I don’t know how I missed this story that was posted almost five months ago, but Forbes.com put together a piece on what they believe to be Baseball’s Best Agents. The eight agent entities (both individual and team efforts) that are highlighted account for 41% of the $2.5 billion in salaries being paid out by […]
Author: 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.
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Sports Business Carnival #4
Head over to Take a Peck and check out the newest edition of Sports Business Carnival. [Sports Business Carnival #4]. I Want to be a Sports Agent made it into the carnival with our recent post arguing that you do not have to be “old” in order to be successful in the sports business industry […]
Marketing and endorsements are huge components of many sports agencies. For one, agents often take a much larger cut on marketing and endorsement deals (normally 15-25%) than on contractual deals with professional teams (normally 3-4% depending on sport). Also, for many professional athletes, an agent is not needed to negotiate with teams because…there are no […]
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Dad’s Corner: The Year Of Boston
I finally was right. I said Boston Red Sox from the get go. As far as college football is concerned, the days of the college dynasty are over. Miami in the 80’s through the 90’s almost always was in the top ten. Consecutive championship games are a thing of the past. Miami once had six […]
The gefilte fish is running mighty low. Go tell someone to replenish the stock and get ready for your Friday wrap up of links that I failed to cover during the week. You have never heard of Bill Horn, but he represents some of the biggest names in professional football for their marketing, endorsements, appearances […]
One recurring question in our Interview With The Agent column is: At what age do you feel an agent will hit his prime/glory years? I personally believe that there really is no true answer to that question. I am a firm believer that age is merely a word and that we are purely bound by […]
Honestly, I am not a huge fan of Curt Schilling’s blog. In fact, I am not a big fan of Schilling at all (must have something to do with rooting for the Yankees). But today’s post may be the first one in a long line of thoughts that I actually enjoyed reading. The subject: Free […]
Interview With The Athlete By: Matthew Vuckovich Angie Akers is a professional beach volleyball player. You can check her out on her website (http://www.angieakers.com). Angie is the first female athlete to be interviewed and we are very excited to bring on more female athletes in the near future. She is represented by Gaylord Sports and […]
I Want to be a Sports Agent contributor and my partner at Dynasty Athlete Representation, Matthew Vuckovich, has been interviewed by Mitchell Blatt of Juiced Sports. Read the entire interview by clicking here, and leave a comment if you wish. Here is a small snippet of the interview: MB: Why did you start your own […]