I’ve uploaded my new essay on steroids in professional sports, Blue Sky Steroids, from a symposium on Sports & Criminal Law published by Northwestern Law School’s Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology. You can download the essay free of charge here. Here’s the abstract: more…
Three thoughts on the story Mark discusses about Ryan Howard’s home run ball. Because I find this story really sad.
There is much celebrating this morning (at least outside of Michigan) of last night’s amazing one-game playoff game between the Tigers and Minnesota Twins for the AL Central Division title, a 12-inning featuring three comebacks, which the Twins finally won 6-5. So let me play the curmudgeon here.
Disturbing story this week from Nathaniel Vinton of the New York Daily News about what’s allegedly been going on with the frozen head of Ted Williams, who upon dying in 2002 of cardiac arrest had his head, but not rest of his body, frozen in hopes that one day science will be able to bring him back to life. Vinton’s story is excerpted below.
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Marquette Law Professor Paul Anderson passes along information about the National Sports Law Institute’s annual conference this year — it looks to be a great event:
Dave Hoffman at Concurring Opinions offers some thoughts about players stealing signs and what it tells us about the rule of law. The video of the latest controversy, involving Joe Mauer of the Twins, is below.
Interesting news from Liz Mullen of Street and Smith’s Sports Business Journal, as excerpted here:
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