Covering the Intersection of Sports and the Law
By Dan Canavan University of Connecticut standout Andre Dixon will have a little more competition in the backfield when the UFL’s Hartford Colonials return from their bye week. On Monday, the Colonials announced their signing of former NFL running back Kevin Jones. Jones, drafted in the first-round of the NFL by Detroit in 2004, has rushed [...]
By Dan Canavan On a day that the UConn Huskies were run out of Philadelphia by Temple, the Hartford Colonials were celebrating a new kind of football at Rentschler Field. It wasn’t the Patriots, but the militia was stationed in the end zone. There was tailgating and cheerleaders, inflatable helmets and cannon fire. And the fireworks didn’t [...]
Doug Malan of the Connecticut Law Tribune recently interviewed me for his story “School Sports Aren’t All Fun And Games”, concerning the liability of high school coaches. The story touched upon the arrest of two assistant football coaches in Middletown (Conn.) after a player collapsed during a workout on a particularly hot day. Even basic [...]
By Dan Canavan This week, the UFL’s Hartford Colonials announced the team captains for the 2010 football season. Quarterback Josh McCown, and linebackers Tank Daniels and Frantz Joseph were selected as captains to lead the Colonials in their inaugural season. “Our team today selected three captains that represent the Colonials in a positive fashion both [...]
