Sports Business, Sports Law, Sports Negotiations, NCAA Rules
This Friday will make or break my bracket. Going into the NCAA Tournament, I knew I would have to make a bold move in order to have a chance at winning, but I wanted to pick a team I thought legitimately had a chance of making it to the Final Four. That team is the…
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Creative Artists Agency’s basketball agent, Leon Rose, and newly minted coaches agent, William “Worldwide Wes” Wesley, were recently spotted discussing a purchase of 12 apartments on 2 floors of the W New York Downtown Hotel & Residences. Included in the discussion was Jacqueline Bayer of Moinian Group, which is one of the largest privately held…
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It’s about time we give a big old SHALOM to Amar’e Stoudemire. The man is enjoying his time in Israel and really embracing the culture, after finding out that his mother is Jewish. Shabbat at my apartment next time you are down in South Florida. Check out the video at the end of this post…
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Yesterday, I took my first simulated Multi-State Bar Examination. Talk about a draining experience! Imagine sitting down for 7 hours, only one of those hours aside as a lunch break, and hammering away at 200 difficult multiple choice problems. Yeah, I’m not really looking forward to 2 days of that in roughly a month from…
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No I’m not talking about LeBron playing for the Lakers, but that other Los Angeles team, the Clippers, if you forgot they existed. The New York Post and ESPN recently reported that David Geffen, the billionaire entertainment mogul, wants to buy a controlling share in the Clippers. More importantly, Geffen told current owner Donald Sterling…
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On May 4, the Chicago Bulls fired coach Vinny Del Negro. Yesterday, the Cleveland Cavaliers fired coach Mike Brown. There are a lot of rumors that the Miami Heat is thinking of replacing coach Erik Spoelstra. The Bulls have reached out to Phil Jackson, the Heat may be thinking of bringing back Pat Riley, and…
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Forget about the silly rumor about William Wesley (aka Worldwide Wes) packaging John Calipari and LeBron James together to potential NBA owner suitors. I don’t put much, if any, value into that claim. Instead, watch the video below because it is an interesting view on William Wesley, who has been covered (barely) on this blog.…
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Off to Tallahassee for the weekend (it is the capital of Florida for you non-Geography majors) and then back to Gainesville to move into a new residence for my final year of law school. I sent out the initial batch of invitations to potential moderators and panelists for the 2010 UF Sports Law Symposium. In…
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Not interested in sending your clients to Blackwater Worldwide for some good old fashioned firearm training? What if you have highly controversial clients who like heading out to the clubs that may not be the best scenes for iced out necks and bling on the wrist? Might want to call in a guy like Julian…
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On the heels of an excellent interview with Leigh Steinberg, I was approached by a close friend of BJ Armstrong. The friend requested that I take the time to interview the 1989 first-round pick of the Chicago Bulls who later on became a basketball analyst for ESPN before landing his current job as an NBPA…
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