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Shabbat Shalom: Friday Wrap-up (1/2/2015)

Post author By Darren Heitner
Post date January 2, 2015

Andy Murray will be sporting Under Armour with new deal. Photo by Jerry Lai-USA TODAY Sports.

Andy Murray will be sporting Under Armour with new deal. Photo by Jerry Lai-USA TODAY Sports.

Happy New Year and Shabbat Shalom! Sports Agent Blog is now officially nine years old and does not feel a day older than three. Thanks to all of you who have stuck by and continued to read our content over the years. We have some new contributors coming on board and will continue to pump out articles that you hopefully enjoy and choose to share. Great college football as of late and a bowl game coming up for my Florida Gators tomorrow. This week on FORBES: (1) Are College Football Bowl Game Naming Rights Deals Providing A Real Return On Investment?; (2) College Football Playoff Can’t Seem To Receive Trademark Registration; (3) New Football Agency Signs South Carolina Players Including A.J. Cann; and (4) Adult Entertainment Company Vivid Partners With Fantasy Sports Platform. And as always, the weekly wrap-up:

Football

The attorneys may have to withdraw from the case [Report: Aaron Hernandez is running out of money to pay his lawyers].
Conflict of interest? [Jets contacted Rex Ryan’s agent about replacements for him]
Tyron Smith’s contract is pretty terrible [The NFL’s Best and Worst Business Decisions].

Tennis

Andy Murray’s deal is 4-years in length [Andy Announces Deal With Under Armour].

Sports Law

Has no idea how he landed Harbaugh as a client [A Chat With Jim Harbaugh’s Lawyer: Weil Gotshal’s Jeff Klein].
Law firm Boies, Schiller & Flexner [UFC hires high-profile attorneys to defend antitrust lawsuit].

Tags Aaron Hernandez, Andy Murray, Jim Harbaugh, Rex Ryan, Tyron Smith

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.