Yes, I am the founder of a full-service sports and talent agency, but I also have interests outside of negotiating terms of contracts and searching endlessly for endorsement deals. One of my hobbies is keeping up to date with new technologies. Growing up, I was a gamer. That’s right, I loved video games…and I was […]
Month: July 2009
Immediately following the 2009 NBA Draft, Darren Rovell of CNBC, released a list of the lottery picks, their agents, and the money that each player will receive over the next three years of his rookie contract (before a team may extend that contract for an additional year). The slot values are much lower than what […]
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Those Who Are Fortunate
Since 2004, Jonah Freedman of Sports Illustrated, has been compiling The Fortunate 50: The 50 highest-earning American athletes. It is a respected compilation of the highest grossing athletes (sport earnings + outside-the-game activities) that is quoted in books, law review articles, etc. As noted in the piece, this is the first year since Jonah started […]
Writing a blog (that is fairly popular) opens you up to many new people that you would never have had the chance to encounter had you never decided to download WordPress (or some other blog publishing program). I like to think that my company, Dynasty Athlete Representation, has a strong reputation in a limited time […]
Happy July 4th weekend! Not so happy for Scott Boras and his Range Rover. I turned in my (roughly) 4,500 word paper on The Duties of Sports Agents to Athletes and Statutory Regulations Thereof. It’s nice to have that off of my shoulders. I will be wrapping up one class next week (Analysis and Drafting […]
This week, BaseballAmerica released its listing of the players selected in the top 10 rounds of the 2009 MLB Draft and their advisors (if they used one). Below are my notes. CAA dominated all other agencies in the 2009 NFL Draft. BDA Sports was king of the 2009 NBA Draft. Scott Boras Corp killed it […]
Dynasty had a few great additions to its baseball division this week. Expect more announcements on that front in the near future. Last night, some of our players excelled on the field. Kyle Gunderson bounced back from a couple of rough outings to get his 8th save of the season for the Jupiter Hammerheads. He […]
Right on the heels of announcing our addition of Lee Roberts to the Dynasty family, we have more good news to report. I referred to it last night on Twitter (@Darren_Heitner), and today it is official. Dynasty has signed Ryan Platt. Ryan Platt is a 6’1″ 195lbs right handed pitcher out of the University of […]
In February, we told you that the U.S. Supreme Court asked the Solicitor General’s Office to comment on the Cert Request for the case of American Needle Inc. v. National Football League (2008 U.S. App. LEXIS 17553). The Solicitor General’s comment read: “Don’t grant cert” – in many more words. Just three months later, and […]
The AFL2, which is a peg below the Arena Football League (AFL), has been playing out its 2009 season while the AFL scrapped its season due to financial issues. Just last week, the AFL2 had a big announcement that its championship game will be held at the Las Vegas Orleans Arena. The AFL2 is busy […]