CAA represents most coaches in CFP
Following Sunday night’s contentious College Football Playoff Selection Show, CAA and its super-agent, Jimmy Sexton, lead the way in college football head coach representation as the CFP is set to get underway next Friday.
Influence 125: Jeff Schwartz, Mark Steinberg and Casey Close, Excel Sports Management
Influence 125 highlights the most influential sports business figures of the past quarter-century. See the list.
Influence 125: Rich Paul, Klutch Sports Group
Influence 125 highlights the most influential sports business figures of the past quarter-century. See the list.
Influence 125: Tom Condon, IMG/CAA Football
Influence 125 highlights the most influential sports business figures of the past quarter-century. See the list.
Chris Granger named Oak View Group’s full-time CEO
Oak View Group has removed the “interim” tag from Chris Granger’s title, naming him the company’s CEO and formally placing him in charge of all global business lines.
Select Management Group creates sports division
L.A.-based talent management company Select Management Group is formally launching its own sports division, aptly titled Select Sports. Led by agency partner and head of ventures and sports, Amy Neben, the division is also headed by talent managers Alexia Maitland, Fred Johnson and Charley Button. T...
You snooze, you lose vs. the contract; which of the Mavs and Stars’ legal arguments will prevail?
In reporting our SBJ story on the Mavericks and Stars’ unprecedented legal scrap over the American Airlines Center in Dallas, colleague Irving Mejia-Hilario and I asked lawyers to guess the outcome.
Rarefied Air: Collectors jumping at opportunities to invest in sports collectibles market
Michael Jordan sparked the rise of shoe culture and His Airness continues to influence the market for high-end sports collectibles.
A unique legal venue could decide Mavs-Stars arena fight
If it makes it to court, the Mavericks–Stars fight for control of American Airlines Center will be heard in one of the state’s newest judicial venues: the Texas Business Court, where Judge Bill Whitehill is temporarily holding proceedings at SMU’s Dedman School of Law.