Liz Mullen

A tlanta Braves pitcher Tom Glavine 's position as the outspoken National League representative for the MLB Players Association hasn't hurt his marketability, longtime agent Gregg Clifton said . In fact, Clifton said, it has helped,...

If the MLB Players Association accepts a payroll tax, it could affect future labor negotiations in other sports leagues, though probably not in a big way, say some prominent sports labor attorneys. "Could it have some effect in some way? Yes," said Jeffrey Kessler, who has worked...

I MG , which has been quietly building a major football and basketball coaches representation practice, has signed San Francisco 49ers coach Steve Mariucci for representation. ...

Cindrich & Co., the athlete representation firm headed by veteran NFL agent Ralph Cindrich, has acquired 50 percent of Cowboy Sports Agents, an Oklahoma City firm specializing in representing professional bull riders. The deal follows recent announcements that CBS and NBC will broadcast bull riding events starting...

The NFL Players Association is investigating whether the Kansas City Chiefs and Minnesota Vikings colluded in negotiating the contracts of two as-yet-unsigned first-round NFL draft picks. "We began an inquiry late [Monday] into possible collusion between Minnesota and Kansas City with regards to the sixth...

Major League Baseball is trying to decide whether New York Mets co-owner Nelson Doubleday violated the league's gag order on labor issues by filing a publicly available lawsuit last week. And the lawyer who filed a civil racketeering suit against MLB last month on behalf of minority...

K eith Kreiter , agent for Rafer Alston , is talking to video-game maker Sega and beverage companies about endorsement deals, at the same time he is talking to several NBA teams about the restricted...

ESPN has banned a boxer who had an ad tattooed on his back during his last televised fight. Kassim Ouma, who won his last six fights on ESPN2, wore the tattoo during a May 10 fight in which he took the U.S. Boxing Association junior middleweight crown....

A prominent baseball agent has financial ties to an international scouting service that has contracts totaling about $400,000 with four major league teams, a connection that may have run afoul of the MLB Players Association's conflict of interest policy. Players union officials, in response to questions raised...

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