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NFL will wait till next year’s draft on other calendar decisions06 / 17 / 13The NFL may re-evaulate the timing of offseason activities that surround its annual draft, but any decisions on schedule changes would not come until after next May’s event, according to Atlanta Falcons President and CEO Rich McKay , who is ... Tags: Labor and Agents |
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Russian NHL draftees fire agent
SFX hockey chief Jay Grossman says a Russian hockey club president forced two of his clients who are top 2001 NHL draft picks to sign letters firing Grossman as their agent. The letters to the NHL Players' Association say that No. 3 pick Alexander Svitov and No. 5 pick Stanislav Chistov h ...
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Octagon signs Mary Pierce
Octagon has signed two-time Grand Slam champion Mary Pierce to a representation contract. Pierce left her longtime agency, IMG, in May and has not played since because of injury. Since her French Open title in June 2000, Pierce's play has been on a steady slope downward. But Pierce plan ...
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Shaq says "uncle," sort of
M ost of the sports world seems to believe that Mike Parris is Shaquille O'Neal 's uncle. Parris isn't. But a longtime friendship with O'Neal and his family has helped put Parris, whom the Los Angeles Lakers superstar calls "Uncle Mike ...
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Huyghue examined situation
M ichael Huyghue and his lawyers analyzed the acrimonious lawsuit filed by NFL agent Leigh Steinberg against his former partner, David Dunn , before signing a deal to form a joint venture with Dunn's new agency, Athletes First . "I ...
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104 players seek free agency
L ast year 10 Major League Baseball players filed for free agency on the first day in the 15-day free agency filing period. This year, as the collective-bargaining agreement expires and players face an uncertain future, 104 players filed on the firs ...
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Baseball agents scramble to file
Baseball player agents worried that a new collective-bargaining agreement could change the game's rules will file for free agency for their players at the earliest possible date in an attempt to protect the players' rights under the old system, several top agents said. Players with six maj ...
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AFL owner considers agency
C asey Wasserman , owner of the Arena Football League's Los Angeles Avengers, has been considering a plan to open a multisport athlete representation business. "We have done our research on what is out there," Wasserman said. "We haven' ...
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RICO claim vs. Dunn dismissed
A federal judge last week dismissed a claim that agent Leigh Steinberg's former partner David Dunn violated U.S. racketeering laws when he formed a competing agency. U.S. District Judge Ronald S.W. Lew did not rule on any of the other issues in the long-simmering legal dispute, but he said ...
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Playing the percentages
A gents who become part of a publicly traded company find that information they once kept private can suddenly become public. Magnum Sports & Entertainment , which owns the practice of NFL agent Joel Segal , revealed in a Securities and Exchan ...
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Donatello to monitor talks
The Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service has appointed Peter Donatello to monitor collective-bargaining negotiations between Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association and to mediate if necessary. At the same time, MLB has informed t ...
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