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Ethical vs. Unethical Behavior

With the athlete representation world being such a game of ethical and unethical behavior, I feel that you truly have to ask yourself if your unethical actions are worth the negative outcome. You always hear about agents giving out money, cars and clothing to athletes of whom they wish to sign for the up coming draft, but where does it end? In this day and age people try everything that they can do to “beat the system” but eventually it’s going to come around and kick you right in the ass.

According to the Miami Herald, baseball sports agent Gustavo “Gus” Dominguez of Total Sports International, who is based out of California, and his hired four assistants were accused of bringing 19 Cuban baseball players off the island and into the US. They first brought the players to Florida and then allegedly transferred them by van to California.

The indictment charges all five participants with a conspiracy to bring aliens illegally in the US, and are looking at extreme fines as well as possible jail time up to 10 years. Since we do live in a unethical world I think that it takes a strong individual to follow the rules and play the game in a ethical way. The future agents of this business will have to deal with ethical and unethical decisions their whole career and its up to that certain person to do right from wrong. I think that “Gus” showed us what not to do!

– Matthew Vuckovich

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.

2 replies on “Ethical vs. Unethical Behavior”

Okay article, would like a little more in-depth analysis. Liked the site more with just Darren’s stuff. Thanks.

Good point. Thanks Gus…ha. Anyway, also keep in mind that some of us who aspire to be agents will take a different path than others. i.e. law school v. business management. With these two come different codes of “ethics.” Just a little more to chew on for when it comes time to make these key “decisions.”

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