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.
This comes by way of a reader of the blog who wishes to remain anonymous: Many sports management firms tout their abilities to assist their clients with contract negotiations, finances, tax prep, PR and marketing. Agents bend over backward to court the spouses and family members of their prospective clients. What happens when that comes […]
I honestly figured that this would be the week that the Jamarcus Russell holdout would come to an end when I wrote the post, Holding Out For A Hero? on Tuesday. At that point, Russell had been up to 40 days in his current holdout. Today is the 42nd day, and I was just forwarded […]
Guest contribution from an entity within the sports representation industry. Let me begin by saying that I’m excited to be part of this blog, and reassure you that I’m not here as the proto-feminist of the group. I would, however, like to give voice to some of the topics that we women in this industry […]
The day has finally come. I Want to be a Sports Agent is proud to introduce our 9th writer to The SportsAgentBlog.com All-Stars, and our first female author! Please welcome Erin Kane to the team. Erin will bring an interesting first-hand view into the sports agent industry. She is a currently employee at Gaylord Sports […]
On June 29, I Want to be a Sports Agent contributor Paul Schackman wrote a Rookie Holdouts post, where he declared that “It is almost a guarantee that Jamarcus Russell will start this season, whether is it week 1 or three weeks in.” 2 months and a few days later, it looks like Mr. Schackman […]
I will be on a live feed tomorrow (Sept 4th) at 1 PM EST with sports radio host, Adam Taxin, on wnwr.com (and, if you’re in Philly, on 1540 AM WNWR). The interview will last for a few minutes on a segment for Adam’s NFL Preview show. Someone had already snatched up the AFC East […]
The image above is I Want to be a Sports Agent‘s 12 month visit and page view chart. I have to say that I am pretty impressed. In August, the site broke 100,000 total unique visits and 250,000 total page views. We sure have come a long way since the site used to use this […]
Dunyasha M. Yetts was once the big man on campus at The Ohio State University. He was the Big Ten wrestling champion of his weight class in 1994 and made it to the semifinal round of the NCAA Championship in wrestling that year. His passion in the ring was transfered in the sports agent industry. […]
Last thing many sports agents want to hear/discuss are issues relating to regulatory laws/rules and ethical guidelines that bound our industry. However, it is important to be aware that such laws/rules exist and to consider them when deciding a certain course of action. Yesterday, I was able to speak briefly with Melissa Neiman, author of […]
Joby Branion is one of the founding members of Athletes First. Matt Hasselbeck, Ahman Green, and Todd Heap are only 3 of the many players under contract with the company. Athletes First is one of the agencies at the forefront of NFL player negotiations. It has not always been an easy life full of potential […]