCAA’s investigation has undoubtedly focused on names like former UNC associate head coach John Blake, the late…
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The writing was on the wall. When it was announced earlier this year that the United Football League’s (UFL) training camp would be suspended for 30 days and its regular season games were pushed back a month, I started to wonder just how much longer the fledgling league had in it. The UFL had been struggling for…
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Week #2 at Wolfe Law Miami, P.A. was fantastic. I have been busy working on a healthy mix of transactional and litigation work in the entertainment, music, sports, and even internet (drafting a website purchase agreement) world. Dynasty is also in the process of signing its first soccer player. Today, I am finally moving my…
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Typically, On To The Next One is focused on football and basketball players leaving their agents for new representation. However, yesterday Darren Rovell of CNBC tweeted the news that PGA Tour golfer Matt Kuchar (currently ranked #9 in the world) has become Mark Steinberg’s first big client (not named Tiger Woods) since Steinberg moved from IMG to join basketball…
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What: American University Washington College of Law Sports Law Panel – Out Of Bounds: Tackling The Athlete-Agent Relationship From Amateur Athletics To The Pros When: Thursday, October 27, 2011 (4:00-5:30 p.m.) Where: American University Washington College of Law (Room 602) AU WCL’s Sports and Entertainment Law Society is hosting a panel discussion regarding the athlete-agent relationship, NCAA…
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What: 2011 Ivy Sports Symposium When: November 18, 2011 Where: Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania (Jon M. Huntsman Hall) The Ivy Sports Symposium was founded in 2006 as the Princeton Sports Symposium. This is the first year that the symposium will be held on a college campus other than Princeton University. Another special feature of this year’s event…
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Yesterday, I reported that LeSean “Shady” McCoy was very close to being “on to the next one.” He fired his agent Drew Rosenhaus only to re-hire him one day later. After publishing the story, multiple sources have informed me that McCoy was not having second thoughts about Rosenhaus based on Rosenhaus’ culinary preference of Chickie & Pete’s. Instead,…
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I am happy to announce that my newest law review article, In Baseball’s Best Interest?: A Discussion of the October 2010 MLBPA Regulations Governing Player Agents, has been published in the Spring 2011 Virginia Sports & Entertainment Law Journal. The official citation to the article is 10 Va. Sports & Ent. L.J. 249 (type it into a Westlaw…
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At 8 p.m. EST tonight, ESPN will premier The Dotted Line, a documentary about sports agents directed by Morgan Spurlock. ESPN provided a DVD screener of the documentary, which I reviewed on October 3, 2011 (click here to read the review). Along with the scenes including Josh Luchs, the most interesting part of the documentary involved the recruiting process…
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