A little over a week ago, I noted that recruiting for the 2011 NBA Draft is heating up. As teams have been getting knocked out of the post-season tournaments, the players who perform for those teams have either declared their intention to enter the NBA Draft or commit to staying at least one more year…
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Mar
29
BDA Sports Is Off To A Strong Start With Its 2011 NBA Draft Class
Feb
22
On To The Next One: Jurrell Casey
Drew Rosenhaus strikes again. Jurrell Casey is a Defensive Tackle from the University of Southern California. NFLDraftScout.com ranks him as the 10th best DT available in the 2011 Draft Class, and projects him as a 2-3 round pick. Mike Mayock sees Casey getting off the board as early as the end of the 1st round.…
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Feb
22
States Focused On New Athlete Agent Legislation, Not True Regulation
The latest regulatory trend concerns states pushing to “strengthen” their athlete agent laws. This push is probably based on increased media attention paid to student-athletes receiving money and other benefits from sports agents. The article that was likely read by every Sponsor of a piece of legislation to enhance athlete agents laws is Sports Illustrated’s…
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Feb
14
University of Southern California’s Agent Summit
Last Tuesday, the University of Southern California hosted an “Agent Awareness, Education and Eligibility Summit.” The following officials were in attendance: Jimmy Sexton – Co-Founder, SportsTrust Advisors Tom Condon – Football Agent, CAA Rick Smith – Agent, Priority Sports Mark Levin – Director of Salary Cap and Agent Administration, NFLPA Ray Anderson – VP of…
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Feb
08
Should the NCAA Register Agents?
In a previous article I wrote, I focused on the topic of the NCAA as well as university athletic association Compliance Offices taking on a greater role with regard to athlete-agent regulation. There are laws which attempt to regulate activity, but why not have actual enforcement through a mandatory registration process much like the player…
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Feb
07
Southern California Gets A Scare When 1st Round Pops Up Again
When I interviewed former NFLPA Certified Contract Advisor Teague Egan (who was still certified at the time of the interview), I asked Egan what his plan was for his company, 1st Round Sports, in the immediate future. His response was, Now that this all happened, I have to watch myself and stay within the rules…
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Nov
27
Interview With The Agent: Teague Egan
On November 22, 2010, I wrote about a University of Southern California student named Teague Egan. Egan, who is licensed by the NFL Players Association, was found to have given Dillon Baxter (a student-athlete at USC), a ride on his golf cart, which prominently displays the logo of his company (as seen at the bottom…
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Nov
22
Is Southern California Going To Receive A 1st Round Knockout?
The last thing that the University of Southern California needs is another controversy involving agents, but that is exactly what the institution has on its hands. We are not talking about Reggie Bush money here. In fact, the whole story started with an agent giving a student-athlete (Dillon Baxter) a ride on a golf cart.…
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Aug
02
Lane Kiffin Revives Our Interference With Contractual Relations Convo
Remember when I took roughly a week of your time going on a rant about interference with contractual relations? If you need a refresher, see: Sports Agents Interfering With Contractual Relations, Digging Deeper Into The Contractual Interference Claim, and The Interference With Contractual Relations Conversation Continues. In those posts, I looked into the claim that…
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Jul
23
Shabbat Shalom: Friday Wrap-Up (7/23/2010)
What a week it has been. With barely any time left before I take the Florida Bar Exam, I have been bogged down covering the pending NCAA investigations at UNC, USC, Alabama, Georgia, and UF. It is nice to finally see the NCAA looking into a few agent/player benefit accusations. We all know that it…
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