Players now engage in elaborate training in the period between their last game and the scouting combine in February and the agent takes on the financial and advisory role during the process.
Traditional agentry has too often been lampoonish, cartoonish, greedy, and destructive to clients and sports itself. Some of the basic concepts which are slavishly adhered to are just wrong.
With IMG Worldwide Chairman and CEO Ted Forstmann on his deathbed, board member Michael Ovitz has made a failed play to take over the giant sports tal...
Trade demands are a necessary tool for protecting a client's interest. To deny an agent or athlete this basic freedom will only chill free speech and encourage further erosion of player rights.