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Shabbat Shalom: Friday Wrap-up (6/27/2014)

Post author By Darren Heitner
Post date June 27, 2014

Happy day-after-NBA Draft Shabbat Shalom: Friday Wrap-up. Thrilled for Andrew Wiggins, who went No. 1 overall to the Cleveland Cavaliers. Thanks to contributor Mark Burns for taking over the Sports Agent Blog Twitter account last night and updating followers with pick-by-pick agent pairings. This week on FORBES: (1) Florida Focuses On Curbing Trafficking Of Cuban Baseball Players; (2) LeBron James Opts Out: What It Doesn’t Mean; (3) Adidas Commits To Nontraditional Springblade Line Of Running Shoes; (4) What Can Be Done About Baseball’s Alarming Tommy John Surgery Increase?; (5) Concerns Remain With New NFL Concussion Settlement; and (6) Top 2014 NBA Draft Picks Already Locked Into Exclusive Trading Card Deals. And as always, the weekly wrap-up:

Football

Ridiculous athlete agent laws and a change in Texas Agent Day [Traffic Control at Junction of Football and Business].
Includes a 6 month suspension of Elvis Dumervil’s ex-agent [Arbitrator Upholds Discipline on Three Contract Advisors].
Team-by-team . . . awesome stuff [Agent’s Take: How your team structures deals — and why it matters].
Andrew Brandt looks at the business of Vernon Davis [It’s All About How You Market Yourself].
The young Relativity Sports agent is off to a tremendous start [Tory Dandy: I Got 99 Problems, But Jay Z Ain’t One!].

Sports Law

Plead guilty to federal money laundering [Maine lawyer’s law license suspended].

Sports Business

Harlan J. Werner secured the motion picture rights to Operation Bullpen [Top Sports Agent Acquires Rights To Operation Bullpen Crime Story].

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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.