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Liz Mullen
Staff writer Liz Mullen covers labor, agents and horse racing.
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NBPA’s Stackhouse: Search for leader in full swing05 / 20 / 13National Basketball Players Association officials met with NHL Players’ Association Executive Director Don Fehr and MLB Players Association Executive Director Michael Weiner last month as part of their effort to find a new head for the players union. “The process has started, and for ... Tags: Labor and Agents |
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Union evaluating new MLB draft
The MLB Players Association is examining several results from the recent first-year player draft that it deemed “unexpected,” providing yet another level of intrigue to one of the biggest changes in its new five-year collective-bargaining agreement with the league. The revamped draft ...
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Film studio enters talent rep biz
The film studio behind such hits as “Act of Valor” and “The Fighter” is acquiring SFX Baseball and NFL player agency Maximum Sports Management, creating a new multisport talent representation business and continuing the nexus between sports and Hollywood. The launch of the ...
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MLB picks signing at or below slots
MLB clubs had signed 20 first-round draft picks at or below their league-designated slot figures and just one player above his slot number as of midweek last week, with teams working this year under new, stricter guidelines governing the first-year player draft. ...
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Who's steering NHL talks
As collective-bargaining negotiations between the NHL and the NHL Players’ Association begin, discussion of the key issues for the league and the union will be notable as always — but so too will be the matter of who is doing the talking. Veterans of hockey negotiations past will be join ...
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Sponsors show interest in young golfers
Patrick Cantlay, the top-ranked amateur golfer in the world before he turned pro last week, expects to announce an equipment deal and, perhaps, a non-golf endorsement deal early this week, according to his new agent, Mark Steinberg. Golf industry sources said Titleist and Callaway Golf were the f ...
NHL clubs report positive ticket trends
The league’s Bill Daly sees business as usual despite hockey’s labor uncertainty. Photo by: GORT PRODUCTIONS Full-season-ticket sales for NHL clubs are up more than 7 perc ...
NHL's future hard to read
While the first Stanley Cup Final between the Los Angeles Kings and the New Jersey Devils gives the NHL’s biggest series extra importance in the country’s biggest markets, it’s unclear how much the sport’s labor uncertainty might undercut any new momentum. Industry specula ...
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Breeders’ Cup channels inner Sinatra
The Breeders’ Cup has bought the rights to the classic song “The Best is Yet to Come,” made popular by the late Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett, and will use it as part of a branding campaign to help position The Breeders’ Cup Classic race as one of horse racing’s four m ...
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Path to PGA Tour changing
The hottest crop of college golfers in years has equipment makers salivating, but new PGA Tour qualifying rules could upset the traditional model of the equipment deal for future pros. After this year, college players going through the tour’s qualifying school will be funneled to the develo ...
Richard Berthelsen looks back
Longtime NFL Players Association general counsel Richard Berthelsen started at the NFLPA as a young lawyer when there were only a handful of people on staff under former Executive Director Ed Garvey. Berthelsen served three NFLPA executive directors, and served as interim executive director himself ...
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