Yesterday, I reported that Harvard Law School will be hosting a Sports Law Symposium on March 26. It looks like the Ivy League school has a little bit of competition from a school in New York. Full details below. What: 14th Annual Fordham Sports Law Symposium When: Friday, March 26, 2010 (8:30 a.m. – 4:35 […]
What: Spring 2010 Harvard Sports Law Symposium When: Friday, March 26, 2010 (12 p.m. – 8 p.m.) Where: Pound Hall at Harvard Law School (map) Cost: Free (my favorite price) The theme for the symposium is “Operating in the Shadow of Upcoming Collective Bargaining Negotiations.” Each of the panels and the keynote address will shed […]
I have just received very interesting information from my friend Tassos Kaburakis, who is an attorney and Assistant Professor of Sport Law and Sport Management/Director of Sport Management Graduate Program at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. My Greek friend wanted me to pass on the news that the International Sport Law & Business Conference (ISLBC) has set a […]
This upcoming Saturday, I will be speaking on two panels at the St. Thomas University School of Law Spring Symposium. Who doesn’t like to spend their Spring Break speaking to students about sports law? Here are the details. What: 2010 St. Thomas University School of Law Spring Symposium Where: St. Thomas University School of Law […]
James Paxton‘s fight with the NCAA brings out everything I hate about organized sports. When it becomes all about money, power, and respect, people suffer. Those, like Paxton, who do nothing illegal, unethical, nothing out of hatred or spite, but still get punished, show the problems that may exist in organized sport. When institutions grow […]
Most claims get settled before they ever make it to court. File Athletes Premier International, Inc. v. Hendricks Sports Management in that class of claims. Yesterday, Jon Heyman and Melissa Segura of Sports Illustrated, reported that the parties have settled for an undisclosed amount of money. In all likelihood, Mejia agreed to keep the settlement […]
Randal Hendricks, Alan Hendricks, and Hendricks Sports Management, received some press they were not looking for when the public found out that Hendricks Sports Management was being sued by Edwin Mejia and Athletes Premier International (API) on a claim that Hendricks Sports Management tortiously interfered with API’s representation of Aroldis Chapman, prior to Chapman leaving […]
I was recently published in Volume 7, Issue 3, Fall 2009 of the Dartmouth Law Journal. The title of the piece is, Duties of Sports Agents to Athletes and Statutory Regulation Thereof. I think that this will be a good read for anyone who is a regular visitor of this site. Abstract: The Sports Agent Responsibility […]
MLB Mock Drafts are much less exciting than NFL Mock Drafts. The NFL Draft only has 7 rounds, but most “mock experts” only predict the first few rounds. The MLB, with 50 rounds, is almost impossible to guess. But the first round picks are usually known a year ahead of time. With high school and […]
What: 2010 Scholarly Conference on College Sport Where: William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) When: April 21st (Wednesday) – April 23rd (Friday) Blurb: It is the 3rd annual conference for faculty, athletic administrators, students, sport practitioners, and the public interested in research, theory, and critical thinking […]