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Are pirate nicknames OK? (Half-serious)
May 12, 2009 by
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The ongoing story of the Somali pirates has brought the serious legal issue of piracy to the fore, with commentators repeatedly noting the heinousness and seriousness of piracy as a crime, which is lost in the mythos of eye patches and bottles of rum and parrots.So that led me to wonder...
Release of New Journal on NCAA Compliance
May 11, 2009 by
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On behalf of the Center for Law and Sports at Florida Coastal School of Law, I am pleased to announce our new publication, the Journal of NCAA Compliance. The Journal will be comprised of essays written by Coastal Law students containing detailed summaries of the latest NCAA compliance...
New Sports Law Scholarship
May 11, 2009 by
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Recently published scholarship includes:Steven B. Berneman, Note, One strike and you’re out: alcohol in the Major League Baseball clubhouse, 11 VANDERBILT JOURNAL OF ENTERTAINMENT & TECHNOLOGY LAW 399 (2009)Paul T. DeRousselle II, Comment, Personal foul! How the Supreme Court...
On Being Manny, Part II (the sequel): Can the Dodgers Terminate Ramirez?
May 09, 2009 by
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There have been a lot of questions raised (including in the comments of the previous post) about the possibility of the Dodgers suspending or terminating Manny Ramirez for his use of human chorionic gonadotrophin (“hCG”). I think it’s fairly clear, however, that the Dodgers cannot...
Another victim of sports mascot violence
April 26, 2008 by
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Sonny Vaccaro to Speak at Columbia University Tomorrow Night
April 23, 2008 by
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NFL Reverses Position on Church Super Bowl Parties
April 21, 2008 by
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According to my colleague Howard Friedman's Religion Clause blog, the NFL has reversed its position on whether churches could host "family friendly" Super Bowl parties without infringing on the league's IP rights. I blogged about the underlying dispute here. According...
Florida Coastal School of Law Skills Practicum
April 21, 2008 by
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NFL Backtracks on Debt Reduction Plan
April 20, 2008 by
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Back in February, I discussed the NFLPA's collusion claim in response to a vote by NFL owners to lower the debt ceiling (how much money a team can borrow) by $30 million and to cut $1 billion of league and team debt over the next three years. Street & Smith's SportsBusiness...
Facilities, Merchandising and NCAA Issues To Be Discussed at Fordham Law School Symposium
April 20, 2008 by
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Fordham Law School's Sports Law Forum, in association with the New York State Bar Association's Section on Entertainment, Arts and Sports Law will host its 12th annual sports law symposium on Friday April 11th.The panel topics are:Financing and Structuring Acquisitions of Sports...
A Coach's Liability for On-Ice Violence
April 20, 2008 by
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After our discussion of the appropriate standards for criminal sanction of on-ice/court/field violence in class this week (which included a discussion of Regina v. Bertuzzi, which Greg discussed here and here), several students brought to my attention the latest developments in Steve...
David Ortiz's Curious Start to the 2008 Season
April 16, 2008 by
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New SI.com Column on Implications of Tammy Thomas Guilty Verdict for Barry Bonds
April 14, 2008 by
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I have a new column on SI.com relating to the guilty verdict last Friday in the trial of former U.S. Olympic cyclist Tammy Thomas, who was convicted on perjury charges stemming from the government's investigation into BALCO. I discuss the verdict in the context of the likely trial...
Rock chalk, Law Talk: Finality, Accuracy, and Appellate Review
April 08, 2008 by
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I am against the recent over-emphasis on video evidence in court, for reasons that I and others have discussed. For me, that objection has carried over (for reasons both similar and different) into a general dislike for instant replay in sports.Well, the difference in last night'...
State Government Jumps into the Steroid Mess
April 04, 2008 by
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A legislator in Missouri plans to introduce a bill that would deny state tax credits to professional sports teams that fail to suspend players found using steroids for at least one year. Jeff Roords, a Democrat, explains that:This bill attempts to send a message to Major League Baseball...
March Madness Gambling Reaches a Different Level
April 03, 2008 by
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Michael McCarthy of USA Today reports that Las Vegas sports books are now offering "prop bets" on the Final Four game performances of individual players such as Tyler Hansbrough of North Carolina, Ty Lawson and Wayne Ellington of UNC, Derrick Rose and Joey Dorsey of Memphis...
What Happens When a Video Game Gets a Player's Race Wrong?
March 17, 2008 by
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Sports Law Blog reader Scott Timmerick checks in with an interesting question (between the asterisks):* * *I just started playing MLB 2K8 on PlayStation 2. Facing off against the great Tampa Bay Rays and their ace Scott Kazmir, seven innings later I found myself taking pitches from...
The Mets in Salary Arbitration
March 15, 2008 by
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Marty Noble, the Mets beat reporter for MLB.com, posted an interesting story, "Perez wins arbitration case: Hearing was first for Mets since Cone's 16 years ago" on Friday analyzing the Perez decision. Noble provided a chart with all of the Mets' hearings while noting...
Student Fans Acting Badly
March 14, 2008 by
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Grant Wahl at si.com decries this basketball season as the "ugliest in years" and calls on schools and conferences to take some action to get fans and fan speech under control. I have written enough about fan speech in this and other spaces that my views are pretty obvious...
Potential Sale of Yahoo may have Huge Implications in the Market for Hosting Fantasy Sports Games
March 14, 2008 by
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On Friday Febuary 4, Microsoft Corporation made a $44.6 billion hostile bid to take over Yahoo. Since the bid was announced, Yahoo bankers have begun to seek rival bids to acquire the Yahoo business either in its entirety or in subparts.While most antitrust experts have discussed potential...
Three Clemens-Related Stories for Monday
March 12, 2008 by
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1) Darren Rovell has an excellent piece on CNBC's Sports Biz examining how Rusty Hardin's business may be hurt by his representation of Roger Clemens. Here is an excerpt:Now I'm hardly suggesting that if the public decides that Clemens is guilty his lawyer Rusty Hardin...
Perez and the Mets in Salary
March 10, 2008 by
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Marty Noble, the Mets beat reporter for MLB.com, posted an interesting story, "Perez wins arbitration case: Hearing was first for Mets since Cone's 16 years ago" on Friday analyzing the Perez decision. Noble provided a chart with all of the Mets' hearings while noting...
Happy Anniversary: Why Write Here?
March 09, 2008 by
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To mark what apparently is this blog's 203d post, I want to add my own spin to much of what Geoff writes here and in his comments to The Sports Law Professor.When I was interviewing for teaching jobs five years ago, I frequently was asked why sports law was not part of my teaching...
Recent Sports Law Scholarship
March 09, 2008 by
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Recently published scholarship:Kathryn Keen, Note, The Equity in Athletics Disclosure Act: does it really improve the gender equity landscape?, 34 JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY & URBAN LAW 227 (2007) Dionne L. Koller, Frozen in time: the state action doctrine's application to amateur...
Second Annual National Sports and Entertainment Law Symposium
March 09, 2008 by
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I am honored to be speaking at the Second Annual National Sports and Entertainment Law Symposium, to be held at the University of Virginia School of Law next Thursday and Friday, March 6-7. The event is sponsored by the Virginia Continuing Legal Education and the Virginia Sports and...
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