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.
Do Major League Baseball owners, GMs, and scouts tend to favor a specific type of race over another when in the draft room? Gary Sheffield says yes. Not only have Latin players replaced African-Americans as the largest minority group in the MLB since the 1980s, but the gap is rather large. In 2005, it was […]
Jonah Freedman of SI.com recently released Sports Illustrated’s 4th annual Fortunate 50. The list documents America’s top 50 money-making athletes for the past year (includes money made by actually playing the sport plus any off-the-field money…endorsements, appearances, etc.). Jonah also released the International 20, which highlights the top 20 money grossing athletes in the world […]
Interview With The Athlete By Matthew Vuckovich Steve Weatherford is a 24 year-old NFL player. He is the punter for the New Orleans Saints (http://www.neworleanssaints.com/playerbio.cfm?playerid=361). I became friends with Steve through one of my fraternity brothers while Steve was playing football at the University of Illinois. Being a former Illini, he will always be star […]
Joel Segal’s Worldwide Football Inc. has been acquired by Blue Equity LLC. If you have ever heard of Joel Segal, it is probably because he is Reggie Bush’s agent for contractual negotiations with NFL teams. In the past, I may have even put some of the blame on Segal for not negotiating Bush in the […]
Wikis and blogs. The world cannot get enough of them now-a-days. Every day, there is a new blog about some obscure topic that sprouts up, and you will probably read it (if you read this mess, you’ll probably read anything). Wikis are growing at an increasing pace as well. I am in the process of […]
Steve Kauffman is leading the fight among sports agents to end the mass genocide in Darfur. The Holocaust occurred in Europe less than 70 years ago and the event killed over 6 million Jews. It seems like the world has not yet escaped the threat of mass genocide. Today in the Sudan, many more people […]
The Sports Law Professor was able to attend the 33rd annual Sports Lawyers Association (SLA) Conference in Cambridge, MA that occurred from May 17-19. I would have loved to have been able to attend, but as you are probably aware, I was falling in love with Israel at the time. Anyway, TSLP made some comments […]
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I promised to put up pictures from my trip to Israel once I got the majority of them up on the internet. Coming through on my promise, my select favorite pictures will be displayed after the “read more” link is clicked, plus look below for a special treat. Music: Everyone who went on birthright sometime […]
Interview With The Athlete By Matthew Vuckovich Welcome to I Want to be a Sports Agent‘s newest column: Interview With The Athlete. All of us here at SportsAgentBlog.com hope that you enjoy. Danny Richmond is a 22-year-old NHL player. He plays Defense for the Chicago Blackhawks (http://www.chicagoblackhawks.com/team/player.asp?player_id=203). I have been best friends with Danny since […]