Sports Business, Sports Law, Sports Negotiations, NCAA Rules
It feels like every week the Shabbat Shalom: Friday Wrap-Up is coming to you from a different town. This Friday, I am at University of Pennsylvania for the Ivy Sports Symposium. I am here to listen to the amazing panels, network with a lot of friends in the sports industry, and accept my 10 Next Award (I…
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Week #2 at Wolfe Law Miami, P.A. was fantastic. I have been busy working on a healthy mix of transactional and litigation work in the entertainment, music, sports, and even internet (drafting a website purchase agreement) world. Dynasty is also in the process of signing its first soccer player. Today, I am finally moving my…
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At 8 p.m. EST on Tuesday, October 11, 2011, ESPN will premier The Dotted Line, a documentary about sports agents directed by Morgan Spurlock. ESPN provided a DVD screener of the documentary, which I had a chance to review over the weekend. The documentary begins with Drew Rosenhaus, the most recognizable sports agent in the world, defending one of…
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Instead of just talking about the agents in control of collective bargaining negotiations for NBA players, why don’t we hear directly from one of the main power brokers himself? Sam Amick of SI.com helps us out by interviewing Mark Bartelstein of Priority Sports & Entertainment. As Amick notes, Bartelstein is well respected (even by his peers)…
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With a full slate of NFL and NCAA football, it is easy to forget that any other sports exist. However, the NBA is coming off of a fantastic season with its highest NBA Finals television ratings since 2004 (and I contend that there were much less competing TV options six years prior). Yet, as each…
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It has been a very eventful past couple of weeks for me. Quite a bit of stuff is still pending; some I wish to keep confidential and other information I feel free to share. I have accepted a new legal job, which will start in about a week and a half. I have had an…
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Carl Landry of the New Orleans Hornets was formerly represented by Andrew “Buddy” Baker. Baker had represented Landry for over four years, including the period leading up to Landry’s selection as the 1st pick of the 2nd round by the Seattle Sonics (now the Oklahoma City Thunder) in 2007. Landry was immediately traded to the…
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At the end of last week, Mark Bartelstein, CEO of Priority Sports & Entertainment and agent to many stars in basketball and football, spoke to Bloomberg Sports about money spent on NFL free agents once signings commenced. Bartelstein said that he did not think that there were bigger deals signed than in years past, but that…
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Over the weekend, Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! Sports Tweeted the following: Wojnarowski Tweeted that statement after Arn Tellem of Wasserman Media Group, Mark Bartelstein of Priority Sports, and many other prominent basketball agents met with National Basketball Players Association (NBPA) Executive Director Billy Hunter on Friday to talk about the NBA lockout (which began on…
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