A few summer observations and other commentary:

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I just received received an email alert from the Sports Business Daily that NCAA President Myles Brand died from pancreatic cancer. Sports Business Daily reported that Brand was 73, but later reports listed Brand as 67 when he died. more…

For those who have been following the Supreme Court case American Needle v. NFL, this Friday clothing manufacturer American Needle Inc. will file its opening brief, arguing that the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals was wrong to define the NFL as a single-entity under Section 1 of the Sherman Act.

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I still am trying to get more legally oriented reports and documents, but it appears that the breach-of-contract dispute between the University of Kentucky and former men’s basketball coach Billy Gillespie is going to turn into another object lesson in civ pro.

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one of these lawsuits will finally work and hopefully stadiums and owners, especially over-officious guys like this one, will just stop doing stupid things like this.

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I’m going to blog more fully on this next week, but I have just posted on SSRN a draft of my forthcoming piece in the Yale Law Journal titled, “American Needle v. NFL: An Opportunity to Reshape Sports Law.” I hope you have a chance to check it out. Have a great weekend. more…

The New York Times reported yesterday that negotiations between the NBA and its Referees’ Union have broken off, with the league apparently preparing for a lockout to begin later this month. The NBA’s collective bargaining agreement with the union expired on September 1st.

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Recently published scholarship includes: more…

* I was interviewed on CNN’s The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer to discuss Commonwealth of Kentucky v. David Jason Stinson (the trial of the coach who faces criminal charges for reckless homicide for the death of a former player, Max Gilpin, on the practice field)

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The news that a union leader is fired by his members a mere two years after assuming his position is unusual. When the firing occurs before he even begins to negotiate the first collective bargaining agreement and is notified at 3:30 AM after a two-hour nighttime meeting , this event becomes shocking or farcical, depending on one’s point of view.

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