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With Porter signing, Falk nearly done with rebuild at FAME05 / 20 / 13D avid Falk says he’s almost done rebuilding his agency, FAME , having recently signed Georgetown forward Otto Porter Jr. , one of the top prospects in this year’s NBA draft. “We will sign two or three more players and tha... Tags: Labor and Agents |
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Hunter on hot seat; candidates emerge
Editor’s note: This story is updated from the print edition. Even before the National Basketball Players Association placed Executive Director Billy Hunter on an indefinite leave of absence last week, industry insiders had begun coming up with a list of potential successors. Former ...
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NFLPA posts $36M loss for lockout year
The labor strife that nearly interrupted the 2011 football season appeared to take a toll on the finances of the NFL Players Association, leaving it with a deficit of $36 million for the fiscal year that encompassed that year’s lockout, according to the group’s tax return covering the pe ...
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Agent guides client to Bears via Canada
B ack in 2007, agent Gary O’Hagan advised his client Marc Trestman to take a job as head coach of the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League. O’Hagan, who heads IMG ’s coaching division, had signed Trestman as ...
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Weak class won’t keep QBs out
Need more proof that the NFL is a quarterback-driven league? Look no further than the coming NFL draft. There is no Andrew Luck or Robert Griffin III in this year’s class, and the quarterback group is rated as one of the poorest in memory. Regardless, look for many teams to use their first- ...
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CAA in good shape for draft
I t’s hard to predict which players NFL clubs may take with their first-round picks this year, but with most of the top-rated prospects signed as of last week, it is likely that CAA Sports will have a big draft. As of last week, CAA Sp ...
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Future doesn't worry Fehr
NHL players across the league have been praising NHL Players’ Association Executive Director Don Fehr for his leadership in the weeks since the NHL lockout ended. But Fehr, who took over as NHLPA chief in December 2010 after serving as execu ...
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NHL agents don’t expect big changes
While many executives were still sorting through the terms of the new collective-bargaining agreement last week, NHL player agents don’t expect dramatic changes to player contracts under the deal. “The system is really the same,&rdqu ...
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NFL agent gets big opportunity
W hen NFL player agent Bardia Ghahremani first met a young Giovani Bernard , he was the younger brother of his client, Yvenson Bernard , a solid college running back suffering from a bad knee whom Ghahremani was trying to place with an NFL tea ...
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Agency partnering with Fletcher Smith
V eteran NFL player agent Fletcher Smith is partnering with two agents who are relatively new to the business to represent a number of players for the 2013 NFL draft, including two of the year’s top-rated wide receivers: Cal’s Keena ...
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Your guide to NHL’s point of no return
Talks between the NHL and NHL Players’ Association over a new collective-bargaining agreement continued last week. But last week also saw the league cancel another set of games, and the lockout moved closer to entering its fourth month. Games through Dec. 30 now have been canceled, meaning a t ...
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