* Darren Heitner at Sports Agent Blog has a good breakdown of how sports bloggers might be impacted by the Associated Press’ new strategy to crack down on lengthy excerpts of AP stories on blogs.
Whether it Would be Smart for New York State to Lift Its Medical Suspension of Lightweight Champion & Knockout Artist Edwin Valero
This Friday, we are hosting our annual sports law symposium titled, NCAA Coaches Contracts: Diversity and Negotiating Value in the 21st Century:
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Robert Hayden and Che Mock of the University of North Carolina pass along the following message. We wish Richard Southall and everyone else at the College Sports Research Institute the best for this year’s conference, which looks to be a great event.
Many remember the ill-fated attempt in the mid-1980s by the city of Baltimore to utilize eminent domain to seize the Colts under a law passed by the Maryland Legislature. Colts’ then-owner Robert Irsay moved the team in the dead of night to take a deal offered by Indianapolis. In an eerie echo of this, the Governor of Maryland is seeking legislature to seize the Preakness, the second jewel of horse racing’s triple crown. An excellent blog by the Wall Street Journal’s law blog outlines the difficulties of the case in detail and links to a number of newspaper articles giving background on this dispute.
The 26th Annual Virginia Law Softball Invitational tournament was held last weekend. The series of softball games, featuring both mens and co-rec divisions, raised $20,000 for Children, Youth and Family Services, a Charlottesville-based nonprofit. Out of the 112 teams that participated in the tournament from 46 law schools across the country, Florida Coastal won the championship in the men’s division and Appalachian School of Law won the co-rec division. Congratulations to the members of the winning teams and to all of the law students who participated in the tournament and raised that money for such a worthy cause. more…
Recently published scholarship includes:
Mark R. Bandsuch, The NBA Dress Code and other fashion faux pas under Title VII, 16 VILLANOVA SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT LAW JOURNAL 1 (2009)
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Boston College Law School Professor Alfred Yen has a terrific piece on Madisonian.Net concerning the alleged recruiting violations at UConn. Here’s an excerpt.
I wrote about the alleged UConn scandal involving Nate Miles last week, a scandal that has raised serious questions about UConn men’s basketball coach Jim Calhoun’s possible knowledge and involvement in recruiting violations.
A Quick Look at the State of Boxing, Wrestling, and Martial Arts in New York State in the Absence of the Legalization of Mixed Martial Arts and Whether Mixed Martial Arts Fits in With These Disciplines Under Existing or Proposed Law
