Here’s my new SI column on tonight’s big news from the Eighth Circuit: Judge Nelson’s preliminary injunction order has been temporarily stayed and the tea leaves suggest the order will be made permanent. more…
My Vermont Law School colleague and good friend Professor Sean Nolon, who is Director of the Dispute Resolution Center at our school, and I will give a joint presentation the NFL labor crisis tomorrow at the Boston office of Bulkley, Richardson and Gelinas. While the event is primarily geared for Vermont Law School alumns, please contact me if you would like to attend as I can secure you an invitation.
If you’re in the Boston and are looking for a timely sports law discussion – it should be fun and I strongly suspect the NFL legal chaos will work itself into the discussion:
The organizers of the Boston Marathon decided today not to contest IAAF rules that make the course ineligible for a world record. (The Boston route ends 459 feet of elevation below the start, and it is a point-to-point course that is susceptible to a tailwind such as the one last Monday that helped Geoffrey Mutai finish in 2 hours, 3 minutes, 2 seconds _ 57 seconds faster than Haile Gebrselassie’s world record.)
B.A.A. officials had said they would file the paperwork to have the record certified, even though the IAAF language is clear and Boston has long been known to be ineligible. Today the B.A.A. decided not to force a confrontation over the issue. Instead, it said it would “engage members of Boston’s scientific and medical communities” to see if they can’t come up with new rules that would better recognize the challenges of the course, notwithstanding its net downhill layout. more…
In a new SI column, I write the potential impact of Judge Nelson’s order in favor of NFL players on the NBA and NBA players, two groups which are headed for a similar labor crisis this summer and possibly into next season.
Judge Nelson granted the players the injunctive relief they were seeking — but an appeal may make it a short-term success. I have an SI column on the ruling and what it means. Here’s an excerpt:
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Judge Nelson granted the players the injunctive relief they were seeking — but an appeal may make it a short-term success. I have an SI column on the ruling and what it means. more…
On April 11, 2010 a Grand Jury in the Southern District of California handed down an indictment against two former University of San Diego basketball players, a former assistant coach, and seven others, for Conspiracy to Commit Sports Bribery, Conduct an Illegal Gambling Business, and Distribute Marijuana in violation of 18 U.S.C. 371. The indictment does not specify what games were fixed, but it alleges that San Diego players influenced the outcome of multiple games for monetary bribes. One of the players implicated in the scandal is Brandon Johnson, San Diegos all time leader in points and assists.
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Tom Scocca at Slate, who shares my antipathy for the baseball wild card for most of the same reasons (as well as a couple I had not thought of), argues that the new proposal to add a second wild card actually turns out to be a good second-best option (the best option being eliminating the wild card altogether, which, unfortunately, is not going to happen).
