At Least Someone is Posting

While I've been shirking my posting duties spending quality time with my family, others have been hard at work.  Here's what you may have missed:

• Emmett Jones of Sports Business Digest looks to have put a great deal of effort into compiling the 2007 Sports Recap (as told by 100 posts by the best sports bloggers).  Thanks to SportsAgentBlog.com - I Want to be a Sports Agent for the link - they got  a few mentions, as did this blog - #46. NBA & FIBA certification. A lot of good information for anyone looking to break into the basketball business as an agent. (via Athlete Agent/Sports Agent Regulation)
• Marc Isenberg at Money Players more than doubled his posting in December compared to November (a good thing).  Keep an eye out for a top ten of 2007 coming from Marc soon.
• The folks at SportsAgentBlog.com - I Want to be a Sports Agent have been hard at work, as usual.  Be sure to check out Matthew Vuckovich's Interview With The Agent: Jim Kuzmich, a great read and good insight. I was particularly interested in this exchange:

Matthew Vuckovich: If you could do one thing to renovate the Sports Agent industry, what would it be and how would you go about accomplishing that goal?

Jim Kuzmich: Self-regulation. Much like attorneys, I believe the sports agent business should self regulate and agents should hold themselves and their peers to a higher ethical standard. In team sports, the respective players’ unions are in the best position to govern the agents. However, it is my experience that they are unwilling to take on the challenge and they turn a blind eye to the unethical behavior of the agents. Some unions do a better job than others, but for the most part, they are all lacking in taking action to clean up the business. Individual sport athlete agents are obviously not regulated by a union so that is not possible in that sector of the industry. That is why I believe self regulation would be largely beneficial to the whole business. To accomplish that, it would take a concerted effort on the part of all agents who have the same beliefs as I. It would also involve some level of participation from state legislatures in recognizing a body of professionals who choose to self regulate and assist in enforcing such regulation.

Hmm...any thoughts? In the past there was an association of agents and there have been talks (though failed) of starting something up.  Any takers?

Happy New Year to all!