Maybe representation of video gamers is in our future. Maybe competitive video gaming will become an Olympic sport. One thing is definite; competitive video gaming is a rapidly growing market. Every day, more and more people are looking on websites such as www.BestGamingChair.com to help them find products that will help them in their efforts […]
Month: July 2006
Every year for the past 3 years, Sports Illustrated has published a list of the top 50 athletes when it comes to raking in salary, bonus, winnings, appearance, and endorsement money. It is interesting to see the type of endorsement money some of these athletes are making. Agents typically take a larger chunk of endorsement […]
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NFL Holdout Fine Increased
As reported on July 24th, the NFL and the NFLPA have agreed to increase the daily fine for holding out of training camp from $5,000 to $14,000 [Fine line: Increased amoung might limit NFL holdouts]. This increase definitely gives NFL teams even more leverage over its players, and perhaps way too much. Sports Agents must […]
Personally, I am not a huge fan of Ultimate Fighting. My cousin used to partake in the sport, but it is just a little to gruesome for my liking. My tastes may not represent the population as a whole, though [Ultimate fighting anyone?]. Is Ultimate Fighting really already bigger than the sport of boxing? Yahoo.com […]
It may not be a bad idea, as college coach (and pro coach) salaries have risen exponentially in the past couple of decades. In the past, I touched on the fact that even women’s basketball coaches may become an area of interest for Sports Agents; Pat Summitt became the first women’s basketball coach to obtain […]
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Value of Signing Bonuses
In the NFL, there is no such thing as a guaranteed contract. The NFL is the most important league to look at when delving into the signing bonus arena. The strong likelihood of player injury coupled with a hard salary cap on teams provide an atmosphere where owners refuse to sign no-cut contracts (thus, the […]
Sam Perkins and Detlef Schrempf, step to the side. Your one-time Seattle Supersonics teammate, Shawn Kemp is busy ruining his image after helping you to a 64-18 record in 1995-1996. Before we get into the nightmare clients, please enjoy this clip of Kobe Bryant picking off Detlef Schrempf in 1999. I think I speak for […]
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Not Quite Marriage
Between baseball players and their agents. The only form of commitment that binds a player to a Sports Agent is an “agent authorization form,” which is completed once a year by each player, but can be discarded at any time during the year. Any player can decide to have a different agent representing him/her for […]
Should you allow your client to have a profile on Facebook, Myspace, insert any other social networking site here? If you ask Scott Schafer, currently playing for the rookie level Gulf Coast Mets, he would say no. That is because the information that he had on his MySpace page led him to get dropped by […]
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2 New Sports Agency Links Added
John Boggs & Associates, Inc. & Legends Management Group. They are now listed along with many other Sports Agency Sites on the “Pages & Links” tab. I have spent a ton of time compiling the list of Sports Agencies that are listed under the “Pages & Links” tab. This site has one of the most […]