Sports Business, Sports Law, Sports Negotiations, NCAA Rules
It is with great pleasure that I get to announce that my friend Peter Webb has officially accepted a new job with Tailwind Sports and Entertainment. He will will join Tailwind as Co-Head of the company’s Sports and Entertainment Division. Tailwind is a full-service sports and entertainment consulting firm that is based in Scottsdale with…
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On November 2nd, Nationwide Tour pro, Doug Barron, became the first player to fail the PGA Tour’s new drug policy and was issued a one-year suspension for his violation. In response, Barron filed a civil lawsuit this last Thursday against the PGA Tour, seeking monetary damages and a temporary restraining order against the Tour which,…
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PGA Tour pro Ryan Moore has made headlines this last week for finally signing an endorsement deal with Scratch Golf. What’s the big deal? For those of you who don’t know, Moore has been known on the PGA Tour this past year as the “logo-less” guy and not because he wasn’t offered endorsement deals, but…
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Andrew Moss was supposed to be sentenced on June 13. A little over four months later, he has received his punishment, which is much less than the maximum of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Instead, he received a one-year-and-one-day sentence and must pay $40,000 to the man who originally wanted to sponsor…
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Sports agent Andrew Moss, CEO of the Hawaii based Onyx Sports Group Inc., pleaded guilty on Wednesday after being charged with defrauding a sponsor for $61,000 in June 2008. The criminal act stems from a deal he had made for his golf client Scott Yancy III. Yancy had a moment in the spotlight when he…
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Did IMG and Octagon have a quid pro quo relationship with Stanford Financial Group, the latest house of financiers-cum-crooks (sadly, the line has become a bit blurred of late) that is under investigation by the FBI and that was charged this week by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in connection with an alleged $8bn…
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New Years Eve is right around the corner. If you will be down in South Beach, have clients down in SoBe, or want to show a potential client a good time, I suggest you send them to the premier party on the beach this year. It will be going down at the various clubs at…
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While Augusta is my favorite major to watch, and while I consider the U.S. Open to be the toughest major to actually win, there is something about The British Open that makes it the most special of the four. Maybe it’s because it is golf’s oldest championship. Maybe it’s because it’s fun to wake up…
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Another busy week of summer has blown by, which means that it is getting closer and closer to my return to lovely Gainesville, Florida. Nothing against the town that UF sits in, but I am getting quite comfortable with spending much of each day down here in South Florida working on Dynasty and this blog. …
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Everyone is anticipating a Lorena Ochoa (pictured)-Annika Sorenstam duel (numbers one and two in the world, respectively; click here for the current women’s world rankings) this weekend at the U.S. Women’s Open at Interlachen Country Club in Minnesota, but as Tiger and Phil show us time and time again, rarely do these much-hyped #1-2 scenarios…
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