After taking a hiatus from the press (did anybody notice?), Drew Rosenhaus was able to sign his client, Terrell Owens, to a 3-year, $25 million contract with the Dallas Cowboys. That $25 million is broken down into a $5 million bonus up front and $5 for his first season with the Cowboys. Terrell will actually […]
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.
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Vegas = Amazing
Well I am back from Las Vegas, but I wish that I could have stayed for atleast another week. If you were interested, I ended up making some money off the casinos overall by playing poker, but ended up spending a ridiculous amount of money at the nightclubs. Oh well. I have a bunch of […]
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Viva Las Vegas!
I will be in Las Vegas for the next week for my Spring Break. Don’t get too sad now. In about a week I will be back with a slue of new posts. Hopefully Nicholas will back me up this next week and provide you all with some interesting news/research. Pray that I make some […]
The CBA has officially been extended for another 6 years. The 2006 salary cap should now be $104 million instead of the $94.5 million cap that would have existed had a deal not been struck. This will save a lot of players the anguish of being cut by their respective teams. You had to figure […]
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It’s Not The ‘Size’ That Matters
This is absolutely great PR. Grady Sizemore, of the Cleveland Indians, has a huge following of ladies called “Grady’s Ladies.” They have a website: The Grady’s Ladies Sisterhood. In addition, the Cleveland Indians have made a lot of money selling “Mrs. Sizemore” t-shirts and benefitted from a 200% increase in female Indians game viewers last […]
Free Agency in the NFL has ONCE AGAIN been extended right before the deadline was reached (last scheduled for Midnight Sunday). With a 72 hour delay on the start of free agency, it seems as though one of 2 outcomes are plausible. On Wednesday at Midnight, free agency will begin or there will be yet […]
We love our readers. Especially when they make comments on this blog and send e-mails with questions or compliments. Reader, Sokki Chen asks: How would the UAAA be applied to an Olympic athlete who is also a NCAA student athlete. If (s)he wants to hire an agent to negotiate deals for certain appearances prior/after the […]
Deadline for free agency is now midnight Sunday. We may see a new CBA within that time. Why else would the deadline have been extended? The NFL world is upside down right now… [tags]nfl, cba, collective bargaining, free agent[/tags]
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NFL Collective Bargaining Update
Teams have until 10PM tonight to cut players and full under the 2006 salary cap of $94.5 million. There have already been many high quality players released by a myriad of teams, but I gaurantee that you haven’t seen anything yet. After tonight, there will be a very interesting free-agent market! [tags]nfl, cba, collective bargaining, […]
Well okay, maybe a soccer player in Romania is worth 33lbs of meat…but that’s all! Nothing more! I found this great story from Darren Rovell’s blog: Trade Bait Everyone is abuzz around Bristol about this soccer player in Romania who was traded for 33 pounds of meat. As a frame of reference: In 1994, a […]