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.
Sports Agents like their News & Notes, and they like them at the beginning of the day. Every day, right when I walked through the door and into my chair as an intern at Career Sports & Entertainment, I sat down and worked on reading all of local papers from the cities that the company […]
Every athlete does it and every Sports Agent has to plan for it and deal with it. It is called retirement, and it is the end of an athlete’s career on the field/court and the beginning of an athlete’s effort to remain financially stable while not participating in his/her specialty any longer. I came across […]
Allen Iverson was in no way responsible for the death of Kevin Johnson, a man who was shot after refusing to give up the Iverson jersey he was wearing in 2003. AI had no obligation to help out Johnson’s family in a time of mourning. That being said, the fact that Allen Iverson has offered […]
With the athlete representation world being such a game of ethical and unethical behavior, I feel that you truly have to ask yourself if your unethical actions are worth the negative outcome. You always hear about agents giving out money, cars and clothing to athletes of whom they wish to sign for the up coming […]
Updating a past story: Scott Boras Wants To Eat Your Children, the Boston Red Sox have officially won the right to pay the Seibu Lions a posting fee for Daisuke Matsuzaka if the club is able to sign Mr. Matsuzaka. The posting fee prediction on October 25th was anywhere between $17 million to $28 million. […]
Here at I Want to be a Sports Agent, we would much rather cover players when they do things to help out the community and thus strengthen their image. Much too often, the media prefers to highlight when players are convicted of DUIs and fail drug tests. Hey, we do it too! Anyway, today I […]
1. Marcus Coleman, formerly of the Dallas Cowboys (released yesterday), was arrested for driving under the influence after serving a 4 game suspension for substance abuse [Cowboys cut ties with DB Coleman after DWI arrest]. 2. Khalif Barnes of the Jacksonville Jaguars was also arrested for DUI, but was only suspended for today’s game against […]
I came across a new website for football agents. Its called www.condraft.com, and it is a great way for younger guys to look into who will be the next big thing to come out of the NFL draft. I think that condraft will be a great way to get information on players that you may […]
Excel Sports Management. The company represents a variety of well-known NBA players and NCAA coach Jim Calhoun. Know of a Sports Agency website that is not listed on the ‘Pages & Links’ section? Send it my way.
I Want to be a Sports Agent has just acquired another contributor: Chris Lesley. He is a recent Sports Management graduate from Deakin University in Australia, which apparently is the leader in Sports Management studies in the land down under. Hopefully Chris will bring a new touch to this site by offering stories and opinion […]