Jul
27

High Priced China

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For American basketball players who cannot quite cut it in the NBA, the option of going overseas to play is very tempting.  If the player is good enough, he can get a chance playing for an NBDL team, but unless he truly believes that the NBDL will serve as a platform for him to break…
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Jan
23

Shabbat Shalom: Friday Wrap-Up

I’m struggling to get this post out, but what would SportsAgentBlog.com be without a Shabbat Shalom: Friday Wrap-Up piece?  The 2009 UF Sports Law Symposium was a resounding success.  From noon to 5 p.m., the UF Levin College of Law was stacked with leading sports business professionals and intelligent students eager to learn from and…
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Dec
19

Shabbat Shalom: Friday Wrap-Up

My first semester 2nd year law school finals are OVER!  Let me give future law students a recommendation: Even if you really like three particular classes, do not take all of them in the same semester if it means that your Final Exams for those classes will be scheduled back-to-back-to-back.  Especially on the three last…
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Dec
11

2008: A Year in the China Sports Industry

Toby Sumerfield

If someone, a psychic friend perhaps, had sat me down at the end of 2007 and said to me: “Toby by the end of 2008 you will have worked for the Beijing Olympic Committee and will be selling the sponsorship rights for the National Stadium (Bird’s Nest) and National Aquatic Center (Water Cube) of China”…
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Sep
03

Beijing Affect

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One of the many concerns for athletes and others around the world prior to the Olympic Games was the health standards and pollution in China. Athletes expressed their desire to move the games and some even went so far as to not compete in the Olympics because of China’s poor health standards and pollution record. …
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