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The Associated Press published a story yesterday on a very tragic, sensitive and private matter involving the death of a famous professional athlete's mother. The report not only discusses details surrounding the death, but also personal information about the player's relationship with his ...
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Over on Madisonian.net, Boston College Law School Professor Alfred Yen has a thought-provoking piece on Duke basketball recruit and high school senior Clair Watkins, whom, as a junior, Duke University offered a full scholarship to play (and enroll) at Duke. Watkins, an honors student, has ...
NCAA Football
This past Tuesday was the deadline for the respondents in American Needle v. NFL to file their briefs with the United States Supreme Court. Although the NFL's brief is not yet publicly available, the brief submitted by Reebok, the NFL's co-defendant in the case, is now available to be downloaded ...
NBA
Reebok
USA
Mike already mentioned Aaron Zelinsky's new essay (forthcoming in Yale Law Journal Online) arguing that the better baseball analogy is between Supreme Court justices and the baseball commissioner. Aaron sent me a draft of the paper and I made a few comments; he gave me permission to reprint ...
MLB
Everyone is talking about Bill Belichek's decision to go for it on 4th-and-2 from the Pats' own 28 with around two minutes left (sorry Mike). And most people (including the NBC commentators speaking three-and-a-half minutes after the game) have concluded it was a bad decision. But the only ...
NFL
New England Patriots
Aaron Zelinsky of Yale law School has just posted on SSRN a draft of his forthcoming piece in Yale Law Journal Online titled " The Justice as Commissioner: Benching the Judge-Umpire Analogy " It's an excellent read. Zelinsky traces the judicial history of the judge-umpire analogy since 1886, ...
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USA Today is reporting today that Boise State has officially formed a non-profit corporation and will begin selling shares to the public at $100 per share in hopes of raising $20 million ( Boise State Athletic Department Hopes Stock Offering Raises $20 Million ). AD Gene Bleymaier said, "If we ...
NCAA Football
Boise State Broncos
Wigan Athletic
USA Today's latest study released today on college coaches' compensation reveals that at least 25 college head football coaches are making $2 million or more this season, which is slightly more than double the number two years ago, and the average pay for a head coach in the 120-school Football ...
NFL
New England Patriots
After posting last week about Buster Olney’s article and comments about arbitration-eligible players and free agents, the Twins traded Carlos Gomez to the Brewers for J.J. Hardy; the Red Sox traded Jose Alvarez and Hunter Jones to the Marlins for Jeremy Hermida; and the White Sox acquired Mark ...
MLB
J.J. Hardy
Jeremy Hermida
Buster Olney
Mark Teahen
Milwaukee Brewers
Kansas City Royals
I am proud to announce that the Tulane Law School Sports Law Society will be hosting its third annual National Baseball Arbitration Competition from January 22-24, 2010. This is a really great and unique event that allows students to argue a baseball arbitration case involving real players ...
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I am proud to announce that the Tulane Law School Sports Law Society will be hosting its third annual National Baseball Arbitration Competition from January 22-24, 2010. This is a really great and unique event that allows students to argue a baseball arbitration case involving real players ...
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Victoria E. Freile and Claudia Vargas of the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle have an interesting piece on a sports law topic that we often don't discuss: referees injured by the tortious or criminal behavior of players . They focus on a recent incident in an adult amateur football game played ...
NCAA Football
Over on the American Lawyer Daily, Zach Lowe has a good piece on the legal fallout of the Phoenix Coyotes likely sale to the NHL . He interviews me for his story, and I tie-in the American Needle case. Here's an excerpt: The [NHL] apparently doesn't want the Coyotes for long, and they are ...
NHL
Phoenix Coyotes
With the Yankees winning the World Series last night, the off-season officially began this morning. The clock starts ticking on the free agent filing period of 15 days after the end of the World Series. Buster Olney appeared on Mike and Mike on ESPN this morning. He started his segment with the ...
MLB
There are a number of terrific sports law case books available, and there is a new one that joins them: Peter Carfagna's " Sports and the Law: Examining the Legal Evolution of American's Three 'Major Leagues " (West, 2009). Peter's book is devoted to the sports law of Major League Baseball, ...
MLB
Boston Red Sox
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As a follow up to Nathaniel’s post on
the Star Caps hearing, the written testimony of all
of the witnesses and the video of the hearing can be found here (note that the testimony from the witnesses does not being until about the 1:26:48 mark). Here is ...
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A Congressional hearing was held today regarding whether to amend the Labor Management Relations Act in order to protect professional sports leagues' performance enhancing drug policies from being attacked under state law. The hearing was held in response to the 8th Circuit's recent decision in ...
NFL
Roger Goodell
Marquette Golden Eagles
The U.S. Supreme Court released its January calendar today, and announced that American Needle v. NFL will be heard on Wednesday, January 13, 2010. For past Sports Law Blog coverage on the case, click here .
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Lawrence Delevingne of The Business Insider explores athletes
and crime in a recent piece. He interviews Geoff,
Duke Law Prof Lisa Kern Griffin , and me. Here's an excerpt: But pro athletes aren't actually more likely to commit crimes that the ...
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Do Pro Athletes Commit Crimes at Unusually High Rates?
Pulitzer prize winner H.G. "Buzz" Bissinger (author of the famed Friday Night Lights and LeBron James' co-author of Shooting Stars ) pens an outstanding op-ed in today's New York Times on the NBA's eligibility rule, which Bissinger admits he thought was a good idea back in 2005 but now ...
