Covering the Intersection of Sports and the Law
With the UConn Football team kicking off their season tomorrow night against Hofstra, here are a few things to keep in mind while cheering on Randy Edsall’s Huskies: Randy Edsall is coaching under a new contract, which includes a $1.5 buyout clause should he leave UConn after this season. Rich Rodriguez left West Virginia for Michigan despite a whopping [...]
Legal Issues in Collegiate Athletics featured the Connecticut Sports Law Article Setting the Trend in South Bend: Notre Dame Hires Sports Attorney as Athletic Director. To view the article, click on the preceding link. My thanks to Holt Hackney and the staff at Legal Issues in Collegiate Athletics.
A New Haven youth baseball league has banned a 9-year-old from pitching, because his 40-mile per hour fastball is too fast. New Haven Attorney John Williams is planning to meet with the player’s parents to discuss available legal options. To read about the business that is Brett Favre, see Andrew Brandt’s article on The National Football Post. As [...]
The death of Gene Upshaw, president of the National Football League Players Association, sent shockwaves through the sports world yesterday. Not only was Upshaw a hugely influential person in the present-day NFL, but he had been for 25 years. Upshaw led the NFL players to the riches of unrestricted free agency and the current collective bargaining agreement [...]
Last month, as I was sitting in Giants Stadium awaiting Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band to begin their first show on the Magic stadium tour, I had a familiar thought – how do the Jets feel at home playing in a stadium that is decorated in red and blue, the color of the [...]
The Hartford Courant reports that Northland Investment Corp. is the prospective owner of the UFL franchise that would call Hartford home. A few important points: Although the UFL Commissioner, Michael Huyghue, reported to Sports Illustrated’s Peter King that the Hartford team would play at Rentschler Field, the operators of the stadium have not been involved in [...]
Photo by Brent Midwood As Major League Baseball has questioned the Boston Red Sox trade of Manny Ramirez to the Los Angeles Dodgers (MLB denies that it launched a full investigation), the role of superagent Scott Boras has come under fire. Was the disruptive, childish and petulant behavior of Ramirez just the latest chapter of the [...]
By now, the story of Caleb Campbell is quite familiar. Campbell, a standout safety at Army, was drafted by the Detroit Lions this year’s NFL Draft (7th round, 218th overall). Before the draft, it was made clear that Army policy allowed cadets with unique and extraordinary talents to serve as recruiters rather than offices in combat. The [...]
