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Shabbat Shalom: Friday Wrap-Up (7/4/2012)

Post author By Darren Heitner
Post date July 6, 2012

I hope everyone enjoyed their Fourth of July celebrations. I am moving to a new apartment next week, leaving downtown Miami (across from the American Airlines Arena) and getting a spot in Brickell, near my office. Here are a couple of articles I published for Forbes.com this week: 1) NFL Concussion Litigation Sideshow: The Battle Between Helmet Manufacturers; 2) Roger Goodell Seeks Attorney’s Fees And Discovery Stay In Jonathan Vilma’s Defamation Suit. Enjoy some stories I failed to write about over the past week:

Football

A rare win for players under the new collective bargaining agreement [NFL PLAYERS ASSOCIATION STATEMENT ON FRANCHISE TAG CLARIFICATION VICTORY].
Impermissible verbal pre-draft agreement screams shadiness [Sources: Rams, Janoris Jenkins in contract dispute over the rookie’s financial advisory].

Baseball

Support team Israel! [Israel Association of Baseball]

Tennis

Tony Godsick moving fast after leaving IMG [Federer, agent starting firm].

Olympics

The article begins, “Evan Morgenstein was drunk.” [The Agitator]
Mark Block was found guilty of trafficking in performance enhancing drugs in 2011 [Sports agent who was banned from track and field in doping case sat in Nike area].

Tags andy miller, Israel, nflpa, Roger Federer, Tony Godsick

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.