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BEVERLY HILLS SPORTS COUNCIL AND MVP SPORTS GROUP REUNITE TO FORM EVOLV SPORTS MANAGEMENT Two of Professional Baseball's Most Accomplished Agencies Combine to Represent Over $6 Billion in Contracts share.prnewswire.com/s/TROpyrlU

🚨OFFICIAL: Prime 1 Sports Joins Forces with Upper Edge Sports to build the Premier NIL-to-NFL pathway

In the first four months of 2026 we quietly negotiated just over $1M in revenue share deals for a select group of clients at Raymond Representation. It’s not our core focus. We’ve built our reputation as a marketing and branding agency, delivering five, six, and seven-figure brand partnerships and endorsement deals for athlete creators. That’s where we spend most of our time. But working on these revenue share deals reinforced a few things worth sharing: Transparency is everything. Coaches, ADs, and NIL directors are navigating constant noise. Families, agents, and players all telling different stories. The ones who stand out are honest, consistent, and professional. You can be strategic without being misleading, and that goes a long way in this space. The market dictates value. You’re worth what someone is willing to pay, not what you think you’re worth. Some programs will come in high, others won’t. That’s the reality. As an agent, our job is to guide expectations while still maximizing opportunity. Fit over everything. If you’re a real player, you’ll have options. And if you’re valuable, you’ll have financial options too. But the smartest decisions are based on fit. Coaching. System. Development. Long-term goals. Whether that’s making it to the league or maximizing earnings now, the decision has to align with the bigger picture. At Raymond Representation, we lead with marketing, branding, and off-field value creation. But make no mistake, we are deeply experienced in negotiating revenue share, collective, and NIL deals across the board. We’ve been doing it since day one.

22 of the top 100 picks in the 2026 NFL Draft are represented by Athletes First.

Hutton Reed, who ran the agency Package Deal Sports, is joining the Colorado front office as an assistant director of recruiting, a source tells @On3. on3.com/boards/threads…

Athletes First represents 9 of the 32 players selected in the 1st round of the 2026 NFL Draft. That's 28% of the 1st round represented by a single agency. Excel Sports had 4 clients selected. CAA and WIN Sports each had 3 clients taken. 60% of the 1st round rep'd by 4 agencies.

The College Sports Commission says covering an athlete's agent fees through a third party is prohibited. Fine. But if the athlete never signed the agreement, what exactly did they fail to report? The privity problem is real, and the CSC has no solution. linkedin.com/pulse/newslett…

2026 #NFL Draft 1st Round by Agency Athletes First: 9 Excel Sports Management: 4 CAA Sports: 3 Win Sports Group: 3 Klutch Sports: 2 Rosenhaus Sports: 2 VaynerSports: 2 AthElite Agency: 1 GSE Worldwide: 1 Priority Sports: 1 The Familie: 1 Young Money APAA Sports: 1 Younger & Associates: 1 On Time Agency: 1

👀👀👀 Double Agent? Washington Cap Director Reps Rival Big Ten Players sportico.com/leagues/colleg… via @sportico @DanielLibit

former NFLPA counsel Heather McPhee, who is suing the union and its former ex. director, asked the court to suspend the case because she suffered a serious accident and is hospitalized. Wishing her the best

Thank you @FOS for profiling my practice and the state of #NIL law today. Transfer disputes. Eligibility fights. Revenue-sharing litigation. It's all happening, and athletes need counsel before they sign anything. frontofficesports.com/darren-heitner…

Longtime NFL agent Kelli Masters of KMM Sports is partnering with Scott Borchetta, founder of Big Machine Records and Big Machine Racing, and Erik Logan, CEO and Chief Advisor for Tony Robbins. Borchetta Entertainment Group now will be entering the football space.

The Major League Baseball Players Association fired chief operating officer Xavier James and its head of human resources, Michael O'Neill, with cause today, sources tell me and @DVNJr. The firings came after an internal investigation spurred by the DOJ looking into the MLBPA.

If you’re an agent and you’re charging a commission on an athlete’s scholarship and/or not letting an athlete out of the representation agreement without a 90 day period passing, then you should reconsider your profession.

Agents should hold off on signing pro representation agreements with college athletes. The NCAA tells me there’s more information to come, but this rule change is specific to individuals who have not yet enrolled in college. Logistically, this sounds like a mess if an agent can sign a HS athlete to a pro representation agreement that then needs to be terminated once the player enrolls at a university.

Big news for sports agents, who can now sign players to NFLPA, NBPA, MLBPA, etc. standard forms that govern agents' relationships at the pro level. Previously, signing such an agreement could render the athlete ineligible. Agents would wait until a player's final game to sign.

NFL agent earnings are capped at 3% and Diego Pavia not knowing that is a really good reason he should hire an agent

The CSC says that schools can’t direct third parties to make payments on behalf of players to cover agent and buyout fees. Many schools are doing this. What will the CSC do about it? What tools does it even possess to obtain the proof through some form of a discovery process?

We’re Hiring! 📝 NETWORK is looking for a new Talent Manager to join our team. See more information here, and apply today on our LinkedIn! linkedin.com/jobs/view/4395… #JobOpportunity #NIL #talentmanager