By Liz Mullen
April 15-22 Edition:
CINDRICH
EXPANDING: Cindrich & Co., an agency headed by veteran NFL
agent Ralph Cindrich, has started a basketball division and
is in talks with agents about going into the baseball business.
Pittsburgh-based
Cindrich has hired basketball agent Steve Haney, who brought
about 15 players with him, Cindrich said. The company now represents
20 to 30 basketball players, many of them European players and
former NBA players.
The company
is recruiting some college players expected to be selected in
the June NBA draft, Cindrich said.
Cindrich
said he also is in talks with baseball agents about hiring them
to form a baseball practice. The company represents about 50
NFL players.