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Shabbat Shalom: Friday Wrap-Up

The gefilte fish is running mighty low. Go tell someone to replenish the stock and get ready for your Friday wrap up of links that I failed to cover during the week.

  • You have never heard of Bill Horn, but he represents some of the biggest names in professional football for their marketing, endorsements, appearances and charity, and claims to have never recruited a single one of them [Horn gives heart and soul to clients].
  • Here are some teams that could definitely use A-Rod’s services. I personally think it will be the Angels or the Cubs that get Rodriguez under contract. Will his next contract feature an opt-out clause? [After A-Rod opts out, where he might go next]
  • Drug testers contracted by the league routinely alert team officials a day or more before their arrival at ballparks for what is supposed to be random, unannounced testing of players. So if you think you may test positive, come up with a good excuse not to come to the stadium that day…or just stop taking steroids [Baseball’s Drug Testing Lacks Element of Surprise].

-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.