Labor and Agents

After 17 months of both terse and cryptic negotiations -- including over 100 hours of dusk-to-nearly-dawn discussions the past eight days -- the WNBA and WNBPA reached a verbal agreement early Wednesday on a CBA. Although full terms have not officially been confirmed, sources told SBJ earlier that t...

The NFLPA board of player representatives Tuesday elected former union president and senior executive JC Tretter to become its next executive director, eight months after Tretter left his senior leadership role with the union and claimed he did not want the top job.

The WNBA and WNBPA are believed to be over 4% apart on their split of revenue share, sources told SBJ Tuesday, a marked gain that the sides will continue to hash out as talks resumed Tuesday.

Bryson DeChambeau is adding agency representation as he eyes his next steps from an off-course perspective. Josh Pyatt and the newly launched WIN Artists will be co-managing DeChambeau’s media business alongside his longtime manager, Brett Falkoff of GSE Worldwide. Along with the media business, Fal...

Essentially trying to wrap 17 months of negotiations into one week, the WNBA and WNBPA exited a seventh consecutive overnight bargaining session at 3:40am ET Tuesday without a signed term sheet. Whether the sides are close to a CBA deal or not, the season is also getting close, and the next words ou...

Another near all-nighter between the WNBA and WNBPA did not result in a collective bargaining deal Sunday evening, meaning Commissioner Cathy Engelbert’s self-imposed Monday deadline to wrap up negotiations -- or start re-calibrating the preseason schedule -- is finally here.

With a new soft deadline of Monday hanging over WNBA collective bargaining, the league and its union pressed on through another 15-hour negotiation Friday, with the delicate topic of revenue sharing coming next on Saturday.

Boston-based boutique talent agency Smith&Saint is rolling out a companywide rebrand as it looks to expand its presence across sports, digital creators and its culinary talent while scaling services around its roster.

The Professional Tennis Players Association announced on Thursday that Deputy Executive Director Romain Rosenberg is being elevated to Executive Director. Rosenberg replaces Ahmad Nassar, who had been the PTPA’s Executive Director since 2022 and will now transition to an advisor role.