Nice interview by The Sports Commentary of sports lawyer Jay Reisinger, who has represented Andy Pettitte and Sammy Sosa, among other professional athletes, and who’s recently started a new blog, with an emphasis on sports law.
The basic issue here is that Major League Baseball seems to want a prospective ownership group led by Nolan Ryan and Attorney Chuck Greenberg to purchase the Rangers, which have been owned by Tom Hicks (who last year defaulted $525 million in loans) and a group of lenders, but Hicks et al., are opposed to the sale.
A couple of days ago, we blogged about the report by Libby Sander of Chronicle of Higher Ed on the Justice Department investigating the NCAA’s rule on one-year renewable scholarships for student-athletes. Providing additional commentary and perspective, David Moltz and Doug Lederman of Insider Higher Ed have a story titled “Are Athletic Scholarships Fair?“. They interviewed several persons including me for their story. Here are some excerpts:
Congratulations to Solicitor General and former Harvard Law School dean Elena Kagan on her forthcoming nomination by President Obama to become an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court. If confirmed by the U.S. Senate, she will fill the position of retiring Justice John Paul Stevens.
I have a new SI.com column that looks at whether the legal implications of “offensive” questions asked of players eligible for the NFL draft. Here’s an excerpt:
I have a new column up over at the Huffington Post that takes a closer look at the latest development in the StarCaps case.
Neil Offan of the Durham Herald Sun writes about “fixing” the NBA’s one-and-done rule, which was a panel at the 2010 Scholarly Conference on College Sport at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Here’s an excerpt from Offan’s story:
The Star Tribune is reporting that Minnesota state court Judge Gary Larson has upheld the four-game NFL suspensions of Minnesota Vikings Kevin and Pat Williams. I have not seen the opinion, but the Tribune notes that Judge Larson found that the NFL (and not the Vikings) is the employer of the Williamses and that the suspensions violated Minnesota state law, but upheld the suspensions because the violations did not harm the Williamses. Judge Larson is holding a hearing later today to determine if the suspensions will be stayed pending their appeal within the Minnesota state court system.
Over at sportsillustrated.cnn.com, Peter King is reporting that California Representative Henry Waxman is close to introducing legislation in the U.S. House that would make drug policies negotiated as part of a national collective bargaining agreement such as the one the NFL negotiates with players override state drug-testing laws. As King writes, If Waxman’s legislation which will cover all sports, not just the NFLis successful, it won’t be retroactive. But it would prevent every player in a major sport from appealing to the laws of the state the team plays in if the player tests positive for a banned substance in his league.
I am interested in this story, given that I am in the process of finishing edits on a book of chapters on the Duke lacrosse scandal.
