Heading to sunny and warm New York next Wednesday. I will be there through Monday, checking out many Super Bowl-related events and hopefully seeing many of you Sports Agent Blog readers in the streets. This week on FORBES: (1) As Super Bowl Approaches, Adept NFL Retailers Are Saying So Long To ‘Shrink It And Pink It’; (2) No […]
First, I have to thank the Miami Heat for scheduling a great slate of games on my birthday weekend. Between a game against the Clippers tonight, my birthday tomorrow, and the Lakers vs. Heat on Sunday, this is sure to be a fun filled number of days. Articles this past week on Forbes.com include: (1) Value […]
It is hard to believe that a month of 2013 has already come and gone. Only a month ago, this site celebrated its 7th birthday. In 8 days, I will be 4 times the age of Sports Agent Blog. It is amazing to think that I have been operating this website for roughly 1/4 of […]
In 2008, National Basketball Players Association (NBPA) Executive Director Billy Hunter drafted an "inflexible memo" to announce the NBPA's plan to enforce its rule with regard to the prohibition against agents representing both NBA players and NBA coaches. While the rule effectively prevented individuals from representing the two classes of people, it failed to thoroughly […]
Yesterday, I spoke to the Union Internationale des Avocats’ (UIA – International Association of Lawyers) 55th Congress on the current issues in Sports Law, with a specific focus on what is going on in the world of athlete agent regulation and discipline. More than 1,200 lawyers from more than 70 countries around the world have attended […]
Take a second and nominate me (@DarrenHeitner) as a “Rising Star in Media” for the First Annual Untitled Sports Media Awards Project. You can insert http://sportsagentblog.com as the Nominee URL. Thanks! Shabbat Shalom SAB readers. A new study from Cambridge University states that Ashkenazi Jews (descendants of Jews from Medieval Germany) have an IQ that is 20% […]
Over the weekend, Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! Sports Tweeted the following: [blackbirdpie url=”http://www.twitter.com/WojYahooNBA/status/94530707271061504″] Wojnarowski Tweeted that statement after Arn Tellem of Wasserman Media Group, Mark Bartelstein of Priority Sports, and many other prominent basketball agents met with National Basketball Players Association (NBPA) Executive Director Billy Hunter on Friday to talk about the NBA lockout (which […]