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Shabbat Shalom: Friday Wrap-Up

The festival of lights has commenced. But ladies and gentlemen, get your Hanukkah facts straight. If you are going to quote Adam Sandler like some woman did on the new show called Duel (hosted by ESPN Radio host Mike Greenberg), you better know what he said. It’s eight crazy nights, not twelve. And her husband is Jewish! Here are some links to stories I was not able to cover over the past week:

  • The governor of West Virginia, Joe Manchin, believes that former WVU head football coach, Rich Rodriguez, became a victim of a college coaching system driven by high-priced agents. Nice scapegoat, gov! [West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin is mad as hell].
  • I still believe that allowing college football players to transfer at will would cause anarchy in the CFB system, but Marc Isenberg continues to put forth the idea in order to level the playing field with coaches who are ditching programs left and right [It ain’t over until the fat contract is settled].
  • Mike Sullivan, Director of Octagon Football, got an early Christmas present. He had two clients selected to the Pro Bowl, most notably, Marcus Trufant, who will be a free agent after this season at the ripe young age of 26 [Seahawks Sending 6 to Hawaii].
  • Arn Tellem will be inducted into the Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame on Jan. 27…Shabbat Shalom! [List of celebrity cheerleaders is wild and crazy].

Matthew Allinson’s interview with Derrick Gordon of St. Patrick high school is the featured post of the week. Check it out on the right sidebar under Featured.

p.s. – Dynasty’s First Internship Class will be announced later today.  Make sure that you keep checking back to see who the two chosen applicants will be (none of the five have been told yet whether they made the cut or not).  An easier way to find out right away is to Subscribe to our feed, which you should have done a long time ago, anyway.

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.