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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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NFLPA to elect player president
The NFL Players Association will hold its annual meeting later this week in Marco Island, Fla., where it is scheduled to elect a new player president and several executive committee members. It also may move to eliminate the so-called “junior rule” that limits when agents can have contac ...
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CAA Sports' 'Evolution'
One of the least known aspects of CAA Sports’ growing influence is a joint venture the agency formed in 2008 that has put it in the middle of some of the biggest financial deals in sports in recent years. Evolution Media Capital has advised on more than $15 billion dollars of transactions ...
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CAA building out from agents
When Madison Square Garden and its outside property sales consultant, CAA Sports, went out to sell top-level sponsorships for the soon-to-be-overhauled building in the summer of 2009, their sales effort targeted the airline category first. The good news was that there was immediate interest from fiv ...
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Stella puts on Derby hat
Stella Artois is the new official beer of Churchill Downs and the Kentucky Derby in a multiyear deal that marks the first time the Anheuser-Busch brand has signed a sponsorship with a U.S. sporting event of national prominence. The deal is expected to be announced today. ...
AEG creates sports division
AEG has created a new division, AEG Sports, that aims to increase both efficiencies and revenue for individual properties at the company but could also result in more job consolidation, AEG President and CEO Tim Leiweke said last week. Chris McGowan, who as COO of the Los Angeles Kings has spurre ...
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WMG, player dispute over no-trade list
Wasserman Media Group MLB agents are embroiled in two separate, confidential arbitrations with former client Francisco Rodriguez over his trade last summer from the New York Mets to Milwaukee, a club he had on a no-trade list that was never filed. Rick Johnson, Rodriguez’s attorney, said no ...
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Agents have new star in Victor Cruz
Jack Huntington and Abu Toppin don’t recruit out of the normal, NFL-player-producing colleges and universities that most big-time player agents do. The two agents, both in their early 40s, started their NFL player rep firm, Reliance Sport ...
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Suits center on casino investments
Five current or former NFL players, including Terrell Owens, have individually filed lawsuits against an attorney who they contend helped them invest in an Alabama casino project that is now in Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Atlanta linebacker Mike Peterson and Buffalo wide receiver Roscoe Parrish filed ...
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Firms merge to form Legacy Agency
Legacy Sports Group, the baseball player representation firm run by prominent MLB player agent Greg Genske, has merged with athlete marketing company The Agency, run by veteran agent Jordan Bazant. The merged company is known as The Legacy Agency, and its CEO is industry veteran Mike Principe, who h ...
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Agent Segal to remain with Lagardère
NFL agent Joel Segal, whose clients include Philadelphia quarterback Michael Vick and Miami running back Reggie Bush, has signed a long-term deal to stay at Lagardère Unlimited. Kevin O’Connor, chief operating officer of Lagardère, confirmed the deal but would not disclose fi ...
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