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.
While I know that this story has absolutely nothing to do with the business of sports or Sports Agents, I will still provide a link to it since we have covered funny mascot stories in the past [Stanford…the Harvard of the West…with a 0.157 alcohol level…]. Has the Stanford Cardinal been outdone by Benny the […]
Some positive news to go along with what I hope is a great 4th of July for everyone. I’ll keep it short and sweet and allow you to click on the link to read about the good side of the sports world that we often forget about [NBA Good Guy: Andrei Kirilenko]. [tags]nba, kirilenko[/tags]
15 trades overall in the NBA draft. The Knicks and Trail Blazers are getting hammered for their decisions, but we’ll leave that discussion to the so-called analysts. The fact that there were 15 trades in the draft brings me thinking back to an article by the Sports Law Blog [The Legality of Oral Promises by […]
Palm City, Florida. Not only the home of the great Phil Heitner (my dad), but also a place that agent Mark Rodgers calls his home. At 47 years old, Rodgers is an independent sports agent that works out of an annex to his home. I forgot to mention that the man boasts a list of […]
The head coach of the Northwestern football team, and former Career Sports & Entertainment client, Randy Walker passed away on June 29th [Randy Walker, R.I.P.]. He has produced a top-notch program at a school notoriously known for its academics. As someone who preached to his players about maintaining their G.P.A.’s while excelling on the field, […]
In an important Sports Business shake-up news story that I just got word of from SportsBusinessRadio, I found out that Darren (sweet name) Rovell will be leaving ESPN.com and will join CNBC starting July 11th. No word on exactly what Rovell will be doing there (hopefully he will not be eating bulls…Booyah!), but hopefully he […]
This post will serve as part II to the original post: Want to be an NBA agent? created on January 12, 2006. The impetus for creating another post on this topic was formed by an article from SportingNews.com [Ready for the big time]. Here are some of the important points in the article that may […]
While I was away in beautiful, but definitely scorching hot Las Vegas, Nicholas sent me a link over to a SportsBusinessJournal.com article written by Liz Mullen that dealt with the Sports Agent profession [Sleaze factor off the charts, agents allege]. Here is what I found to be the important commentary, with a little bit of […]
I had to bring this one to you all early again due to my departure tonight to Las Vegas once again for a little vacation. I will be back on Tuesday, so until then, enjoy this post, read over any that you’ve missed over the past month, and who knows, Nicholas may even provide a […]
Thanks to Sports Law Blog, I came across a very interesting article in the Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution titled The National Hockey League and Salary Arbitration: Time for a Line Change [Entire Note in LexisNexis]. Even if you have a LexisNexis subscription, reading the entire note produced by Stephen M. Yoost may require […]