Sports Business, Sports Law, Sports Negotiations, NCAA Rules
It brings me great pleasure to publish an Interview with the Agent piece about Austin Walton. Not only is he a driven, young individual in the sports agent business, he is a former intern and independent contractor at Dynasty Athlete Representation. It has been fun for me to watch his rise in the business of basketball. I hope…
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Prior to Dynasty Athlete Representation bringing in Martin Fischman to head its Football Division, the company was not involved in representing professional football players. That was not always the case, though. At one point in time, my agency had signed a few NFL hopefuls, including Rulon Davis, a former defensive end from California Berkeley. Rulon…
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What: Panel - Ethics in Athlete Representation When: Friday, April 15 (6 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.) Where: Suffolk University Law School This panel discussion will focus on the ethical dilemmas amateur athletes, agents, and Universities face in today’s society. The panel’s ultimate goal is to open up a dialogue that is aimed at curtailing unscrupulous agent…
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An hour before the ball dropped on December 31, 2010, the Washington Post published a piece by Mark Giannotto titled, Virginia Tech football players work to avoid being distracted by agents. Tonight, the Virginia Tech Hokies will battle the Stanford Cardinal in the Orange Bowl, but as Giannotto pointed out, the game’s actors have been…
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Friday, November 19, is the deadline for Major League Baseball teams to finalize their 40 Man Rosters leading up to the Baseball Winter Meetings and the Rule 5 Draft. Many players will be “protected” on their organization’s 40 Man Roster in the final hour leading up to the deadline, as a preventative measure, so that…
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Since starting this website and my company, Dynasty Athlete Representation, I have tried to answer almost every email that contains a question from an interested reader or future agent. While I have had the great fortune of being published in respectable journals and newspapers, the most joy comes out of helping college/high school students learn…
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When you are a 6’5, 225 lb left-handed power hitter, and teams take a pass on you through 24 rounds of a draft, you might have a chip on your shoulder. When you hear people talk about you and they say, “He’s a great player, but he’s a little old to be playing in Double-A,”…
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Robert Smith will be moving across the Pacific Ocean and taking his bowling skills to Hong Kong. “The move is to start a bowling academy for Hong Kong. Long story short, there is no sanctioning body for bowlers outside the National Team there,” Robert was quoted as saying on his Facebook page yesterday. “I have…
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Johnny Lujan promoted to Triple-A, Carl Krauser helping his team in New Zealand knock off a formerly undefeated team, and my last class as a law school student. It has been an exciting week. That said, I need to now buckle down and study for my two law school exams (Cyberspace Law followed by Trade…
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When Johnny Lujan first became a part of the Dynasty Family, I was thrilled to think that we got him at the perfect time. He had been log-jammed in the Chicago White Sox organization and was just picked up by the New York Mets in the Triple-A phase of the Rule-5 draft. Johnny was about to have…
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