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Mon, Aug 31 2009

Interview With The Agent: Jack Bechta

Also tagged: Football, leigh steinberg, NFL Players

Jack Bechta is an NFLPA Certified Advisor who is not afraid to speak his mind. He has been in the business of representing professional football players for almost two decades and his engine has not...

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Mon, Aug 31 2009

Jack Bechta

Also tagged: Football, interview, leigh steinberg, nfl player

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Mon, Dec 8 2008

Score One For The Little Guy

Also tagged: CBA, collective bargaining agreement, NFL, nflpa, Roger Goodell

The NFL’s Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) expires after the 2010 season, and among other points up for debate–including revenue sharing and a rookie pay scale–the NFLPA may want...

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Wed, Nov 19 2008

Tumultuous Times for the NFL Players Association

Also tagged: collective bargaining agreement, NFL, NFL Players, nfl players association, nflpa, retired players, salary cap

A federal jury awarded over 2000 NFL retirees more than $28 million in damages last week after a three week trial in San Francisco in a class action lawsuit against the NFL Players Association (NFLPA)....

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Mon, Nov 17 2008

NFL Rookie Contracts: Fair Or Not?

Also tagged: Chris Long, Darren McFadden, glenn dorsey, Jake Long, matt ryan, national football league, NFL, nfl owners, Roger Goodell, rookie salaries, rookies, salary cap, vernon gholston

Around the NFL there is strong disapproval about the amount of money rookie players are making. In April 2008, Roger Goodell expressed his wishes to change the current rookie contract structure. Goodell...

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Mon, Oct 6 2008

BusinessWeek’s 2008 Power 100

Also tagged: arn tellem, basketball agent, boras corp, CAA, Casey Wasserman, Drew Rosenhaus, IMG, scott boras, Tiger Woods, Tom Condon, WMG

Around this time last year when BusinessWeek released its Power 100, documenting the 100 most influential people in the business of sports, I was interested to see various sports agent related names pop...

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Thu, Aug 21 2008

Cancer Takes Down Upshaw

Also tagged: nflpa

NFLPA Executive Director, Gene Upshaw, passed away last night at the age of sixty-three. The news comes just days after Upshaw was first diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. While Gene Upshaw has definitely...

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Mon, Jun 9 2008

This NFL CBA Talk Could Take A While

Also tagged: 2008 nfl draft, CBA, collective bargaining agreement, Football, Kevin Mawae, leigh steinberg, matt ryan, NFL, nfl draft, nfl player, NFL Players, nflpa

We would all be acting ignorant if we were to take at face value what the higher-ups in the NFLPA are spitting at us: that increasing rookie salaries is not one of the main issues of pending talks between...

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Sat, Apr 19 2008

The MLB Steroids Situation Doesn’t Seem That Bad Anymore

Also tagged: brian urlacher, chad johnson, cincinnati bengals, Football, steroids

Brian Urlacher threatening to retire? Chad Johnson refusing to go to voluntary and mandatory Cincinnati Bengals functions? Oh yeah, and that whole Gene Upshaw mess coupled with the impending owners lockout?...

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Mon, Apr 14 2008

More On The Upshaw Upheaval

Also tagged: CBA, Kevin Mawae, matt stover, NFL, nfl owners, nflpa, retired players, trace armstrong

Gene Upshaw is trying to get some retired players who are known to support the current NFLPA Executive Director back into the union to support him as reports about disunity continue to surface. Trace...

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Thu, Apr 10 2008

America’s Staple Sport On The Verge Of Crisis?

Also tagged: brian dawkins, CBA, Football, Kevin Mawae, NFL, nflpa, retired players, salary cap

Maybe not crisis, but the NFL and the NFLPA better get their act together before the major press entities start uncovering more information about what is going on behind the scenes of American football....

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Tue, Mar 25 2008

Dolphins On The Clock

Also tagged: bill parcells, CBA, Chris Long, Football, miami dolphins, mock drafts, NFL, nfl player, NFL Players, nflpa, salary cap

One thing that’s definitely not lacking these days is an availability of mock drafts. Our own Paul Schackman has done a wonderful job on this site breaking things down throughout the weeks, but...

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Tue, Mar 11 2008

MLB players receive the lowest percentage of leaguewide revenue

Also tagged: Baseball, CBA, Donald Fehr, mlb, MLB Players, MLBPA

The next time you hear someone complain about the seemingly skyrocketing salaries in Major League Baseball (MLB), remind them of two things. One, the amount players make must be viewed in tandem with...

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