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 sports agency Cowboy Sports Agents is suing Blue Whale Smokeless Tobacco Alternative with NicoDip(TM) for not paying its clients the endorsement money that they are owed [Bull riders’ agent sues company]. Yeah…that’s pretty much all I’ve got. Oh, and this! [YouTube: Bull Riding Tutorial]. -Darren Heitner
Step aside Hee-Seop Choi and Byung-Hyun Kim and make way for Noh Jae-wook and Jan Jae-ho. Choi and Kim are among the South Korean baseball players that are currently members of MLB teams. Noh Jae-wook and Jan Jae-ho are two South Koreans who hope to take over another American market: Video Gaming. For a long […]
Quotes from the Chicago Sun-Times: ”This year, I have worked very hard to keep a low profile,” [Rosenhaus] said. ”I want the focus to be on my clients and not me. I insisted my client [Owens] be compensated, not me. I don’t want anything. Burger King asked me to appear [Thursday], and I said only […]
Starting this Fall, Marquette will be offering an LLM in Sports Law only for people with a law degree from overseas. Marquette will become the first Law School to offer a Master of Laws in Sports Law. Click here to learn more about the program. Story originally read @ Sports Law Blog. -Darren Heitner
WOW. So, it was quite a night. Traveling down to Miami with 52 of the University of Florida’s finest ladies was enough of a treat. Skipping the long line and walking the red carpet into American Airlines Arena right after Christie Hefner was amazing. The drinks, food, celebrities, music, etc. was superb on all accounts. […]
On behalf of myself, Matthew Vuckovich, Chris Lesley, and all of our readers here at SportsAgentBlog.com, I would like to warmly thank Darren Gill for his week of service. Mr. Gill has provided very insightful posts from an established Sports Agent’s point of view, and it was refreshing to have a new persona writing on […]
Who says you have to be Carmen Electra or Snoop Dogg to party like a rockstar? Sports Agent, Leigh Steinberg, has been throwing it down with the best of them for the past twenty years at his annual Super Bowl party. This year, he is teaming up with DiMora Motorcar CEO Alfred DiMora, and will […]
Guardian Sports Group, LLC. Who knew that Lee Nailon now plays for Bnei-Hasharon (Israel)?
Former NBA player Robert “Tractor” Traylor has admitted guilt in falsifying a tax return after saying that he purchased two rental properties that were actually paid for by a convicted drug trafficker named Quasand Lewis [Former NBA player pleads guilty to tax fraud]. Traylor has gone from the 6th overall pick in the 1998 NBA […]
Sports Agent Interview: with Matthew Vuckovich Mike Naiditch is a 42-year-old sports agent and is the founder of Naiditch EntertaimenT (N.E.T) (www.naiditch.net). Mr. Naiditch is a basketball agent and he is based out of Chicago, IL. He represents players in America as well as in Europe. Check out Mr. Naiditch on Facebook.com (http://www.facebook.com/p/Mike_Naiditch/503962230) or MySpace.com […]