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Recently published scholarship includes: E. Jason Burke, Note, “Quasi-property” rights: fantasy or reality? An examination of [CBC v. MLBAM] and fantasy sports providers’ use of professional athlete statistics , 27 WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY JOURNAL OF LAW & POLICY 161 (2008) Timothy D. Cedrone, ...
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I have written on several occasions about how to define sport and what qualifies as sport, a common game among “sports-and-____” academics. A frequent response to these posts has been “so what, what difference does it make?” And, in truth, it is largely an academic exercise and a fun way to ...
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Paul Caron at Tax Prof Blog reports on
a study by the Salt Lake Tribune on the
financial documentation filed by 89 NBA player charities. The study found that the average player foundation actually put just 51 cents of every dollar earned towards ...
University of Pennsylvania bioethics professor Arthur Caplan has a provocative piece in the British Journal of Sports Medicine entitled " Does the the biomedical revolution spell the end of sport? ". Here's an excerpt: * * * But, what if biomedical science could put the safety issue [of ...
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For years, the National Collegiate Athletic Association and Division I athletic directors and university administrators have come under intense scrutiny and fire for their repeated failure to hire African American and other minority head coaches for their collegiate football programs. The ...
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Gene Chizik
Lane Kiffin
This year we have been selected by the editors of the ABA Journal as one of the top 100 best websites by lawyers, for lawyers. Now lawyers are being asked to vote on their favorites in each of the Blawg 100’s 10 categories. Sports Law Blog is in the "Niche" category. You can vote for our blog ...
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Anthony Adams
Although many think of logos and designs are central to trademarks, the use of color schemes also are protectable under trademark law -- even if the color schemes are not registered with the Patent and Trademark Office. This was the ruling of the 7th Circuit in LSU v. Smack Apparel , ...
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Update, Thursday, 1:00 p.m.: Alert reader Michael Nichols has written on this subject in a piece forthcoming in the Virginia Sports & Entertainment Law Journal. The new-old controversy in college football is the lack of Black head coaches in Division I-A college football. With recent firings ...
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Aaron Zelinksy of Yale Law School and The Huffington Post passes along a link to a story on Janell Grenier's Benefits Blog, which excerpts a story from Andrew Brandt on The National Football Post: * * * Even though 409A has been around now for three years, employers continue to be surprised ...
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Interesting piece by Attorney Mack Sperling on North
Carolina Business Business Litigation Report on a new decision
by the North Carolina Court of Appeals: All lawyers know, from first year torts class, that if you are hit by a baseball at a ...
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On Friday December 12, all teams had a
deadline to decide whether or not to tender a
contract offer to a select number of their players. If the player was non-tendered by the deadline, that player was granted free agency. Here's a list of the latest free agents.
Hall-of-Fame running back Franco Harris was an elector from Pennsylvania for Barack Obama.
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The new-old controversy in college football is the lack of Black head coaches in Division I-A college football. With recent firings and resignations, there are four Black coaches (out of 119 schools) in a sport in which approximately 46 % of players are Black. Exacerbating this problem is the ...
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The New York Times reported today on the death of William S. Stevens, who arguably started the law-and-baseball movement with his 1975 unsigned student comment Aside: The Common Law Origins of the Infield Fly Rule . (H/T: Paul Horwitz at PrawfsBlawg ). This was one of the first articles to draw ...
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William Shatner
According to the Denver Post , the Arena Football League “faces possible dissolution unless it secures an infusion of money by December 19.” Perhaps they can call CC Sabathia, who is reportedly set to sign a 7 year, $161 million contract with the Yankees. Given the state of the economy, ...
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C.C. Sabathia
As noted in Gabe Feldman's earlier post today, Francisco Rodriguez has reached a three-year, $37 million agreement with the New York Mets to bring the closer from Anaheim to New York. Rodriguez, who set a Major League record last year with 62 saves, went to a hearing last year and lost when his ...
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Mark Loretta
New York Mets
Los Angeles Angels
While Francisco Rodriguez (and his new 3-year, $37 million deal) probably won’t be doing much complaining about a recession, the impact of the tough economic times continues to be felt by major sports entities in the U.S. Today, the NFL announced that it plans to cut more than 10 percent of its ...
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Credit Slips, Tribune Bankruptcy a Coup for Mark Cuban Empirical Legal Studies Blog, College Applications & Athletic Prowess
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Study of NBA Player Charities