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.
Would you be scared if every current/former student and corporation had access to your personal information, photos, etc? How about if you someone never even had to go to school or be an employee of Apple/EA Sports/etc to access your information. Would that make you feel a little uneasy? Last week, Facebook decided to go […]
Henry Abbott, through his basketball blog True Hoop, is on a mission to provide more knowledge about basketball agent/client relations to the common man/woman. On October 3rd, Abbott announced the creation of the first publicly available online list of NBA players and their agents. The website is named TrueHoopWiki, and will attempt to cover other […]
“Sports GMs are really like stock traders. They get profits by identifying the players that will bring the biggest returns on the field.” – Mike Kerns, CEO of PROTRADE. PROTRADE was founded in 2004 in an effort to allow its users to trade professional athletes like stocks. With a ticker always running on the bottom […]
It has been rather quiet on the nightmare client front for the past 2 weeks. That definitely changed this week… 1. Odell Thurman of the Cincinnati Bengals has become the 6th Bengal arrested this year after getting pulled over for a DUI. Tack a year-long suspension on top of his current 4 game suspension for […]
Adam Morrison of the Charlotte Bobcats is probably not the best looking guy in the world, but don’t tell that to his marketing agent. Morrison already has endorsement deals with Adidas, Topps, and EA Sports. Most recently, he has signed with Johnson & Johnson’s Lifescan subsidiary to be the face for their blood sugar monitors. […]
In March of this year, IMG signed Bernard Tomic, a 13-year-old tennis player from Australia. After only being alive for 13 years, Tomic is already listed as one of the top 200 players in the world [Bernard Tomic, 13-Year-Old Tennis Star, Signs With IMG]. He will join other tennis greats Roger Federer, Maria Sharapova, Lindsay […]
The Wharton Sports Business Initiative (WSBI) is unlike the other degree granting programs that I have highlighted in the past. WSBI calls itself a research and executive education focused “think tank.” Involved in the program are educational programs, strategic corporate partnerships, consulting assignments, forums, and research. Above all, WSBI wants to become a premier Research […]
This week, the Sports Economist reported that the BBC has film of Sports Agents who represent players in English soccer saying that they have paid certain managers in the past to have teams hire their clients [Bungs, Taps, and sporting crime]. Apparently there is a term for the payment that the manager receives from an […]
Gene Upshaw, exec. director of the NFLPA, has recently stated his desire to change the rules on agents recruiting of college football players. Currently, agents are not able to sign a player or give a player anything of monetary value without that player losing his/her NCAA eligibility, but there are no rules against an agent […]
On September 13th, 2006, ESPN.com first reported that the New York Islanders locked up goaltender Rick Dipietro to a 15-year, $67.5 million deal [DiPietro’s record 15-year deal will pay him $67.5M]. The contract will allow the Islanders to keep DiPietro until just before he reaches 40 years old. A lot of media outlets have run […]