Nebraska actually has the most envelope-pushing name, image and likeness law for college athletes.  The law, signed by Governor Rickets, allows any postsecondary institution to allow college athletes to enjoy these rights as soon as TODAY. "The U of Nebraska can implement the Act at any time—now, during this pandemic, would be great," says Nebraska Senator Megan Hunt, who introduced the legislation. This pod discusses the law and the lawsuit filed by Nebraska football players that brought to light Nebraska's progressive stance.

In this episode of the How to Play the Game Podcast, Darren Heitner engages in a short discussion with Dennis Gilbert, an extremely successful former baseball agent who negotiated many professional sports contracts including the oft referred to lengthy contract signed by Bobby Bonilla. For the last 20 years he has worked with the White Sox working as Jerry Reinsdorf’s assistant, keeping a low profile. But he’s not happy about what’s happening right now between MLB and the MLBPA, with the parties unable to come to an agreement to get back to playing in 2020. In this episode, he provides his thoughts to the How to Play the Game Podcast, and says that the players should take the owners' deal.

Drew Rosenhaus, owner of Miami-based Rosenhaus Sports Representation, talks about how this year has been very different from his prior 31 years in representing professional athletes. We also discuss his belief that college athletes deserve to earn money of their names, images and likenesses, the legacy of coach Don Shula, best practices for breaking into the biz and more.

Steve Herz, Preisdent of The Montag Group and founder of IF Management, joins the How to Play the Game podcast. Steve talks about what caused him to switch from being a lawyer to a broadcaster agent, creating his own company at the age of 30, how Al Jaffe at ESPN helped him with early success, merging his company with Sandy Montag's The Montag Group, the launch of his book, Don't Take Yes for an Answer, and much more.

On Friday, May 8, 2020, Steve Herz (President of The Montag Group), DJ Fisher (Founder and Sports Agent at Defining Sports) and Darren Heitner (Founder and Chief Vision Officer at Heitner Legal) joined the Syracuse Sport Business Conference Digital Series to discuss Name, Image and Likeness issues concerning college sports. This How to Play the Game podcast is a republication of the hour-long discussion.

Alexander E. Weber, MD is the Team Physician for USC Athletics and the LA Kings. He joined the How to Play the Game podcast to discuss his take on COVID-19, the utility of the various forms of tests, the importance of a vaccine and why he does not believe there will be any delay in the start of the 2020 college football season. As a former college athlete and someone around current athletes, Dr. Weber also gave his opinion on why name, image and likeness is an important issue to him.

Hockey agent Daniel Milstein joins the How to Play the Game podcast to discuss how he broke into the competitive industry; how he is able to manage building that agency while also focusing on a mortgage company, authoring books and producing films; the challenges that he is confronting with coronavirus; what separates him from his competition, including his speed in answering all communications; and much more.

Brian Stanchak, Founder and President of the BDS Agency, came on the How to Play the Game Podcast to discuss how he found himself in the business of representing women's college basketball coaches. Stanchak explains how it was not initially his goal to end up where he is today, and provides insight as to how he was able to find his niche and what others should be doing if they want to break into the biz. Stanchak also discusses how COVID-19 has affected his business and the business of his clients.