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IMG Grows Overseas

Just last week, IMG acquired CSI Sports. CSI Sports was previously a part of Octagon. In addition to having TV rights for Wimbledon and the Rugby Cup, IMG will now hold the rights for the Football Association, Wales Cricket Board, and other groups [IMG deal makes TV sports rights hot properties again].

It looks like IMG is not going to just sit back and watch as CAA tries to use its entertainment clout to buy the sports representation business.

-Darren HeitnerÂ

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.

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6 replies on “IMG Grows Overseas”

I have a question…which agency does Drew Rosenhaus run?

Rosenhaus Sports – http://www.rosenhaussports.com/ – which just recently acquired a website. I will add it to the links section ASAP.

It seems weird that CAA doesn’t have a website…

CAA – http://www.caa.com/ – actually just changed their website. Believe it or not, there is more information on the site now than there was in the past.

What an extremely informative CAA site! But seeing how my knowledge of JAVA/HTML code is typing into this comment box, I am not one to talk.

I heard rumors about Octagon potentially selling off CSI this summer. Not sure who this deal benefits. Octagon leaves TV, IMG becomes more aggressive in TV. IMG leaves team sports, Octagon becomes more aggressive in team sports. My biased opinion tends to think the Execs at Octagon made the right choice. When Chris Guiness was taken off the Octagon site, I figured something was going to happen. Octagon, (even though they have musical groups and the dutchess of York) still refuses to go fully into entertainment with actors,etc…

[…] 6. IMG gets bigger. What gift do you get for the worlds biggest (arguably) sports agency? In January of this year, IMG acquired CSI Sports, giving them TV rights for the Football Association and the England & Wales Cricket Board. (via Sports Agent Blog) […]

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