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On March 26, 2010, Fordham Law School will host the 14th Annual Fordham Sports Law Symposium. Harvard will also be hosting its Symposium on that day, so for all of you sports law afficionados, TGIF! While Mike will be moderating a panel at Harvard on CBA issues in the NFL, I will be moderating a panel at Fordham on age restrictions in professional sports. Gabe Feldman will be moderating a panel on sports licensing that Marc Edelman is participating on. Hopefully, you can make one of these events. Both Harvard and Fordham’s events are free and open to the public. The details for Fordham Law School’s Symposium follows:

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Sports Business Daily (subscription only), citing Greg Johns of SEATTLEPI.com, reported yesterday that the Seattle Mariners posted “a $3.18M profit for ’09, as opposed to a $4.53M deficit for ’08.” According to SBD: “That deficit was ‘thanks in part to the team’s highest payroll ever of $120M combined with a significant drop in attendance to 2.32 million fans from the previous year’s 2.67 million.’ Attendance declined another 6% this past season to 2.19 million last year, but the Mariners lowered their payroll to about $99M, meaning the club ‘essentially made more by spending less.’” Bob Condotta of the Seattle Times attributes the ’09 profit “largely to increased revenue due to a better team on the field as the Mariners won 85 games in 2009 after winning just 61 in 2008.”

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Mike’s post flagging Aaron Zelinsky’s excellent essay on the judge-umpire analogy gives me the chance for some shameless promotion:

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Bloomberg’s Sophia Pearson, Beth Hawkins, and Aaron Kuriloff detail the latest in Minnesota Vikings defensive tackles Kevin and Pat Williams’ lawsuit against the NFL, the trial for which began this week.

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I look forward to speaking at this year’s Harvard Law School sports law symposium. It will be all-day event on Friday, March 26. Here is some information on the symposium, which is in honor of Harvard Law School professor (and sports law pioneer) Paul Weiler and is open to the public, free of charge:

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On Saturday, I was a panelist at the 2010 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, which is hosted by ESPN and which has become (in my opinion) the biggest annual event for sports professionals. I spoke on the “Performance Enhancement: Will Future Athletes be Formula One or NASCAR?” panel.

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I have a new column up at the Huffington Post that takes a close look at the question on the minds of the Washington Wizards and their fans: Can the team terminate Gilbert Arenas’ contract? An excerpt is included below. You can find the full column here. Also, for those looking for quick sports law updates throughout the day, you can follow me on twitter here….

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In comments to my post about Roger Clemens, Ed Edmonds poses an interesting question:

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