/dev/null Posted February 26, 2009 Share Posted February 26, 2009 Vincent has been mentioned as a possibility to take over for late NFLPA President Gene Upshaw. Report says Upshaw had some dirt on Vincent... http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writ...cent/index.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloBill Posted February 26, 2009 Share Posted February 26, 2009 Vincent has been mentioned as a possibility to take over for late NFLPA President Gene Upshaw. Report says Upshaw had some dirt on Vincent... http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writ...cent/index.html Looks like he will get the job for sure now. Nothing like a little controversy to propel you to the top of the list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steely Dan Posted March 9, 2009 Share Posted March 9, 2009 Terri Upshaw rakes Troy Vincent over the coals. In her first interview since Gene Upshaw died, Terri Upshaw repeatedly told SI.com she wasn't endorsing any particular candidate among the four men vying to succeed him as the head of the most influential players union in professional sports. But she acknowledged she had discovered a file kept by her husband that, according to union sources, was filled with numerous e-mails documenting Vincent's role in controversies that have surfaced during his candidacy for the executive director position. The file, which Terri Upshaw came across as she was cleaning out her husband's Washington, D.C., office last month, is alleged to include e-mails dealing with both Vincent's improper December 2007 release of confidential information about agents to his friend and business partner, Mark Mangum, and Vincent's purported coup attempt of Gene Upshaw at last March's NFLPA annual meeting in Maui. The NFLPA last week hired outside legal counsel to investigate Vincent's role in the release of personal information, which Vincent has characterized as an inadvertent mistake. Multiple sources within the union have told SI.com that just before Upshaw died of pancreatic cancer in August (less than a week after he had been diagnosed), he confided to them that he was planning to confront Vincent with the evidence he had collected linking him to the disclosure of the confidential information, the coup attempt and other matters that concerned Upshaw about the intersection of Vincent's business practices and his role as union president from 2003 to '08. Gene Upshaw was, according to the sources, planning to "expose'' Vincent to the NFLPA's membership during his annual summer tour of training camps in 2008 -- a trip he never took. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steely Dan Posted March 9, 2009 Share Posted March 9, 2009 Vincent has been mentioned as a possibility to take over for late NFLPA President Gene Upshaw. Report says Upshaw had some dirt on Vincent... http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writ...cent/index.html According to a copy of the letter sent by the NFLPA Wednesday to the 41 agents whose information was disclosed, Vincent is believed to have e-mailed the information to his business partner, Mangum, on Dec. 13, 2007, while Vincent was still the union president. Mangum has owned a number of past and present businesses with Vincent under the name Eltekon. Among those businesses is a financial services firm that could have benefited from knowing which competing financial advisers had existing business relationships with which player agents. "If it's proven to be true, I don't know how Troy Vincent can continue to be a candidate in good standing, and seen as a person qualified to lead the union,'' longtime agent Brad Blank said Wednesday. "If someone is releasing confidential information, I don't know how you can trust that person at this point. But at the same time, if the union knew about this when Gene Upshaw was still alive, and yet I sat in the room with Berthelsen and other union official last Friday in Indianapolis [at the annual NFLPA-player agent meeting at the NFL scouting combine] and I didn't hear a word of this, that's not right in and of itself either. We're the victims in this case and no one came forth and told us. "I understand that just today the union sent out letters to the agents who had their information compromised. But it goes back to a question of the vetting process. Last Friday the union was boasting about the vetting process and how this high-powered search firm in Chicago found the best 25 candidates for the job, then it interviewed 10, and then cut the list down from five to three. But all that time they knew this happened? Even the fact that Trace Armstrong, if he knew about this and said nothing as a union official, then he's not worthy of the job either.'' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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