Our friend Roger Abrams, a professor and former dean of Northeastern University School of Law, has published a terrific book sure to be of interest to many readers on this blog: Sports Justice: the Law and the Business of Sports (University of New England Press, $35). Here’s information on the book and endorsements from Harvard Business School Professor Stephen Greyser and me:
Last year I wrote about Glen “Big Baby” Davis’s weight clause with the Boston Celtics. Davis, who is in the middle of a 2-year, guaranteed $5 million contract, can earn an additional $500,000 each year if he avoids exceeding a certain weight (he earned it in his first season).
We’ve seen plenty of fights in the stands of baseball, basketball, hockey, and football games, but people who attend tennis matches are often stereotyped as civil or “proper”, at least while they are in the tennis stadium (e.g., patrons are expected to be quiet while the match is in play).
The National Football League Players’ Association is reportedly looking into whether teams are trading rookie players who would be cut in order to avoid cutting them themselves and having to pay 85% of the player’s salary. If they are doing that, they could be deemed to be colluding, which generally means two or more teams acting in a way to deprive players of collectively-bargained rights. The NFL-NFLPA collective bargaining agreement contains anti-collusive language under Article XXVIII. Here’s more on the allegation:
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Professor Mitchell N. Berman of the University of Texas School of Law has posted a new essay that may be of interest to some readers. Let em Play: A Study in Sports and Law considers the potential arguments regarding whether officials should call infractions less strictly during the end of a close match than throughout the rest of the game.
