The following is a guest contribution from Martin Fischman, Dynasty’s Football Division Director. As a football agent, you have a fiduciary duty to act in the best interests of your clients. But what happens when a player is either released from an NFL team with no other teams willing to sign the player, or the…
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May
19
United Football League, Canadian Football League, or Arena Football League
Jan
18
CFL Agent Mark Maren Arrested Based On Scheme To Defraud
Mark Maren is the owner of Toronto, Ontario based M Sports Management, a sports agency specializing in negotiating contracts for its players in the Canadian Football League (CFL). On his company’s Facebook page, Maren lists his current active CFL client list, which includes over 40 players, along with some Arena Football clientele. Maren makes multiple statements…
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Apr
08
CFL Considering Mandatory Professional Liability Insurance
The National Football League Players Association (NFLPA) requires that its contract advisors maintain professional liability insurance. The NFLPA even has a preffered company to handle such matters. The Canadian Football League Players Association (CFLPA) may soon be doing the same thing. The players’ association has sent out a survey to its licensed contract advisors to…
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May
07
Darren Gill Strikes Again
I am back home for the Summer (besides a vacation and business trip here and there…including going to Israel from May 13-24), and am ready to get back to keeping you up to date with the latest happenings in the Sports Agent world. There is no better way to start than to give major props…
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Apr
30
Choosing A Different Route
Former University of Kansas record-breaker chooses the Canadian Football League over the NFL. Yesterday, I was asked an interesting question when I was interviewed by aStupidRadio. The question was something along the lines of “How could you tell a client that he should accept a smaller offer than the highest one that he is presented?”…
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Feb
21
Agents Are Overrated
Right? People always come out and say that having a Sports Agent is an unnecessary extra cost. Players should be able to negotiate their own contracts and handle all of their off-field issues themselves, right? Wrong. Doug Brown, a defensive lineman in the CFL gives 2 reasons why he has an agent [Player who acts…
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Feb
02
The Canadian Football League – Continued
Am I boring you yet? I hope not. One thing is for sure, I’ve enjoyed the chance to blog about my passion. This is a great forum and Darren (the other one) is doing some fantastic work building this community of people who share the same passion for player representation, allowing us to sit back…
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Feb
01
Representation in The CFL
After getting put into my place for being a small time agent who represents clients in the CFL, I decided to focus on that very league… Here’s the Canadian Football league in a nutshell: – 8 teams, with 42 active players per team. – Half of the players on each roster are Canadian, half are…
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