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Shabbat Shalom: Friday Wrap-Up

Trash the cheeseburger (you know it’s not kosher) and get ready for your Friday wrap up of links that I failed to cover during the week.

  • Agents only have 10 minutes to sell their 1st round potential draft picks in the 2008 NFL Draft (down from 15 minutes for each team to select). Hopefully this cuts down from the 6 hours and 8 minutes that it took for the 1st round to conclude last year [Draft changes among topics discussed at owners’ meeetings].
  • I once covered the amazing Myron Bolitar series written by author, Harlan Coben, and strongly suggested reading about the fictional sports agent hero. Now you may not even have to buy the books (especially if you are staunchly against reading). Fox is developing a new show, Lies and Promises, based on the agent solving murder mysteries [‘Bones’ executive gets extension].
  • Starbucks no longer will sponsor the Sonics [Starbucks ends Sonics sponsorship]. Howard Schultz wants to start moving away from sports sponsorships…especially on local teams looking to move to Oklahoma City.
  • Nike acquired Umbro for $582 million [Nike Purchases Umbro for a Reported $582M]. Nike runs the world all the way from Beaverton, Oregon.

-Darren Heitner

By Darren Heitner

Darren Heitner created Sports Agent Blog as a New Year's Resolution on December 31, 2005. Originally titled, "I Want To Be A Sports Agent," the website was founded with the intention of causing Heitner to learn more about the profession that he wanted to join, meet reputable individuals in the space and force himself to stay on top of the latest news and trends.

Heitner now runs Heitner Legal, P.L.L.C., which is a law firm with many practice areas, including sports law and contract law. Heitner has represented numerous athletes and sports agents as legal counsel. He has also served as an Adjunct Professor at Indiana University Bloomington from 2011-2014, where he created and taught a course titled, Sport Agency Management, which included subjects ranging from NCAA regulations to athlete agent certification and the rules governing the profession. Heitner serves as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Florida Levin College of Law, where he teaches a Sports Law class that includes case law surrounding athlete agents and the NCAA rules.