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Shabbat Shalom: Friday Wrap-up (3/4/2016)

Post author By Darren Heitner
Post date March 4, 2016

I’m out here in the Windy City (Chicago) for a full day of fantasy sports. I will be speaking, along with many other very qualified sports lawyers, at the 26th Annual DePaul Law Review Symposium: Daily Fantasy Sports and Sports Gambling. It was a crazy week of working for new clients and fully satisfying the loyal existing clients of Heitner Legal. Next week, I’m off to Washington D.C. and Baltimore. No rest, it’s grind time. This week on Inc.: How This Former NFL Agent Went From Failure to Startup Success. This week on Forbes: (1) Kirk Cousins Will Like That $20 Million Coming His Way; and (2) How CollegeInsider.com Changed The Business Of Postseason Basketball. And as always, the weekly wrap-up:

Football

Leigh Steinberg’s comeback is a story in itself [20 years later, life imitates art for NFL agent Leigh Steinberg].
Tom Condon joined the Schlereth and Evans radio show [Manning’s agent: ‘I know that Peyton has not decided’].

Baseball

Issue over Phillies allegedly manipulating service time to delay eligibility for free agency — agent is Ryan Royster [Grievance with Phils not a distraction for Franco].
Cole finished 4th in Cy Young, but is only making $541,000 for 2016 season [Gerrit Cole and his agent, Scott Boras, unhappy with salary situation].

Basketball

Severed his relationship with Dan Fegan and Relativity Sports [Dwight Howard fires agent with free agency looming].

Hockey

Agents discuss the process of dealing with athlete egos, stress and trade rumors [AGENTS ARE GENERALLY ONE STEP AHEAD OF INSIDERS].

Tags dan fegan, Dwight Howard, Gerrit Cole, leigh steinberg, Relativity Sports, Ryan Royster, scott boras, Tom Condon

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.