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Shabbat Shalom: Friday Wrap-Up

Two finals down, two to go. Criminal Law and Torts will be out of my mind for a while. Now it is onto studying for Professional Responsibility and Constitutional Law. Oh, and it is Hanukkah! So spin those dredles and burn down the candles. Here comes some stories that I failed to cover during the week.

  • Scott Boras was looking to get client, Andruw Jones, a 7-year deal that would pay near $140 million. Andruw will have to settle for $36 million over 2 years with the Los Angeles Dodgers instead [Boras Loses Again: Andruw Jones to the Dodgers].
  • Major-college football coaches are now averaging over $1 million per year in salary. Les Miles just became the 5th coach to sign a deal for more than $3 million per year [College football coaches calling lucrative plays].
  • Bode Miller has become the latest entrepreneur to join the Social Networking bandwagon. He has created SkiSpace.com, which claims to be a new social networking and information site just for skiers, snowboarders and winter sports hounds.

-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.

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