Sports Agent Interview: with Matthew Vuckovich Rick Walden is a 49 year-old sports agent and he represents hockey players at Dishon & Walden Sports Agency in Los Angeles, California. Mr. Walden has been in the sports agent business since 1995 and he specializes in hockey players that play in Europe. I was able to chat […]
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.
On February 18th, I recognized that it is arbitration season with a post about Miguel Cabrera’s victory for the players against the owners after they had gone 0-4 thus far in actual hearings [‘Tis Arbitration Season]. More importantly for this post, I referenced an article I wrote a year ago titled: Arbitration…good or bad? Hey […]
Looking to have your client rise up on Mel Kiper’s Big Board? Hoping to prevent him from falling to the 6th round? Realize the importance of the NFL combine. This year, 327 players have been invited to Indianapolis, which is where the combine is held every year. There are 3 activities in particular that stick […]
1. Pacman Jones of the Tennessee Titans took a page out of Fat Joe’s book and made it “rain on them hoes” [Pacman Keeps Chomping]. 2. Dominic Rhodes of the Indianapolis Colts got himself a DUI arrest while driving 26 miles over the speed limit [Colts’ Rhodes faces drunken driving charge in Indiana]. Apparently, on […]
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Pacman Keeps Chomping
Pacman Jones wants YOU to be his agent! So a shooting goes down at a strip club in Las Vegas and rumors start flying around that Pacman Jones was a part of it [A Strip Club Incident That Might NOT Have Featured Pac Man Jones]. Pacman is no virgin when it comes to being involved […]
But that does not mean that players should not take every opportunity that they have to learn more about the business that they are in, the payroll intricacies (are you being paid through CloudPay for example?) and life after their football careers are over. The NFL has teamed up with Harvard Business School, Northwestern’s Kellogg […]
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Agents Are Overrated
Right? People always come out and say that having a Sports Agent is an unnecessary extra cost. Players should be able to negotiate their own contracts and handle all of their off-field issues themselves, right? Wrong. Doug Brown, a defensive lineman in the CFL gives 2 reasons why he has an agent [Player who acts […]
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Agent Spotlight: Don Yee
Don Yee woke up this morning and saw his name in a variety of papers with the quote, “Tom and his family are excited about the pregnancy, and want to thank everyone who has shown support, and particularly for their consideration of Tom’s privacy.” To the Sports Agent world; however, Mr. Yee is more than […]
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‘Tis Also Franchise Season
Last year, I fully explained how the franchising process works in the NFL [NFL Franchise Tags]. Players who have been franchised by their respective teams: 1. Lance Briggs – Chicago Bears 2. Justin Smith – Cincinnati Bengals 3. Dwight Freeney – Indianapolis Colts 4. Asante Samuel – New England Patriots 5. Charles Grant – New […]
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‘Tis Arbitration Season
Instead of settling prior to an actual arbitration hearing, the Florida Marlins and Miguel Cabrera decided to duke it out in the first final-offer arbitration case won by a player in the 2007 MLB offseason [Cabrera’s arbitration win is first for player this year]. The Marlins offered Cabrera $6.7 million, but Cabrera and his agent […]