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.
The Ultimate Warrior does not mind signing autographs for fans, especially when he is getting paid to do so. However, sports agents beware! Recently, Ultimate Warrior got a little heated when an agent’s assistant got in his face. The YouTube description of the video is as follows: On May 6th 2007 during an autograph appearance […]
I have been back in the United States for only a day, most of which has been spent catching up on sleep and working on a few jobs, and already I am exhausted of hearing about who the Portland Trailblazers will select with the 1st overall pick. With that being said, Chris still did an […]
SportsAgentBlog.com – I Want to be a Sports Agent has just become a party of 7 with the introduction of our sixth contributor (not including me): Paul D. He is starting his 2nd year at NC State, and will be focusing on college (mostly football) players who are not your typical big name (ex. Brian […]
My 10+ day trip to NY/Israel is over, and I am back home in sunny South Florida. I have about 100 e-mails to sort through, 1/4 of which concerning this blog, 1/4 concerning Dynasty Athlete Representation, and the rest mostly Facebook wall posts :). The next few weeks should be extremely hectic, but fun. I […]
Agents, lawyers, students, general public…I have an announcement to make. I will be absent from these parts of town for the next 11 days. Tomorrow morning I will be taking a flight to New York City, where I will remain until Sunday morning. At that time I will embark to Israel on a 10 day […]
Jason Levien has a lot of things going for him. He goes after orange and blue blood (that means UF players, for you non-Gators), he lives in Miami, and he recently broke away from Greenberg Traurig to start up his own agency, Levien Sports Representation (LSR). It has not always been peaches and cream for […]
The NBA Draft is quickly approaching (June 28th), and this is the prime time for players who have entered their name into the pool of possible selections to select an agent. Players who are just testing the waters, are putting their name out there without taking on any representation. A player that is testing the […]
It has been quite some time since I have posted a title that starts with “Want to be a”…last one was Want to be a Coach’s agent? Anyway, today I will focus on a sport that is not discussed much on this blog, which is horse racing. Horse racing, unlike boxing, seems to have enough […]
Sports Agent Interview: With Matthew Vuckovich David Canter is a 34 year-old sports agent and is the President and CEO of DEC MANAGEMENT (http://www.decagent.com). He has had the opportunities to work for the Florida Marlins while in college and quickly learned that players need a voice too. Mr. Canter has seen some hard times when […]
Today I got an e-mail from a loyal reader of I Want to be a Sports Agent with this particular inquiry: “I was wondering if you by chance knew how I could get Mike Conley’s e mail or phone number. My athletic trainer recently told me he was starting MAC sports in Chicago.” Everyone in […]