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.
I was fortunate enough to receive an advance copy of Money Players: A Pro Athlete’s Guide to Success in Sports, Business & Life directly from author, Marc Isenberg. Marc Isenberg runs the blog that is appropriately titled, Money Players. Recently in the SportsAgentBlog.com Forum, someone asked, “What are the best books and articles to read […]
Sad that The Sopranos is over? Upset that you will never be able to see Tony Soprano on HBO followed by Johnny Drama and Ari Gold? Turn that frown upside down, because James Gandolfini is coming back to HBO…in the form of a sports agent? Gandolfini will be playing Sonny Vaccaro in ABCD Camp [Gandolfini’s […]
Rick Ankiel was called up from Triple-A Memphis this past Thursday. Since then, he has hit 3 homeruns. The thing is that Ankiel was never known for his power. Coming out of high school, the St. Louis Cardinals were able to persuade Ankiel away from signing with the University of Miami by offering him a […]
Are you a baseball player who has some talent and wants to go to a top college baseball program that will give you a good chance to make it to the league? Or are you an agent who wants to know which colleges produce the most Major League talent? Either way, there is an article […]
When: September 28, 2007 (8AM-5PM) Where: Hilton Milwaukee City Center in downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Topic: The Increasing Globalization of Sports: Olympic, International and Comparative Law & Business Issues Discussions: The Global Expansion of Sports Leagues and Its Implications Global Sports Marketing and Legal Protection of Intellectual Property Resolution of International Sports Disputes Comparative Analysis of […]
And now for some weekend video pleasure… To celebrate Barry Bonds’ record-breaking homerun on Tuesday, the people at Super Deluxe thought it would be interesting to ponder what Major League Baseball would be like without the controversial homerun leader. Check out the clip below to see how the Barry void gets filled. We love you, […]
Sports Agent Interview: with Matthew Vuckovich Scott Casanover is a 31-year-old sports agent and is the General Counsel/Chief Legal Officer of The MAC Group of Companies, as well as the Director of MAC Sports & Entertainment (www.macsportsandentertainment.com). Josh Wilson (one of Casanover’s client’s) was featured in an interview on this site earlier in the week […]
Last time this subject was touched on, we were a month away from the deadline for MLB teams to sign their 2007 draft picks [2007 MLB Amateur Draft Signing Bonuses – Update]. Time has elapsed, and the August 15th deadline is drawing near. In 6 days, MLB teams will either sign their picks or those […]
When Greg Olsen became the first person selected in the first round of this year’s NFL draft to sign, I reported that it was full of bonuses, incentives, and escalators [Greg Olsen Is The First First To Sign]. The escalators had been the breaking point in the Brady Quinn negotiations until yesterday, when Quinn finally […]
On May 10, 2006, I referenced an article from Economist.com that noted the annual salary growth in the 4 major American sports since 1990 [Player Salary Growth = Agent Salary Growth]. Each sport has seen a rise in average salary of over 9% during that timespan. The hope is that a consequence of such rise […]